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The Cardboard Piano

by Perkins, Lynne Rae

When Debbie gives Tina a cardboard piano, she is sure that Tina will love it. After all, Debbie spent a long time making it, and it looks just like a real pian...

Way Up and Over Everything

by McGill, Alice

In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.

Lady Liberty

A Biography

by Rappaport, Doreen

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Jack Plank Tells Tales

by Babbitt, Natalie

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Merry Un-Christmas

by Reiss, Mike

Noelle celebrates the only day in Christmas City that is not Christmas by undecorating the tree, greeting the postman, and going to school.

Mama

A True Story, in Which a Baby Hippo Loses His Mama during a Tsunami, but Finds a New Home, and a New Mama

by Winter, Jeanette

When the tsunami struck on December 26, 2004, a herd of hippos was swept out to sea and an infant hippo was separated from his mother. He was rescued and taken...

Martin Bridge, on the Lookout!

by Kerrin, Jessica Scott

Martin Bridge is back. Martin Bridge: On the Lookout! features three more illustrated stories about Martin's well-laid plans unraveling. This time, he has to e...

Michael Rosen's Sad Book

by Rosen, Michael

A man tells about all the emotions that accompany his sadness over the death of his son, and how he tries to cope.

Science Verse

by Scieszka, Jon

When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but scienc...

Circle of Doom

by Kennemore, Tim

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie uses ingredients both ordinary and not so ordinary to make a series of magic potions, to the growing astonishment of her younger broth...