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Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas
by Elizabeth Shreeve (Author) and Frann Preston-Gannon (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Life on Earth emerged “out of the blue.” It began in the vast, empty sea when Earth was young. Single-celled microbes too small to see held the promise of all life-forms to come. Those microbes survived billions of years in restless seas until they began to change, to convert sunlight into energy, to produce oxygen until one day “Gulp!” one cell swallowed another, and the race was on.

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Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

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The Tale of the ​Valiant Ninja Frog

The Tale of the ​Valiant Ninja Frog
by Alastair Chisholm (Author) and Jez Tuya (Illustrator)

Booktalk: In this story within a story, Jamie and Abby are camping with Dad when they tell a bedtime story together. This story will star their favorites: a prince, a witch, a thief and some bears. “And the frog!” says Abby.

​This time there’s a terrible giant who’s stolen all the keys to the kingdom. No one can get into their homes! No one can start their horses! It’s a real mess. Our heroes must sneak into the giant’s castle and retrieve the keys. But when it comes to the crunch, only a tiny froggy hero, who’s also a NINJA, can defeat the mighty giant!

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