From award winning author Candace Fleming, comes the powerful and fascinating story of the brave and dedicated young women who helped turn the tides of World War II for the Allies, with their hard work and determination at Bletchley Park. Events are brought to dramatic life through a treasure trove of photographs, which show the goings on at Bletchley and the sobering progress of the war and through the author’s meticulous research.
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The Most Beautiful Winter
When snow begins to blanket the trees, naptime is here for the animals of the forest, everyone, it seems, except for Badger! He doesn’t feel like sleeping, and he’s got some big plans for the cold months ahead. But Mr. Bear has posted a “DO NOT DISTURB” sign. Marmot won’t answer the door. Even the nighthawk is sound asleep. Badger draws, knits, and reads for hours, but he doesn’t want to spend all this time alone. Can he find anyone to join his winter fun?
Invisibly Grace
High school is hard enough when you’re healthy. When you’ve got some weird, undiagnosable chronic illness, it’s a special hell. Meet Grace Turing. She loves art, weird trivia, and her little sister, Ivy.Grace has a secret. One that she’s determined to keep at her new school, in a new state, where no one knows her as ‘Sick Girl’. This is her chance to make friends and seem normal while her illness is still invisible. But is an invisible illness really invisible? How long can she keep a secret this big? And who else is she hurting by keeping her pain to herself?
Where Dreams Take You
Where dreams take you. It isn’t a question but the certainty that prepares us for an extraordinary journey .A book where illustration and poetry merge, transporting the reader to a world where art accompanies them on every page. An invitation to let our imagination soar as dreams take shape and become a reality. A dreamlike text without a starting point, which feels as if it has no end; a world of fantasy, which makes its presence felt right from the cover, with its bold, atmospheric title. It’s time to dream, and no one can say whether it’s just a fantasy, a desire for something to come true, or things that happen while we are asleep. That’s the magic of this book: we’ll never know whether she was dreaming about being an ant or if she was one, but, in any case, it happened. A story that symbolizes our goals, challenges, aspirations, and, above all, the fierce determination to achieve our objectives without giving up, overcoming our fears through the magic formula of trusting in ourselves.
I Am, You Are: Let’s Talk About Disability, Individuality And Empowerment
A powerful, practical book to help children and adults have meaningful discussions about disability.
The Boy And The Elephant
A boy, who lives in a house on the lot next to it, loves to visit. He has a friend there: an elephant, an animal that he sees within the shapes of the trees. No matter the weather, the boy visits. And as the seasons change so does the elephant; thick green foliage changes to autumnal colors before the bare branches of harsh winter appear. But one day, builders arrive. The land has been sold, and the trees have been marked for removal. The boy can’t lose his elephant, and so he comes up with a plan.Unbearably beautiful and moving, and with a touch of magical realism, here is a wordless picture book about conservation and children’s ability to be powerful agents of change.
Waking Ben Doldrums
Neighbors come together to support a university student experiencing depression.
A Billion Balloons Of Questions
A curious bilingual child experiences her many questions as vibrant, characterful balloons in this warm and funny picture book with questions in English and Spanish.
Nainai’s Mountain
A Taiwanese American girl is nervous about visiting Taiwan until her paternal grandmother, her Nainai, takes her on a mountain climbing adventure and shows her its wonders. Traveling from California to Taiwan for the first time, even with her parents and her Nainai around her, is a lot for a little girl to take in. The plane ride lasts forever, she can’t read any of the signs, and she’s worried there will be unfamiliar bugs. But then Nainai becomes her tour guide, and Taiwan transforms. As they huff and puff up Nainai’s favorite mountain, stomachs full of bao and juicy sausage, Nainai spins yarns about riding to the movies in pedicabs, eating frozen pineapple, and playing pinball to win snacks. Even the bugs turn out to be more cool than scary. At the top of the mountain is a surprise: all sorts of people playing and exercising and they all remember Nainai.
Little Bird Laila
Laila knows how clever, kind, and funny her Mama and Baba are but sometimes they need her help translating things from English. With English classes being too expensive, Laila decides to become her parents’ teacher, even though she’s just learning the language too. There’s lots that Laila knows but there’s so much she doesn’t know too. Together, they embrace the joy and struggles of learning a new language.