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Series: WildfulHardcover
Kengo Kurimoto9781773068626
$22.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12
Feb 06, 2024
Discover the magic of the wilderness in this breathtaking graphic novel reminiscent of The Secret Garden. Poppy’s mother hasn’t been the same since Gran passed away. She stays inside and watches TV, unable to leave the couch. So maybe that’s why Poppy has started spending more time outside, taking her dog Pepper for walks around the neighborhood. When Pepper leads Poppy through a hole in the fence, she finds a forgotten forest that’s been there all along, as well as a new friend named Rob. Rob teaches Poppy that you can find magic in the wilder... + Read More
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Series: Sometimes I Feel LikeSometimes I Feel Like an OakHardcover
Danielle Daniel9781773066981
$19.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Apr 02, 2024
Following the success of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox and Sometimes I Feel Like a River, this companion book explores the nature and beauty of trees. Twelve lyrical poems look at twelve different trees, from early spring to deep winter. In each poem, a child identifies with a feature of the tree — such as the smooth trunk of a birch whose bark has peeled away, the strong branches of a spruce that shelter small birds or the pink flowers of a cherry blossom that tumble like confetti. The poems provide an opportunity to learn about each tree, inspi... + Read More
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Series: Walking TreesHardcover
Marie-Louise Gay9781773069760
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Mar 05, 2024
Lily wants a tree for her birthday. Although she and her father live in a tiny dark apartment, she promises to give it water and sun and air. But after she receives her tree—whom she names George—even Lily can’t imagine how their daily walks will change the neighborhood! With George in a wagon, the two friends explore Lily’s street, greeting neighbors who are happy to sit in George’s shade. It turns out he’s the only tree on the street! Soon Lily’s friends want trees of their own. And together they become a small forest that travels from one en... + Read More
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Series: This Is a Tiny Fragile SnakeHardcover
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$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Feb 06, 2024
Fifteen poems explore close encounters with animals … and choosing to respond tenderly. Whether it’s helping a hummingbird escape, respecting a bear’s habitat, admiring a heron’s beauty, or giving way to ants at a picnic, the human response in these poems is to do no harm, and to help whenever possible. The poems follow a seasonal progression, ending with a final poem that imagines where each animal might be on a winter night. Inspired by personal experiences, Nicholas Ruddock’s poems are simply written, with a pleasing rhyme, and fun to read ... + Read More
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Series: Every Wrinkle Has a StoryHardcover
David Grossman9781773068275
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Feb 06, 2024
Every Tuesday, Yotam’s grandfather takes him to a coffee shop after kindergarten, where Grandpa Amnon drinks coffee and Yotam likes to draw. One day, Yotam has a question: “Grandpa, what’s on your face?” Grandpa Amnon explains that the lines on his face are wrinkles, and they are something that grownups get. He tells Yotam the stories of how he got each of his wrinkles. Some reasons for Grandpa’s wrinkles are sad, like when Grandma Dina was sick. But some reasons are happy, like the wrinkle Grandpa got when Yotam was born. Yotam looks closely ... + Read More
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Series: The Scooter TwinsHardcover
Dorothy Ellen Palmer9781773066295
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9
Mar 05, 2024
Melanie and Melvin may be twins, but they couldn’t be more different. Melanie is LOUD and Melvin is quiet. Melvin likes frogs and Melanie loves MOTORCYCLES! When the twins learn that they will get their very own mobility scooters, Melanie is excited to race to school, but Melvin is worried he’ll fall — and that people will stare. And there’s a problem: Grandma can’t afford the scooters without selling one of Mom’s treasured paintings, one of the only things the twins have left to remember their parents. In the process of getting their scooters... + Read More
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Series: West Coast WildWest Coast Wild RainforestHardcover
Deborah Hodge9781773068398
$21.99JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
Mar 05, 2024
Step into the majestic rainforest of the Pacific west coast and discover a unique community of creatures thriving in an interconnected web of life. Towering over the sea, along the magnificent Pacific west coast, is an ancient and beautiful rainforest with a unique ecosystem that is linked in many ways. In this fourth book in the West Coast Wild series, you will find trees as tall as twenty-storey buildings, tiny seedlings sprouting on nursery logs and brightly colored salmon spawning in streams. The salmon, as a keystone species, connect the o... + Read More
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Series: All That GrowsHardcover
Jack Wong9781773068121
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Mar 05, 2024
From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Jack Wong, a story of a boy who discovers that the more he learns, the more there is to know! On their neighborhood walks together, a boy learns from his older sister all about the plants they see — magnolias that smell like lemon cake, creeping weeds that used to be planted for decoration, and even how dandelion greens can be eaten with spaghetti! But what makes a plant a flower, vegetable or weed, anyway? How can his sister tell, and how does she know so much? The boy’s head spins as he realizes how v... + Read More
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Series: When I Visited GrandmaHardcover
Saumiya Balasubramaniam9781773068336
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Apr 02, 2024
Maya is excited to be in India visiting Grandma, but their time together isn’t quite what she expected … A companion book to When I Found Grandma. It’s Maya’s first morning in India, but Grandma is already rushing her — it’s market day and they must make the most of Maya’s visit. When Maya comes out of her room wearing her favorite ripped jeans, Grandma wants to sew them! Maya finds the market too hot, too loud, and it’s full of Grandma’s nosy neighbors. Even back at home, Grandma’s friends keep dropping by. Maya just longs to be left alone. Bu... + Read More
