Live Oak Media (Firm)
1) Robots
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Introduces robots and the science behind them, including a historic timeline of robot development, common jobs robots perform in the workplace and at home, and robots of the future.
2) Titanic
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Discusses the Titanic, including its design, how the ship sank, the passengers onboard, and why the ship's legacy lives on.
3) Meteors
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Describes what are meteorites, and where do they come from?
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Favorite Female Authors
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air. Includes a retrospective on the careers of Brown and Hurd as well as details of the publication and success of Goodnight moon.
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1st Grade Reading
Books by National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Meg Medina
Books for Summer, in English and Spanish/Libros para el verano, en inglés y español
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Books by National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Meg Medina
Books for Summer, in English and Spanish/Libros para el verano, en inglés y español
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"Mia's abuela has left her sunny house with parrots and palm trees to live with Mia and her parents in the city. The night she arrives, Mia tries to share her favorite book with Abuela before they go to sleep and discovers that Abuela can't read the words inside. So while they cook, Mia helps Abuela learn English ("Dough. Masa"), and Mia learns some Spanish too, but it's still hard for Abuela to learn the words she needs to tell Mia all her stories....
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A New Look at Thanksgiving Using Children's Literature
Books for Kindergarteners
Bordeaux Children's November Family Favorites
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Books for Kindergarteners
Bordeaux Children's November Family Favorites
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Otsaliheliga is a Cherokee word that is used to express gratitude. Journey through the year with a Cherokee family and their tribal nation as they express thanks for celebrations big and small. A look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
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A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last left them lead Amy and her mentally handicapped sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
10) This jazz man
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Presents an introduction to jazz music and nine well-known jazz musicians, set to the rhythm of the traditional song, "This Old Man." Includes brief facts about each musician.
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"What happens when you hold up a mirror to poems about Greek myths? You get a brand-new perspective on the classics! And that is just what happens in Echo Echo, the newest collection of reverso poems from Marilyn Singer. Read one way, each poem tells the story of a familiar myth; but when read in reverse, the poems reveal a new point of view! Readers will delight in uncovering the dual points of view in well-known legends, including the stories of...
15) Worth
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After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
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"Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale."--Amazon.com.
Harlot or hero? Liar or lady? There are two sides to every story. Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women, and debate alongside authors Yolen and Stemple--who appear in the book as themselves in a series of comic panels--as to each girl's guilt or innocence.
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"Amber and her best friend Justin are spending the summer at Camp Cushetunk and Amber is having a great time learning to ride and take care of Cinnamon, the sweetest horse ever. Then, Amber becomes the target of pranks; certain that she knows who is behind them, she and her friends plot revenge. Things don't turn out quite as planned and the campers soon learn that horsing around can lead to real trouble -- but sometimes trouble can change things...