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• Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka Con La Papa: Join the Quest With Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert

  Fajardo, Sara Andrea

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  In Quechua, paka paka means hide-and-seek. And in both Quechua and Spanish, papa means the same thing: potato! But when you read this informational picture book, you will learn that there is not just one kind of potato. No! There is the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caboose

  Jonker, Travis,

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  Cedric the hippo loves being first in line. When you are the line leader, you can make everybody go fast. You can make everybody go slow. You can make everybody – crash! One day Cedric takes it just a little too far and is banished to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Monday Mabel

  Awan, Jashar,

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  Mondays are Mabel’s favorite day of the week! Every Monday, Mabel wakes up bright and early to do something that is boring, cute, or funny depending on who you ask. What can it be? Take a careful look at the cover image to make a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Make a Pretty Sound

  a Story of Ella Jenkins

  Todd, Traci N.,

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  “Snap, clack, Mary Mack,” “Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi!.” “Mambo! Cha-cha! Merengue” This picture book biography of revolutionary children’s musician and sometimes Chicagoan, Ella Jenkins features onomatopoeic text and kinetic vocabulary that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Max in the Land of Lies

  a Tale of World War II

  Gidwitz, Adam,

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  The last we saw of Max Bretzfeld, he was parachuting into enemy territory on a secret mission! Well, actually, it’s more complicated than that. The enemy territory is Germany – and for Max, who is both German and Jewish – Germany was home.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Pocket Full of Rocks

  Mahoney, Kristin,

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  What can you do with a pocket full of rocks? From furniture for fairies, to a stand-in for sidewalk chalk, imagination and curiosity guide our narrator’s experiments with rocks, until the seasons change and then it’s time for – shells!…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Safe Crossing

  Percival, Kari,

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  “Each spring, during the night of the first soaking rain after the thaw, the amphibians know” - it’s time to wake up and start hunting for new woods and ponds to call home while they lay their eggs. But sometimes a dark and busy road…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sunday

  Tolentino, Marcelo, 1986-

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  On a same old Sunday, a family settles in to do the same old things. They sit in the same seats, they talk about the same things, and they eat the same food. Everyone is content. Everyone except Martin – this Sunday, he is going to travel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tíos and Primos

  Alcántara, Jacqueline,

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  A young girl prepares to meet her father’s side of the family for the very first time. After a long flight, she is ready to meet her tíos and tías, her primos and primas – but will they remember her? And will they be able to understand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest

  Hartman, Aubrey,

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  No birds sing in Deadwood Forest, and the leaves on the trees are weathered and sparse – as if it were November all year round. Few humans dare to venture into a place that seems to exist between life and death. But it is home to one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A World Worth Saving

  Lukoff, Kyle,

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  For some kids, the world shut down with COVID. But lockdown is when A’s world cracked open, just a little, because, for the first time he was able to name the reality that he was experiencing, and to find some online community around it. A…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Your Forest

  Klassen, Jon,

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  “This is your sun. It is coming up for you. These are your trees. They can go over by the sun.” A wide-eyed sun, four wide-eyed trees, and more animate forest items are presented to you. What else do you need to make a forest? When the sun…Read moreRead more of this annotation