Famous Ghosts
by Susan B. Katz (Author)
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Booktalk: From La Llorona to the Bell Witch, kids will thrill to learn about all kinds of famous ghosts! Short chapters cover ghosts of folklore, ghosts from history, and ghost stories told around the campfire.
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It’s Nonfiction Monday!
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Building a Dream: How the Boys of Koh Panyee Became Champions
by Darshana Khiani (Author) and Dow Phumiruk (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: In Thailand’s Phang Nga Bay, atop a network of stilts, floats the village of Koh Panyee–where a group of boys loved soccer but had nowhere to practice. Where could they find space to dribble, juggle, shoot, and score? The boys looked out at the water and started gathering tools. Even while their neighbors laughed, they sawed wood, hammered nails, and tied barrels together. The team worked for weeks to build Koh Panyee’s first floating field–a place to practice, and a place to transform their community…
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It’s Nonfiction Monday!
The author, Darshana Khiani, is one of my former students.
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Curious about Baseball
by Thomas K. and Heather Adamson (Authors)
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Booktalk: Questions and answers explain what kids can expect when they join a baseball team, including what gear to pack, some basic rules of play, and what those secret hand signals mean in this short chapter book.
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Mindfulness in the Classroom
by Priscilla An (Author)
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Booktalk: Explore the ways that mindfulness can be useful while learning in the classroom with math and English class examples in this short chapter book.
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Ready for School
by Katie Peters (Author)
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Booktalk: Emergent readers experience the first day of school and discover many new things to do in this 16-page beginning reader book.
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School: A Look at Then and Now
by Percy Leed (Author)
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Booktalk: Going to school looks a lot different now than it did in the past. Historical photographs show beginning readers what being a student used to look like then alongside contemporary photographs of what it looks like now.
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National Geographic Kids Almanac 2024 (US edition)
by National Geographic Kids (Author)
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Booktalk: More incredible photos, fun facts, games, activities, and fascinating features about animals, science, nature, technology from National Geographic!
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Hands-On Science: Matter
by Lola M. Schaefer (Author) and Druscilla Santiago (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: An interactive STEM picture book about solids, liquids, and gases, bringing science experiments to life. For example, after smashing clay to change its shape, tilting the book to pour liquid, or blowing to make bubbles — readers predict what will happen next — and then turn the page to see the actual results.
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Covered in Color: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Fabrics of Freedom
by Elisa Boxer (Author) and Susanna Chapman (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Christo (1935-2020) and his partner in art and in life, Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009), are renowned for their large-scale, ambitious art installations that wrapped landmarks and swaths of land in fabric, including Berlin’s Wrapped Reichstag, Paris’s The Pont Neuf Wrapped, and New York City’s The Gates in Central Park (2005).
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Do Fire Ants Fight Fires?: How Animals Work in the Wild
by Etta Kaner (Author) and Jenna Piechota (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Do dolphins teach? Do birds build apartment buildings? Do tapirs deliver packages? You may be surprised at the answers! Animals have to work hard to survive in the wild.
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