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• The City Sings Green and Other Poems About Welcoming Wildlife

  Silverman, Erica,

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  Birds and flowers and bees and trees and butterflies and possums and beavers and – penguins? Who says you have to leave the city to be out in nature? Nature is already here, we’re a part of it, and it’s our job to help protect it. Travel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Curse of Eelgrass Bog

  Averling, Mary,

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  Kess Pedrock is lonely. Her scientist parents are away in Antarctica and her older brother refuses to leave his bedroom, leaving twelve-year-old Kess alone to look after the family's Unnatural History Museum, which is slowly falling into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Evidence!

  How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera /

  Hopkinson, Deborah,

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  London, August, 1854. On a hot summer day, dozens of people waited in line for a drink of cool water from the Broad Street pump. One of those people was a little girl named Annie Lewis. Annie and her neighbors filled their buckets with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gamerville

  Christmas, Johnnie,

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  Max lives for gaming. When he’s playing “Lone Wolf of Calamity Bay,” Max is free to take risks and explore – he's unstoppable! In fact, Max is so good, he qualifies for a spot at the Gamerville Video Game Tournament. There’s only one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Joyful Song

  a Naming Story

  Newman, Lesléa,

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  Today is the best day ever! Today, Zachary and Mama and Mommy will take Zachary’s brand-new baby sister to temple. They will all stand on the bima together and the Rabbi will announce the baby’s name which is – wait! It’s not for me to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let's Go!

  Haw Êkwa!

  Flett, Julie,

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  “Cacussh! Cacussh!” Every day a little boy watches neighborhood kids glide past his window on skateboards and dreams of following them until, one special day, his mom surprises him with the skateboard she rode as a little girl. Is he ready…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Orris and Timble

  the Beginning

  DiCamillo, Kate,

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  Owls are predators. Rats are prey. That is a fancy way of saying: owls eat rats. So, owls and rats cannot be friends. You could even say: owls and rats are born enemies. Those are the facts. Or are they? When Orris, a treasure-loving rat,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Read at Your Own Risk

  Lai, Remy,

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  When Hannah Lee and her friends sneak out of an assembly to hold a seance in the creepy school attic, they don’t plan on contacting a real spirit – or unleashing an ancient curse! Now, Hannah fears her days are numbered. This book is her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Safiyyah's War

  Khan, Hiba Noor,

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  May 10, 1940: Germany invades France. Parisian eleven-year-old Safiyyah and her family – Baba (father), Yemma (mother), Setti (grandmother), and little sister Fatima - live in an elegant apartment attached to the Grand Mosque of Paris,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall

  Warga, Jasmine,

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  When a famous painting is stolen, the only witness is a turtle named Agatha – and maybe a ghost? Rami’s mother is a janitor at the Penelope L. Brooks Museum, a real perk for art-loving Rami who is able to visit his favorite paintings after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boo Hag Flex

  Ireland, Justina,

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  Campers at Camp Apple Hill Farm say that deep in the woods there’s a long-lost cabin. Campers who find the cabin will hear the scariest stories of their young lives, but they might not make it home! Elaina never meant to find the cabin,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Definitely Human

  Fang, X.,

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  When three blue-skinned strangers drop out of the sky and into Farmer Li’s field in the middle of the night, they offer him four little words of reassurance: We are DEFINITELY human. Farmer and Mrs. Li and all of their neighbors do what…Read moreRead more of this annotation