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There Was a Hole
by Adam Lehrhaupt (Author) and Carrie O’Neill (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Lily has a hole. It eats her joy, makes her angry, and–no matter what Daddy does to try to help–it just keeps growing. So Lily retreats. But a friend lets her in on a secret (he has a hole too!) and shows her the best way to repair holes: spend time on friends, family, the things you love, yourself, and kindness. Those patches don’t make the hole go away, but they help.

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“I don’t want to forget,” Lily said.
“If I patch it completely, will I still remember?”

“You won’t forget,” Thomas said.
“But things will get better.”

A Rose Named Peace: How Francis Meilland Created a Flower of Hope for a World at War
by Barbara Carroll Roberts (Author) and Bagram Ibatoulline (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Francis Meilland was passionate about roses. He loved their rich perfume, their buds unfurling in the summer sun, and their petals, soft as lambs’ ears. Like his father and grandfather before him, Francis cultivated flowers on the family farm in France. In his teens, he set about grafting and experimenting, determined to create a rose no one had seen before, and as the world braced for World War II, he rushed cuttings to rose-growing friends around the globe. Six patient years later, word reached him: his rose had not only flourished; people were calling it the Peace Rose.

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Nonfiction Monday

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