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Vanderbeekers volume 2
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English
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"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
3) Mouse Scouts
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Mouse Scouts volume 1
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English
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Best friends and Mouse Scouts Violet and Tigerlily can't wait to start earning their merit badges. But their troop leader, Miss Poppy, is one strict rodent. And earning their Sow It and Grow It badge is hard work. Especially when unwanted visitors invade their plants. Will the troop drive the pests from the garden? and will they ever get Miss Poppy to smile?
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2023 Bluestem Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Count Down To New Years
Neurodivergent Characters in Children's Novels
Count Down To New Years
Neurodivergent Characters in Children's Novels
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Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
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Twelve-year-old June is kicking summer off with a bang. She shaves her head and sets two goals: she will beat her anxiety and be the lion she knows she can be, instead of the mouse everyone sees. And she and her single mama will own their power as fierce, independent females. With the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star who believes in June even when she doesn't believe in herself, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a...
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Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
OBD Gardening - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Toddlers)
OBD Gardening - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Toddlers)
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While planting seeds in their garden, two animals learn the value of kindness.
8) No nibbling!
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Derwood the goat has planted a garden and is prepared to defend it from all nibblers, including Tabitha the bunny, whom Derwood is convinced has designs on his growing vegetables; she teases him as the months go by, but after she helps him with the weeding the two become friends and share the feast.
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Sadiq volume 3
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English
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Arab American Heritage Month (kids)
Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
OBD Gardening - YOUTH
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Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
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Even though it is summer Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well.
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"Today, little Jesús has a big job to do. He's helping Papá at work, and he's in charge of the water jug -- which is also a magical clock! When it's empty, Papá explains, the workday is done. But what about all these thirsty animals? Soon, the water is gone, but the day is not over yet. Will Jesús be fired?! Or is the jug not really magical after all." -- page [2] of cover.
11) Flower garden
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Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.
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A garden produces a variety of edible plants, such as corn that grows up, onions that grow down, and tomato vines that twine all around. Peppers grow up. Potatoes grow down. Pumpkins vine around and around. From seeds dropping into soil to corn bursting from its stalks, from children chasing butterflies to ants burrowing underground, everything in this vibrant picture book pulses with life -- in all directions! Sprightly illustrations set the mood...
16) Zora's zucchini
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Gardener Zora soon finds herself with more zucchini than her family can bake, sauté, or barbecue, but the ever-resourceful Zora comes up with a perfect plan for a garden swap.
17) In our garden
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Students create a vegetable garden on their school's rooftop.
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Today Juanito is accompanying his father who is in the landscaping business, and he takes his sketchbook along to draw anything that catches his eye, and gets to help his father plan an entire garden--and then help plant it. Includes an autobiographical note.