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Zorina ballerina

Gianni, Enzo

Zorina is considered too young to dance with the other elephants at the circus. The clowns, realizing how much Zorina wants to dance, teaches her. Modoc, the star elephant, becomes sick from eating too many peanuts. Zorina surprises everyone and dances so well that she becomes a star.

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animals, circus, clowns, dancing, elephant, exercise, performance, persistence, surprises

Zoopa: An animal alphabet

Marino, Gianna

Check out this alphabet book surrounding a bowl of soup. Each page brings two more letters to the soup bowl accompanied by animals beginning with those letters. In the end, the bowl is full of letters and the table is covered in animals.

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alphabet, animals, ant, birds, butterfly, chipmunk, dog, elephant, food, frog, goat, grasshopper, hedgehog, iguana, insects, jellyfish, koala, ladybug, monkey, nutrition, ostrich, pig, quail, rabbit, sequence, snake, turtle, unicorns, vocabulary, vulture, worm, yak, zebra

Zoom

Banyai, Istvan

These artistic scenes aren't what you might think. Each is really a picture within a picture. Images zoom in and out from different perspectives and scenes from land, sea, and air in this wordless book.

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airplane, animals, art, boat, books, colors, desert, farm, island, perspective, photograph, planet, sky, swimming, transportation, travel

Zoo allergy: A fun story about allergy and asthma triggers

Gosselin, Kim

Justin goes to the allergist for the first time. He has to be tested to see if he has any allergies. The tests are quick and painless. For doing so well at the doctor, Justin's mom takes him and his friend Ashley to the zoo for the day. While at the zoo, Justin, his mom, and Ashley play a fun game. They try to find as many allergy triggers as they can. How many zoo allergy triggers can you find?

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allergies, alligator, animals, birds, doctor, elephant, food, games, giraffe, health, lizard, medicine, nurse, nutrition, peacock, prevention, reptiles, rhinoceros, train, transportation, turtle, zoo

Zoo

Browne, Anthony

This family goes to the zoo for the day. There is a lot of arguments that go on during the day with the family. It is not a positive day.

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argument, conflict resolution, family, fight, nonverbal communication, parents, peer resistance, siblings, zoo

Zolo a b z: An alphabet book

Glaser, Byron // Higashi, Sandra

Learn your alphabet with a dog named Ozlo. Bright illustrations and imaginative characters form a rhythmic pattern of rhyme and fun words.

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adventures, alphabet, animals, birds, bug, dog, flamingo, future, letters, nonverbal communication, play, rhyme, rhythm

Zinnia's flower garden

Wellington, Monica

Zinnia plants nine different types of flowers seeds and waits for them to grow. Zinnia waters and cares for the garden each day and writes in her journal to document the progress. The garden blossoms into flowers. Zinnia sells her flowers before autumn and winter comes.

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flowers, garden, growth, market, patience, plants, seeds, writing

Zinnia and dot

Ernst, Lisa Campbell

Zinnia and Dot are two hens that have never gotton along. When a weasel steals all of their eggs but one, the two hens are forced to cooperate and share the new baby chick.

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animals, birds, chicken, conflict resolution, friendship, sharing, verbal communication, weasel

Zin!Zin!Zin!A violin

Moss, Lloyd

How do different musical instruments sound when they are played?All the different instruments play together at the end in an orchestral performance. Do they receive an encore?

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five senses, instruments, music, performance, poetry, rhyme, sounds

Ziggy piggy and the three little pigs

Asch, Frank

A new character is added to the story of the three little pigs, changing the tale to four little pigs. The fourth pig saves his brothers from the wolf by being resourceful.

Zeralda's ogre

Ungerer, Tomi

The people in a small town, terrified by a child-eating ogre, begin to hide all of their children. One day, the hungry ogre comes across a young village girl. He gets so excited he falls and gets hurt. The young girl takes pity on him and cooks for him.

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community, fear, feelings, food, helping, hunger, nutrition, ogre, verbal communication

Zen shorts

Muth, Jon

One day, three young children meet a panda after his umbrella lands in their yard. The children become friends with the panda, whose name is Stillwater. He passes on folktales to them to help them solve problems they are having.

Zella zack and zodiac

Peet, Bill

Zach is a tiny ostrich that Zella, the zebra, saves. He grows and grows until he is bigger than Zella. When Zella has her baby, the baby is almost eaten by a tiger. Zach saves him just like Zella did for him.

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animals, baby, birds, critical thinking, decision making, growing up, helping, leopard, ostrich, rescue, verbal communication, zebra

Zelda and ivy one christmas

Kvasnosky, Laura McGee

Two sisters, Zelda and Ivy, can't wait for Christmas morning. Zelda hopes to get a lovely velvet evening gown while Ivy wishes for a princess Mimi doll with all the ballet accessories. The two sisters make a beautiful bracelet for their lovely elderly neighbor. The neighbor receives her christmas wish, but will Zelda and Ivy get their Christmas wish too?

