 Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: a Cuban Folktale by Carmen Agra Deedy AR Level 3.1 -- 32 pages PURA BELPRE HONOR BOOK Ay, Caramba, Martina is looking for a husband and follows her grandmother’s advice: interview each suitor and spill coffee on their shoes to see how they react. |
 The Emperor Lays an Egg by Brenda Z. Guiberson AR Level 4 -- 32 pages Both the father and mother emperor penguins care first for their egg and later for their baby. |
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AR Level 5.8 -- 32 pages Meet Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, have a seat on the stock exchange, own a newspaper, and speak before Congress. |
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Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein by Don Brown AR Level: 4.6 -- 32 pages A picture-book biography of Albert Einstein. Even though a little unusual as a child, and not too interested in school, he grew up to be one of the world’s greatest scientists. |
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AR Level: 5.4 -- 34 pages CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR Photos tell the true story of the friendship between Owen, a baby hippopotamus orphaned by a tsunami, and Mzee, a 130-year-old giant tortoise. |
 Are You Quite Polite? Silly Dilly manners songs by Alan Katz AR Level: 3.8 -- 32 pages Really funny songs about good manners that go to the music of "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," "Hey Diddle Diddle" and lots more. Try “Don’t Chew Gum in the Classroom” sung to “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” |
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AR Level: 3 -- 40 pages Based on a true story. In 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia. |
 Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian AR Level 3.1 -- 45 pages Wonderful, silly poems about our neighbors in the solar system, with terrific illustrations. |
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 When fish got feet, sharks got teeth, and bugs began to swarm : a cartoon prehistory of life long before dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner AR Level 6.2 -- 45 pages Funny cartoons and lots of information about animals that were here before the dinosaurs made their appearance. |
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AR Level 3.6 -- 40 pages The amazing Harriet Tubman had once been called Araminta, or Minty, as a slave growing up on a Maryland plantation. This is the story of Minty's childhood, and the events that made her determined to be free. |
 Don’t Forget Your Etiquette: the Essential Guide to Misbehavior by David Greenberg AR Level 5.2 -- 40 pages Miss Information, a manners know-it-all, gives advice on what to do on every occasion. But sometimes her advice, given in silly poem form, has it all wrong. |
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AR Level 4.5 -- 48 pages Find out more about this extraordinary president: his childhood, his family, and his days in the White House. |
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AR Level 4.8 -- 48 pages OUTSTANDING SCIENCE BOOKS FOR STUDENTS The photos are so sharp in this amazing book that you can see the hairs on the tarantula. Learn all about spiders and what it takes to photograph nature this way. |
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AR Level 4.5 -- 32 pages Imagine being Katharine, the younger sister of the men who developed the first flying machine. She kept their house and encouraged them while they tinkered in their bicycle shop, until that fateful day at Kitty Hawk. |
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28 pages Bob can’t figure out whether he’s coming or going when he realizes he’s surrounded by palindromes, words that are the same forwards and backwards. Even Bob's real name is Robert Trebor. |
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AR Level 3.6 -- 40 pages Our first president was famous for many things, and it was amazing that he managed to do so much while having so much tooth trouble. This is a very funny account of his dental difficulties and how he overcame them. |
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AR Level 5 -- 48 pages CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK This is the true story of an artist who built life-sized models of dinosaurs. You’ll be surprised where some of his work is today. |
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AR Level 4.4 -- 33 pages As a woodcutter falls asleep under a beautiful kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest, he dreams of the animals that live there, as well as a native child, who all tell him why the forest needs to be preserved. |
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AR Level 7.5 -- 80 pages Step-by-step details of how the amazing pyramids of ancient Egypt were built. The author is a former architect who has won many awards for the outstanding illustrations in his books. |
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AR Level 5.8 -- 48 pages Long ago in ancient Greece, without computers or satellites, the curious mathematician and librarian Erathostenes was able to correctly measure the size of the earth by carefully studying the sun and shadows. |
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AR Level 4.6 -- 39 pages The funniest poems about cafeteria food, homework, and oops! embarrassing noises, you’ll ever read. |
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AR Level 4.4 -- 26 pages A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two little elves who finish his work at night, and he repays their kindness by making them new outfits. |
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AR Level 4.2 -- 89 pages Spoonerisms are words in which the first letters are switched with another. Join Runny Babbit, who with his friends Ploppy Sig and Rirty Dat try to make sense of the poems in this billy sook. |
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AR Level 4.8 -- 52 pages CALDECOTT AWARD Tells all that it takes to being president of the United States, from having to eat what you don’t like to never going out alone. Along the way, we also learn lots of fascinating facts about the men who have inhabited the White House. |
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