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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
2021 Schneider Family Book Award Young Children's Honor Book (American Library Association)
Experience the true story of lifelong activist Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins and her participation in the Capitol Crawl in this inspiring autobiographical picture book. This beautifully illustrated story includes a foreword from Jennifer and backmatter detailing her life and the history of the disability rights movement.
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...Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
From award-winning author Annette Bay Pimentel comes an oversize nonfiction picture book exploring how music and musical instruments are made—across time and around the world
Music doesn't come out of nothing.
It always starts somewhere . . .
with something . . .
with someone.
Discover how music is made in this survey of musical instruments from around the world. Organized
Author
Language
English
Description
The true story of a Chinese American mountain man who fed thirty people for ten days in the wilderness--and helped inspire the creation of the National Park Service. Tie Sing was born in the mountains. The mountains were in his blood. But because he was of Chinese descent at a time in America when to be Chinese meant working in restaurants or laundries, Tie Sing's prospects were limited. But he had bigger plans. He began cooking for mapmakers and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lyrical, vibrant tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpré, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual storytimes
Pura's abuela always has a cuento to share. She crows ¡Qui-qui-ri-quí! for Señor Gallo, booms Borom, Borom for Señor Zapo, and tells of a beautiful cockroach, who loves a mouse. Pura clings to these, stories like, coquíes cling to green leaves.
When Pura grows up and moves from Puerto Rico to Harlem,...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of Tie Sing, a Chinese trail cook, who was hired by millionaire Stephen Mather to cook for him and his associates as part of Mather's efforts to create a national park service and for whom Sing Peak in Yosemite is named.