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animals, christmas, clothing, elves, fox, holidays, hope, presents, santa, teamwork, wish

Zelda and ivy and the boy next door

Kvasnosky, Laura McGee

A new boy named Eugene has moved in next door to Zelda and Ivy. the three quickly become friends. A romance blooms, they play imaginary games, and go camping. Like all friends, they don't always get along, but they work out their differences.

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animals, assertiveness, bully, business, camping, careers, cleanliness, collection, conflict resolution, family, feelings, fox, friendship, helping, imagination, love, money, neighbors, pirates, playing, pretend, sharing, siblings, sleep, song, stars, verbal communication, wish

Zelda and ivy

Kvasnosky, Laura McGee

Zelda, the oldest sister, is always bossing Ivy around when they play. Zelda helps Ivy feel better by sharing her favorite toy with her.

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conflict resolution, family, play, sharing, siblings, toys, verbal communication

Zekhnet the stone carver

Stolz, Mary

One of the monuments in Egypt is part man and part lion. This structure symbolizes the greatness of Egypt, the pride of the pharaoh, and the skill of an unknown stone carver.

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appreciation, art, careers, creativity, critical thinking, decision making, egyptian, history, monuments, multicultural, royalty

Zeke Pippin

Steig, William

Zeke is a young pig who has a natural talent for playing the harmonica. He discovers that it is magic and leaves home. After some thinking he goes back and finds that things are not as bad as he thought.

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animals, coyote, dog, magic, music, pig, sleep

Zathura: A space adventure

VanAllsburg, Chris

Danny and Walter Budwing have a typical brotherly relationship. It isnﾒt until Danny finds an old game that takes the boys away to another galaxy that the brothers finally reach a new appreciation for one another.

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accidents, adventures, alien, anger, apology, challenges, change, chaos, conflict, decision making, destruction, earth, family, fear, feelings, fight, robot, sounds, stars, verbal communication

Zany zoo

Bridwell, Norman

Timmy has a job at the zoo helping out Mr.Penny. When Mr. Penny goes out of town, his wife takes over and tries to change everything in the zoo. When Timmy tells Mr. Penny, things turn around quickly.

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animals, assertiveness, change, critical thinking, decision making, giraffe, hippopotamus, lion, manners, monkey, responsibilities, tiger, zoo

Zamani goes to market

Feelings, Murial L.

Zamani goes on his first trip to the city with his father. He is to take the cow into the market and sell it. His father allows him to buy something in the market with the profits from their day. He decides to buy his mother a necklace, instead of the white shirt he wanted for himself. While he is not looking his father buys him the shirt.

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animals, assertiveness, clothing, cow, critical thinking, decision making, family, multicultural, parents, presents, respect, shopping, travel

Z goes home

Agee, John

The letter Z leaves his job of making the word zoo. Along the way he passes other letters forming their words until he goes through the entire alphabet.

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alien, alphabet, architecture, bodies of water, careers, glossary, karate, mythical, ocean, river, running, sequence, shapes, sports

Yummers!

Marshall, James

Emily, the pig, decides she needs to lose weight. She takes a walk then eats everything in sight. Eugene Turtle suggests that walking is a good way for losing weight.

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animals, assertiveness, body image, conflict resolution, exercise, food, friendship, goal setting, hunger, nutrition, overeating, pig, recreation, refusal skills, reptiles, stress management, turtle, walking, weight loss

Yucka drucka droni

Radunsky, Vladimir//Radunsky, Eugenia

Three brothers, Yuck, Yucka-Druck, and Yucka-Drucka-Droni, are very different but get along just fine. They meet three sisters, Zippa, Zippa Drippa, and Zippa-Drippa-Limpomponi who make the brothers very happy. The brothers each marry one of the sisters and they then each have one child. The families live together in a big house with a cat, a dog, a pig, and a frog.

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airplane, animals, boat, family, happiness, instruments, marriage, parents

Yuck!

Granstrom, Brita & Manning, Mick

Yuck! shows us some of the animal world's most interesting babies, along with what they love to eat for supper! Let's look at what human babies eat!

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amphibians, baby, beetle, birds, comparisons, critical thinking, decision making, family, food, insects, nutrition, spider, toad, worm

Yuck

Stevenson, James

A little witch, Emma, wants to be like the older witches, but is always excluded. One day, out of frustration, Emma gets together with the animals in the woods and makes a plan. The animals pretend to be under Emma's spell and all the other witches think she is a hero.

