Sís, Peter
Summary: As Madlenka walks her imaginary dog around her city block, her neighbors see in her pet the image of the dogs they had as a children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002
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Summary: Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GALSís, Peter
Summary: As a little boy cleans up his room, he gives one word descriptions of the work his various toy trucks do, such as hauling, plowing, and loading. Features a gate-fold illustration that opens into a three-page spread.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SISSís, Peter
Summary: Gives information about each state, including capital, motto, state tree, state bird, source of name, and date of statehood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 973.02 SISSís, Peter
Summary: I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943.7040 SIS1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 943.7040 SIS
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB Sis SisSís, Peter
Summary: While at the beach, Mary and her mother see letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SISSís, Peter
Summary: Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Foster Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Sis 2000Sís, Peter
Summary: Presents the life of the famous nineteenth-century naturalist using text from Darwin's writings and detailed drawings by Sis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DARSís, Peter
Summary: A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SISSís, Peter
Summary: Madlenka plays soccer in her city neighborhood--with the mailbox, a dog, a parking meter, and some cats. Includes a brief history of soccer and words for soccer around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Foster Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SISSís, Peter
Summary: Robin and his friends are planning to dress up as pirates for their school's annual costume party, but instead his mother creates a Robinson Crusoe costume for him, and while the adults love it, his friends are less welcoming.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SISGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 832.6 GOEDomínguez, Carlos María
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOMShannon, George.
Summary: Fifteen brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHAShannon, George.
Summary: Fourteen brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHAShannon, George.
Summary: Brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1985