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We Are Lions!
by Jens Mattsson (Author), Jenny Lucander (Illustrator), and B.J. Woodstein (Translator),
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Booktalk: The narrator and his big brother have the best game in the world together. They are dangerous lions on the savannah! One day, big brother doesn’t want to run around anymore. His stomach hurts. He has to see the doctor and take medicine, and even has to stay at the hospital.

Lions don’t want to be trapped by wires and tubes! The narrator instigates a hunt, and the brothers run around the hospital together, chasing gazelles and startling the wildebeest. But big brother is very sick and can’t keep up. Lions can’t cry, his little brother insists. But they can miss the rest of their pride. With Mom and Dad, the narrator tries to comfort his sibling. Soon, he knows, the two lions will go hunting again.

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I am a lion. My big brother is one too. ROOOOARR!
We are a pride. We hunt gazelles and wildebeest on the savanna.
When we catch them, we eat them. We are dangerous!

Global: One fragile world. An epic fight for survival.
by Eoin Colfer (Author), Andrew Donkin (Author), and Giovanni Rigano (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Time is running out for Sami and Yuki.

Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian Ocean. They earn their living by fishing. But the ocean is rising and each day they bring back fewer and fewer fish.

Yuki lives in the far north of Canada where warming temperature are melting the ice. Polar bears have less food to hunt and are wandering into town looking for something to eat. Yuki is determined to do something to help the bears.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)