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1) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue, " Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
6) Be a tree!
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Compares the structures and functions of trees to human bodies, shows the interconnectness and dependence of trees in a forest, and urges readers to communicate, share, and care for one another. Includes notes on the anatomy of a tree, ways to help save trees, and how to help in one's community.
9) Cold snap
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A cold snap has everyone in the town of Toby Mills feeling down, until the mayor's wife thinks of a way to warm things up again.
12) Breakout
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
13) Dogosaurus Rex
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ben selects from the shelter a most unusual "dog" that wreaks havoc in town until she has a chance to prove her worth.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"After a long, cold winter, doors finally open, and children spill out like candies from a box. Amanda is the last one out of the apartment building, with a carton of chalk in her hands. On every inch of the pavement outside, the children draw pictures of flowers and trees, mushrooms and snails, and a few very unexpected things. It’s a concrete garden. Their creativity, unfettered in the open air, brings something beautiful, something hopeful, to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
A mouse upsets villagers just before Passover by stealing a crumb of bread from one house and running into another, then brings neighbors together to finish preparing for the holiday. Includes background information about the story and glossary.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Littletown Library is destroyed by a tornado, it seems like book-loving Nia is the only one who cares; so she starts the "new free library" under the tree where she used to read, and writes out familiar stories and rhymes that are just a little bit wrong, and encourages the people who check them out to correct them--until soon the whole of Littletown is filled with people reading and writing books.
19) Unfadeable
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
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