The Earth celebrates the birth of a newborn baby.
Our October Books are all new additions to the Estaboook School Library. Most were donated on Back-to-School Night in September 1997.
On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier, Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1991
The Earth celebrates the birth of a newborn baby.
The Crystal Heart, A Vietnamese Legend, retold by Aaron Shepard, illustrated by Joseph Daniel Fiedler,Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, 1998
The daughter of a great Mandarin learns to regret the consequences of her cruel words to a fisherman.
I Did It, I'm Sorry by Caralyn Buehner, illustrated by Mark Buehner Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, 1998
Various funny animal characters encounter moral dilemmas involving virtues, and the reader has to pick the appropriate behavior for the situation from several choices.
The Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier by Jim Murphy, Scholastic Books, New York, 1998
A fictional description of the historical events in Virginia in 1863 during the Civil War.
In the Language of Loons by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, Cobblehill Books/Dutton, New York, 1998
During a summer in Vermont, Arliss learns about loons and many other things from his grandfather.
Tomas and the Library Lady, by Pat Mora, illustrated by Raul Colon, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997
While helping his family of migrant farm workers, Tomas finds a world to explore at a public library.
So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet, Clarion Books, New York,1998
A 7 year old Japanese-American girl visits the grave of her grandfather at the Manzanar camp where he and many other Japanese-Americans were interned in the US during World War II.
Rotten Teeth by Laura Simms, illustrated by David Catrow, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1998
What happens when Melissa takes a bottle of real pulled teeth from her father's dental office to the first grade show and tell.
I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas, illustrated by Floyd Cooper, Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins, 1998
A story of the joys and hardships of an African-American pioneer woman who staked a claim for free land in the Oklahoma Territory during the 1889 land rush.
Come Along Daisy! by Jane Simmons,Little, Brown and Co., Boston,1997
Daisy, a little duckling, gets too busy playing with dragonflies and lily pads and loses her mother.
Ganekwane and the Green Dragon, Four Stories From Africa by Corlia Fourie, illustrated by Christian Arthur Kingue Epanya, Albert Whitman & Co. Morton Grove, Ill.
Four stories from the Zulu African oral tradition, translated from Afrikaans, with the common theme of the underdog winning against all odds.
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