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Dealing with differences
Provides tips and advice to children on how to interact with people who are different from themselves.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781599204925
- Collation
- 32 pages : illustration : 27 cm
- Series Title
- Positive Steps
- Call Number
- 305 MAR
The Mayo brothers : doctors to the world
With engaging text and historical photographs and illustrations, each of these biographies tells of a well-known person who has contributed to the economic and cultural growth of a town, city, or region.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0516263471
- Collation
- 42 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- Community Builders
- Call Number
- 925 MAY
Grace Hopper : queen of computer code
“If you’ve got a good idea, and you know it’s going to work, go ahead and do it.” The inspiring story of Grace Hopper—the boundary-breaking woman who revolutionized computer science—is told told in an engaging picture book biography. Who was Grace Hopper? A software tester, workplace jester, cherished mentor, ace inventor, avid reader, naval leader—AND rule breaker, chance ta…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781454920007
- Collation
- 44 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- Call Number
- 925 WAL
Take a stand, Rosa Parks
Take a Stand, Rosa Parks! by Peter and Connie Roop. It is one in a series of chapter book biographies the Roops have done for Scholastic. Rosa Parks is best known for her refusal to give up her seat on James Blake's bus. Take a Stand explains the circumstances of Rosa's life that lead her to take on James Blake.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0439676258
- Collation
- 59 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- A Scholastic Chapter Book Biography
- Call Number
- 923 PAR
Promises to keep : how Jackie Robinson changed America
A warm, intimate portrait of Jackie Robinson, America's sports icon, told from the unique perspective of a unique insider: his only daughter. Sharon Robinson shares memories of her famous father in this warm loving biography of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. Jackie Robinson was an outstanding athlete, a devoted family man and a dedicated civil rights activist. The author ex…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0439678757
- Collation
- 64 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 927 ROB
I have a dream : the story of Martin Luther King
When Martin Luther King grew up in the South, black people were treated very badly. They had to go to separate schools. They could only ride in the back of the bus. In many places, they were not allowed to vote. Even as a young boy, Martin knew this was wrong. And when he grew up, he did something about it. He made speeches. He led marches. He made everyone think about what was fair.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0590442309
- Collation
- 127 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- Scholastic Biography
- Call Number
- 923 KIN
Teammates
This is the moving story of how Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a Major League baseball team when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, and how on a fateful day in Cincinnati, Pee Wee Reese took a stand and declared Jackie his teammate. Illustrated with a blend of historic photographs and eloquent watercolors by Paul Bacon.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0590366696
- Collation
- 32 pages : illustration : 21 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 927 GOL
Leon's story
I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness. But in those days they didn't call you "black." They didnt say "minority." They called us "colored" or "nigger." Leon Tillage grew up the son of a sharecropper in a small town in North Carolina. Told in vignettes, this is his story about walking four miles to the school for black children, a…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0439283191
- Collation
- 107 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 920 TIL
Iditarod dream : Dusty and his sled dogs compete in Alaska's Jr. Iditarod
Relates the story of the fifteen-year-old Alaskan boy and his dogs as they prepare for and then run the 158-mile course of the Junior Iditarod Race.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0439367549
- Collation
- 48 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
- Series Title
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- Call Number
- 798.8 WOO
The butter battle book
The Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss's classic cautionary tale, introduces readers to the important lesson of respecting differences. The Yooks and Zooks share a love of buttered bread, but animosity brews between the two groups because they prefer to enjoy the tasty treat differently. The timeless and topical rhyming text is an ideal way to teach young children about the issues of tolerance and r…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 97803943865805
- Collation
- 48 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- -
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- Se
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