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Pocahontas : American Indian princess /

Ford, Carin T.


A daughter of Powhatan -- Pocahontas and John Smith -- Struggles at Jamestown -- Lady Rebecca -- An Indian princess in England. Horn Book, April 2007. Explores the life of seventeenth-century Powhatan princess Pocahontas, telling Captain John Smith's legendary story about her bravery and discussing the Jamestown colony, struggles between settlers and Native Americans, and Pocahontas's years in England.
Date Published:2006

A daughter of Powhatan -- Pocahontas and John Smith -- Struggles at Jamestown -- Lady Rebecca -- An Indian princess in England. Horn Book, April 2007. Explores the life of seventeenth-century Powhatan princess Pocahontas, telling Captain John Smith's legendary story about her bravery and discussing the Jamestown colony, struggles between settlers and Native Americans, and Pocahontas's years in England.

Date Published:2006

How do we know the nature of the ocean

Goldstein, Natalie


Examines mankind's discoveries of the nature of the Earth's seas, how they were formed, and their role in regulating climate and weather.
Date Published:2005

The life and times of John Paul Jones

Harkins, Susan Sales.


A moonlit victory -- Childhood adventures, troubles, and a mystery -- A revolutionary sea captain -- In enemy waters -- After the glory -- Chronology -- Timeline in history. School Library Journal, May 2008. Chronicles the life of John Paul Jones, discussing his childhood, naval career, experiences in France, participation in the Revolutionary War, and death.
Date Published:2008

How to catch an elf

Wallace, Adam.


From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes a hilarious Christmas adventure, perfect for stocking stuffers! "With delightful rhymes, How to Catch an Elf slots itself into place along such classics as 'The Night Before Christmas.'"â€”Foreword Reviews It's Christmas Eve and an elf is on the loose... in YOUR house! Do you have what it takes to catch him? Follow along in this fun holiday story as a mischievous elf causes chaos Christmas Eve! Filled with zany traps, vibrant illustrations, STEAM concepts, and even Santa Claus himself, this Christmas picture book for kids is guaranteed to become a new holiday tradition! The perfect elf book for kids, funny stocking stuffer or Christmas gift for ages 4-8, this festive read aloud is loved by children, parents, and educators alike. Some kids have tried to catch him, but Santa's fast, you see! So they've set their eyes on a smaller prize, and now they're after me! Also in the How to Catch Series: How to Catch a Unicorn How to Catch a Gingerbread Man How to Catch a Snowman How to Catch a Mermaid How to Catch a Dinosaur How to Catch a Yeti My First How to Catch Santa Claus and more!
Date Published:2016

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes a hilarious Christmas adventure, perfect for stocking stuffers! "With delightful rhymes, How to Catch an Elf slots itself into place along such classics as 'The Night Before Christmas.'"â€”Foreword Reviews It's Christmas Eve and an elf is on the loose... in YOUR house! Do you have what it takes to catch him? Follow along in this fun holiday story as a mischievous elf causes chaos Christmas Eve! Filled with zany traps, vibrant illustrations, STEAM concepts, and even Santa Claus himself, this Christmas picture book for kids is guaranteed to become a new holiday tradition! The perfect elf book for kids, funny stocking stuffer or Christmas gift for ages 4-8, this festive read aloud is loved by children, parents, and educators alike. Some kids have tried to catch him, but Santa's fast, you see! So they've set their eyes on a smaller prize, and now they're after me! Also in the How to Catch Series: How to Catch a Unicorn How to Catch a Gingerbread Man How to Catch a Snowman How to Catch a Mermaid How to Catch a Dinosaur How to Catch a Yeti My First How to Catch Santa Claus and more!

Date Published:2016

11 before 12 : Friendship list series, book 1 /

Greenwald, Lisa.


Fans of Lauren Myracle and Wendy Mass will love acclaimed author Lisa Greenwald's new duology about two best friends who kick-start middle school with a bucket list of eleven things they need to do to become AMAZING before their joint twelfth birthday party. The first day of middle school means trading in freeze tag at the pool for new schedules, fabulous outfits, and a fresh start. But for eleven-year-old Kaylan, the chaos of new locker combinations, cafeteria cliques, and potential first kisses is more than she can handle. She dreads the start of sixth grade and feels like she wantsno, needsa winning game plan. Luckily, Kaylan and her effortlessly chill BFF, Arianna, have a fool-proof plan for tackling transitions: a list of eleven things they need to do to totally transform themselves before they both turn twelve in November. But between making guy friends, getting detention (and makeovers!), helping humanity, and having super-candid conversations with their moms about their flaws, the first 100 days of school turn out worse than Kaylan ever imagined. Kaylan and Ari forget to focus on their friendship and soon their loyalty to the listwhat was meant to help them keep it togetherbecomes the very thing tearing their lives apart.
Date Published:2017

