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Goblin secrets

by William Alexander
Ages 9 - 12
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Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.

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Heart of a samurai

by Margi Preus
Ages 10 and up
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In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

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Zora and me

by Victoria Bond and TR Simon
Ages 10 and up
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A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending.

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The dreamer

by Pam Munoz Ryan
Ages 12 and up
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A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

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Don't let the pigeon drive the bus

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The bus driver has only one request, 'Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! Also included: Knuffle Bunny and Leonardo, The Terrible Monster

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Dave, the potter

by Laban Carrick Hill
Ages 6 - 10
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A National Book Award finalist teams up with an award-winning illustrator to present a beautiful and inspiring biography of a slave who lived in South Carolina in the 1800s and his extraordinary talent for pottery.

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Lafayette and the American Revolution

by Russell Freedman
Ages 9 - 12
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This thrilling account of a daring soldier will fascinate young historians.

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The pirate of kindergarten

by George Ella Lyon
Ages 4 - 8
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Ginny's eyes play tricks on her, making her see everything double, but when she goes to vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone sees this way, she learns that her double vision can be cured.

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Seeds of change

by Jen Cullerton Johnson and Sonia Lynn Sadler
Ages 4 - 8
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A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees.

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Kakapo rescue

by Sy Montgomery; with photographs by Nic Bishop
Ages 9 - 12
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On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on Earth. Two award winners chronicle a sensitive and scientific exploration about the endangered kakapo parrot

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