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Maz, you're up!
Par Kelly Mazeroski, Judith Lauso. 2010
Maz, You're Up! is a children's book commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1960 World Series. Kelly Mazeroski, Bill Mazeroski's…
daughter-in-law, was inspired to write the book after the birth of her first son. 2010. For grades 4-7Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
Par Jonah Winter, Calef Brown. 2009
And Gertrude and Alice are Gertrude and Alice. And you are welcome to join them for tea. But beware, for…
there you will find a bear in a chair, just barely scary. And here is a beard with a man attached to it. And then, of course, some words might appear, uninvited , but delighted in spite of their lightbulbs. But, but, but, but - that doesn't make any sense! Yes! In a story inspired by the oh-so-modern groundbreaking writing of Gertrude herself, not a lot makes sense. Even so, the oh-so-popular author Jonah Winter, and the ever-so-popular illustrator Calef Brown, and the most popular poodle of all time, Basket, invite you to enter the whimsical world of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. For grades 2-4. 2019Blueberry summers: growing up at the lake
Par Curtiss Anderson. 2008
In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his robust Norwegian…
family and their wonderfully familiar summerscape in northern Minnesota: the lake place. Sweet childhood reminiscences comprise this coming-of-age memoir set in the poignant summers of the 1930s and '40sTaking hold: from migrant childhood to Columbia University
Par Francisco Jiménez. 2015
Jiménez came to California with his emigrant Mexican family, and worked for many years in the fields alongside them. Here,…
he recounts his life from when he arrives in NY City to begin graduate work at Columbia University in the late 1960s. It was a turbulent, political time, and he missed his girlfriend and family in California. Eventually he became a professor at Santa Clara University in 1973Mr. Lincoln's boys: being the mostly true adventures of Abraham Lincoln's trouble-making sons, Tad and Willie
Par Staton Rabin, Bagram Ibatoulline. 2008
My Detroit garden
Par Keri Middaugh. 2012
A little girl moves to the city of Detroit and misses her garden. Will planting a few seedlings in a…
nearby vacant lot help her feel at home in the city? This story takes a look at the joys of urban gardening and includes a Detroit fact page and family gardening activity. For grades K-3. 2012On Folly Beach
Par Karen White. 2010
Folly Beach, S.C. Emmy Hamilton's mother encourages her to buy the local book store, Folly's Finds, hoping it will distract…
Emmy from the loss of her husband. But the seller insists on one condition: Emmy must allow Lulu, the late owner's difficult sister, to continue selling her bottle trees from its back yard. After finding love letters in a box of used books, the more Emmy understands Lulu--and their war-ravaged hearts can find hope for a second chanceStillwater
Par Nicole Lea Helget. 2014
At the time of the Civil War, Stillwater is a town of pioneers, nuns, fur trappers, loggers, runaway slaves and…
freedmen, outlaws and people of conscience. In that town, Clement and Angel, separated at birth, get to know different types of the residents. Some strong languageReaching out (Circuit- Jimenez Ser.)