Fans of Lauren Myracle and Wendy Mass will love acclaimed author Lisa Greenwald's new duology about two best friends who kick-start middle school with a bucket list of eleven things they need to do to become AMAZING before their joint twelfth birthday party. The first day of middle school means trading in freeze tag at the pool for new schedules, fabulous outfits, and a fresh start. But for eleven-year-old Kaylan, the chaos of new locker combinations, cafeteria cliques, and potential first kisses is more than she can handle. She dreads the start of sixth grade and feels like she wantsno, needsa winning game plan. Luckily, Kaylan and her effortlessly chill BFF, Arianna, have a fool-proof plan for tackling transitions: a list of eleven things they need to do to totally transform themselves before they both turn twelve in November. But between making guy friends, getting detention (and makeovers!), helping humanity, and having super-candid conversations with their moms about their flaws, the first 100 days of school turn out worse than Kaylan ever imagined. Kaylan and Ari forget to focus on their friendship and soon their loyalty to the listwhat was meant to help them keep it togetherbecomes the very thing tearing their lives apart.

Date Published:2017

School in many cultures

Adamson, Heather, 1974-


Booklist, October 2007. Library Media Connection, April 2008. Multicultural Review, December 2007. Looks at how schools and school activities are very much the same in different cultures around the world.
Date Published:2008

Video games

Sturm, Jeanne.


Enjoying the game -- The history of video games -- The evolution of the console -- Handheld games through the years -- Exploring genres of video games -- Other ways to play -- Careers in the video game industry. Describes the history of video games, including arcade games, game consoles, and handheld devices, and explores the different genres of games and the people responsible for designing them.
Date Published:2009

Enjoying the game -- The history of video games -- The evolution of the console -- Handheld games through the years -- Exploring genres of video games -- Other ways to play -- Careers in the video game industry. Describes the history of video games, including arcade games, game consoles, and handheld devices, and explores the different genres of games and the people responsible for designing them.

Date Published:2009

The Berenstain bears and the truth

Berenstain, Stan, 1923-2005.


Brother and Sister Bear learn how important it is to tell the truth after they accidentally break Mama Bear's most favorite lamp.
Date Published:1983

Ghosts of war : the true story of a 19-year-old GI /

Smithson, Ryan.


Red phase: Stuck in the fence -- Reception -- Basic training part I -- Maybe a ring? -- EQ platoon -- GI Joe Schmo -- Cold lightning -- Eight-Hour delay -- Town that Achmed built -- Taste of death -- White phase: Basic training part II -- Relief -- War miracles -- Taste of home -- Satan's clothes dryer -- Hard canvas -- Bazoona cat -- Tears -- Blue phase: Basic training part III -- Best day so far -- Irony -- End -- Silence and Silhouettes -- Words on paper -- Innocent -- Ghosts of war -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments. Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. Smithson avoids writing either prowar propaganda or an antimilitary polemic, providing instead a fascinating, often humorous-and occasionally devastating-account of the motivations and life of a contemporary soldier.
Date Published:2009

Red phase: Stuck in the fence -- Reception -- Basic training part I -- Maybe a ring? -- EQ platoon -- GI Joe Schmo -- Cold lightning -- Eight-Hour delay -- Town that Achmed built -- Taste of death -- White phase: Basic training part II -- Relief -- War miracles -- Taste of home -- Satan's clothes dryer -- Hard canvas -- Bazoona cat -- Tears -- Blue phase: Basic training part III -- Best day so far -- Irony -- End -- Silence and Silhouettes -- Words on paper -- Innocent -- Ghosts of war -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments. Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. Smithson avoids writing either prowar propaganda or an antimilitary polemic, providing instead a fascinating, often humorous-and occasionally devastating-account of the motivations and life of a contemporary soldier.

Date Published:2009

Winter : December, January, and February /

Senker, Cath


Brightening up the winter -- Hanukkah -- Christmas -- Kwanzaa -- New year celebrations -- Guru Gobind Singh's birthday -- Epiphany -- Days to remember -- Id ul-Adha -- St. Valentine's Day -- Mahashivaratri -- Carnival-- Magha puja. Booklist, November 2004. Examines the important religious and secular holidays that are celebrated around the world in the winter including Christmas and Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Epiphany, Valentine's Day, and Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago.
Date Published:2005

Brightening up the winter -- Hanukkah -- Christmas -- Kwanzaa -- New year celebrations -- Guru Gobind Singh's birthday -- Epiphany -- Days to remember -- Id ul-Adha -- St. Valentine's Day -- Mahashivaratri -- Carnival-- Magha puja. Booklist, November 2004. Examines the important religious and secular holidays that are celebrated around the world in the winter including Christmas and Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Epiphany, Valentine's Day, and Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago.

