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483) Ways to make friends
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"A quirky and uplifting guide to making new friends for kids 4 to 7 from a beloved, internationally renowned author. What's the best way to make friends? Toad has the most magnificent ideas! Sometimes they don't go according to plan... but that's okay. Eventually Toad tires of making new friends, but comes to a marvelous conclusion: sometimes being with yourself is a good way to pass the time too. A hilarious and heartfelt read for kids who are starting...
484) Gakky Two-Feet
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Although the other hominidees tease him, Gak prefers to walk on two legs instead of four, and one day his difference turns out to be helpful, just as his mother said it would.
485) Norton and the bear
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Annoyed with an oversized bear who likes to copy his style, fashion-conscious Norton the dog goes to increasingly ridiculous lengths in order to maintain his individuality.
487) Cómo ser un león
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¿Quién dice que todos los leones tienen que ser feroces? Tanto da que los demás digan que solo hay una forma correcta. Hay que ser valiente, y ser uno mismo, cada uno a su manera.
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"A unique, spunky, multiracial, bilingual girl plans a one-of-a-kind birthday party and hopes her abuelita (grandma) will be able to come from Peru to join the festivities. Includes an author's note and glossaries"--
A unique, spunky, multiracial, bilingual girl plans a one-of-a-kind birthday party and hopes her abuelita (grandma) will be able to come from Peru to join the festivities. Includes an author's note and glossaries.
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Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. To Marisol, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together. Other people wrinkle their nose in confusion at Marisol -- can't she just choose one or the other? Try as she might, in a world where everyone tries to put this biracial, Peruvian-Scottish-American girl...
491) Teamwork
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"Matthew's parents think he should play on a sports team. How will he ever learn about teamwork if all he does is draw pictures all day? His mom signs him up for baseball. But out on the field, Matthew is too busy looking at stuff to catch the ball. When a ball falls directly into his glove, he draws a picture on it, and throws it back. The players toss him another, and another, and another, and he draws on those too. Soon, it's a toss-o-rama, as...
493) Solo un deseo
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Los padres y hermanos de Peter Stone son extrovertidos, musicos y gritones; y entre mas alto hablen, Pedro habla menos, ni se mueve, hasta que practicamente encaja con su apellido. Cuando su familia se traslada a la Texas Hill Country, sin embargo, Peter encuentra un valle tranquilo y natural donde puede, por fin, escuchar sus propios pensamientos.
Peter Stones parents and siblings are extroverts, musicians, and yellers; and the louder they get,...
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The kids in these humorous short stories each have a minor superpower they're learning to live with. One can shape-shift--but only part of her body, and only on Mondays. Another can always tell whether an avocado is perfectly ripe. One can even hear the thoughts of the animals in the pet store! But what these stories are really about is their young protagonists "owning" a power that contributes to their individuality, that allows them to find their...
495) Dukhtar ʻazīz̲am
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The book Dear girl gives girls many reminders about how wonderful, smart and beautiful they are.
496) La Gran Mara
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Welcome to Sametown where everyone and everything is...well...the same. Except Mara! She's a little different. She' bright. She's sunny. And, unlike her classmates who are all planning on performing a similar magic show act at the school talent show, she is going to dance, dance, dance! One problem: everyone in Sametown - her classmates, her teacher--they all think she shouldn't do it. And it's not just (it seems) because dancing isn't the status...