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I Really Want to Be First!: A Really Bird Story
by Harriet Ziefert (Author) and Travis Foster (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Really Bird is usually in line behind his two best friends, Cat and Pup. He wants to be first for a change, so he thinks up a scheme to become the leader of the group. Along the way, Really Bird discovers that being the leader involves more than being first.
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The Hope of Elephants
by Amanda Rawson Hill (Author)
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Booktalk: Cass and her parents haven’t let her dad’s cancer stop them from having a good life–full of love and poems and one annual World Series game. Now that Dad’s cancer is back, Cass overhears the doctor say that she has a 50% chance of inheriting her dad’s genetic mutation, Li-Fraumeni syndrome. There’s a genetic test Cass can take that will tell her for sure. There’s still so much she wants to do–play baseball, study at the zoo, travel the world with her best friend, Jayla. Would it be better not to know?
When it turns out Dad’s cancer is worse this time, Cass is determined to keep up their World Series tradition while navigating all the change and uncertainty that lies ahead.
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MY FIRST WORLD SERIES
Dad got to throw
the opening pitch.
His blog had gone viral
a couple of months before.
I don’t remember much.
I was only four.
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