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41) Amazing Grace
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Even though her classmates discourage Grace from trying out for Peter Pan in the school play because she is black and a girl, Grace wins the part and proves that she can be anything that she wants to be.
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While her friends and family may not believe in fairies, Geraldine knows, deep down, that she is a VERY fairy princess. But it isn't all twirls and tiaras - as every fairy princess knows, dirty fingernails and scabby knees are just the price you pay for a perfect day!
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India. They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have pets, and go to school. Their worlds might look different, but they were actually similar. Same, same - but different!
48) Stone Soup
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This traditional story retold with three Chinese monks as the tricksters searching for the meaning of happiness. They soon discover that the more you give, the more you get and that happiness can be found in the most simple of endeavors.
49) Dem Bones
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A skeleton band supplies words and music to the well-known song based on the African-American spiritual.
54) Elizabeti's Doll
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When her new baby brother arrives, Elizabeti, a young Tanzanian girl, longs for a baby of her own to hold and bathe and kiss and burp. One day she finds the perfect baby - a rock she names Eva - just the right size for holding and bathing and kissing and burping.
55) First the Egg
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Which came first? The chicken or the egg? This is a book about transformations -- from egg to chicken, seed to flower and caterpillar to butterfly. An entirely fresh and memorable presentation on the concepts of growth and creativity.
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Theodore Roosevelt had a small problem...his daughter Alice! Alice Lee Roosevelt was hungry to go places, meet people, do things. Brimming with affection and wit, this spirited biography gives readers a peek into family life inside the White House.
57) Show Way
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Quilt making has been passed down through eight generations of Soonie’s family. Messages were carefully stitched into each quilt, called a Show Way, mapping the family’s journey from slavery to the present day.
58) The Red Shoes
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Set in present day, this classic Andersen tale is about a young African-American girl who learns the value of friendship with help from a pair of magic slippers. Starring the voice of Ossie Davis.
59) The Snowy Day
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
A small boy's enchantment with a city's snowfall has him making snow angels and snowballs, sliding down snow mountains - and looking forward to going outside again.
60) Me...Jane
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Patrick McDonnell tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. As the young Jane observes the natural world around her with wonder, she dreams of "a life living with and helping all animals," until one day she finds that her dream has come true.
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