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One-Handed Catch

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When he loses his hand in an accident at his family's butcher shop, eleven-year-old Norm, living in 1946 New York, works to find success at his first two loves--baseball and art.

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One-Handed Catch

Snow

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A Caldecott Honor Book
""It's snowing, said boy with dog."
""It's only a snowflake," said grandfather with beard."

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220L

A Child's Calendar

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Twelve poems follow a family and their friends through the seasons. A Caldecott Honor Book.

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The Gardener

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Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece -- an ambitious rooftop garden -- which she hopes will make even Uncle Jim smile.

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AD570L

Rain Forests

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This kit consists of two bags worth of materials to educate students all about the rainforest and the cultures of the people who live there.

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The World According to Humphrey (Unabridged)

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You can learn a lot about life by observing another species. That's what Humphrey was told when he was first brought to Room 26. And boy is it true! There are always adventures in the classroom and each weekend he gets to sleep over with different students.

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670L
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02:35
The World According to Humphrey (Unabridged)

Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death (Unabridged)

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Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

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850L
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06:01
Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death (Unabridged)

The Serpent Came to Gloucester

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In this tale told in rhyme, a boy rushes into Gloucester to tell everyone about a serpent in the bay. The people enjoy watching the beast and are sad when it leaves. The next summer the men decide to capture the serpent, but the boy hopes that it stays hidden.

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The Serpent Came to Gloucester

The Renegades of Pern: Dragonriders of Pern (Unabridged)

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The inhabitants of Pern are threatened by a band of renegades that attempts to expose them to deadly airborne spores in the atmosphere.

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1010L
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13:27
The Renegades of Pern: Dragonriders of Pern (Unabridged)

Have Space Suit, Will Travel (Unabridged)

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A journey of 167,000 lights years begins with...a bar of soap? Fasten your zero gravity restraints for Robert Heinlein's novel of intergalactic adventure, a story that carries teenager Clifford "Kip" Russell from his job as soda jerk to space-suit winner to alien abductee!

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770L
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08:04
Have Space Suit, Will Travel (Unabridged)

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