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Brendan Buckley's universe and everything in it
Sundee T. Frazier.
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198 p. ; 22 cm.
Brendan Buckley, a biracial ten-year-old, applies his scientific problem-solving ability and newfound interest in rocks and minerals to connect with his white grandfather, the president of Puyallup Rock Club, and to learn why he and Brendan's mother are estranged.
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The cat, or, how I lost eternity
Jutta Richter ; translated by Anna Brailovsky.
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63 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Eight-year-old Christine is late for school every day because a talking alley cat demands her attention, giving her much to think about as he tries to teach her to be spiteful and pitiless.
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Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis.
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341 p. ; 22 cm.
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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Feathers
Jacqueline Woodson.
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118 p. ; 22 cm.
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
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First the egg
by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
The acclaimed author of "Black? White? Day? Night?" gives an entirely fresh presentation of the concepts of transformation and creativity in this book with simple die-cuts that magically present change from seed to flower, tadpole to frog, and caterpillar to butterfly. Full color.
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Los gatos black on Halloween
Marisa Montes ; illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Easy to read, rhyming text about Halloween night incorporates Spanish words, from las brujas riding their broomsticks to los monstruos whose monstrous ball is interrupted by a true horror.
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Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village
Laura Amy Schlitz ; illustrated by Robert Byrd.
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85 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
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Henry's freedom box
by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
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[40] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
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The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures
by Brian Selznick.
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533 p. : b ill. ; c 22 cm.
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
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Jazz baby
by Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
A group of children move and play, hum and sleep to a jazz beat.
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Jazz on a Saturday night
Leo & Diane Dillon.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.+ 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
The authors use bright colors and musical patterns that make music skip off the page, in this toe-tapping homage to many jazz greats. Learn about this popular music form and read a biography of each player pictured--and then hear each instrument play on a specially produced CD.
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Kami and the yaks
by Andrea Stenn Stryer ; illustrated by Bert Dodson.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
In the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal, a deaf Sherpa boy proves himself to his father by rescuing his family's yaks from a dangerous storm.
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