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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 MATWinter, Jeanette
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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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Winter 2010Winter, Jeanette
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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THUWinter, Jeanette.
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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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 020.92 WINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 020.92 WINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 020.92 WINWinter, Jeanette.
Summary: A brief biography about Jane Goodall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590.92 WINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WINWinter, Jeanette
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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WINWinter, Jeanette
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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Winter 2017Winter, Jeanette.
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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WINWinter, Jeanette.
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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BACWinter, Jonah
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