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Little miss spider

Kirk, David

Families are different. Miss Spider knows best -- when finding her mother, love is the truest test.

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acceptance, adoption, affection, beetle, birds, caring, caterpillar, colors, critical thinking, family, feelings, happiness, insects, ladybug, loneliness, love, perspective, sadness, self esteem, spider, understanding

Nova's ark

Kirk, David

A young robot turns a field trip to space into a quest for his father when his stolen ship crashes. He makes new friends and finds his father as well as an alternative source of energy.

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animals, bat, birds, cat, critical thinking, deer, dog, exploration, family, friendship, future, hedgehog, hummingbird, iguana, inventions, kangaroo, monkey, moose, mouse, parents, planet, robot, spider, stress management, technology, travel, turkey

Miss Spider is planning to have eight for tea. But what is she to do when the bugs are too scared to eat her cake?Ask Miss Spider how she makes friends with every moth, tick, and flea -- just by having cake and tea.

Snow family

Kirk, Daniel

Join a young boy as he wanders into the snow to meet new friends. His friends are missing their noses, hats, and part of their family. Help the boy try to find what his new friends need.

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adventures, affection, animals, assertiveness, barn, bear, behavior, birds, body parts, cardinal, caring, clothing, cold, conflict resolution, cow, crow, decision making, dog, exercise, family, farm, fear, feelings, fight, forest, friendship, fun, love, mischief, nonverbal communication, parents, playing, problem solving, sadness, sleep, snow, sounds, sparrow, squirrel, tree, verbal communication, weather, wind, winter

The elephant's child

Kipling, Rudyard

A small elephant is very curious about the world around him. He asks many questions to many animals but no one takes the time to answer. One day he asks a crocodile who pulls on his short nose to make it a long trunk. The elephant is unhappy at first but then realizes the advantages of his new trunk. This is how the elephant got a long trunk.

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animals, change, critical thinking, crocodile, curiosity, elephant, feelings, giraffe, hippopotamus, kindness, monkey, reptiles, verbal communication

How the camel got his hump

Kipling, Rudyard

When the world was brand new camal had no hump. He did not work, only idled in the desert. This upset the other animals who told a magic man. This magic man gave the camel his hump so he can work for three days without food and water.

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animals, camel, desert, dog, food, horse, laziness, magic, responsibilities, water

A Christmas like Helen's

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

Christmas in the early years of America's life describes the life of a younh girl names Helen. Living on a farm before the time of telephones or cars, Helen spends her days working on the farm, walking to school in the cold of winter and spending time with her family, hearing stories of her ancestors. Helen's Christmas begins in the summer when her family plants the food that will be eaten on Christmas morning and their Christmas spirit stays alive throughout the year by helping ill and injured neighbors with tasks around their farms. Christmas is a time for Helen's family to come together from all over and build their relationships over feasts, church, midnight skating and fun.

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animals, christmas, cow, exercise, family, feelings, food, happiness, holidays, horse, multicultural, parents, scottish, seasons, skating, snow, spring, transportation, weather, winter

Nora's ark

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

As the rain keeps coming, the flood gros larger. Everyone in town goes to Grandma's house because it sits high on a hill. Along with many animals, everyone, except Grandpa, is there. Grandma and Wren are worried about Grandpa so they head out to try and save him from the flood.

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animals, cat, chicken, cow, critical thinking, decision making, duck, family, farm, flood, goal setting, grandparents, horse, pig, rain, rescue, stress management, verbal communication, weather

The wild horses of sweetbriar

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

A young girl tells her story of an encounter with wild horses. While living with her parents on the small island off the coast of New England, she discovers wild horses. During the harsh winter that they live there, she helps the horses survive.

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affection, animals, birds, bodies of water, caring, family, horse, loneliness, memory, ocean, parents, seagull, seasons, snow, survival, sympathy, unselfish, verbal communication, weather, weight loss, wind, winter, worry

Peter's long walk

Kingman, Lee

Peter lives in a house far away from the village. He desperately wants to find a friend to play with so he goes on a long search for one. When he can't find a friend, he goes home and finds that he has all kinds of friends.