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animals, critical thinking, feelings, goal setting, jealousy, magic, nature, peer resistance, self esteem, teamwork, witches, woods

Your own best secret place

Baylor, Byrd//Parnall, Peter

A young girl finds a secret hiding place that a boy found before her. She respects that it is his special place. Her friends are willing to share their hiding places with her as long as the boy finds them too.

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assertiveness, decision making, friendship, hiding, nonverbal communication, privacy, respect, secrets, sharing

Your move

Bunting, Eve

James and Isaac sneak out at night while their mother is at work, seeking acceptance into a club of boys. When this situation puts himself and his brother in danger, James decides he's better off without the gang.

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acceptance, accidents, african american, family, fear, gang, injury, mischief, multicultural, restaurant

Your body from head to toe

Roca, Nuria

Your body can do so many things. When you were born, you were only a baby. Then as you grew, you learned how to walk, eat, hear, taste, smell, see, and touch things. It is important to take care of your body so that it can continue to sense the world around you.

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animals, baby, balloon, bath, bicycle, birth, body image, body parts, bones, cat, cold, dog, exercise, family, five senses, flowers, food, glasses, grandparents, growing up, hearing, hygiene, instruments, listening, mouse, music, puppets, rabbit, self esteem, sight, sign language, smell, swimming, taste, teeth, touch, toys

Young larry

Pinkwater, Daniel

As polar bear cubs, Larry and Roy know they will be sent off on their own someday. When their mother sends the cubs away, Larry finds himself in New Jersey. Here he must get a job to pay for the muffins he loves to eat. Larry encounters trouble as people realize he is a polar bear, but a kind old man comes to Larry's rescue and gives him a job and a place to live.

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animals, assertiveness, beach, bodies of water, careers, caring, family, fishing, food, goal setting, helping, ice, ocean, parents, polar bear, problem solving, responsibilities, safety, siblings, sleep, snow, swimming, travel, verbal communication, water, whale

You're mean, Lily Jean

Wishinsky, Frieda

Sandy always plays with her little sister Carly, but when Lily Jean moves in next door, she has a new friend. Lily Jean never wants to include Carly and bosses her around. When Sandy stands up for her little sister, the three girls learn to play together nicely.

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activities, conflict resolution, decision making, feelings, friendship, frustration, games, gymnastics, moving, neighbors, peer resistance, playing, pretend, siblings

You're a genius, blackboard bear

Alexander, Martha

Anthony wants to go to the moon. His only problem is that he does not know how to build a spaceship. When Anthony goes to sleep, his friend blackboard bear builds a spaceship. Together they pack the spaceship for their trip. Anthony begins to get worried about the trip and decides he will stay safely at home while blackboard bear goes to the moon himself.

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animals, astronomy, bear, bedtime, conflict resolution, dreams, helping, moon, night, preparation, sleep, stars, travel, verbal communication

You'll be good and i'll be night: Jumping on the bed poems

Merriam, Eve

A series of poems on topics such as going to bed, ghosts, wishing fish, dancing pigs, contents of a lunch of box, and the coming of dawn is presented.

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animals, bedtime, exercise, fish, food, ghosts, nutrition, pig, poetry, rhyme

You were born on your very first birthday

Girard, Linda Walvoord

The development of a growing baby is shown sleeping and moving. Body parts and special sounds develop from the inside environment of the mother's tummy until a new day when the baby is born. A nurse and doctors are there with the baby's parents in the hospital when the baby is born.

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balloon, bedtime, birth, birthday, body parts, doctor, excitement, family, hospital, love, new baby, nurse, onomatopoeia, parents, pregnancy, rainbow, relationship, reproduction, sizes, sleep

You silly goon

Walsh, Ellen Stoll

When her gosslings hatch, Emily's friend comes to visit. When she mistakes a mouse for a fox, the real fox sets her straight when he arrives.

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animals, birds, birth, conflict resolution, critical thinking, exercise, fox, goose, helping, misunderstanding, mouse, neighbors, nonverbal communication, swimming

You push, i ride

Levine, Abby

Rhymed text illustrates the activities of a little pig's day. He looks at what his parents do and then immitates what they do.

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animals, family, imitation, nonverbal communication, parents, pig, play, rhyme

You hold me and i'll hold you

Carson, Jo

This story deals with death through the eyes of a child. It displays different emotions and questions a child may have. It expresses worry and comfort provided by family members.

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coping, critical thinking, death, family, feelings, grief, nonverbal communication, self esteem, stress management, support, verbal communication

You cheat!

Gilson, Jamie

Two brothers are always putting each other up to things. These two boys begin their day inside playing the game at which the older brother is winning. They end up outside fishing where the younger boy is most comfortable.

