Nicole Wong
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"Each of the three seeds in this story--a cherry seed in the MIddle East, an acacia seed in Australia, and a lotus seed in Asia--survives a difficult journey through flood, fire, or drought, then sprouts (in the case of the lotus seed, a hundred years later) and flourishes. To author Stephie Morton, nature's powerful forces are a metaphor for the hardships faced by displaced children. Kids, like seeds, thrive when given a chance. Stephie's verses...
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Explores the importance of rivers to humans as sources of drinking water, transportation, and power sources, and explains how humans buried old rivers beneath city streets in an attempt to control the flow of rivers and problems they caused. Examines the damage caused by the containment of rivers, and discusses the development of daylighting, the unearthing and restoring of buried rivers to their rightful places and natural courses. Includes back...
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"Climb aboard Alvin, the famous deep-sea submersible credited with helping to find the Titanic, and take a trip two miles down to the bottom of the ocean.Experience a day in the life of an Alvin pilot and join scientists at the seafloor to collect samples and conduct research. Along the way, discover what one wears, eats, and talks about during a typical eight-hour trip in a underwater craft and find out more about the animals that live deep in our...
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When you think of chocolate, you might think of a candy bar, a birthday cake, or a glass of chocolate milk. But where does chocolate come from? This book tells about the cocoa bean, which grows in the tropical rain forests and how the animals and other living things play an important part, even the monkeys.
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In alternating scenes of her childhood and her adult career, the author, former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, tells how she grew up to become the first American woman to walk in space. Includes lists of the other women in the first space-shuttle class and other first accomplished by women in space.
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"Cal D. Cat returns to the library, and this time he and his friends are working on a research assignment! The cute kitty from L is for Library shadows students around the media center as they follow a recommended research strategy through the alphabet. The corresponding library lessons contain instructions and reproducibles, as well as a resource list and the content standards covered in the lesson."--Publisher description.
13) Enough is
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How many friends, turns, clothes, toys, fashion accessories, books? How much of anything? The pictures follow one child as she learns the difference between wanting and needing and, in the end, feels the contentment that flows from being satisfied with what she has. The text, meanwhile, frames a difficult idea in simple, spare language: "Somewhere between a little and a lot, there is Enough. It might be hard to spot, but it's always there."
14) Candy shop
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When a boy and his aunt find that a bigot has written something on the sidewalk outside the candy shop owned by a new immigrant from Taiwan, they set out to comfort the owner.
15) Sweet dreaming
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Molly's mother imagines stories to lull her to sleep, from swooping birds to a quiet beach, and soon one of them has nodded off.