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A Cane in Her Hand
Ada Bassett Litchfield, Eleanor Mill
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, Nov. 1, 1977)A strong sense of self, an offhand humor, and determination help Val in adapting to a new way of living when her sight slowly fades
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Daisy and the Girl Scouts: The Story of Juliette Gordon Low
Fern G. Brown, Kathy Tucker, Marie De John
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, Jan. 1, 1996)A biography chronicles the life of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, a woman who liked to be called Daisy and whose efforts changed the cultural restrictions placed on girls in the early 1900s.
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The Riches of Oseola McCarty
Evelyn Coleman, Daniel Minter, Fred Willingham
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, Nov. 1, 1998)This true story tells the tale of a young girl who quit school to help her grandmother with her work and then donated all of her savings at the end of her life to a university for people facing the same financial struggles she had experienced as a child.
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Ian's Walk: A Story About Autism
Laurie Lears, Karen Ritz
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, March 1, 1998)Julie is excited about an outing with her sister Tara, but is unhappy when her autistic brother wants to come because his actions sometimes embarrass her, but when he gets lost, Julie must step into his shoes to find him and realizes just how much she loves him.
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The Princess and the Petri Dish
Sue Fliess, Petros Bouloubasis
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, April 1, 2020)Pippa isn't your usual princess. She prefers petri dishes to perfecting her curtseying. And when she realizes that she doesn't like peas, she gets a bright idea that consumes her and almost the whole kingdom.
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Adoption Is for Always
Linda Walvoord Girard, Judith Friedman
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, Oct. 1, 1986)Although Celia reacts to having been adopted with anger and insecurity, her parents help her accept her feelings and celebrate their love for her by making her adoption day a family holiday. Includes factual information about the adoption process.
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The Upside Down Ship
Don L. Wulffson
Library Binding (Albert Whitman & Co, Sept. 1, 1986)Describes the adventures of teen-aged Bruce Gordon who, following an Arctic shipwreck in 1757, survived for six years in the ship's upside-down carcass with a polar bear as his sole companion.
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Believing Sophie
H. J. Hutchins, Dorothy Donohue
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, April 1, 1995)Sophie, a girl wrongly accused of shoplifting, must make the people at the store understand that she had paid for the item another time she had been in the store.
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You Go Away
Dorothy Corey, Diane Paterson
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, Sept. 1, 1999)Conveys everyday experiences of children briefly separated from their parents or caretakers and then reunited
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Great-Grandma Tells of Threshing Days
Verda Cross, Gail Owens
Library Binding (Albert Whitman & Co, Sept. 1, 1992)Great-Grandma Swift reminisces about her childhood and about the arrival of the fall harvest and threshing day, describing the steam thresher, the community's work together in the field, and the special food prepared for the event.
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How Do You Count a Dozen Ducklings?
In Seon Chae, Seung Ha Rew
Paperback (Albert Whitman, March 1, 2008)"Chae painlessly introduces young children to grouping, multiplying and skip counting. A combination of oil pastels, paint and textured paper collage, Rew's artwork mirrors the math, allowing children to visualize the groupings, while also tracking the progress of the creeping wolf. Sure to be a favorite with elementary and preschool teachers..."-Kirkus Reviews"...this lively picture book, originally published in Korea, is both an entertaining story and a playful way to teach simple arithmetic...The double-page spreads show multiplication and division in spacious scenarios with brightly colored characters that splash, scowl, and have fun in groups-and then all together as they defeat their enemy."-Booklist
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Turkey Pox
Laurie Halse Anderson, Dorothy Donohue
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, Sept. 1, 1996)On their way to Thanksgiving at Nana's house, Charity's family notices that Charity has chicken pox, and it looks like there will not be any Thanksgiving celebration for Charity, until Nana comes up with a big surprise.
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