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It's Raining!
Gail Gibbons, Suzanne Toren
Paperback (Live Oak Media, April 15, 2016)Dark clouds fill the sky and soon its raining! In this accessible and clear introduction, the water cycle, cloud formations, and various rain events are all part of a solid overview of rain and how it affects the world around us. Gibbonss bright watercolors and simple, descriptive text are perfect for explaining weather and climate to young readers.
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Stone Soup
Marcia Brown, Peter Fernandez
Paperback (Live Oak Media, April 30, 1987)Three hungry soldiers outwit greedy villagers into providing them with a feast, in this classic based on an old French tale.
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Pete's a Pizza
William Steig
Hardcover (Live Oak Media, Nov. 30, 2000)Pete's father starts kneading the dough. Next, some oil is generously applied. (Its really water.) And then some tomatoes. (They're really checkers.) When the dough gets tickled, it laughs like crazy.
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Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey, Frank Scardino
Paperback (Live Oak Media, Jan. 1, 2004)With their mothers, a little girl and a bear cub pick blueberries in the country. Wandering astray, however, each one mistakes the other's mother for her own.
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We Are America
Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers
Paperback (Live Oak Media, Oct. 31, 2012)Lyrical free verse by a best-selling author and Ambassador for Young People's Literature and art by a Coretta Scott King Honor recipient, the award-winning father-son creators of Harlem explore the diversity in people, wealth, dreams and desires that make up the United States and give it the unique character, charm and beauty revered the world over.
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The Relatives Came
Cynthia Rylant, Stephen Gammell, Bonnie Kelly-Young
Hardcover (Live Oak Media, Jan. 1, 2003)"The lively narration combined with the complementary musical compositions of Chris Kubie add a touch of humor and realism to Cynthia Rylant's Caldecott Honor Book...an hilarioius account of a family's summer visit with their relatives from Virginia...a meaningful and humorous illustration of family life." - School Library Journal
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The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson
Paperback (Live Oak Media, Feb. 28, 1989)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.
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Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye Set
Wendelin Van Draanen
Audio CD (Live Oak Media, March 31, 2019)In the final mystery of this series, one of the bad guys has finally caught up with the skateboarding sleuth of Santa Marina and worse, landed her in the hospital out cold. This time Sammy s family and friends must solve the crime who did this to her and why? In a heartwarming, fitting finale the people whose lives she has impacted over the years come together to help uncover the truth and save their beloved Sammy.
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From Seed to Plant
Gail Gibbons
Paperback (Live Oak Media, Feb. 29, 2012)Explores the intricate relationship between seeds and the plants which they produce.
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Gilberto and the Wind
Marie Hall Ets, Jenna Whidden
Paperback (Live Oak Media, Jan. 1, 2004)"The story of a small Mexican boy and his discovery of the wind. The pictures are very effective and the short text is exactly perfect to underscore the action of the pictures." - Teacher
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Too Many Pumpkins
Linda White, Megan Lloyd, Larry Robinson
Paperback (Live Oak Media, Jan. 1, 2004)Baked, stewed, or mashed, pumpkins remind Rebecca Estelle of the Great Depression when that was all her family had to eat. When an enormous pumpkin falls off a truck and smashes in her yard, Rebecca Estelle devises a clever way to get rid of the unwanted crop that sprouts.
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