By: Zoe Hall
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"When is the very best time to start getting ready for Halloween? In the spring, of course, when a tiny seed can have time to grow into a big fat pumpkin.

By: Steve Metzger
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Join three friends on their big adventure hiking over a mountain and through a forest to collect leaves of all kinds and colors. What will they do with all their leaves at the end of the story? Jump and play in them, of course!

By: Sian Smith Rebecca Rissman

"What distinguishes these books from others on the same subjects are the vibrant, eye-catching photographs.

By: Ron Fridell Patricia Walsh

"These titles explain the life cycles of three plants in brightly illustrated narratives. From seed to seedling, vine, and finally full-grown fruit, the life cycle of the pumpkin is clearly and colorfully described.

By: Lois Ehlert

"This very striking book examines the life of a sugar maple tree from the point of view of a young child.

Young child with special mask
By: Yangsook Choi

Product Description: Halloween is coming. "What are you going to be?" the children ask one another. Kimin says he will be his grandfather. "Going as an old man is not very scary," They tease.

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

Product Description: Young Indigo is ripped from her tribe, the Sand Lizard people, by white soldiers who destroy her home and family.

Charlotte Lopez
By: Charlotte Lopez Susan Dworkin

A foster child from the age of two, Charlotte Lopez bounced around foster homes until she went to live in a home that she expected to be permanent.

By: Chris Crutcher

"T. J. Jones, the mixed-race, larger-than-life, heroic, first-person narrator of this novel, lays out the events of his senior year, with many digressions along the way. The central plot involves T.

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