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100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2013

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A frog has a series of narrow escapes in this lively romp written using only two letters.
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Ah Ha!
“What's a boy to do when he receives a syrupy sweet story as a gift? Transform it into an epic fight between the forces of good and ...”
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Battle Bunny
“"This tea set is magic. Anyone who drinks from it has a blessing from God." The ...”
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The Blessing Cup
“A wordless, lift-the-flap story of two very different dancers who find a way to overcome their differences ...”
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Flora and the Flamingo
“Lovingly crafted figures set in a gentle forest tell the tale of Hank and the ...”
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Hank Finds an Egg
“City life can be busy, bustling... and lonely. Two musicians find a satisfying friendship in this ...”
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Herman and Rosie
Want a puppy? Why not consider a train instead? A guide to capturing a locomotive of your very own.
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How to Train a Train
“Luminous illustrations chart an ordinary child's adventure through an ...”
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Journey
A moving portrait of a child in the wake of an absent parent, told against the backdrop of New York City.
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Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
Small mementos capture entire stories in this remarkable journey of an immigrant grandfather's life.
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The Matchbox Diary
“Hush now—the moon has come down to Earth, the sun is nowhere to be seen...and ...”
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Moonday
“Uptight society is in for a change when Mr. Tiger goes back to his jungle instincts. It's ...”
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Mr. Tiger Goes Wild!
Jamie goes from gentle green and hungry yellow to moody black and stormy gray in a single day.
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My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood
“Fwap! Slish! Bloop! Krunch! A young boy imagines himself wrestling and defeating ...”
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Niño Wrestles the World
A toddler tames her gorilla friend in this sweet tale of tantrums, tears, and banana ice cream.
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No Fits, Nilson!
“A young rabbit sets out on a mission north to find his missing father, and crosses paths with a ...”
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Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale
“"There is more than one way to picture a tree." A lushly illustrated ode to trees in all ...”
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Picture a Tree
“From a soldier's goodbye to a blackbird's lunch on a path, Graham shows all that can happen in a single moment ...”
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The Silver Button
An uptight snail and an adventurous fish start a new story together in this warmhearted tale of friendship.
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The Story of Fish and Snail
“Whether you call it baseball or yakyu, the fun of the game is the ...”
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Take Me Out to the Yakyu
An intergenerational tale that follows a family as they move from rural South Carolina to Brooklyn.
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This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
“Goat used to think he was pretty cool until that Unicorn came along. But how can you compete with a guy who ...”
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Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great
“Water, water everywhere—to swim, to splash, to drink. One day in the ...”
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Water in the Park: A Book About Water and the Times of Day
“Dynamic retellings and richly written American nature scenes give new ...”
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Aesop in California
“This rhythmic read-aloud tells the story of a wild and fearless little boy who boldly faces down his two- and ...”
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Can't Scare Me!
“Classic Greek stories get new life in these lyrically written early chapter tales. Rich, bold Colors reference ancient Grecian art. See ...”
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Demeter and Persephone
“Leaving home to visit her daughter on the other side of the jungle, a cunning grandmother ...”
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Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale
“A harried king turns his naughty daughters into oranges for a year and a day, but when monsters try to steal the tasty fruit can the ...”
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Grim, Grunt and Grizzle-Tail: A Story from Chile
“Follow two clever siblings through these intricately designed, translucent pages. A classic Grimm Brothers ...”
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Hansel and Gretel
“The villagers always find something new to scold Nasreddine and his father about each week on their way to market. How ...”
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Nasreddine
“From Señor Puma's grand battle to the high purpose of fleas, this brilliant collection covers folktales from all over ...”
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Whiskers, Tails and Wings: Animal Folktales from Mexico
“Watch these mighty machines as they plow, excavate, and clean up the city. Colorsful cartoon ...”
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Digger, Dozer, Dumper
“Stop. Pause. Take a closer look at a forest through the seasons as you spy all kinds of flora and fauna. Soft ...”
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Forest Has a Song: Poems
“Meet the Jollyfish, who are always happy, and the Panteaters, who have ...”
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Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems
Inventive verse and sweetly bizarre illustrations showcase poems of love and friendship.
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We Go Together!: A Curious Selection of Affectionate Verse
“Lyrical poems take on the big and small moments in kids' lives. Illuminated with whimsical drawings, the verses highlight moments of grief, ...”
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What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms and Blessings
“A group of accomplished artists illustrates inspiring stories of protest and change from around the world. Meet 17 ...”
