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Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorMy Great-Aunt Arizona
Gloria Houston · 32 pages
An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren.
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
Chris Raschka · 61 pages
A collection of poetic forms with a poem to illustrate each one set in a picture book. Some useful information about how each form is comprised is at the end of the book.
Inside the Human Body
Joanna Cole · 40 pages
A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to get a first-hand look at major parts of the body and how they work
My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)
Peter Brown · 40 pages
Malala's Magic Pencil
Malala Yousafzai · 48 pages
The author presents her story and life philosophy, describing how she wished for a magic pencil that she would use to fix the world's problems, and how she realized that even if she never found the pencil, she could still have a positive impact.
Amelia Bedelia
Peggy Parish · 63 pages
A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan
Jeanette Winter · 40 pages
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmAD630L Lexile
The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow: A Book About Color
Joanna Cole, Jocelyn Stevenson · 32 pages
The class rides into a whitelight pinball machine to learn about the dazzling wonders of color and light.
The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary in Spanish (Beginner Books)
P.D. Eastman, Dr. Seuss · 133 pages
A beginner's dictionary, featuring over seven hundred Dr. Seuss illustrations, each labeled with the English word, a sentence example, and a Spanish translation, and includes a pronunciation guide.
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
Audrey Vernick · 39 pages
Documents the story of the Baseball Hall of Fame honorees, tracing how the Acerra family of New Jersey formed their own semi-pro baseball team in the 1930s and became the longest-running all-brother team in history.
If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People
David J. Smith · 32 pages
First 100 Words
Roger Priddy
Presents 100 words and matching pictures grouped under topics such as colors, bathtime, outside, and toys. On board pages.
The Daring Book for Girls
Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz · 288 pages
The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Andrea Davis Pinkney · 32 pages
A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
Cindy Neuschwander · 32 pages
Twelve Kinds of Ice
Ellen Bryan Obed
From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes, refreshments, and clowns.
The Beginner's Bible
Kelly Pulley, Catherine DeVries · 512 pages
Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Isabella Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu, Craig Hatkoff · 40 pages
The inspiring true story of two great friends, a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-yr-old giant tortoise named Mzee (Mm-ZAY). When Owen was stranded after the Dec 2004 tsunami, villagers in Kenya worked tirelessly to rescue him. Then, to everyone's amazement, the orphan hippo and the elderly tortoise adopted each other. Now they are inseparable, swimming, eating, and playing together. Here is a joyo
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
Deborah Heiligman · 42 pages
Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn to butter his own bread until he turned twenty. Instead, he traveled around the world, from one
Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
Brian Dennis, Kirby Larson, Mary Nethery
Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis. The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share his meals, offer a warm place to sleep, and give Nubs the kind of care and attention he had never receive