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"A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty. No one in the village...
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"Young Jacques Plante loves hockey so much that he uses home-made equipment to play as much hockey as he can. Once Jacques becomes a professional player, he takes the brave stand to introduce a piece of equipment into the game that has never been used before-the goalie mask-changing the face of hockey forever."-- Provided by publisher.
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"Pablo and his sister spend every day at "Treasure Mountain," the local dump. There, they rummage through the mounds of garbage looking for items that their mother can sell in order to provide food for the family. Occasionally, they find a "real" treasure like some still-edible food, or a picture book, which Pablo delights in, even though he can't read. The work is exhausting, and sometimes not very lucrative, but the worst thing they have to contend...
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"A young flamingo named Filippo becomes self-conscious when other animals refuse to play with him because he is pink. He struggles to be accepted and to accept himself. Finally, with encouragement from family members and a kind-hearted lemur, Filippo learns to love himself for who he is."-- Provided by publisher.
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"A hungry little bear is trapped inside a dumpster. His distraught mama bear can't fish him out. Thankfully, a boy and his mother, camping nearby, come to the rescue. Although everyone in this story is scared, they are able to act with courage and compassion--showing readers that it's OK to be scared. This simple, moving story is told with variations on a single phrase: "He was scared." Readers are encouraged to be observant and put together the pieces...
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"When does the war over there become the war over here? In this novel in verse, a boy named Theo can't stop worrying about the war he sees on TV. In a distant country, war is wreaking havoc. Theo, safe in his house, is horrified by the images of violence he sees on TV, and he can't stop wondering why: Why the war? Why this senseless violence? Why so much hate? His dad says it's complicated, and has no real answers to give him. His friends at school...
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Leanne's bath time is boring. It's annoying. It's a pain. Luckily, her father has some excellent, terrific, and spectacular ideas to make it more interesting. He runs down to the sea and brings back one turtle. Then two eels. Then three clown fish. Soon Leanne's bath time is fun! It's amusing! It's exciting! But when the ten octopi arrive, could it be too much of a good thing?
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When Robin's father leaves for a long business trip, Robin is overcome by sadness ... until gifts start showing up on the clothesline outside his house that only his father would know to give! Gifts continue to arrive for Robin during his father's absence but the gift giver turns out to be not who Robin thinks!
10) The worst time
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Simple text and humorous illustrations describe the worst time to scrape your knee, the worst time to swallow a fly, the worst time to play your trumpet, and much more.
11) The best time
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Simple text and humorous illustrations describe the best time to wake up, the best time to wash your ears, the best time to count, and much more.
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"El plástico está por todas partes. En el aire y en la tierra. En la cima de las montañas y en las profundidades de los océanos. En nuestra agua y en nuestra comida. El planeta no puede digerir tanto plástico. Se está asfixiando. ¿Por qué es el plástico a la vez una maravilla y una amenaza? ¿Cuántos cientos de miles de animales mata el plástico? ¿Por qué están tan enfermos nuestros océanos? ¿Por qué contaminan durante siglos los...