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5) Kiki kicks
Author
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
At her first karate lesson, a young girl named Kiki regains her confidence and strength after being bullied at school.
"Kiki has watched her mama practice karate for a long time, and now she wants to learn too. She wants to become strong and steady like a mountain. The bullies at school are strong for the wrong reasons. They make Kiki feel small. But today at her first karate lesson, everything changes. Award-winning author Jane Yolen joins forces...
6) Bear outside
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A little girl wears a bear on the outside to keep her safe and to be her friend, just as some people have a fierce animal inside to protect them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crocodile Books, USA, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Curious Eeny Mole emerges from her dark hole home to discover the world up above.
There were once three sisters who lived at the bottom of a deep, dark hole. Their names were Eeny, Meeny, and Miney Mole. In that hole dark was light, day was night, and summer and winter seemed the same. The older sisters, Meeny and Miney, were happy in their hole. They loved the deep darkness of it, the soft dreaminess of it, the familiar tidiness of it. They did...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. moon landing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Seven-year-old Miriam places her baby brother's basket in the Nile River, watches the Pharoah's daughter draw him out and name him Moses, and ponders a vision of other water parting. Includes note on the biblical story on which this is based.
14) When Nana dances
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Nana shimmies, bops, taps, and twirls her way to a shindig with her grandchildren, who love dancing with their grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Eek, you reek,
You make a funk.
Where you have been
Things stink, stank, stunk.
You've left a path,
A swath of smell,
And-yuk!
You did it very well.
Readers will be delighted by the malodorous melodies of poems calling out the different pungent attributes of a full cast of foul-smelling creatures.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A creative nonfiction account of a young Emily Dickinson using scraps of paper and a pencil nub to write a poem, before she even knows her ABCs, and sharing it with her household and garden. Includes author's note about Dickinson's life and work.