Category: fiction

Too-Small Tyson (Storytelling Math)
by JaNay Brown-Wood (Author) and Anastasia Magloire Williams (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Tyson is the youngest–smaller than his four older brothers and always trying to keep up. But when the family’s pet gerbil, Swish, goes missing, it’s Tyson to the rescue! Tyson uses his knowledge of doubles, triples, and sizes to figure out a clever way to reach his beloved pet.

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

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Yellow Dog Blues
by Alice Faye Duncan (Author) and Chris Raschka (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: In this boogie-woogie journey along the Mississippi Blues Trail with hand-stitched art, one morning Bo Willie finds the doghouse empty and the gate wide open! Farmer Fred says Yellow Dog hit Highway 61 and started running. Aunt Jessie picks up Bo Willie in her pink Cadillac, and together they look for his missing puppy love. Their search leads them from juke joints to tamale stands to streets ringing with the music of B.B. King and Muddy Waters. Where, where did that Yellow Dog go?

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