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When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
"Freddie picked his nose and now he's dead, dead, dead." Poetry bound to get stuck inside your head, head, head.
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Your Skeleton Is Showing: Rhymes of Blunder from Six Feet Under
“Paige Turner has decided that this year she's going to be different. From now on, she's going to be brave! She's going to be talented! She's ...”
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Call Me Oklahoma!
“Returning from the store in time for breakfast can be tricky when you're facing vengeful aliens, volcanic sacrifices, and a time-traveling ...”
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Fortunately, the Milk
“Gabby Gomez loves gum, but after a bubble hits a power line and bursts, she becomes Gum Girl! Just try to pull yourself away from this ...”
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The Gumazing Gum Girl!: Chews Your Destiny
When a boy that Dana taunts gives her a white elephant as a gift, she comes to realize that sometimes the best gifts need to be shared.
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The Meanest Birthday Girl
“Can a blind desert guide and his adopted granddaughter save three lost travelers who face a coming sand storm? ...”
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Mysterious Traveler
“Josh and Danny Phillips are twins who have nothing in common. But when their mad scientist neighbor accidentally turns them into ...”
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S.W.I.T.C.H.: Spider Stampede
“Robbie's eccentric grandmother eats doughnuts for dinner and gets along with the woodland animals. With her wit and wisdom, Robbie comes to ...”
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The Truth of Me
“Margru becomes entangled in the debate surrounding the institution of slavery. A Historyly inspired fictional ...”
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Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad
“When her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, Erica Montenegro's world is turned upside down. A family's struggles handled with humor and ...”
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Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel
“Thirteen-year-old Nate yearns for the bright lights of the theater. What he's got is small town Pennsylvania, where nobody understands his ...”
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Better Nate Than Ever
“When his ambitious (and slightly unhinged) uncle turns his home into a fish canning factory, Stanley Potts runs away to join a traveling ...”
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The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas
“Willow Chance is a 12-year-old genius who loves her gardens, diagnosing medical conditions, 9 and counting by 7s. When Willow is orphaned, ...”
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Counting by 7s
“A creepy china doll, a quest to lay its ghost to rest, and three friends on the verge of growing up go on their last childhood adventure ...”
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Doll Bones
“In this 1967 Tanzanian mystery, 13-year-old Shida's village votes to join a larger community. When somebody starts sabotaging their new ...”
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A Girl Called Problem
“Tilda never imagined herself as the adventurous type. But when an ambitious cousin tries to imprison her, she escapes with her friends on a ...”
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Handbook for Dragon Slayers
“What dark things lurk in the shadows of Victorian London? It's all in a day's work for young Birdie, who draws out monsters for her master ...”
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How to Catch a Bogle
“When the dead haunt the living in ghost-laden England, call on Lockwood & Co.! Lucy Carlyle is the newest member of the young group of ...”
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Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase
“Everyone thinks Georgie's sister Agatha is dead except Georgie. But when she heads out into the 1871 wilderness of Wisconsin with her trusty ...”
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One Came Home
“Before slaves escaped north, they escaped south to Florida. It's 1739 and 13-year-old Jem wants to fight for the Spanish king. But ...”
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The Other Side of Free
“Something's rotten in Kalamazoo City, and it's not just the illegal fish. Join hotshot rookie Rick Zengo on his first case as he takes on an ...”
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Platypus Police Squad: The Frog Who Croaked
“Eleven-year-old Oscar likes the quiet routine of working for the local magician, Master Caleb. But when a plague strikes the city and a new ...”
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The Real Boy
“Two boys (Anikwa, a member of the Miami tribe, and James, a trader's son) are friends living near the border of the American and ...”
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Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
“A young girl in rural Haiti dreams of becoming a doctor. But can she overcome extreme poverty and a devastating earthquake to make that ...”
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Serafina's Promise
“In the post–World War III settlement of White Rock, invention is a way of life. Yet for Hope Torielli, even her best ideas go wrong. When ...”
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Sky Jumpers
“Stuck on cemetery duty for community service, Derek Knowles-Collier never expected to be tracking down clues scrawled in the margins of ...”
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The Spotted Dog Last Seen
“Twelve-year-old Lenny's chance to be a real baseball announcer goes off the rails when a major league pitcher drops dead on the ...”
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Strike Three, You're Dead
“Raccoon brothers Bingo and J'miah are facing a heap o' trouble. It's up to them to wake up the mythical Sugar Man and save the swamp from ...”
