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8) Gravity
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
10) The planets
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Description
Discusses the movements, location, and characteristics of the eight planets and one dwarf planet in Earth's solar system.
11) Snakes
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Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple text describe the characteristics, habitats, and life cycle of various species of snakes around the world.
12) The round barn
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Publisher
University Press of New England
Language
English
Description
A group of people, all directly or indirectly associated with the relocation of a historic round barn to land owned by a Vermont museum, have an enlightening summer with relationships and life blooming and waning.
13) The sheepover
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English
Description
After Sweet Pea, the orphan lamb, recovers from an illness, Sunny, Prem, and Violet, her closest friends, join her in the greenhouse for an imaginative celebration of her health.
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English
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Gianna has less than one week to complete her leaf project if she wants to compete in the upcoming cross-country sectionals, but issues like procrastination, disorganization--and her grandmother's declining health--seem destined to keep her from finishing.
16) Redwoods
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Language
English
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A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read. The text contains facts about the redwoods, while the illustrations tell the boy's story.
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University Press of New England
Language
English
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Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young migrants, largely from the cities and suburbs of New York and Massachusetts, turned their backs on the establishment of the 1950s and moved to the backwoods of rural Vermont, spawning a revolution in lifestyle, politics,...
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Five Little Monkeys volume 4
Language
English
Description
Five little monkeys are bored, but their mother has them clean up the house for Grandma Bessie's visit.
20) Open season
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Language
English
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Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont, police force has a serious problem: in a community where a decade could pass without a single murder, the body count is suddenly mounting. Innocent citizens are being killed--and others set up--seemingly orchestrated by a mysterious ski-masked man.Signs suggest that a three-year-old murder trial might lie at the heart of things, but it's a case that many in the department would prefer remained closed. A...
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