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  • Responsibility: What Is It

    Nancy Pemberton, Janet Riehecky, Lori Jacobson, Linda Hohag

    Paperback (Childrens Pr, Sept. 1, 1988)
    Suggests ways to show responsibility, such as remembering to feed kitty, eating one's peas, and wearing boots in the rain

  • What Is a Mammal?

    Robert Snedden, Adrian Lascom, Oxford Scientific Films

    Hardcover (BELITHA PRESS LTD, Oct. 31, 1993)
    None

  • What If the Polar Ice Caps Melted

    Katherine Friedman

    Paperback (Childrens Pr, March 1, 2002)
    Discusses the environmental effects of the melting of the polar ice caps.
    R

  • Patience

    Beverly Fiday, Christina Ljungren Rigo

    Library Binding (The Childs World Inc, Dec. 1, 1986)
    Depicts times when we must exercise patience: finishing a jigsaw puzzle, waiting for our birthdays, and learning how to tie shoes.

  • What is a tree

    Gene Darby

    Hardcover (Benefic Press, March 15, 1962)
    None

  • What If . . . Everyone Knew Your Name

    Liz Ruckdeschel, Sara James

    Library Binding (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, June 27, 2006)
    Meet Haley Miller. She’s a 15-year-old girl of average height, average weight, and an average sense of style. Installed in her first public high school, Haley faces the toughest choices of her young life. And guess what? She’s all yours.In this interactive novel, readers lead Haley through the halls of Hillsdale High for better or for worse. Until graduation do you part. Do you guide her away from the pitfalls of peer pressure? Or into the vortex of bad boys and parties? Send her to homecoming with the captain of the soccer team . . . or have her skip the dance to go on a road trip with the hot rebel. Give Haley a makeover or teach her to love herself the way she is. Pick which crowd she’ll hang with. Tell her how often to do her homework. And decide whether she drinks or inhales.You determine her fortune. Her grades, her friends, her love life, her future. With Haley’s many positive traits, you should have no trouble achieving success . . . or will you? It’s all in the way you work, love, and play with Haley Miller, the girl with the most potential at Hillsdale High.From the Trade Paperback edition.
    U

  • Friendship

    Sharon Lee Roberts, Linda Hohag

    Library Binding (The Childs World Inc, Dec. 1, 1986)
    Children demonstrate the meaning of friendship through such gestures as keeping secrets, sharing disappointments, and making little sacrifices
    D

  • What If We Run Out of Fossil Fuels?

    Kimberly M. Miller

    Paperback (Childrens Pr, March 1, 2002)
    Examines our dependence on fossil fuels through scenarios that describe life without such items as oil heaters and gasoline powered cars, and describes alternative energy sources and other ways to prepare for this possible future.
    R

  • Space

    Steve Parker

    Paperback (Copper Beech, Aug. 1, 1995)
    An imaginative look at space with such questions as "What if the sun went out?" and "What if there were Martians?"
    S

  • What If: Earth, The

    Steve Parker

    Library Binding (Copper Beech, Oct. 1, 1995)
    An imaginative look at the earth, weather, and the environment through such questions as "What if the earth stood still?" and "What if the water ran out?"
    Q

  • What If the Hole in the Ozone Layer Grows Larger?

    Holly Cefrey

    Paperback (Childrens Pr, March 1, 2002)
    Introduces environmental issues relating to the causes and effects of the hole in the ozone layer.
    R

  • Success

    Janet McDonnell

    Library Binding (The Childs World Inc, June 1, 1988)
    None
    K