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Celebrate the 50 States! 2 reviews
Loreen Leedy
Holiday House, 1999
Celebrate the 50 States
+ Read over & over-now getting hardback!
This book has some pretty interesting geography facts. I liked the fact that Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas. A browser's delight of United States geography facts in a captivating picture book format. It has excellent color illustrations, and would recommend this one to the 2nd grade through ...
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I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project 3 reviews
Veronica Lawlor
Puffin, 1997
really pretty
+ Good Lesson Resource
It's a really pretty book. I really advise you to buy it. The images are both personal, unique, as well as intelligent.
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When Willard Met Babe Ruth 3 reviews
Donald Hall
Voyager Books, 2001
It was a great book. I read it three times.
+ A HOMER FOR YOUNG READERS
+ A REAL Field of Dreams: Excellent Baseball Story
It is 1917 on the Fourth of July in Wilmont Flat in New Hampshire. The characters in the story are Willard,his dad,his mother,Babe Ruth,and Sheridian. Babe Ruth comes to Willard's house and gives him his glove. Willard loves Babe Ruth and goes to all of his games. Willard grows up and has a ...
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Growing Up in Coal Country6 reviews
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Sandpiper, 1999
growing up (or not) in coal country
+ wonderful book for classrooms too!
+ breaker boys-coal mining in Pennsylvania
+ The Best Book About Coal Mine History
+ Glimpses from a bygone era
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Barn 3 reviews
Debby Atwell
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2001
Barn will touch your heart!
+ Barn is a book about what actually unites people.
Thank you Debbie Atwell for this special book. I have always loved barns but now we can see how barns love us back. The history of "Barn" is fascinating and the telling from Barns' perspective is terrific! I found this book at my local library but love it so much I'm purchasing it for my ...
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Honoring Our Ancestors: Stories and Paintings by Fourteen Artists1 review
Harriet Rohmer
Children's Book Press, 1999
Love this Book!
Great variety of illustration styles. Interesting to see the image and prose choices the artists and writers selected to represent their cultures.
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Snowflake Bentley (Caldecott Medal Book)43 reviews
Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Houghton Mifflin, 1998
Through a lens whitely
+ something for every audience
+ Wonderful on so many levels.
+ Not as good as it gets...
+ Snowflake Bently
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Home: A Journey through America2 reviews
Thomas Locker
Voyager Books, 2000
A Joy To Read
+ Wonderful Introduction to Poetry
"Home" by Thomas Locker was a real joy to read. The way he blends the painting and the poem together is beautiful. I especially enjoyed the second poem and the picture with it. I could almost feel as if I were walking below the mountains. I would recommend this as a wonderful book.
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My New York: New Anniversary Edition14 reviews
Kathy Jakobsen
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2003
Must have!
+ Wonderful Pictures!
+ You're Cool Enough to Read this Book!!!
+ Overseas cousins LOVE it!
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Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme2 reviews
Joan W. Blos
Atheneum, 1994
Spend some time with Rosie & Family.
This book is a great look into family life at the turn of the century. It paints a vivid picture of the time in which it's set. Labor Unions, Votes for Women , Comming to America , the newfangled telephone , and more. All of these are woven into the stories Rosie tells about herself & her family. ...
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Frontier Merchants: The True Story of Lionel and Barron Jacobs
Jerry Stanley
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1998
Alongside the cowboys, miners, railroad builders, and soldiers whose role in the settlement of the American West is well known there was another, equally important figure: the pioneer merchant who supplied the rapidly growing towns of the West with manufactured goods. In Taming the West , Jerry Stanley tells the story of Lionel and Barron Jacobs, who in 1867 set out from California for Tucson ...
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Uncle Sam & Old Glory : Symbols of America4 reviews
Delno C. West, Jean M. West
Atheneum, 2000
An Excellent Teacher Resource
+ Still Great After All These Years!
+ Great for my 5th Grade Class
+ Great Book for Children and their Parents
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The Library21 reviews
Sarah Stewart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1999
Is this you? Is this your house?
+ LOVE IT!
+ Charming!
+ Refreshing!
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The Patchwork Quilt (Tanya)9 reviews
Valerie Flournoy
Dial, 1985
The Patchwork Quilt
+ BEAUTIFUL BOOK AND BEAUTIFUL STORY
+ The colors of my life are beautiful and bold
+ The Patchwork Quilt: A wonderful story filled with family traditions, and love
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Anna All Year Round 2 reviews
Mary Downing Hahn
Clarion Books, 1999
Anna All Year Round
I thought that this book was very good. I think that children at any age can relate to the struggles that Anna faces with her mother, father, her aunt and uncle, her friends and school. I really enjoyed the whole setting of the book because it was around the time of WWI and this was the time ...
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She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!4 reviews
Kathryn Lasky
Hyperion Book CH, 1999
Great book for girls!
+ This is an awesome book!
+ The Founding of the Audobon Society Takes Flight!
This is a wonderful story for girls. Two women see a problem and set out to solve it! They are energetic and resourceful and end up making a difference. I enjoyed it as much as my daughter.
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I'm New Here
Bud Howlett
Houghton Mifflin, 1993
Follow Jazmin Escalante, newly arrived in California from El Salvador, as she recounts her first days of school in America.
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The Ballot Box Battle (Dragonfly Books)1 review
Emily Arnold Mccully
Dragonfly Books, 1998
Beautiful and imaginative pictures.
This story takes place in the late 1800's when Mrs. Stanton-the famous women's rights activist-was still alive. It deals with a young girl, Cordelia, who wants to ride Mrs. Stanton's horse. Mrs. Stanton instead of letting her ride the horse tells her about her childhood experiences. Mrs. ...
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The Scrambled States of America66 reviews
Laurie Keller
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 1998
Absolutely hilarious!
+ The States
+ A Show Worth Watching!
+ I love Laurie Keller's books
+ Great book!
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This Land is Your Land20 reviews
Woody Guthrie
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2002
Wonderful
+ Wonderful book for ESL students
+ I grew up with a slightly different version.
+ America the Wonderful!
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