Candace Fleming
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2023-2024 Crete Public Library's 3rd-4th Battle List
2nd Grade Recommended Reads
Author Candace Fleming & Eric Rohmann
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2nd Grade Recommended Reads
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Describes the life cycle of the hard-working honeybee.
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History pals volume 1
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When ten-year-old Nolan and his little sister, Olive, find Ben Franklin in their kitchen, they do their best to guide Ben through the new world he helped form.
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"Award-winning author Candace Fleming sets her gaze on the mystery at Roswell, New Mexico, and the "crash from outer space" that set the United States on edge for decades. In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering...
5) Oh, no!
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A series of animals falls into a deep hole, only to be saved at last by a very large rescuer.
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How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping...
10) Polar bear
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As spring approaches in the Arctic, a mother polar bear and her two cubs tentatively emerge from hibernation to explore the changing landscape. When it is time, she takes her cubs on a forty-mile journey, back to their home on the ice. Along the way, she fends off wolves, hunts for food, and swims miles and miles.
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Biography of P.T. Barnum, showman and founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Readers can visit Barnum's American Museum; meet Tom Thumb, the miniature man (only 39 in. tall) and his tinier bride (32 in.); experience the thrill Barnum must have felt when, at age 60, he joined the circus; and discover Barnum's legacy.
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OBD Women's History Month (March) - YOUTH
Thinking Like A Scientist
Women's History Month - Youth
Women's History Month: Kids (March 2023)
Thinking Like A Scientist
Women's History Month - Youth
Women's History Month: Kids (March 2023)
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"Readers are told the story of Helen Martini's care for lion and tiger cubs, and her emergence as the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper"--
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Little Scientists
OBD National Inventors Month (MAY) - YOUTH
Sizzling Summer Reads - ROD Children's
Thinking Like A Scientist
OBD National Inventors Month (MAY) - YOUTH
Sizzling Summer Reads - ROD Children's
Thinking Like A Scientist
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In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
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"This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill Cody for younger readers in many years, explains it all. With copious archival illustrations and a handsome design, "Presenting Buffalo Bill "makes the great showman come alive for new generations. Extensive back matter, bibliography, and source notes complete the package."--
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History pals volume 2
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When Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala turn up in ten-year-old Nolan's bedroom closet, his mother, taking Mrs. Roosevelt for the new baby sitter, leaves him and his little sister Olive with her.
20) Emma's circus
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"A girl is excited when the circus comes to town, but her family on the farm is too busy with chores to enjoy it"--