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Books for Kindergarteners
Comfy Cozy: Feel-Good Books for All Children
Friends with Feelings: Puppet Talking with Friends
Kindergarten Rocks!: Books for Kids
Comfy Cozy: Feel-Good Books for All Children
Friends with Feelings: Puppet Talking with Friends
Kindergarten Rocks!: Books for Kids
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When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.
2) Puddle
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"A mother and son use their imagination to have fun on a rainy day"--
3) Wait
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"A ... picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you"--
5) Coming home
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Follows the emotions of a young boy as he waits at an airport for a family member to return home from serving in the military.
6) Hungry Jim
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Jim wakes up hungry, just not for the pancakes his mother is fixing--so his imagination takes over, and he pictures himself as a lion checking out the possibilities for breakfast (including his mother).
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"Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined....
10) Patchwork prince
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With fabric scrap treasures, a mother makes her son clothes fit for royalty.
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Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
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Leo's grandfather died a year ago, and ever since Leo has been tasked with tracking his grandmother down whenever she wanders away from their home in Allentown, Pennsylvania--but when she abruptly decides to take the trip to Utah that her husband was planning, Leo finds himself on the way to visit dinosaurs, in an old Buick with his grandmother, his seventeen-year-old cousin Abby, and Abby's old, smelly Golden retriever, Kermit, without telling his...
15) Mommy's hometown
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When a young boy and his mother travel to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined until he visits the river where she used to play and sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain.
16) I'm Ok
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Ok Lee knows it's his responsibility to help pay the bills. With his father gone and his mother working three jobs and still barely making ends meet, there's really no other choice. If only he could win the cash prize at the school talent contest! But he can't sing or dance, and has no magic up his sleeves, so he tries the next best thing: a hair braiding business. It's too bad the girls at school can't pay him much, and he's being befriended against...
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"On a cold winter's eve, deep in the woods, a mother shrew frets about her sick young son. His head is cold and his feet are hot, and there is only one thing that can cure him: wild honey from the moon. Mother Shrew does not stop to wonder how she will make such an impossible journey. Instead, she grabs her trusty red umbrella, gives her darling son a kiss, and sets out into the unknown. Along the way, Mother Shrew encounters one obstacle after another,...
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Eleven-year-old Duncan McKay uses his ability to communicate with his companions Fia, a kitten, and Brig, a tiger, to aid him on a journey to claim his rightful place as heir to his island kingdom. Duncan is enlisted to serve a crew of pirates and sent to the far edges of his kingdom in the course of his adventurous quest.