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Red Dove, Listen to the Wind

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Red Dove, Listen to the Wind
by Sonia Antaki (Author) and Andrew Bosley (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Abandoned by her white father, thirteen-year-old Red Dove faces another lean winter with her Lakota family on the Great Plains. Willful and proud, she is presented with a stark choice: leave her people to live in the white world, or stay and watch them starve. Red Dove begins a journey to find her place in the world and discovers that her greatest power comes from within herself.

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50 Things You Didn’t Know about Colonial America

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50 Things You Didn’t Know about Colonial America
by Sean O’Neill (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: Discover some of the most amazing and amusing facts about life in Colonial America and how they survived it all.

Snippet: 38 Before becoming father of our country, thirteen-year-old George Washington wrote “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company.” One rule: “In the presence of others, sing not to yourself, nor drum your fingers or feet.”

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