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book talks: spring 2011
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Favorite books from our librarians. Many new titles included. more book talks
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Angleberger, Tom The Strange Case of Origami Yoda Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Brown, Don Kid Blink Beats the World A story of the newsboys (and girls) who took on the world's most powerful press barons--and won. 2004 Children's Nonfiction Book |
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Buyea, Rob Because of Mr. Terupt Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Carman, Patrick Patrick Carman's Skeleton Creek Although housebound following an eerie accident, teenaged Ryan continues to investigate the strange occurrences in his hometown of Skeleton Creek, recording his findings in a journal and viewing email video clips sent by fellow detective Sarah. 2009 Children's Fiction Book |
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Cushman, Karen Alchemy and Meggy Swann In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Falls, Kat Dark Life When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Hahn, Mary Downing Closed for the Season : a Mystery Story When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer. 2009 Children's Fiction Book |
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Holm, Jennifer L. Turtle in Paradise In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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McCaughrean, Geraldine The Death-defying Pepper Roux Having been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Seegert, Scott How to Grow Up and Rule the World A top supervillain offers rules and advice to readers on how to develop an evil plan to rule the world. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Springstubb, Tricia What Happened On Fox Street Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Stone, Tanya Lee The Good the Bad and the Barbie : a Doll's History and her Impact On Us "Readers learn about Mattel Toys and the background behind Barbie's concept and development, how it was a solution for girls who wanted to imagine adult roles rather than just play mother, and details about inventor Ruth Handler."--Amazon.com. 2010 Children's Nonfiction Book |
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Tunnell, Michael O. Candy Bomber : the Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" "World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap. 2010 Children's Nonfiction Book |
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Vanderpool, Clare Moon Over Manifest Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. 2010 Children's Fiction Book |
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Yep, Laurence The Star Maker With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954. Includes an afterword with information about the Chinese customs portrayed in the story. 2011 Children's Fiction Book |
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