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New Hanover County Public Library resources for New Hanover County Public School parents |
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2nd Quarter book suggestions, K-5th Here are some ideas for your child's reading for the second quarter of this year's school curriculum. For more suggestions, contact your librarian! This eNewsletter is interactive! Click on underlined words to learn more. |
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Kindergarten Books: Once Upon a Farm |
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The sheepover
by John Churchman
After Sweet Pea, the orphan lamb, recovers from an illness, Sunny, Prem and Violet, her closest friends, join her in the greenhouse for an imaginative "SheepOver" celebration.
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Harlem Grown : how one big idea transformed a neighborhood
by Tony Hillery
A picture-book account of the uplifting story of New York City's Harlem Grown garden describes how students from an underfunded school turned a vacant lot into an aesthetic and functional farm built on practices of community collaboration and sustainable eating.
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Rosie's walk
by Pat Hutchins
Although unaware that a hungry fox is following after her as she takes a walk around the farmyard, Rosie the hen still manages to lead him into one accident after another.
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Escape goat
by Ann Patchett
In the wake of accidents that occur every time their escape-artist goat is found outside its pen, young Nicolette discovers that the goat is being wrongly blamed for the mischief of others. By the creators of Lambslide.
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Duck on a bike
by David Shannon
A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too
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They call me Woolly : what animal names can tell us
by Keith Du Quette
Simple text and bold illustrations introduce young readers to the animal world by demonstrating how an animal's name can provide great information about their look, origins, and eating habits, such as the rat snake and African elephant.
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Life-size zoo : from tiny rodents to gigantic elephants, an actual-size animal encyclopedia
by Kristin Earhart
Enhanced with full-color photos and bright gate folds, this fact-filled book examines the unique characteristics, strange skills, and special abilities of twenty-one different animals, including giraffes, rhinos, elephants, meerkats, pandas, and many others.
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Fur, feather, fin : all of us are kin
by Diane Lang
A fact-filled rhyming tour through the animal kingdom profiles major animal groups for their diverse characteristics before explaining how all creatures, from mammals and birds to insects and fish, are connected to each other.
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Lifetime : the amazing numbers in animal lives
by Lola M. Schaefer
An evocative counting primer combines contrasting illustrations with engaging animal facts that invite young children to count a woodpecker's 30 roosting holes, a giraffe's 200 spots and 1,000 baby seahorses. Like this information book? Try books written by this author and others in the Read and Learn or Peg Hall's Whose is it? series.
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Grandfather Buffalo
by Jim Arnosky
Even though Grandfather Buffalo walks slower than the rest of the herd, the wise and oldest buffalo proudly maintains his authority and important role in the family; protecting the females when they are giving birth, providing guidance to the young ones, and showing courage on the plains during troubled times. Would you like to read more about how the buffalo were saved? Try Buffalo Song, Buffalo Music, The Buffalo are Back, or They Came From the Bronx.
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They're off! : the story of the Pony Express
by Cheryl Harness
Offers young readers a look at the life-and-times of the riders of the Pony Express and the impact this mail system had on American history even though it was only in existence for less than two years.
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Stagecoach Sal : inspired by a true tale
by Deborah Hopkinson
When frontier-savvy Sal makes her first stagecoach journey alone to deliver the mail for her sick pa, her ma is nervous, but the wild frontier is no match for Sal, and neither is Poetic Pete, the wiliest stagecoach robber in the West. By the author of Apples to Oregon: being the (slightly) true narrative of how a brave pioneer father brought apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes, and cherries (and children) across the Prairie and A Packet of Seeds, which are also about pioneer families.
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Thunder Rose
by Jerdine Nolen
Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building metal structures, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Would you like to read more? Try some picture book and In-Between biographies.
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Lily & Kosmo in outer outer space
by Jonathan Ashley
Lily Lupino yearns to be an astronaut, so when Kosmo Kidd crash-lands in her Brooklyn kitchen in 1949, she will do almost anything to prove herself to him and his crew
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Astronaut in training
by Kathryn Clay
Examines what scuba diving, medical skills, and survival training all have to do with being an astronaut
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Rocket science : a beginner's guide to the fundamentals of spaceflight
by Andrew Rader
The author of the Epic Space Adventure trilogy and co-host of the Spellbound podcast combines engaging facts with eye-catching digital artwork to reveal the science behind rocket technology, discussing subjects ranging from navigation and thermal control to space exploration and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
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Space cat
by Ruthven Todd
Flyball, a little gray kitten with a taste for adventure, stows away on the spaceship taking his owner to the moon. First title in this classic series of books.
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The wild robot
by Peter Brown
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
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My side of the mountain
by Jean Craighead George
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
If you've read all of Jean Craighead George's books and want more, try Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth George Speare.
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You vs the world : the Bear Grylls guide to never giving up
by Bear Grylls
You vs the World: The Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up retells Bear Grylls' most extreme adventures in a kid-friendly way. He shares the life lessons he's learned along the way, and how the skills needed to survive in the wild can be used in everyday life. From finding confidence to bouncing back from failure, Bear gives children the tools they need to survive and thrive in their own lives.
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Out of range
by Heidi Lang
Abby, Emma, and Ollie are squabbling sisters on a punishment hike up a mountain with their camp counselor, Dana, when they suddenly find themselves completely on their own, and spot the smoke of a forest fire above them. In order to survive they need to learn to depend on each other.
Want to get lost with just your best friend? Try Nature Girl where an 11 year old gets lost on the Appalachian trail with just her dog.
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Survival skills
by Tony Norman
This series takes readers into the realm of true adventure, from extreme sports to surviving in the wilderness, describing the equipment needed for each sport, and the skills required by those who dare.
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A curious collection of cats
by Betsy Franco
From acrobat-flipping to toilet-bowl-sipping, couch-scratching to dog-catching, an insightful collection of poetry celebrates the fickle feline in ways that any cat lover will appreciate.
Prefer dogs to cats? Try her Dazzling Display of Dogs.
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A wrinkle in time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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The maze of bones
by Rick Riordan
At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the 39 clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family's power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family members.
Enjoy mysterious puzzles to solve? Try The Westing Game, The Spy School series, or The Mysterious Benedict Society series.
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Runny Babbit : a billy sook
by Shel Silverstein
Runny Babbit's topsy-turvy world is brought to life through witty and wondrous wordplay and brilliant drawings, conceived and completed before the author's death.
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