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Angelina ballerina.

Craig, Helen


A pretty little mouse wants to become a ballerina more than anything else in the world.
Date Published:1983

Ancient Rome

Raatma, Lucia.


Library Media Connection, March 2003. Describes the history, government, people, culture, aspects of daily life, and enduring legacy of ancient Rome.
Date Published:2003

The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures /

Selznick, Brian


Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, March 2007. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2008. Horn Book Starred, March 2007. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, April 2007. Pub Weekly, January 2007. Booklist, January 2007. Kirkus Starred, January 2007. 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.
Date Published:2007

Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, March 2007. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2008. Horn Book Starred, March 2007. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, April 2007. Pub Weekly, January 2007. Booklist, January 2007. Kirkus Starred, January 2007. 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.

Date Published:2007

Toys meet snow : being the wintertime adventures of a curious stuffed buffalo, a sensitive plush stingray, and a book-loving rubber ball /

Jenkins, Emily, 1967-


School Library Journal starred, June 2015. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, December 2015. Pub Weekly, July 2015. Kirkus Starred, July 2015. Booklist, July 2015. New York Times, November 2015. Horn Book, April 2016. While Little Girl is away on winter vacation, her toys, Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic, decide to go outside and learn more about snow.
Date Published:2015

Abe Lincoln at last!

Osborne, Mary Pope


"A Merlin mission." "A Stepping Stone book." Horn Book, November 2012. The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
Date Published:2011

Down comes the rain

Branley, Franklyn Mansfield, 1915-2002.


Wilson's Children, October 2006. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. School Library Journal, October 1997. Science Books & Films (A.A.A.S.), January 1998. L.A. Recommended Foreign Language, February 1999. Explains how the water cycle leads to different types of weather patterns.
Date Published:1997

Those amazing ants.

Demuth, Patricia


Describes those fascinating insects, the ants, in simple words and pictures.
Date Published:1994

The old woman and her pig

Kimmel, Eric A.


Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. School Library Journal. Booklist. Horn Book. When her newly bought pig won't go over the stile, an old woman tries to enlist the aid of some reluctant helpers so that she can get home that night.
Date Published:1992

Dust storm!

Johnson, Terry Lynn.


Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
Date Published:2018

The Berenstain Bears forget their manners

Berenstain, Stan, 1923-2005.


School Library Journal. Mama Bear comes up with a plan to correct the Bear family's rude behavior.
Date Published:1985

George Gershwin

Venezia, Mike


For children in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Focuses on the life and music of the composer who wrote such musical masterpieces as Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess, and who made jazz an accepted form of serious music .
Date Published:1994

Clouds

Saunders-Smith, Gail.


Includes index/word list. Includes glossary. This book describes different kinds of clouds - cirrus, cumulus, stratus, and nimbus - and the types of weather they indicate.
Date Published:1998

A gathering of days : a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel /

Blos, Joan W.


Wilson's Children, November 1996. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). School Library Journal. Five Owls, May 1997. Book Links (A.L.A.), August 2000. Booklist. Horn Book. Kirkus Review. The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
Date Published:1979

Pink and Say

Polacco, Patricia


Elem. School Library Collection, March 1998. School Library Journal starred, October 1994. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). School Library Journal, September 1997. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), January 1998. Publisher's Weekly. Booklist. New York Times. Chronicles the frienship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.
Date Published:1994

Elem. School Library Collection, March 1998. School Library Journal starred, October 1994. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). School Library Journal, September 1997. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), January 1998. Publisher's Weekly. Booklist. New York Times. Chronicles the frienship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.

Date Published:1994

The heroine of the Titanic : a tale both true and otherwise of the life of Molly Brown /

Blos, Joan W.


Wilson's Children, June 2001. Elem. School Library Collection, March 1998. School Library Journal. An anecdotal account of some of the adventurous activities of Molly Brown, with an emphasis on her survival of the sinking of the Titanic.
Date Published:1991

Cactus hotel

Guiberson, Brenda Z


Wilson's Children, November 1996. Book Links (A.L.A.), March 1996. Booklist, March 1996. Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers.
Date Published:1991

Does a mouse have a house

Miranda, Anne


Find out where 17 different animals from various parts of the world make their homes.
Date Published:1994

Kwanzaa

Chocolate, Deborah M. Newton.


Wilson's Children, November 1996. School Library Journal. Discusses the holiday in which African-Americans celebrate their roots and cultural heritage.
Date Published:1990

Princess Furball

Huck, Charlotte S.


Wilson's Children, October 2006. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. Book Links (A.L.A.), May 2000. Child Study Children's Book Committee. Booklist starred. Horn Book. L.A. Recommended Foreign Language, February 1999. A princess in a coat of a thousand furs hides her identity from a king who falls in love with her.
Date Published:1989

Lunch lady and the picture day peril

Krosoczka, Jarrett.


"8"--Spine. Horn Book, April 2013. Choice, April 2013. When eccentric photographer Stefani DePino comes to Thompson Brook to take school pictures in the midst of an acne epidemic, Lunch Lady, Betty, and the Breakfast Bunch learn that Stefani is using them to break into the world of high fashion.
Date Published:2012