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		<title>White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies Illustrated by Michael Foreman Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: April 2007 ISBN-13: 9780763633646 Sales Rank: 429,812 Age Range: 5 to 8 Red Clover Nominee: 2008-2009 Synopsis (from bn.com) An award-winning author and illustrator swoop into the wondrous world of the barn owl. A young girl and her grandfather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=71&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dadblamed Union Army Cow, by Susan Fletcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dadblamed Union Army Cow by Susan Fletcher ilustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root Red Clover Nominee:  2009-2008 school year Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: June 2007 ISBN-13: 9780763622633 Sales Rank: 416,772 Age Range: 5 to 7 32pp Synopsis (from bn.com) She just won’t git! A Union army soldier can’t shake his dadblamed cow in this uplifting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=67&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama, Son of Promise, Child of Hope, by Nikki Grimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama, Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes illustrated by Bryan Collier Publisher: Simon &#38; Schuster Children&#8217;s Publishing Pub. Date: August 2008 ISBN-13: 9781416971443 Sales Rank: 340 Age Range: 5 to 10 48pp Synopsis (from bn.com) Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=62&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Ruby Bridges, by Robert Coles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Story of Ruby Bridges Author: Robert Coles Illustrator: George Ford Publisher and date: Scholastic, 1995 Genres: biography Age/Grade: 1-3 Author’s perspective: According to Scott London: Coles describes himself variously as a doctor, child psychiatrist, oral historian, social anthropologist, teacher, friend, storyteller, busybody, and nuisance. Interviewers, journalists, and reviewers often seize on the apparent contradictions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=54&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin&#8217;s Big Words: The LIfe of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by Doreen Rappaport</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Doreen Rappaport Illustrator: Bryan Collier Publisher and date: Scholastic, 2001 Genres: biography Age/Grade: 1-5 Author’s perspective: Doreen Rappaport, although not African American, does have an insider’s perspective on the fight for civil rights. She participated in the March on Washington in 1963. She then taught in a Mississippi freedom school during the summer of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=50&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phineas L. MacQuire&#8230; Blasts Off!, by Frances O&#8217;Roark Dowell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phineas L. MacQuire &#8230; Blasts off! by Frances O&#8217;Roark Dowell publisher and date: Simon &#38; Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 2008 genre: fiction age/grade:ages 8-12 Synopsis (from: www.bn.com) Houston,we have a problem! Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) is less than up-to-date on planetary happenings. (Marsquakes? Who knew?) If he&#8217;s going to be the best scientist in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=43&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honeysuckly House, by Andrea Cheng</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honeysuckle House by Andrea Cheng publisher and date: Front Street, 2004 genre: realistic fiction age/grade:grades 3-5 Synopsis (from www.bn.com) Alienation, longing, prejudice, and cultural difference is touched on in this immigrant story told in the voices of two ten-year-old girls. Sarah and Tina are fourth graders. The most important thing in the world to Sarah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=39&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Lost My Tooth in Africa, Penda Diakite</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Lost My Tooth in Africa by Penda Diakite Illustrated by Baba Wague Diakite publisher and date: Scholastic Press, 2006 genre: it is listed as fiction in the library but it is based on a true event age/grade:ages 4-8 Synopsis (from www.bn.com) More than anything, Amina wants to lose her loose tooth while visiting her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=36&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Home, Coming Home, by Truong Tran</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going Home, Coming Home by Truong Tran Illustrated by Ann Phong publisher and date: Children’s Book Press, 2003 genre: realistic fiction age/grade: ages 6-9 Synopsis: from www.bn.com Ami Chi is traveling to Vietnam, where the streets are crowded with scooters and the fruit are shaped like dragons and stars. Her parents still consider Vietnam home. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=34&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Step from Heaven, by An Na</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Step from Heaven by An Na publisher and date: Front Street, 2002 genre: realistic fiction age/grade: young adult Synopsis (from www.bn.com) 2001 National Book Award Nominee When she is five, Young Ju Park and her family move from Korea to California. During the flight, they climb so far into the sky she concludes they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachersbookshelf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6018598&amp;post=32&amp;subd=teachersbookshelf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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