Award Winning Books
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Big Yoga: A Simple Guide for Bigger BodiesWinner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Health Title If you think yoga is only for skinny young things, you need to think again. To expert Meera Patricia Kerr, yoga can and should be used by everyone--especially plus-size individuals. In her new...
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The Sun Also Rises2007 Audie Award Finalist for Classics Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation,...
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The Moment of CaravaggioA richly illustrated reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historians This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his...
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The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary...
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Clever Beatrice: An Upper Peninsula ConteWhat happens when a very little girl makes a bet with a very LARGE giant?Author: Margaret WilleyPublisher: Atheneum Books for Young ReadersPublished: 09/01/2004Pages: 40Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.96h x 10.52w x 0.13dISBN: 9780689870682Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.8Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name:...
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Little Quack's BedtimeDay is done. For Widdle, Waddle, Piddle, Puddle, and Little Quack that means time for B-E-D But there's blinking, hooting, and swaying in the night that's keeping everyone awake Mama wants to know when it will finally be BEDTIME? Find out in this timeless...
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Room One: A Mystery or TwoTed Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out...
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JinxDo not get to know me. Do not ask me out. Do not love me. Be warned I am Jinx. Jinx doesn't start out as Jinx -- at first she's dull, safe, boring Jen. Jen who always hands her homework in on time, Jen...
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TheodoreHis name was Theodore, but he is remembered as Teddy. As a young boy, he was a dreamer and a reader and had a curiosity about life he could never satisfy. As the youngest man to ever be president, he led a nation to...
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The New Girl... and MeOn her first day of school, who will be her friend? Raise your hand if it's you. You'll meet someone -- and something -- surprising. Author: Jacqui RobbinsPublisher: Atheneum BooksPublished: 07/01/2006Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.10h x 10.10w x 0.50dISBN: 9780689864681Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading...
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Do You Have a Hat?A fancy hat. A hat that's plain. A hat for keeping off the rain. A glowing hat. A hat with fruit. A hat for that new dress or suit. All herein have hats, it's true -- fantastic, magnificent hats Do you? What do Spanish...
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Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and CThe slightly true narrative of how a brave pioneer father brought apples, pears, plums, grapes, and cherries (and children) across the plains. Apples, ho When Papa decides to pull up roots and move from Iowa to Oregon, he can't bear to leave his precious...
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Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's LifeWhat good shall I do today? How Ben Franklin answered that question -- through his work as a writer, printer, statesman, and inventor -- forever established him as one of America's greatest figures. On one day in 1729 he published the first edition of...
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Uncle Jed's BarbershopCoretta Scott King Award winner A young girl's beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book. Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it's her Uncle Jed. Living...
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No Dogs Allowed!This is Iris. And this is her family: Shorty the Fortune-teller, Mami the Busy, Papi the Clever, Carmen the Beautiful, plus the Wise Old People, Don Joe the Grocer, and, of course, El Exigente, the Dog (who's very good at sleeping). Everyone, especially El...
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Beat the Story Drum, Pum-PumFrom Coretta Scott King Award-winning creator Ashley Bryan comes a rhythmic picture book of five Nigerian folktales. From the silly tale of a monkey's speech being sprinkled with shoo bee do's and hay baa ba ree bop's to the more poignant story of two...
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Danitra Brown, Class ClownThey may be best friends, but Zuri Jackson and Danitra Brown respond very differently to the start of school. For Zuri, there are so many things to ponder -- a new teacher who replaced the old one she liked so much, passing math, and...
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Lucky SongLucky listener Lucky reader Listen to this lucky song about Evie and her blue-sky, kite-flying day. But Evie's day wouldn't be nearly as special without a little help from her grandpa and grandma, and her mother and father and sister. The beloved picture-book world...
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Hole in the Sky: A MemoirIn a beautifully written--at times heartbreaking--memoir, Kittredge tells stories of his grandfather and father and recounts his own struggle as he progressed from farmer to writer. An honest reckoning of an American myth, rendered with enormous eloquence and visionary sweep.Author: William KittredgePublisher: VintagePublished: 06/01/1993Pages:...
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Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and VirginiaForty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives, he has reconstructed the...
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