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The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
“What mysteries will Ephraim, Mallory, and Will uncover at the Appledores' ancestral home? Hidden tunnels, covert experiments, and old feuds ...”
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The Water Castle
“He might be part of a Victorian freak show, but he has a deductive mind worthy of Sherlock Holmes. When Wild Boy is framed for a brutal ...”
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Wild Boy
“Will escapes from the Manor after the murder of his uncle, and his life is irrevocably changed. When he's captured by outlaws in ...”
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Will in Scarlet
“After her parents die, Pearl struggles to survive and learn more about her Northwest Coastal Makah heritage. When a supposed "art collector" ...”
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Written in Stone
“How hard can second grade be? Four heartwarming vignettes illustrate the challenges and surprises of Billy's school year, from diorama drama ...”
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The Year of Billy Miller
“When his town becomes the summer retreat for a troupe of vaudevillians, a young boy befriends 12-year-old ...”
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Bluffton
“Graphic artists such as Charise Mericle Harper, Brett Helquist, and Raina Telgemeier inventively reimagine such classics ...”
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Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told
“A country girl moves to the big city and meets a magical creature while trying to find her way back to her new home. Gorgeous ...”
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Hilda and the Bird Parade
“The drab world of sad, bullied Hélène takes on fresh life and Colors thanks to a friendly, bright red fox and Jane ...”
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Jane, the Fox & Me
“The only thing worse than living in Stover-on-Avon is being Rayburn, the depressed creature responsible for terrorizing ...”
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Monster on the Hill
“Come for the cannibalism, stay for the individual stories and relentless, ridiculous bad luck. Savor this delicious ...”
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party
“A group of seemingly unconnected orphans sets out to fight an evil interplanetary corporation in this story filled with twists, turns, and ...”
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The Silver Six
Young Roan Novachez is starting school, where he learns to expect the unexpected. Read this book, you must. Become a Jedi, you will.
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Star Wars: Jedi Academy
“The youngest Holocaust survivor on Oskar Schindler's famous list tells his story at last—bringing a child's perspective ...”
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The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible... on Schindler's List
“Awkward outsider Paul Erdos became one of the most influential mathematicians of his time. Complex illustrations show us ...”
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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
“Some of your favorite authors take on the dreaded essay assignment. Once you read about time travel, video games, and the afterlife, you'll ...”
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Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays edited
“Did you know that slaves helped build the White House? This poignant, visually compelling work told in verse chronicles ...”
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Brick by Brick
“Without honeybees, we would be eating only oats, rice, and corn. Now bees are disappearing ...”
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The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery
“An expertly researched and deftly written account of soldiers who fought for their country in spite ...”
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Courage Has No Colors, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
If it could go fast, Betty June Skelton was there. Meet one woman who never said no to adventure.
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Daredevil: The Daring Life of Betty Skelton
“No space? No problem. Poor soil? We'll find a solution. A former basketball star turns an empty lot into a garden—and ...”
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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table
“Gorgeously detailed, Colors-saturated illustrations bring to life all kinds of frog species, from ...”
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Frog Song
“They were really small—and really big! And superstar T. rex wasn't even the biggest. How ...”
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How Big Were Dinosaurs?
“Take a trip to colonial America but make sure you pack soap, toilet paper, a toothbrush, ...”
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Ick! Yuck! Eew!: Our Gross American History
“A family travels along the steel rails of the newly opened transcontinental railroad. Hear the ...”
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Locomotive
“Spoken-word-style prose evokes the lives of these two greats. From ...”
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Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
“Photos of modern reenactors enliven another side of America's first president in this account of George ...”
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Master George's People: George Washington, His Slaves, and His Revolutionary Transformation
"What's the secret to the perfect baseball? You just need a little mud..."
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Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball
“Young Albert Einstein didn't talk until he was three, but the gift of a compass taught him ...”
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On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein
Once a planet, always a planet? Maybe not. Just ask Pluto.
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Pluto's Secret: An Icy World's Tale of Discovery
“African-American artist Horace Pippin became a full-time painter after he was injured in World War I. A Colorsful ...”
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A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
“A small, sickly boy grows up to become a visionary president who approached all things with energy, ...”
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To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt
“Follow science teacher Kate Sessions on her search for plants that ...”
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The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
Mixed-media art captures the explosive power of a volcano as it creates underwater mountains and newly fertile islands.
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Volcano Rising
“Flying foxes in the park? A coyote in a sandwich shop? Find out what happens when nature's ...”
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Wild Animal Neighbors: Sharing Our Urban World