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The day of Ahmed's secret
The Day of Ahmed's Secret As young Ahmed delivers butane gas to customers all over the city of Cairo, he thinks, I have a secret. All day long, as he maneuvers his donkey cart through streets crowded with cars and camels, down alleys filled with merchants' stalls, and past buildings a thousand years old, Ahmed keeps his secret safe inside. It is so special, so wonderful, that he can reveal i…
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- 9780140563535
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- 30 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair
How much TV is too much TV? Welcome to Triple Creek, where the townspeople watch TV day and night. They watch it when they're eating, working, playing, and sleeping. They even use TVs to teach the kids at school. But when Eli's eccentric Aunt Chip (who refuses to own a TV) discovers that her nephew and her neighbors don't remember how to read, she pulls the plug on the whole town?using books th…
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- 0399229434
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- 40 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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Raising sweetness
The lovable heroine of Saving Sweetness is back, and she's spunkier than ever! Fed up with the kindhearted sheriff's bumbling attempts to make a home for them, Sweetness and the other orphans decide that it's time to find the sheriff a wife. And when a mysterious letter arrives one day, Sweetness thinks it might hold the solution to their problems. Only problem is, none of them can read the let…
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- 0698119622
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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Train song
Here is the song of the train. Listen as it rushes past big cities and small towns. Listen as it sweeps through forests and fields and into tunnels. Hear the whistle wailing, brakes squealing, wheels rolling, r-o-l-l-i-n-g, stop. Now the train is homeward bound. All aboard! Notable Children's Books of 1991 (ALA) Best Books of 1991 (SLJ) 100 Favorite Paperbacks 1994 (IRA/CBC) Notable 1990 …
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- 9780064433402
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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How crows became black
A story for children which is told in memory of the Wongutha people of southwest Australia and helps us to understand the Aboriginal past and present. It explains how crows felt ignored because of their silver-grey feathers so thought if they became black they would be accepted.
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- 9781863680271
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- 36 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- 398.2 OBR
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