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The good luck cat
Some cats are good luck. You pet them and good things happen. Woogie is one of those cats. But as Woogie gets into one mishap after another, everyone starts to worry. Can a good luck cat's good luck run out? The first children's book from an acclaimed poet whose honors include the American Book Award and the William Carlos Williams Award Celebrates the special relationship between a young gir…
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- 9780152321970
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- HA
Hiawatha
Rich in imagery and detail, this exquisitely rendered picture book introduces readers to one of America's favorite classic poems, "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by Susan Jeffers, the Caldecott-Honor winning author of Three Jovial Huntsmen, A Mother Goose Rhyme, this book beautifully weaves together oral traditions of American Indian culture and presents a char…
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- 0140549811
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 30 cm
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- LO
The woman who outshone the sun : the legend of Lucia Zenteno
Retells the Zapotec legend of Lucia Zenteno, a beautiful woman with magical powers who is exiled from a mountain village and takes its water away in punishment.
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- 0590473042
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- 30 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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- 398.2 ZUB
Knots on a counting rope
In Knots on a Counting Rope, Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault tell a poignant story about a boy’s emerging confidence in facing his blindness in this beautiful children’s picture book illustrated by Ted Rand. By the warmth of a campfire beneath a starry night sky, a Navajo youth named Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses listens to the tale of his birth from his grandfather. Although blind, …
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- 0590994484
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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Dancing with the Indians
A young black girl recounts her family's annual participation in the ceremonies of the Seminole tribe that during the Civil War, some seventy years earlier, had given sanctuary to her grandfather, an escaped slave.
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- 0590459821
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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Knots on a counting rope
In Knots on a Counting Rope, Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault tell a poignant story about a boy’s emerging confidence in facing his blindness in this beautiful children’s picture book illustrated by Ted Rand. By the warmth of a campfire beneath a starry night sky, a Navajo youth named Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses listens to the tale of his birth from his grandfather. Although blind, …
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- 9780805084798
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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- M
Home to medicine mountain
In the 1930s two young brothers are sent to a government-run Indian residential school -- an experience shared by generations of Native American children. At these schools, children are forbidden to speak their native tongue and are taught to abandon their Indian ways. Native American artist Judith Lowry's illustrations are inspired by the stories she heard from her father and uncle. The lyr…
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- 9780892391769
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- 30 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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The rough-face girl
This moving adaptation of the classic children's story Cinderella tells how a disfigured Algonquin girl wins the heart of a mysterious being who lives by the lake near her village. The powerful Invisible Being is looking for a wife, and all the girls in the village vie for his affections. But only the girl who proves she can see him will be his bride. The two beautiful but spoiled daughters …
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- 0590469320
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- F06
Pocahontas : the voice of the wind
The tale of the Powhatan princess from the Virginia woodlands is one of the best known and most loved in American history. While myth and legend have clouded some of the details, time has not diminished her bravery, selflessness, and comm. Pocahontas discovers a bear in a cave when she goes upriver to explore.
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- 0307302822
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- 24 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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- Disney's
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- F13
Pocahontas
Story time was about to begin, and Elizabeth Anne Gordon, age four, from Liverpool, couldn't wait to hear about Pocahontas, the young Indian woman who was born in Virginia before it was part of America. As Elizabeth gazed out of the window, she saw Pocahontas and her friend Nakoma standing with the handsome Captain John Smith, waving from the edge of the forest.
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- 24 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- Disney
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- F13
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