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OBD August Is National Ice Cream Month - Youth
OBD Summer Picture Books - YOUTH
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A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.
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Dealing with Feelings (WCD)
OBD Social/Emotional Development - YOUTH
Dealing with Feelings (WCD)
OBD Social/Emotional Development - YOUTH
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"Bianca likes sending letters. Bianca likes stamps, too, and she collects them. She likes drawing and writing and dogs and watering her plants. But she does not like Yolanda who works at the post office. Will Yolanda ruin Bianca's Five-Letter Day? Or will Bianca find a way to solve her Yolanda problem?" -- Dust jacket.
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 8
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Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.
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Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: his crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking -- each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly...
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It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, where she is living with her strict grandparents, and rejoin her mother, a carefree singer in San Francisco. But Mama's new husband doesn't think a little girl should live with parents who work all night and sleep all day. Lexie's class has been raising money to ship a doll to the children of Japan in a friendship exchange, and when Lexie learns...
10) Letter to Pluto
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"Jon's teacher has started an interplanetary penpal program. Much to Jon's annoyance, his penpal, Straxi, is from Pluto, the most boring, smelliest and far away place possible. And if that wasn't bad enough, she's a girl!"--Back cover.
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"Timothy Shmoe isn't a bad kid, but sometimes he makes honest mistakes. Other times, he knows exactly what he's doing. But time and again, he finds himself in disasters of his own creation, leaving a trail of broken heirlooms, torn tutus, missing marbles-and innocent bystanders (including his cat). Structured as a series of apology letters, commissioned by Dad and written in Timothy's direct-and not-quite sorry-voice, The Sorry Life of Timothy Shmoe...
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It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of -- so she chose it. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got...
15) Sincerely, you
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"This guidebook tells the story of the creation of Savannah's Soldiers, a school-based letter-writing foundation, and provides real-world letter writing advice for young readers"--
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When Olive misses a friend who recently moved away, her grandfather suggests writing a letter, and a little green envelope who has been longing to travel hopes it will finally get a chance to see the world and bring joy to someone. Includes a diagram that shows how to make your own envelope.
"Olive's friend has moved away, and Olive wishes she could visit her. A little green envelope, lost in the bottom of the desk drawer, knows how Olive feels....
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"Paddington has come to love his new home with the Browns in London. But the city's charms were first introduced to him by his aunt Lucy back in Peru. This 8x8 storybook, filled with full-color images from the film, is a letter from Paddington to his aunt, recounting the many adventures, friends and magic he's found in his new home"--Amazon.com.
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Professor Whale is the only whale left at Whale Point. He thinks often of the old days when he and his friends competed at the Whale Point Olympics. One day, he gets a letter from Wally, a young whale, who has heard about the enormous whale who won gold for his spectacular spouting. That gets the Professor thinking. What if there could be a new Olympics, with the sea full of whales again? Correspondence flourishes across the horizons. The letters...