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Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard
Pub Date: Feb 28, 2012
Age Range: 4 - 9
Zoehfeld's latest is a wonderfully informative and enjoyable journey through one family's backyard garden, from spring planting to fall harvest.
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Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play
Pub Date: Feb 27, 2012
Age Range: 3 - 8
Turning the adage that sticks and stones may break one's bones on its ear, picture-book titans Singer and Pham team up to entice young readers to go where most Generation Xbox angels fear to tread: outside.
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Pub Date: Feb 21, 2012
Age Range: 4 - 8
Crafty Chloe is the creative cousin of Clementine. Ginger haired, with an adorable taste in free-to-be-me outfits and a heart of gold, this young heroine finds original and kind-hearted solutions to big problems.
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Pub Date: Feb 16, 2012
Age Range: 10 - 14
Twelve-year-old P.K. "Pinky" Pinkerton was born with a poker face--he can't show or read emotion--but it's not until he lands in Nevada Territory's silver-mining country that he comes to terms with the hand he's dealt.
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Poems of American Slavery
Pub Date: Feb 15, 2012
Age Range: 10 - 18
Enslaved African-Americans voice the weariness, drudgery, agony and dreams of their lives in a beautiful and informative collection of poetry and paintings.
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Pub Date: Feb 14, 2012
Age Range: 8 - 14
After being homeschooled for years, Auggie Pullman is about to start fifth grade, but he's worried: How will he fit into middle-school life when he looks so different from everyone else?
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