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Found 4 from your keywords: author="Peter Sis"
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Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathemati…
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Peter Sis

"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the skies to map the heavens. In doing so, he offered objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed…

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0374371911
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32 pages : illustration ; 30 cm
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F60
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The whipping boy
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Peter SisSid Fleischman

Award-winning author Sid Fleischman blends the broadly comic with the deeply compassionate in this memorable novel, winner of the Newbery Medal. A Prince and a Pauper . . . Prince Brat and his whipping boy inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. The two boys have nothing in common and even less reason to like each other. But when they find themselves taken…

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0439441420
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90 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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F
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Alphabet soup
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Peter SisKate Banks

Illus. in full color. "A fantasy-adventure takes place at the lunch table when a disgruntled boy refuses to eat his soup and daydreams instead. His reverie is shaped by the letters he pulls out of his soup, forming words that come alive: bear, sword, and so on. Imaginative and fresh."--Booklist.

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039499156
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28 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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B
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Madlenka
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Peter Sis

Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors -- the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the Latin American grocer, a retired opera singer from Germany, an African American school friend, and the Asia…

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ISBN/ISSN
0374399697
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44 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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SI