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Series: Nôhkom seriesninitohtênân / We ListenHardcover
Caitlin Dale Nicholson9781773068596
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Apr 02, 2024
The third book in the Nôhkom series, in Cree and English, tells a story about gathering leaves for Labrador tea, while listening in different ways. A child, her family and her friend have arrived at their favorite picnic spot by the lake, but before they eat lunch Nôhkom suggests they pick leaves for Labrador tea. Once among the trees, Nôhkom pauses for a moment to listen, and the others do too. Nôhkom prays, the girls take their turn, then Nôhkom shows them where to find the leaves. Nôhkom and Mom rest after harvesting, but the girls opt for a... + Read More
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Series: Coco and the CaterpillarsHardcover
Geraldo Valério9781773067988
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Apr 02, 2024
A boy loves his garden, and everything in it, especially all the tiny insects. But … his pet chicken Coco loves them too! When a boy finds a clutch of butterfly eggs in his garden, he can’t stop thinking about the beautiful butterflies they will become. He keeps the eggs a secret from Coco, who finds all the insects in the garden yummy! The boy watches as the eggs hatch, and brightly striped caterpillars appear, growing bigger and juicier every day. But one day, when his back is turned, Coco gobbles up the caterpillars and falls ill. The boy is... + Read More
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Series: Look! Look!Hardcover
Uma Krishnaswami9781773069326
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Apr 02, 2024
A girl in India discovers an ancient step well in this companion book to the creators’ much-loved Out of the Way! Out of the Way! When a girl discovers a slab of stone on a weedy patch of land, she calls to her friends, “Look! Look!” The children clear away the weeds and garbage and find more stones. They call their families to come and see and begin to dig around the stones. Word travels to villages nearby, and more and more people join in, until the digging reveals steps that lead down to an ancient well. At the bottom, there’s even a little ... + Read More
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Series: Two at the TopA Shared Dream of EverestPaperback
Uma Krishnaswami9781773067414
$14.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Jan 02, 2024
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary each tell their story, culminating in their thrilling ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay grew up in Nepal, herding yaks in the shadow of Chomolungma, the mountain also known as Everest. He has always dreamed of climbing to the top. He becomes a guide, leading treks through the Himalayas, and finally attempts the highest mountain himself, but doesn’t make it. Across the ocean, in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary grew up tending his father’s bees. He climbed his first mountain at sixteen and has climbed all over... + Read More
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Series: Colors! / Colores!Paperback
Jorge Luján9781773067421
$14.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Jan 02, 2024
Noted poet Jorge Lujan and South Africa's illustrious illustrator Piet Grobler teamed up to produce this exquisite celebration of color. As day turns into night, we are given fleeting, evocative glimpses of the qualities inherent in a range of colors. An antelope and some children are pictured inhabiting this delicate world. This bilingual, bicultural book presents us with a beautiful vision of a planet in which nature, words, and the rising and setting of the sun and the moon exist in harmony. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in ... + Read More
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Danielle Daniel9781773069180
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 06, 2022
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Series: Speak OutJosé Speaks OutHardcover
José Mujica9781773067254
$15.99JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12
Apr 02, 2024
José Mujica is a former revolutionary, past president of Uruguay and climate activist. José’s speech to the UN is famous for criticizing the contemporary economy, the inequalities of the world and the consumerism that drives our daily lives and pushes us to buy more and more. José condemns our wasteful way of life, explaining that if we all lived like the average American we would need three earths. Today, he says, it is time to consider the planet as a home where we are all equal. Only through governing ourselves as a species will we be able ... + Read More
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Series: Taming PapaHardcover
Mylène Goupil9781773067230
$16.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12
Mar 05, 2024
Mélie doesn’t know how to relate to her father, a political prisoner in another country whom she has never met, when he is released and immigrates to join her family in Montreal. “Where I come from, you have to say the same things as everyone else or keep quiet,” Mélie’s mother tells her. “And your father is not someone who knows how to keep quiet. Or say the same thing as everyone else. So that got him in trouble.” However, ever since he came into Mélie’s life, keeping quiet is the only thing her father has done. Partly because Sami doesn’t sp... + Read More
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Series: Who We Are in Real LifePaperback
Victoria Koops9781773068893
$17.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17
Feb 06, 2024
Fans of Rainbow Rowell and Casey McQuiston will fall for this story of tabletop gaming, romance and epic campaigns — both in game and IRL. IRL, Darcy has just moved to the small prairie town of Unity Creek with her two moms. It feels like she left everything good behind in the city. She misses her tabletop gaming friends and her boyfriend — and is horrified by the homophobia her family faces in their new home. Then she meets kind, quiet Art, who invites her to join his Dungeons & Dragons game. Art is mostly happy fading into the background at s... + Read More
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Series: Caravan to the NorthMisael’s Long WalkPaperback
Jorge Argueta9781773067407
$14.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9
Jan 02, 2024
An urgent and eloquent account of a boy traveling in a caravan from his beloved homeland of El Salvador to the US border. This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave — the hope that lies behind their decision, but also the terrible sadness of leaving home. We learn about how far and hard the trip is, but also about the kindness of those along the way. Finally, on... + Read More