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How to Turn War into Peace: A Child's Guide to Conflict
Louise Armstrong, Bill Basso
Library Binding (Harcourt Childrens Books, Aug. 1, 1979)This informative yet amusing interpretation of a child's view of war and subsequent peace introduces and illustrates a number of important terms: dispute, deterrent, allies, tactics, cease fire, diplomacy, compromise, arbitration, disarmament, and peace
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The Beginning of Our Earth
Franklyn Mansfield Branley, Giulio Maestro
Paperback (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Nov. 1, 2000)Describes the beginning of the Earth, from the formation of the planets out of a dust-and-gas cloud to the formation of continents on Earth.
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How to Turn War Into Peace: A Child's Guide to Conflict Resolution
Louise Armstrong, Bill Basso
Paperback (Harcourt, Jan. 15, 1979)Uses pictures of children in conflict while playing at the beach to explain terms dealing with making war and peace.
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Let's Read! Football Fever
Peter Bently, Jim Field
Paperback (Pan Macmillan, Aug. 1, 2013)William has caught soccer fever. He doesn't have a rash or spots, but he can't stop kicking things—and he's driving his sister crazy! Then Dad takes them both to the local soccer club. Who will be next to catch the fever? The complete story and original illustrations of Alan Durant and Kate Leake's picture book, Football Fever, have been specially redesigned into a smaller early reader format. This new version offers children a natural next step on from picture books to support them as they grow in reading confidence.
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Let's Read! Marcello Mouse and the Masked Ball
Julie Monks
Paperback (Macmillan Children's Books, Jan. 2, 2014)Marcello Mouse is off to the Magical Masked Ball. But he hasn't been invited. And as Marcello soon discovers, this ball is no place for a mouse . . . The complete story and original illustrations of Marcello Mouse and the Masked Ball by Julie Monks have been specially redesigned into a smaller early reader format. This new version offers children a natural next step on from picture books to support them as they grow in reading confidence.
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Let's Read! Dinosaur Sleepover
Pamela Duncan Edwards, Deborah Allwright
Paperback (Macmillan Children's Books, Nov. 1, 2014)Dinosaur has been invited to a sleepover party. But he looks worried. He's never slept away from home before. The complete story and original illustrations of Pamela Duncan Edwards and Deborah Allwright's picture book, Dinosaur Sleepover, have been specially redesigned into a smaller early reader format. This new version offers children a natural next step on from picture books to support them as they grow in reading confidence.
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Bill Pickett: First Black rodeo star
Sibyl Hancock
Hardcover (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, March 15, 1977)A biography of the black Texan who introduced bulldogging to rodeos.
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Arthur Gets What He Spills
Louise Armstrong, Syd Hoff
Library Binding (Harcourt Childrens Books, Sept. 1, 1979)Arthur's father promises to buy whatever the boy wants as long as he spells out the word, an incredible deal that quickly convinces Arthur to improve his spelling after some very unhappy initial results
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Old Devil Is Waiting: Three Folktales
Dorothy Van Woerkom, Jan Brett
Library Binding (Harcourt Childrens Books, Nov. 1, 1985)None
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Wood Duck Baby
Berniece Freschet
Hardcover (Putnam Juvenile, March 11, 1983)Describes the development and day-to-day activities of a wood duck from birth to mating.
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The mysterious prowler
Joan Lowery Nixon
Paperback (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, March 15, 1976)A little boy assembles the clues to the mysterious prowler: he has a round nose, he rides a bicycle with a patched tire, and he squeaks instead of talks.
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Going Places
Eira Reeves
Paperback (Augsburg Fortress Pub, March 1, 1992)Book by Reeves, Eira
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