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Picture Book Review: Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins
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Picture Book Review: Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins

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Title: Year of the Jungle Author: Suzanne Collins Illustrator: James Proimos Publisher: Scholastic Press Hardcover: 40 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the postcards stop coming she worries that he will never make it… Continue reading Picture Book Review: Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins

Picture Book Review: The Escape of Robert Smalls by Jehan Jones-Radgowski
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Picture Book Review: The Escape of Robert Smalls by Jehan Jones-Radgowski

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Title: The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery Author: Jehan Jones-Radgowski Illustrator: Poppy Kang Publisher: Capstone Editions Hardcover: 40 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate… Continue reading Picture Book Review: The Escape of Robert Smalls by Jehan Jones-Radgowski

Picture Book Review: What Does It Mean to Be American?
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Picture Book Review: What Does It Mean to Be American?

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Title: What Does It Mean to Be American? Authors: Rana DiOrio, Elad Yoran, Nina Mata Publisher: Little Pickle Press Hardcover: 40 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository What does it mean to be American? Does it mean you like apple pie or fireworks? Not exactly. While politics seem to divide our… Continue reading Picture Book Review: What Does It Mean to Be American?

Picture Book Review: The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer and Ekua Holmes
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Picture Book Review: The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer and Ekua Holmes

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Title: The Stuff of Stars Author: Marion Dane Bauer Illustrator: Ekua Holmes Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 40 pages Source: LibraryThing Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of every child. Before the universe was formed,… Continue reading Picture Book Review: The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer and Ekua Holmes

Picture Book Review: Noah Webster’s Fighting Words
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Picture Book Review: Noah Webster’s Fighting Words

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Title: Noah Webster’s Fighting Words Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer Illustrator: Mircea Catusanu Publisher: Millbrook Press Hardcover: 40 pages Source: County of Los Angeles OverDrive Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository Noah Webster – famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United States – was known in his day for his… Continue reading Picture Book Review: Noah Webster’s Fighting Words

Book Review: The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume
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Book Review: The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume

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Title: The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo Author: Judy Blume Illustrator: Amy Aitken Publisher: Yearling Paperback: 48 pages Source: Chicago Overdrive Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Second grader Freddy Dissel has that left-out kind of feeling. Life seems lonely when you’re the middle kid in the family. Freddy feels like “the peanut butter part of a sandwich,” squeezed… Continue reading Book Review: The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume

Book Review: Will’s Words by Jane Sutcliffe
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Book Review: Will’s Words by Jane Sutcliffe

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Title: Will’s Words Author: Jane Sutcliffe Illustrator: John Shelley Publisher: Charlesbridge Hardcover: 40 pages Source: BEA 2016 Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository When Jane Sutcliffe sets out to write a book about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, in her own words, she runs into a problem: Will’s words keep popping up all over the… Continue reading Book Review: Will’s Words by Jane Sutcliffe

Book Review: P is for Pirate – A Pirate Alphabet by Eve Bunting
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Book Review: P is for Pirate – A Pirate Alphabet by Eve Bunting

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Title: P is for Pirate: A Pirate Alphabet Author: Eve Bunting Illustrator: John Manders Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press Hardcover: 40 pages Source: Chicago Overdrive Summary: (taken from Goodreads) The word pirate means one who plunders on the sea, and piracy has been around for as long as men and women have longed for adventure and lusted for riches. But it… Continue reading Book Review: P is for Pirate – A Pirate Alphabet by Eve Bunting

Picture Book Review: 19 Girls and Me by Darcy Pattison
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Picture Book Review: 19 Girls and Me by Darcy Pattison

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Title: 19 Girls and Me Author: Darcy Pattison Illustrator: Steven Salerno Publisher: Philomel Summary: (taken from Goodreads) John Hercules Po’s kindergarten class is made up of 19 girls . . . and him. His older brother warns him not to let all those girls turn him into a sissy, but as John Hercules Po discovers,… Continue reading Picture Book Review: 19 Girls and Me by Darcy Pattison

Picture Book Review: The Question by Scott Langteau
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Picture Book Review: The Question by Scott Langteau

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Title: The Question Author: Scott Langteau Illustrator: Lidat Truong Publisher: Shake the Moon Books Summary: (taken from Goodreads) After watching the snowstorm of the season blow into his neighborhood, a young boy wakes to find his room literally buried beneath a mountain of snow. Possibly stuck inside his house for the rest of winter, survival… Continue reading Picture Book Review: The Question by Scott Langteau