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Pub Date: Oct 12, 2010
Age Range: 4 - 8
As he did in his acclaimed At Gleason's Gym (2007), Lewin conveys the spirit of a Brooklyn institution through sumptuously detailed, luminous watercolors.
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Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
Age Range: 6 - 11
Golio examines Jimi Hendrix's childhood creativity as a nurtured progression that stoked an explosively influential expression in the '60s.
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Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
Age Range: 8 - 18
Significantly updating the Caldecott Honor–winning Castle (1977) and Cathedral (1973) with new text and full-color illustrations, this hefty volume combines them with a very lightly revised Mosque (2003) for a three-in-one architectural spree.
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A True Story
Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
Age Range: 5 - 10
In free verse as beautiful as the landscape she describes, Martin tells the ecological plight of the chiru, the tiny antelope-like creatures of the northern plains of Tibet.
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Pub Date: Sep 15, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 18
Against the wishes of father, family and nation, 19-year-old Gilbert de Lafayette bought a ship, escaped France and became the youngest general in the Continental Army, a teenager leaving a young wife and a huge personal fortune to pursue military glory.
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
Age Range: 5 - 8
This inventive book's $20,000 Pyramid category would be "What Mona Lisa Might Say."
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