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(0)Jim Averbeck
Author
Language
English
Description
Yoyo has listened to Mama Cécile's song about how to make ndolé (bitterleaf stew) her entire life-long enough to know how to make it herself, now that she is finally old enough. But slicing the bitterleaf, grinding the pumpkin, measuring out the shrimp-it just takes too long. Yoyo is confident that her variation on the stew will be good enough. As Mama Cécile and Yoyo set off to market, Mama reminds Yoyo what will happen if she refuses a fair...
4) Except if
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
An egg is just an egg, except if, after hatching it becomes something else.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Encouraged by her teacher to approach her art assignment from new points of view, Sophia produces a piece she is proud of, but can she persuade her hard-to-impress family to take a chance on a different perspective?
6) Trevor
Author
Language
English
Description
Trevor is a lonely yellow canary looking for a friend.
He stretches his wings the width of his boring cage and notices the tree outside stretching its branch. And on the end of that branch? Another canary! But he's so shy and quiet.
Trevor knows just how to make him feel comfortable.
This is an elegantly told, truly unique tale by author Jim Averbeck and illustrator Amy Hevron, of a canary who befriends a lemon and finds that you don't have to...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sophia has one true desire for her birthday. But she has Four Big Problems in the way: Mom, Dad, Uncle Conrad ... and Grand-mama. Will her presentations, proposals, and pie charts convince them otherwise? Turns out, all it takes is one word.