Date Published:2005

Hanukkah

Schaefer, Lola M., 1950-


Library Talk starred, January 2001. Presents, in simple text and photographs, the history of Hanukkah and how it is celebrated.
Date Published:2001

The Yawns are coming!

Eliopoulos, Christopher, 1983-


Two best friends have big plans for their sleepover. They aren't going to go to bed at all--they'll stay up playing all night long. But then it happens: The YAWNS show up! And as much as they try to outrun and hide from them, it's no use: The Yawns catch them. Maybe they could keep going anyway, but then a DOZE arrives ... followed by the dreaded SNORES. Will our heroes escape the SLEEPIES?
Date Published:2020

Pete the cat and his four groovy buttons

Litwin, Eric.


Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2013. Publishers Weekly, May 2012. Horn Book, November 2012. Teacher Librarian, December 2013. Kirkus Review, April 2012. Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.
Date Published:2012

J.D. and the great barber battle

Dillard, J.


Series number from spine. Booklist, March 2021. Horn Book Magazine, July 2021. Kirkus Reviews, January 2021. J.D. has a big problem--it's the night before the start of third grade and his mom has just given him his first and worst home haircut. When the steady stream of insults from the entire student body of Douglass Elementary becomes too much for J.D., he takes matters into his own hands and discovers that, unlike his mom, he's a genius with the clippers.
Date Published:2021

Series number from spine. Booklist, March 2021. Horn Book Magazine, July 2021. Kirkus Reviews, January 2021. J.D. has a big problem--it's the night before the start of third grade and his mom has just given him his first and worst home haircut. When the steady stream of insults from the entire student body of Douglass Elementary becomes too much for J.D., he takes matters into his own hands and discovers that, unlike his mom, he's a genius with the clippers.

Date Published:2021

The one and only Dylan St. Claire

Edwards, Kamen.


Booklist, May 2020. Kirkus Review, March 2020. "Dylan St. Claire faces a week of anguish when he fails to get cast as the star in the school musical and lands the role of a squirrel instead"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2020

Dog Man : Big Jim Begins /

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-,


"Dog Man, Big Jim, and others join forces to stop the Space Cuties from destroying the city. Will the past predict the future for Dog Man and his friends? Will goodness and bravery prevail? Can anything happen if you truly believe?"--
Date Published:2024

I survived the Wellington avalanche, 1910

Tarshis, Lauren.


"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after midnight on March 1, a lightning storm struck the mountain, sending a ten-foot-high wave of snow barreling down the mountain"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2022

"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after midnight on March 1, a lightning storm struck the mountain, sending a ten-foot-high wave of snow barreling down the mountain"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2022

Hombre perro : Churre y castigo /

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-,


Translation of: Dog Man : grime and punishment. ÆHombre Perro ha metido la pata hasta el fondo esta vez! Tiene que entregar su placa y vaciar el escritorio, pero si bien no tiene trabajo aún le quedan esperanzas. Con sus amigos de su lado, Åpodrá Hombre Perro salir del hoyo y regresar gateando al cuerpo policial? Dog Man's really done it this time! He hands over his badge and clears out his desk, but while he may be out of a job, he's not yet out of hope. With his friends at his side, can Dog Man dig himself out of this hole and paw his way back onto the force?
Date Published:2021

Translation of: Dog Man : grime and punishment. ÆHombre Perro ha metido la pata hasta el fondo esta vez! Tiene que entregar su placa y vaciar el escritorio, pero si bien no tiene trabajo aún le quedan esperanzas. Con sus amigos de su lado, Åpodrá Hombre Perro salir del hoyo y regresar gateando al cuerpo policial? Dog Man's really done it this time! He hands over his badge and clears out his desk, but while he may be out of a job, he's not yet out of hope. With his friends at his side, can Dog Man dig himself out of this hole and paw his way back onto the force?

Date Published:2021

Dog Man : Mothering Heights.

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-


"Dog Man is down on his luck, Petey confronts his not so purr-fect past, and Grampa is up to no good. The world is spinning out of control as new villains spill into town. Everything seems dark and full of despair. But hope is not lost. Can the incredible power of love save the day?"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2021

Glitch

Martin, Laura.


School Library Journal starred, June 2020. Booklist, April 2020. Kirkus Review, April 2020. Publishers Weekly Annex, June 2020. "Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason have been enemies since they started training to become Glitchers--people who travel through time to preserve important historical events. But everything changes when they find a letter from Regan's future self, warning them about an impending disaster that threatens them and everyone they know"--Amazon.
Date Published:2020

School Library Journal starred, June 2020. Booklist, April 2020. Kirkus Review, April 2020. Publishers Weekly Annex, June 2020. "Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason have been enemies since they started training to become Glitchers--people who travel through time to preserve important historical events. But everything changes when they find a letter from Regan's future self, warning them about an impending disaster that threatens them and everyone they know"--Amazon.

Date Published:2020