Winter, Jeanette.
Summary: "When Henri Matisse was a boy, he drew pictures everywhere. And when he grew up, he became a famous artist whose paintings were beloved around the world. Them late in life, a serious illness confined Henri to just his bed and a wheelchair. But amazingly, from there he created some of his finest works , the enormous and breathtaking paper cut-outs."--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2018
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Summary: By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dragonfly Books 1992
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Summary: Simple rebus illustrations are used to present the familiar cumulative nursery rhyme about the antics that go on in the house built by an unsuspecting Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2000
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Summary: Presents the work of Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenager and environmental activist who started the student movement to combat climate change and led a worldwide children's march to challenge world leaders to act on the issue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2019
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Summary: The itsy-bitsy spider encounters many adventures as it climbs to the top of a rainspout. On board pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Wagon Books/Harcourt 2000
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Summary: Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2004
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Summary: A brief biography about Jane Goodall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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Summary: "Celebrated picture book biographer Jeanette Winter shares the story of champion tennis players--and sisters--Venus and Serena Williams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2019
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Summary: A biography of architect Zaha Hadid, who grew up in Baghdad and went on to design buildings all over the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2017
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Summary: Each winter Captain Herman fills his fishing schooner with Christmas trees, sails down Lake Michigan, and delivers the trees to the residents of Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1994
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Summary: "A lushly illustrated picture-book biography of two young Pakistani heroes, Malala Yousafzai and Iqbal Masih, from acclaimed nonfiction author/illustrator Jeanette Winter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2014
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Summary: Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace & Co. 1999
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Summary: "After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: Based on a true story. After her parents are taken away by the Taliban, young Nasreen stops speaking. But as she spends time in a secret school, she slowly breaks out of her shell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2009
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Summary: When a Red-tailed Hawk makes his home atop a high-rise building in New York City, he gains both fans and enemies, so when the tenants of the building try to have his nest removed, an historic battle ensues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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Summary: Everything is different the morning after a deep new snowfall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1995
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Summary: The story of an oil spill and its devastating effects on animals and the environment
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2020
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Summary: "Discover the true story of a man who lived alone in the mountains with a hobby of measuring snowfall that led to groundbreaking data tracking in climate change studies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023