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Kamik Joins the Pack
by Darryl Baker (Author) and Qin Leng (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Jake can’t wait for his uncle to meet Kamik, and to see what an obedient puppy he is becoming. Jake’s uncle is a great musher, who has won many dog sledding races, and if Kamik is good enough, Jake hopes today might be the day that Kamik finally gets to run with a dog team!

Snippet: Jake’s uncle put a hand on his shoulder. “You dont need to learn everything all at once,” he said with a smile. “You can learn alongside your dogs.

“When I was your age, I had five dogs. They did not know how to pull a sled, but one day I harnessed them and tried to ride around town. The dogs would not pull the sled, so I had to get off and walk with them most of the way home. I was sweating from pulling my dogs along, even though it was the middle of winter.”

The Secret Project
by Jonah Winter (Author) and Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Go behind the scenes of one of the most secretive scientific projects in history–the creation of the atomic bomb–in this nonfiction picture book.

At a former boy’s school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world’s greatest scientists have gathered to work on the “Gadget,” an invention so dangerous and classified they cannot even call it by its real name. They work hard, surrounded by top security and sworn to secrecy, until finally they take their creation far out into the desert to test it, and afterward the world will never be the same.

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It’s Nonfiction Monday!