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animals, cat, dog, exercise, feelings, friendship, happiness, loneliness, verbal communication, walking

Peter's pony

Kingman, Lee

Peter, a young boy, lives far up a mountainside on a farm with his mother and father. They live far from any town and Peter looks forward to starting school in town so he can make and have friends. Before the beginning of the school year Peter receives a pony that takes him to school. Peter discovers that his new pony can perform tricks and was once famous.

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animals, anticipation, barn, excitement, family, farm, friendship, happiness, loneliness, mountains, parents, pets, pony, relationship, responsibilities, rules, school, self esteem

The pumpkin patch

King, Elizabeth

The growth of a pumpkin starts as a seed and the farmer cares for them until they are plump, orange, and ready to be picked. The logistics and details of a pumpkin patch are outlined.

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careers, celebration, colors, farm, flowers, garden, halloween, holidays, month, plants, preparation, seasons, seeds, shapes, sizes, tractor, transportation

Chile fever: A celebration of peppers

King, Elizabeth

Each year, Hatch, New Mexico, has a festival to celebrate being the chile pepper capital of the world. The history of chile peppers, the different types of chiles, the making of ristras (garlands of red chiles), and the Hatch Chile Festival are described.

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author's note, celebration, colors, farm, food, history, language, multicultural, native american, nutrition, plants, recipe

Rex q.c.

King, Dorthea

Rex Q.C. is a dog that belongs to the queen of England. He is allowed to follow the queen wherever she goes. He follows her to goverment parties, garden parties and other special occasions.

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animals, dog, fame, nonverbal communication, party, performance, royalty, security, speech

The vegetables go to bed

King, Christopher

The vegetables are going to bed. Lettuce, peas, carrots, cabbage, beans, tomatoes, and corn are tucked in for the night. When the sun goes down, it is bedtime for the vegetables and also for you!

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bedtime, food, night, nutrition, plants, sleep, vegetables

Timothy Cox will not change his socks

Kinerk, Robert

A young boy, Timothy Cox, decides to go without changing his socks for a month. As the smell from his socks begins to grow, the entire community gets involved in trying to get him to change his socks. Timothy creatively avoids getting caught for the whole month. He aviods the fire fighters with their hoses and even a scout troop! When the month has come to an end, he keeps the socks in a cabinet as a trophy in his determination to stick to his word and not change his socks.

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animals, community, cooperation, decision making, determination, doctor, dog, family, fantasy, fire engine, five senses, helicopter, month, neighbors, parents, peer resistance, rabbit, rhyme, school, skunk, sleep, smell, transportation, vocabulary

Lucky wilma

Kindred, Wendy

Wilma sees her father only on Saturdays when they go to museums and parks. However, one Saturday, they are forced to just spend time being together and they enjoy this much better.

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conflict resolution, divorce, family, feelings, insecurity, nonverbal communication, parents, play, recreation, verbal communication

My first look at shopping

Kindersley, Dorling

There are many things people can buy when they go shopping. At the grocery, there are apples, oranges, peppers, grapes, bananas, corn and lemons. At the bakery, there is cake, croissants, fruit tarts, bread and pastries. There are many other stores to visit too.

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food, nutrition

My first look at time

Kindersley, Dorling

Important times of a child's day are highlighted from nutrition to hygiene.

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cleanliness, food, hygiene, nutrition

Frannie's fruits

Kimmelman, Leslie

A little girl and her family operate a fruit and vegetable stand near the beach with the help of their dog, Frannie. She enjoys seeing all the different customers come in and buy different things.

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animals, beach, careers, dog, food, fruit, helping, market, nutrition, vegetables

The magic dreidels: A hanukkah story

Kimmel, Eric A.

Instead of helping his family clean, Jacob plays with his new brass dreidel. Jacob's mom has had enough, so she sends Jacob to the well for a pail of water. At the well, Jacob meets a goblin who gives him two new magic dreidels.

