Trelease, Jim
Summary: Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook, updated and revised by education specialist Cyndi Giorgis, discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PENGUIN BOOKS 2019
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Summary: The Bhil people of central India are amongst the country's oldest indigenous communities. They have an intimate yet playful relationship with the natural world of animals, plants, trees and forests. All of them are part of their everyday environment. Gangu Bai, Bhil artist, brings this connection alive through a set of joyful paintings in her traditional style, based on her memories of growing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tara Books 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1989
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Summary: "The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children--revised and updated. Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. It has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372.45 TREVaradarajan, Gita.
Summary: Divya is scared to put on the bindi for the first time. What if she gets made fun of? What will it feel like? But Amma assures her that her bindi will bring protection. After Divya looks inside Amma's special box to find the perfect bindi to put on, she gazes in the mirror and discovers a new side of herself, and it gives her strength. In this tender debut picture book, author Gita Varadarajan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: After hearing a loud sound while out in the woods, Musa is struck with fear, but must find a way out and back to his village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tara Books 2012
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Contents: Dream -- Ammar -- Illak shi -- Indulgence -- Kaifa uhibuka -- Salam min dimashq -- Almaya -- Ghayeb -- Bint elbalad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palmyra Recordings
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Contents: Basic volume -- Hackers & jackers -- Seven churches for St. Jude -- Ruby -- Born thieves -- 36 oaths -- Black empire (killmonger riddim) -- Grip -- Clouds, chemists and the angel Gabriel -- Immigrant sons (pesos & gas) -- Close to the root -- Yard -- Crown & key -- Warlord shoes -- Spectacular anthem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: L.A.'s sci-fi priestess is a unique talent. Los Angeles is a trip. And currently the music emanating from this West Coast dreamland are spinning heads like no others. Diva Dompe is central to this L.A. renaissance, having founded the fabulously costumed trio BlackBlack with her sister Lola; thrown down sinewy bass grooves as a member of the sadly missed Pocahaunted and grown into a key member...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Critical Heights 2011
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Summary: Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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Summary: Every day we throw things away, but is everything we throw out really garbage? Can it be reused or made into something different? Learn how to "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in this catchy song from the Me, My Friends, My Community series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2019
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Summary: Despite his friends' support, Mo is sad about being the only white peacock in a colorful jungle until the night of the big dance, when he discovers that being different can feel great.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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Summary: "Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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Summary: Describes the Native American tribes of the Northeast and their history and culture both before and after contact with Europeans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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Summary: A collection of approximately fifty nursery and counting rhymes, most accompanied by fingerplays or other activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.8 NEWStelzer, Cita.
Summary: Describes what it was like dining at the table of Winston Churchill during World War II, discussing the good food, fine champagnes, and Cuban cigars that were served alongside arguments, diplomatic insights, and gossip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013
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Contents: Head up high -- Spaceman -- Congratulations -- Still cool -- Jump -- I need a dancefloor -- The list -- Somebody sometimes -- Slowdown -- Speed -- Piñata -- House party -- Little champion -- Zig zag.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Batman & Zatanna have to contain a curse that they helped release. But in order to reverse its effects, they're going to have to fix their frayed relationship. In 'Hounded': (Bat)man's best friend Ace the Bat-Hound breaks out of an animal testing facility with his new super-fur-friends in order to sniff out where Batman's been kidnapped for auction to his rogues gallery!
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
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Summary: After a cataclysmic plague sweeps across America, survivors come together to form citystate-like communities for safety. Daisy Walker is a Runner for The Compound, a mix of post-apocalyptic postal service and black market salvaging operation. It is a Runner's job to ferry items and people between settlements, and on occasion scavenge through the ruins of the old world. Daisy is the best there...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Mask Comics 2018