Par Francisco Jiménez, Francisco Jimenez. 2008
When Francisco becomes a freshman in 1962 at the Santa Clara University in California, he enters an entirely different world…
from the Mexican migrant community his family still inhabits. Continuation of fictionalized autobiography in Breaking Through (DB 53946) and The Circuit (DB 46960). For junior and senior high readers. 2008Alfred and Emily
Par Doris Lessing. 2008
Nobel Laureate and prolific author of The Golden Notebook (DB 23376) provides a fictional alternate account of her parents' lives.…
The Great War never happened and Brits Alfred and Emily marry others and have enjoyable careers. The novella is followed by the real account of their war-ravaged marriage. 2008I have a sister--my sister is deaf
Par Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson, Deborah Kogan Ray. 1977
Prairie school: story (I Can Read Level 4)
Par Avi, Bill Farnsworth. 2001
When Aunt Dora, a schoolteacher, comes to visit Noah's family in 1880, nine-year-old Noah feels no need to read or…
write. But Aunt Dora changes his mind by expanding his world while he pushes her wheelchair across the prairie. For grades 2-4. 2001. For grades 2-4. 2001On my way (A 26 Fairmount Avenue Book Ser. #3)
Par Tomie DePaola, Tomie Depaola. 2001
The author-illustrator continues his childhood recollections in this sequel to Here We All Are (DB 50343). He recounts the family's…
concern when his baby sister got pneumonia, their trip to the 1939 World's Fair, his dance recital, and starting first grade. For grades 2-4. 2001A group of one
Par Rachna Gilmore. 2001
Fifteen-year-old Tara Mehta's life is turned upside down when her grandmother visits from India. Naniji disapproves of the family's Canadian…
lifestyle and feminist mother. But Tara also learns of her heritage and Naniji's involvement in Gandhi's peace movement. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2001Trece sentidos: una memoria
Par Victor Villaseñor, Victor Villasenor. 2001
Abriendo con las bodas de oro de Lupe y Salvador, la familia Villaseñor vive con la pobreza, volencia y perjuicios…
de la gran Depresión en el sur de California. La familia se sostiene con amor, humor y alegría de vivir. Sigue a Lluvia de Oro (RC 50714). Contiene descripciones de índole sexual, de violencia y lenguaje injuriosoDon't you know there's a war on?
Par James Stevenson. 1992
The author, a ten-year-old boy in 1942 when the United States entered World War II, reminisces on just what it…
was like to be a "kid." With his brother and father away fighting, he tried to do his part to win the war by collecting tinfoil, saving tin cans, buying war stamps, planting a "victory garden," and keeping an eye on a neighbor who he suspected was a spy. For grades 2-4 to share with older readersYam uas zoo nkauj tshaj plaws
Par Kao Kalia Yang, Khoa Le. 2021
Zaj dab neeg sov siab thiab hmov tshua uas muaj tseeb hais txog ib tug ntxhais hluas uas pom qhov…
kev zoo nkauj los ntawm qhov uas nws ib txwm xav tias yuav ntsia. Muab los ntawm tus neeg sau Kao Kalia Yang lub keeb neej me nyuam yaus tam li yog ib tug neeg Hmoob tawg rog, phau ntawv muaj duab no piav qhia txog ib tsev neeg uas tsis muaj nyiaj ntau thiab muaj txoj kev hlub loj heev. Kev muab Kalia zaj dab neeg hais txog ntawm nws pog tus nws hmov tshua los sib sau ua ke, phau ntawv no pib hais txij ntua thaum tseem nyob rau hav zoov hav tsuag tim Nplog Teb los mus txog rau lub neej thaum tsev neeg nyuam qhuav tuaj txog hauv Teb Chaws Meskas no. Thaum Kalia rais los mus tsis muaj kev zoo siab txog qhov yuav tsum tau ua yam tsis muaj thiab txiav txim siab tias nws xav zawm kaus hniav los pab kho kom nws luag zoo nkauj, uas yog nws pog uas tau pab ua kom nws pom tias qhov kev zoo nkauj tiag-tiag yuav pom tau ntawm cov uas peb hlub tshaj plaws. For grades K-3. UnratedBecause of the rabbit
Par Cynthia Lord. 2019
After rescuing a bunny on the last night of summer, Emma starts fifth grade. She is paired up with Jack,…
who does not seem to fit in anywhere. But the two share a love of animals and find common ground--because of the rabbit. For grades 3-6. 2019Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess
Par Shari Green. 2017
A novel in verse. Sixth-grader Macy, who is deaf, expects disaster when she is sent to help elderly neighbor Iris…
pack for a move to an assisted-living home. To her surprise, Iris soon becomes a firm friend who helps Macy face her own major life changes. For grades 4-7. 2017Hello, universe: A Newbery Award Winner
Par Erin Entrada Kelly, Isabel Roxas. 2017
The lives of four kids are intertwined when a bully's prank leaves shy Virgil stranded at the bottom of a…
well. Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him. Newbery Medal. For grades 3-6. 2017