Product Description: In Painted Words, Marianthe's paintings help her to become less of an outsider as she struggles to adjust to a new language and a new school.
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Product Description: First-grader Hassan has only recently arrived in the United States after he and his family were forced to flee Somalia, and he deeply misses the colorful landscape of his former home in Africa.
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Ava is exploring her neighborhood from top to bottom and A to Z!
Many years ago, Walter's grandfather left Lithuania and his brother Herschel to come to America. It was a difficult decision, he explains to Walter, but one that he felt he had to make as a Jew.
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Kipling's classic poem exploring the attributes that allow a boy to grow into a man has been reinterpreted through Smith's artful photographs of contemporary young adults.
A range of emotions flows from each short piece in poetry and prose as readers share the ups and downs of basketball. Sophisticated readers will see themselves in both word and image, all attractively formatted in a distinctive design.
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Visit some of the most special places in California, from the big (San Francisco) to the small (San Juan Capistrano) and everything in between!
Ana Shen has what her social studies teacher calls a "marvelously biracial, multicultural family" but what Ana simply calls a Chinese-American father and an African-American mother. And on eighth-grade graduation day, that's a recipe for disaster.
Lucy Otswego is a big girl who towers over just about everyone and everything in her small Alaskan town-except for her father's reputation as a mean drunk.
The author recalls moving from the city to a farm on Middlebury Road. There the family had dogs, cats, fowl, and a cow. The young narrator, whose birthday is coming up, longs for a horse.