You can't take a balloon into the national gallery

Weitzman, Jacqueline//Glasser, Robin

A little girl is sad when she must leave her balloon outside the National Gallery with the lady who takes pictures for tourists. Little does the girl know that the balloon will take the picture lady along with many famous people on a tour of Washington D.C.!Will the balloon come back to the little girl?

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architecture, art, balloon, car, celebration, flag, monuments, museum, photograph, tractor, transportation, travel, trolley

You can't take a balloon into the metropolitan museum

Weitzman, Jacqueline

A little girl spends a day with her grandma at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the little girl decides to bring along her bright yellow balloon, a security guard sees her and quickly tells her that she can't bring it in. He assures her he will watch over it as she views the exhibits, but the task ends up being more work than he ever imagined. (A Wordless Book).

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adventures, african, animals, art, balloon, beauty, birds, boat, chaos, clowns, collection, culture, disappearance, dog, egyptian, escape, exercise, frustration, grandparents, history, humor, instruments, multicultural, museum, music, observation, park, performance, pigeon, relief, skating, transportation, travel, wedding, zoo

You can't catch me

Oppenheim, Joanne

A pesky black fly troubles alot of animals and eventually gets caught.

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animals, assertiveness, bravery, conflict resolution, coping, critical thinking, decision making, determination, fly, insects, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, self esteem, stress management

You can't be too careful

Mello, Roger

The white rose starts a series of continuous storylines with deeper and deeper meanings and more and more people and animals contributing to the creative adventure of white rose escaping from her pen.

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animals, cat, colors, compass rose, correspondence, creativity, earth, family, garden, map, marriage, monkey, noise, parents, rain, storytelling, weather

You bet your britches, claude

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Tom is adopted by Shirley and Claude, and he hopes that they will adopt his sister, Bessie. Bessie and Shirley make a great team of catching crooks. Bessie spots them, and Shirley stops them. Bessie makes a great deputy and new daughter.

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adoption, assertiveness, careers, conflict resolution, cowboys, decision making, family, robbery, self confidence, siblings

african american, animals, birds, boredom, cat, conflict resolution, critical thinking, dancing, decision making, exercise, family, feelings, forest, games, giants, imagination, inventions, island, jungle, library, lost, magic, maps, monsters, multicultural, mythical, park, penguin, photograph, playing, rain, siblings, sun, verbal communication, weather

You and me and home sweet home

Lyon, George Ella

A young girl helps her family build a new home. The family celebrates the new milestone by sharing a meal together. The family then adjusts to the new house together.

Yoshi's feast

Kijikawa, Kimiko

Yoshi is a fan maker in the city of Yedo. His favorite food in the whole world is broiled eels. Every night, his neighbor Sabu goes off to catch eels, broils them on his hibachi, and waits for customers, but they never come. Yoshi thinks that Sabu should share the leftover eels with him, but he is too greedy to give Sabu any of his money. Yoshi continues to sit day after day smelling Sabu's eels, but never buying any of them. Finally, Sabu presents Yoshi with a bill for smelling his eels. Yoshi dances around the town shaking his money box and tells Sabu that he will charge his for listening to his money. After all this nonsense, the tow finally agree to share what both of them have and sit down for a friendly meal of broiled eels.

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asian, assertiveness, clothing, conflict resolution, cooking, culture, dancing, decision making, exercise, fish, fishing, food, friendship, goal setting, greed, hunger, japanese, kindness, money, multicultural, nutrition, selfishness, sharing, smell, sounds, verbal communication

Yonie wondernose

De Angeli, Marguerite

Jonathon is such a curious little boy that his father calls him Yonie Wondernose. His parents go away and leave him in charge of the farm. The barn catches on fire and it is up to Yonie to save the animals.

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animals, assertiveness, coping, critical thinking, curiosity, decision making, family, farm, parents, responsibilities, safety

Yonder

Johnston, Tony

Vivid pictures depict the cycle of seasons while the story of a pioneer's life is told. The story begins with the pioneer's marriage then ends with the lives of the pioneer's children.

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adventures, aging, challenges, change, decision making, family, generations, goal setting, growing up, marriage, parents, pioneers, seasons, verbal communication

Yoko

Wells, Rosemary

When Yoko brings sushi for lunch at school, everyone makes fun of her and calls her weird. However, her teacher comes through with a plan to involve the students in learning about international foods. Will anyone try the sushi?

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animals, caribbean, cat, dog, feelings, food, friendship, irish, japanese, mexican, multicultural, music, nutrition, parents, sadness, school, song, teasing

Yesterday's snowman

Mack, Gail

A young girl recalls the time when she played in the snow at nightfall with her mother and brother.

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decision making, family, goal setting, night, nonverbal communication, parents, play, seasons, siblings, snow, verbal communication, weather, winter

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