In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a “Bums” (Dodgers) fan, how to keep score which creates a special friendship between them.
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Keeping Score
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On the Swing, The Secrets are Scattered
Written in Arabic. 14 secrets are shared by a mother and her daughter with each secret told in a short story. Each secret is told twice, switching between the mother’s and daughter’s voices in a feminine revelation. They both share their thoughts about some daily life event that every mother and daughter goes through. The secrets they share are from the heart of the Saudi society.
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Planet Ark: Preserving Earth’s Biodiversity
Young readers can learn how to protect the world’s plants and animals from extinction by making small changes in their everyday lives — from planting trees to turning off the tap — to help preserve the world’s biodiversity.
100 Animals on Parade!
With hundreds of colorful animals to count and hundreds of hilarious details to hunt, this unconventional counting book guarantees hundreds of hours of fun!
Lessons from Hu’ul Ke
How a young boy is raised by his grandfather on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation. The book denotes various aspects of O’odham himdag (culture) and begins with a simple question that the boy asks his Hu’ul Ke:li (Grandfather) with a culturally relevant answer as to why they do the things they do during the day. Various activities include waking up early in the morning and asking why they do so – to daily chores and activities such as tending horses, working in the garden, hauling water, and gathering food/medicine in the desert.
T-O’odham A-B-C O’ohana/Our O’odham A-B-C Book
This coloring book includes an introduction/information page with a map of Arizona highlighting the O’odham speaking Nations. A pronunciation page is next followed by the coloring pages. The coloring book is written in the Alvarez-Hale orthography (alphabet). Each page highlights one of the twenty-four letters of the O’odham alphabet. Each letter has three line art drawings to color along with the O’odham vocabulary word under each of them.
Flight 1-2-3
A boy counts his way through the airport and onto the plane as it flies towards its destination.
Frog Song
Since the time of the dinosaurs, frogs have added their birrups and bellows to the music of the earth. Frogs are astonishing in their variety and crucial to ecosystems. Onomatopoeic text and stunning illustrations introduce young readers to these fascinating and important creatures, from Chile to Nepal to Australia, in Frog Song by Brenda Z. Guiberson.
My Dad Thinks He’s Funny
Features a long-suffering boy’s eye-rolling observations of his father’s bombastic and often corny sense of humor, which is comprised of groan-out-loud puns and wisecracking rejoinders.
Let’s Go, Hugo!
After conquering his fear of flying, talented artist Hugo the bird makes a new friend and explores his beloved city of Paris.