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Kaia and the Bees

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Kaia and the Bees
by Maribeth Boelts (Author) and Angela Dominguez (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Kaia is the brave type. Like hottest-hot-pepper brave. But there is one thing that scares her: BEES! And right now, thousands of bees live on her roof because Kaia’s dad is a beekeeper. Her dad says that the world needs bees and that’s why they are beekeepers. But only he goes on the roof, not Kaia — unless she can find a way to be the brave girl she always says she is.

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

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Barkus Dog Dreams

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Barkus Dog Dreams
by Patricia MacLachlan (Author) and Marc Boutavant (Illustrator)

Booktalk: With simple text told in five short chapters (just right for children ready to take their first steps toward reading on their own), Barkus the dog has adventures in the neighborhood and meets a new dog named Millie.

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Some days Barkus went to Millie’s house.
Some days Millie went to Barkus’s house.
At night they both sat in the windows of
their houses and looked across the yard
at each other.
One morning Barkus came home with
Millie’s sock.

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