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Roosevelt Banks, Good-Kid-in-Training

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Roosevelt Banks, Good-Kid-in-Training
by Laurie Calkhoven (Author) and Debbie Palen (Illustrator)

Booktalk: When ten-year-old Roosevelt Banks discovers that his two best friends are planning a bike and camping trip, he wants more than anything to go along. There’s just one problem–he doesn’t have a bike. Roosevelt’s parents agree to buy him a bike if he can manage to be good for two whole weeks. How can Roosevelt be good and be the same fun guy his friends want on the camping trip? Trying to be good leads to more trouble than expected–and to the discovery that being a good friend is more important than any bicycle.

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Sweet Tamales for Purim

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Sweet Tamales for Purim
by Barbara Bietz (Author) and John Kanzler (Illustrator)

Booktalk: A young girl and her new friend Luis plan to create a Purim festival for their town. Their plans for the celebration were well underway until the family goat, Kitzel, ate all of the traditional holiday pastries, Hamantashen. Fortunately, they find another way to celebrate Purim and the family is able to share their cultural traditions with their new neighbors. Inspired by a true event in 1886 when the Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society of Tucson planned a Purim Ball for the entire community.

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