Ages 5-11
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KidBits: Whaddya Know About Tooth Fairies
by ryanikoglu
Well, what about tooth fairies? Want to know more? Try Dad, Are You The Tooth Fairy?; Fooling The Tooth Fairy; and Tooth Trouble.
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KidBits: Happy Birthdays
by ryanikoglu
Happy Birthday to You! Celebrate with Fairytale Cake; Oscar's Half Birthday; and Parent's Party Book.
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Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by Me by Linda Walvoord
by Tahira
Frederick Douglass enrolls his nine-year-old daughter Rosetta, in an all white private school. She is put in a class by herself and is not allowed to play or learn with the other girls. After her famous father returns from a business trip, he confronts the principal and begins the process of integrating Rochester public schools. This fictional portrayal of Rosetta Douglass touches on the life and times of her famous father. A comprehensive timeline and a detailed synopsis of the great orator's life are included.
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Earth Mother
by Blanche
When Earth Mother blows across the deserts she becomes the wind beneath hawk’s wings. She fills the waterholes and sharpens the thornbushes. She flings spears of lightening into the sky and powders the trees with snow. She takes complaints from man how frogs nourish his belly, but “bad, bad, bad mosquito” torments him. From frog, she hears how “sweet, delicious mosquito” makes him happy but how he fears "bad, bad, bad Man” who eats him. She listens to Mosquito as he tells how delicious Man tastes if only there were no useless frogs. At day’s end, she spangles the trees with fireflies and goes to sleep in a perfect world. Earth Mother written by Ellen Jackson and beautifully illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, is a quietly magical book, perfect for ages 3-10.
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The Economist for kids
by sstonez
The Economist may be a respected international newsmagazine, but it’s also great for students. Every issue has useful sections on each continent or geographic region of the world. In the table of contents you can see which particular countries are covered in that issue. There are short summaries of recent newsworthy events, longer articles, and plenty of maps, graphs, statistics, and pictures. While the focus is on economics, they cover the full range of news events in every corner of the globe. It’s perfect for country reports, current events assignments, or just to impress your social studies teacher!
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Freedom on the Menu by Carole Boston Weatherford
by Tahira
Freedom on the Menu is the story of the Greensboro Four told through the eyes of a young girl named Connie. Connie wants to sit at the Woolworth counter like the girl she sees twirling on the stool, but the law does not allow African Americans to sit at the lunch counter. Through protests and sit-ins sparked by a sermon by Dr. Marin Luther King, the law is changed and Connie gets to eat her first banana spilt sitting at a Woolworth counter. Carole Weatherford tells the story of this historic event in language that even a young child can understand.
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Peace One Day; The Making of World Peace Day
by Blanche
“When you build a house, you start with one brick.”
Jeremy Gilley believed there should be a specific day dedicated to peace every year. He traveled the globe meeting with world leaders to get support for a World Peace Day. With help from the Dalai Lama and Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General, former Israeli leader Shimon Peres and others, the UN unanimously adopted September 21 as a day of global cease-fire and nonviolence in 2002. In his book Peace One Day; The Making of World Peace Day, Gilley describes the journey to make Peace One Day a reality. The book is full of quotations, photographs and drawings from all over the world. One person can make a difference.
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Money, Money, Money
by Blanche
“Riches cover a multitude of woes”…Menander Lady of Andros
“The love of money is the root of all evil”. Bible 1 Timothy 6:10
Moolah, bread, dough, call it what you will, it all comes down to money. This book Money, Money, Money: Where it Comes From, How to Save it, Spend it, Make it by Eve Drobot explores the past, present and future of money. Did you know that Iceland leads the world in the use of credit cards, that a coin machine can count 2,500 coins a minute, that piggy banks go back about a thousand years, that the biggest denomination ever printed in the United States was a $100,000 bill, and that the bird pictured on American money was a real eagle named Peter? This is a fascinating book about a subject that is endlessly fascinating. Check it out! Ages 8 and up.
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Chestnut by Constance W. McGeorge
by Tahira
Mr. Decker has important deliveries to make. It is the Mayor's daughter Jenny's birthday. The flour has to go the baker and the ribbon has to go to the dressmaker. He loads the wagon and then takes a nap. Mr. Decker's horse, Chestnut tries to wake Mr. Decker but to no avail. He then sets out on his own to make the deliveries. After facing several obstacles Chestnut makes all the deliveries on time much to the surprise and gratitude of Mr. Decker. Chestnut takes the reader back to a simpler time. Horse lovers will love the warmth of this endearing story.
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Children's Book Week
by ryanikoglu
November 14 through November 20 is Children's Book Week. Try some folktales from around the world and celebrate with us. From Persia try Three Princes, or Rose's Smile.