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My First Touch & Feel Picture Cards: Colors & Shapes (MY 1ST T&F PICTURE CARDS)

August 27, 2008 – 9:27 am

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: DK Preschool

Book Description
Perfect for helping children develop early language skills, this exciting range of interactive flash cards reinforces learning through touch.

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Motherbridge of Love

August 26, 2008 – 2:30 pm

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Xinran
Publisher: Barefoot Books

Product Description
This beautiful poem celebrates the bond between parent and child in a special way. Through the exchanges between a little Chinese girl and her mother, Motherbridge of Love offers a poignant and inspiring message to parents and children all over the world.

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How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear?: What Are Homonyms and Homophones? (Words Are Categorical)

August 25, 2008 – 8:36 pm

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: First Avenue Editions

Book Description
This accessible, lighthearted look at language introduces homonyms and homophones. Playful rhymes and comical cartoons make both concepts memorable. Each corresponding pair of homonyms and homophones is printed in color for easy identification. At the end, readers are challenged to apply what [...]

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Oliver Button Is a Sissy

August 25, 2008 – 4:09 pm

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Voyager Books

Product Description
A little boy must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he’d rather read books, paint pictures, and tap-dance than participate in sports. “There is a good balance between the simple text . . . and the expressive pictures . . . [...]

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Expresate: Level 1

August 24, 2008 – 9:11 am

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston

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A Lion to Guard Us

August 24, 2008 – 7:16 am

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Book Description
`A favorite author uses an actual incident from 1609 to base a story of three impoverished children left alone in London who make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. . . . Fine engrossing historical fiction.’ —TE. [...]

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A Tree Is Nice

August 22, 2008 – 11:23 pm

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Janice May Udry
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
Trees are beautiful. They fill up the sky. If you have a tree, you can climb up its trunk, roll in its leaves, or hang a swing from one of its limbs. Cows and babies can nap in the shade of a tree. Birds [...]

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar: board book & CD

August 22, 2008 – 1:04 pm

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Philomel

Product Description
Eric Carles The Very Hungry Caterpillar is now available for the first time in a new, oversized board book format, perfect for storytime or for playtime. Plus, as an added bonus, it includes a CD of Eric Carle reading his classic story. This fine audio production [...]

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Magic Tree House #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

August 22, 2008 – 2:59 am

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Merlin the Magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to askfor help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania! The brother-and-sister team quickly head [...]

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Expresate: Level 2 - Cuaderno de vocabulario y gramatica

August 22, 2008 – 12:24 am

Author:
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston

Birchbark House, The

August 21, 2008 – 3:06 pm

Rating: (51 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

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Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the [...]

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The Old Testament: Our Call To Faith and Justice

August 19, 2008 – 11:43 am

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher: Ave Maria Press

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The Bronze Bow

August 19, 2008 – 11:40 am

Rating: (93 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth George Speare
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Product Description
In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father’s death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel. He joins an outlaw band and leads a dangerous life of spying, [...]

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The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)

August 18, 2008 – 11:42 am

Rating: (234 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Product Description
Characters based on James Patterson’s international bestsellers When the Wind Blows and The Lake House are re-invented in Maximum Ride and are launched on the ultimate action-packed adventure full of humor and suspense. Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what [...]

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My Mouth Is a Volcano (Children’s/Life Skills)

August 18, 2008 – 7:22 am

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Julia Cook
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues

Product Description
All of Louis thoughts are very important to him. In fact, his thoughts are so important to him that when he has something to say, his words begin to wiggle, and then they do the jiggle, then his tongue pushes [...]

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Big Box of Boynton: Barnyard Dance! Pajama Time! Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!

August 18, 2008 – 6:13 am

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Product Description
What a perfect gift. Perfect for baby showers. Irresistible for a newborn, or for a one-, two-, even a three-year-old’s birthday. Ideal as a set that grandparents, aunts and uncles, in-laws, and close personal friends of the baby (babies have close personal friends?) [...]

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Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail

August 17, 2008 – 8:33 am

Rating: (83 reviews)
Author: Danica McKellar
Publisher: Plume

Product Description
The runaway national bestseller, now in paperback

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Modern Biology

August 13, 2008 – 8:01 am

Author: Postlethwait and Hopson
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston

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