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The Green Festival: Recycling Paper to Save Trees – Scotland

From the Series Green Earth Tales 2

Flora, who lives in Scotland, is shocked when her friend Kevin tells her how many Christmas cards are thrown away each year. Together they collect cards and find other uses for, but with so… Read More →

  • Lexile: 680
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

The Really Old Forest: Rainforest Preservation – Australia

From the Series Green Earth Tales 2

Nicole lives in Millaa Millaa, in tropical Queensland, Australia. Her pen pal, Jack, lives in the United Kingdom and is very interested in the tropical rain forest that surround Millaa… Read More →

  • Lexile: 730
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Classroom Confidence: Georgie Dupree

From the Series Georgie Dupree

A is for Affirmation! Georgie Dupree loves learning, but on her first day at her new school, she has worrisome thoughts about the school year: “What if I get lost? What if I don’t make any… Read More →

  • Lexile: 650
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Lisette's Lie

A springtime fresh picture book about a good day out with friends—climbing mountains, swimming and singing—and the difference between storytelling and lies. Lisette and her friend Bobbi the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 480
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Alan and His Perfectly Pointy Impossibly Perpendicular Pinky

Minnesota Supreme Court Justice and NFL Hall of Famer Alan Page is visiting Market Elementary School. All the students are prepared to use their best manners. But one little boy, who has a… Read More →

  • Lexile: 790
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

Grandpa Alan's Sugar Shack

Tap, tap, tap. Drip, drip, drip. "What's that sound, Grandpa?" "It's the sap running from the maples." Here is the gentle story of a granddaughter discovering one of the great joys of her… Read More →

  • Lexile: 570
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

Mr. Darcy

From the Series Mr. Darcy

Mr. Darcy is a rather reserved and gentle duck, with all the qualities of an English aristocrat. He likes to tip his hat and say "Good Morning" and he would never want to bother anybody. He Read More →

  • Lexile: 540
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

The Invisible You

Everything about Howard's new neighborhood is different—the houses, the school, his teacher, and especially the kids. For the first time in his life, Howard feels like he is different, too.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 730
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

Mrs. Noah's Doves

Mrs. Noah kept birds. She kept many a variety of birds, ravens and robins, eagles and eiders, cockatoos and crows. But out of all the birds she kept, her favorite were her doves. When the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 590
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Rena Glickman, Queen of Judo

Rena Glickman, known professionally as Rusty Kanokogi, was a Jewish girl who grew up to become the preeminent female judo master of her time, overcoming many odds. At a time when judo was a… Read More →

  • Lexile: 810
  • Dewey: 796.815/2
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Make Way for Animals!: A World of Wildlife Crossings
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Make Way for Animals!: A World of Wildlife Crossings

Around the world, city highways and country roads have cut through natural spaces. Wild animals are blocked from the resources they need to survive, or must make dangerous crossings across… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1070
  • Dewey: 333.95/4
  • Copyright: 2022

The Tale of the Tiny Man

A classic picture book from Sweden with a very happy ending about feeling lonely and finding friends. It is possible, after all, to have more than one friend! There was once a tiny man. One… Read More →

  • Lexile: 540
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Today Is Different
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Today Is Different

Standing together makes all of us stronger. Mai, a young Hmong girl, and Kiara, a young Black girl, are best friends. They do everything together—riding the bus, eating lunch, playing at… Read More →

  • Lexile: 530
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Amira's Suitcase

Amira's Suitcase is a gentle, thoughtful story about a little girl who arrives at a settlement camp with her family and a few suitcases. Before long, she finds a sprouting seed growing… Read More →

  • Lexile: 550
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Eighteen Vats of Water
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Eighteen Vats of Water

As long as he can remember, Xian has wanted to be a great calligrapher, like his father. When he turns six, he's finally old enough to start studying. Calligraphy is more than writing—it's… Read More →

  • Lexile: 960
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

Hom

When a boy washes up on a desert island, he is sure he’s on his own in the world. But there’s someone else living there: Hom, a peace-loving creature who has lost his family, too. Alone on… Read More →

  • Lexile: 530
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2021

PANTemonium!

Fred the Giant's off fishing today. But look! His GIANT PANTS are caught on the end of his hook! Follow Fred as he drags his giant pants all around town, scooping up a cat, the baker and all… Read More →

  • Lexile: 570
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Rainbow Hands
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Rainbow Hands

From the Series Lantana Global Picture Books

When a young boy paints his nails with his mom’s nail polish, he discovers the most important thing of all: the magic of being his true self. As the long late summer day stretches ahead of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

Through the Forest

From the Series Lantana Global Picture Books

Walking through a dark forest, a young boy learns to treasure his memories and find his true path. Lost and alone, a young boy enters the forest not knowing the path that lies before him. He Read More →

  • Lexile: 480
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

Bedtime for Maziks

After a day of roly-poly fun and shenanigans, it’s bedtime for maziks, the Yiddish word for pranksters or little mischief-makers, a name Jewish parents may lovingly call their rambunctious… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Sammy Spider's First ABC

Sammy Spider goes through the English alphabet using the Jewish holidays and traditions celebrated by the Shapiro family. With its sweet rhymes and iconic illustrations, this book is a fun… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

I and I Bob Marley

From the Series Live Oak Media eReadalong

A biography in verse of reggae legend Bob Marley, exploring the influences that shaped his life and music on his journey from rural Jamaican childhood to international superstardom. Read More →

  • Dewey: 782.4
  • Copyright: 2021
Cover: Elephant Island
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Elephant Island

A shipwrecked elephant makes his tiny island a home for the many friends who come to the rescue, in the new picture book from New York Times Illustrated Book Award winning author Leo Timmers. Read More →

  • Lexile: 520
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Frank, Who Liked to Build: The Architecture of Frank Gehry

One building looks like it's been wrapped in tinfoil. Another looks like it's buried under a pile of paint chips. Frank Gehry has been called "the most important architect of our age." As a… Read More →

  • Lexile: 930
  • Dewey: 720.92 [B]
  • Copyright: 2022