Lindstrom, Carole
Summary: Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LINStemple, Heidi E. Y.
Summary: "Kids can learn how to help protect bird species, with Counting Birds - the real-life story of bird counting and watching. Frank Chapman loved birds. He created bird exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, and started a magazine "Bird-Lore." Back then, some sports hunters had a "Christmas Day bird hunt". People shot every bird they could see and counted them at the end of the hunt....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seagrass Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.072 STEVerde, Susan
Summary: With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie's kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. Every morning, she rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VERFishman, Seth
Summary: "The Earth's five oceans and its water cycle connect all of us in important and unexpected ways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: An illustrated counting rhyme that celebrates the beauty of nature and recommends ways to protect our one and only world, including recycling, conserving energy, and repairing broken items.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids, Hachette Book Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPISauer, Tammi
Summary: "Wordy Birdy loves to talk, but will she ever learn to listen?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAUHalfmann, Janet.
Summary: Little Sea Otter tries everything to avoid going to sleep, including saying good night to all of the creatures above and below the ocean's surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Star Bright Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HALLiu, Dane
Summary: Just before Chinese New Year, Dandan discovers that her family is moving to America, far away from her best friend Yueyue; before they leave Yueyue gives her a stack of red paper and a spool of string so she can share the art of paper cutting with Americans--and when Chinese New Year comes around again Dandan remembers Yueyue's gift and introduces her new friend Christina to this ancient art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUMurphy, Patricia J.
Summary: "Join David and his grandmother on an amazing trip to study [the elephants] in an Asian sanctuary and on an African reserve. Discover how people can give elephants a hopeful future."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2015
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MURWang, Yage
Summary: "Zhao Di and her friends are excited to go out at night with their paper lanterns and celebrate Chinese New Year. Each holding a unique colorful lantern with a lit candle inside, they admire the breathtaking colors while doing their best to avoid the wind and the sneaky boys in the village. Every night, until the fifteenth day of New Year, Zhao Di and her friends take part in this fun...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YAGDaywalt, Drew
Summary: You've played the game. Now read the legend of how it all began...Long ago, in an ancient and distant realm called the Kingdom of Backyard, there lived a warrior named ROCK. Meanwhile in the Empire of Mom's Home Office, a second great warrior sought the glory of battle. And his name was PAPER. At the same time, in the Kitchen Realm, in the tiny village of Junk Drawer, lived a third warrior....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DAYMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARLanders, Ace
Summary: "The galaxy is in trouble, and it's up to Luke Skywalker and his friends to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire. It's the adventure of a lifetime filled with action, laughs, Wookies, and more!" -- page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LANYoung, Cybèle
Summary: [The artist] Cybèle Young invites readers to consider the inevitability of change and the power of the imagination. The sculptures in this book were made entirely from Japanese paper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2015
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Summary: Blast off into space and take a rocket ride around the universe! This animated singalong features a team of kid astronauts who fly their homemade spaceship past planets, stars, black holes and meteors before landing back on earth in time for supper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SCRWong, Jack
Summary: "A reverent celebration of learning to swim among a diverse cast of children and families who each experience the mysterious joys of water in nature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WONLove, Jessica
Summary: A reassuring picture book about finding one's place in the world follows a father as he takes his child on their first camping trip where he shows, under a blanket of stars, that the universe is a friendly place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOVSummary: Wanting to find Easter eggs in all the colors of the rainbow while enjoying an Easter egg hunt, Peppa struggles through high grass which makes some of the colors difficult to see, an effort that is challenged by an unexpected rainstorm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC ASTAcosta, Alicia
Summary: Ben liked painting his nails, until some of the kids at school started teasing him. When Dad realized why Ben was sad, he decided to paint his nails too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: nubeOCHO 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACOStohler, Lauren
Summary: After a long, itchy, uncomfortable day in clothes, a slew of fuzzy friends and her understanding Dad convince Cody that not all pajamas are bad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STOBuitrago, Jairo
Summary: In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2015