juvenile literature

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juvenile literature

The Christmas menorahs

how a town fought hate
1995
Describes how people in Billings, Montana, joined together to fight a series of hate crimes against a Jewish family.
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Happy birthday, Martin Luther King

1993
An introduction to the great civil rights leader.
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Puppies, puppies everywhere!

2006
Simple text and photos present puppies doing what they do best, including playing and snuggling.
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Kate Shelley

bound for legend
1995
A biography of the fifteen-year-old Iowa teenager who helped avert a train disaster in 1881 and became a national heroine.
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My season with penguins

an Antarctic journal
2000
Describes the author's two-month stay in Antarctica to study and draw penguins.
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Poetry matters

writing a poem from the inside out
2002
Provides children with practical advice on how to write poems.
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An apple tree through the year

1987
Follows an apple tree through the four seasons, detailing the yearly growth cycle and examining the ecosystem of the entire apple orchard.
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This place is wet

1989
Focuses on the land, ecology, people, and animals of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil, presenting it as an example of a place where there is so much water that some houses need to be built on stilts.
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Dinosaur for a day

1992
Follows a typical day in the life of a family of Hypsilophodons, a smaller, lesser-known dinosaur whose great speed aided its survival.
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The shape of me and other stuff

1973
Rhyme and silhouette drawings introduce the shape of bugs, balloons, peanuts, camels, spider webs, and many other familiar objects.
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