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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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Sienna the Saturday Fairy (Fun Day Fairies)

August 26, 2008 – 2:23 am

Author: Daisy Meadows
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Product Description
No fun in Fairyland?
The Fun Day Fairies are each responsible for adding spunk and sparkle to one day of the week! But when Jack Frost steals their magic, they need Rachel and Kirsty’s help. Without the fairies’ special flags, every day [...]

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Math Curse

August 26, 2008 – 2:14 am

Rating: (57 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes till the bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of [...]

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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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Kindergarten Rocks!

August 25, 2008 – 10:10 am

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Katie Davis
Publisher: Voyager Books

Product Description
Dexter already knows everything there is to know about kindergarten. His big sister, Jessie, told him all about it. So Dexter is not scared. Not even a little bit. But his stuffed dog, Rufus, is scared. Actually, he’s terrified. But Dexter–er, Rufus–has nothing to [...]

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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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The Goose Girl

August 23, 2008 – 1:09 pm

Rating: (117 reviews)
Author: Shannon Hale
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

Product Description
A New York Public Library “100 Titles for Reading and Sharing”A Texas Lone Star Reading List BookA Josette Frank Award WinnerA Utah State Book Award WinnerA Utah Speculative Fiction Award Winner

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All the Colors of the Earth (Mulberry Books)

August 23, 2008 – 12:38 pm

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
Celebrate the colors of children and the colors of love–not black or white or yellow or red, but roaring brown, whispering gold, tinkling pink, and more.

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Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Little Golden Book)

August 23, 2008 – 4:10 am

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Golden Books

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The Construction Alphabet Book

August 23, 2008 – 1:59 am

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Jerry Pallotta
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing

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Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (Bright & Early Books(R))

August 23, 2008 – 1:44 am

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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Oh, why won’t Marvin K. Mooney just please go now? In this 1972 classic for “beginning beginners,” Dr. Seuss devotes his rhymes to budging the reluctant young Marvin K.: “The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. [...]

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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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Measuring Penny

August 22, 2008 – 1:16 pm

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Loreen Leedy
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

Product Description
Lisa has an important homework assignment–to measure something in several different ways. She has to use standard units like inches and nonstandard units like paper clips to find out height, width, length, weight, volume, temperature, and time. Lisa decides to measure [...]

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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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Sir Fartsalot Hunts the Booger

August 22, 2008 – 2:24 am

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Kevin Bolger
Publisher: Razorbill

Product Description
Sir Fartsalots on a quest to defeat a villain most foul!
Things really stink in the Kingdom of Armpit. King Reginald the Not Very Realistic has had it up to here with his naughty son Prince Harry, who loosens the tops on all the Royal [...]

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Expresate: Level 2 - Cuaderno de vocabulario y gramatica

August 22, 2008 – 12:24 am

Author:
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston

By the Great Horn Spoon!

August 21, 2008 – 11:35 pm

Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Inc. Sid Fleischman
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

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Secret Agent (Geronimo Stilton)

August 21, 2008 – 10:57 pm

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Product Description
My sister, Thea, is the mystery-loving rodent, not me! But somehow I found myself going undercover to get to the bottom of a case. Slimy Swiss balls — I hardly knew where to start! Geronimo Stilton, Secret Agent Mouse? [...]

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Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon

August 21, 2008 – 7:47 pm

Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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My Father’s Dragon–a favorite of young readers since the 1940s and a Newbery honor book–captures the nonsensical logic of childhood in an amusingly deadpan fashion. The story begins when Elmer Elevator (the narrator’s father as a boy) runs away with [...]

By admin | Posted in Ages 9-12 | Also tagged Action & Adventure, Ages 4-8, Authors & Illustrators, A-Z, Binding (binding), Classics by Age, Dragon Tales, Fantasy & Adventure, Format (feature_browse-bin), Gannett, Ruth Stiles, Hardcover, My Father's Dragon, Popular Characters, Printed Books, Random House Books for Young Readers, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror, Series, Staff Favorites, TV | Comments (5)

Vocabulary Workshop: Level A

August 21, 2008 – 6:32 pm

Author:
Publisher: William H Sadlier

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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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