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assertiveness, celebration, cleanliness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, feelings, goblins, hanukkah, happiness, holidays, magic, mythical, parents, seasons, siblings, stress management, surprises, winter

The chanukkah tree

Kimmel, Eric A.

The citizens of Chelm are tricked by a salesman selling Christmas trees. All the citzens of Chelm are Jewish and celebrate Hanukkah. The salesman tells them that Hanukkah trees are the latest trend in America. They believe him, buy the tree, and find out they were tricked. The citizens make the best of it by continuing the Hanukkah tree for the birds to enjoy.

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birds, celebration, closeness, community, deception, disappointment, goal setting, hanukkah, hard work, holidays, Jewish, multicultural, snow, teamwork, weather

When mindy saved hanukkah

Kimmel, Eric A.

Mindy, a mouse-sized girl, bravely faces a cat in the synagogue to retrieve a candle for her tiny family's Hanukkah menorah. Her mission allows her family to celebrate their special holiday together.

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animals, bravery, cat, celebration, family, fear, hanukkah, height, holidays, Jewish, multicultural, sizes

Hershel and the hanukkah goblins

Kimmel, Eric A.

Hershel spends his Hanakkah holiday in the old town synagoue. his purpose is to ward off the terrible coblins that keep the villagers from celebrating Hanukkah. Hershel restores the holiday to the village by out-smarting the goblins.

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assertiveness, beliefs, bravery, community, confidence, critical thinking, deception, goal setting, goblins, hanukkah, holidays, Jewish, multicultural, mythical, religion, spiritual, traditions

Four dollars and fifty cents

Kimmel, Eric A.

Shorty Long owes widow MaCrae $450 The widow wants her money for Shorty but no one believes she will ever get that money back. The widow goes to Shorty's ranch but Shorty pretends to be dead so he doesn't have to pay her. The widow is suspicious and Shorty almost really dies just so he won't have to pay the widow her $450

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argument, assertiveness, conflict resolution, cowboys, deception, determination, humor, persistence, pretend, ranch, sly

Asher and the capmakers: A hanukkah story

Kimmel, Eric A.

Asher, a Jewish boy, wonders into the night to borrow an egg for his mother. Along the way he gets lost and discovers a house with three old women inside knitting caps. Asher finds out that these caps are magical and he, the women, and the fairies fly off to Jeruselum for a Hanukkah party. He returns home some time later to discover his family thought he was not coming back.

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animals, celebration, critical thinking, decision making, fairy, fox, hanukkah, holidays, Jewish, multicultural, mythical, night, seasons, snow, weather, winter

I took my frog to the library

Kimmel, Eric A.

Bridgett has many unusual animals as pets. Each day she tries to take a different animal to the library with her. Each animal creates a mess in one way or another.

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animals, birds, chaos, chicken, elephant, frog, giraffe, library, listening, mischief, nonverbal communication, pelican, pets, reptiles, snake

The chanukkah guest

Kimmel, Eric A.

Bubba Brayna, a very old woman, fixes a Hanukkah dinner for the rabbi and friends. She has an unexpected guest when a bear appears instead.

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aging, animals, bear, celebration, food, hanukkah, holidays, Jewish, multicultural, nutrition, winter

A hanukkah treasury

Kimmel, Eric

Hanukkah is to me the time for lighting the menorah, spinning the dreidel, and remembering heros from the past. Poetry, music, and recipes help keep the Hanukkah tradition alive!

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acceptance, accomplishment, adventures, ambition, american, animals, anticipation, appreciation, assertiveness, beliefs, bias, bravery, celebration, ceremony, challenges, change, charity, closeness, communication, conflict, conflict resolution, cooking, courage, critical thinking, culture, customs, decision making, destruction, determination, discrimination, elephant, family, feelings, folktale, food, freedom, games, goal setting, god, grandparents, grief, hanukkah, happiness, hebrew, heroism, history, holidays, hope, immigrants, independence, individuality, israelian, Jewish, kindness, language, love, loyalty, memories, miracle, moose, moving, multicultural, music, parents, peace, pilgrims, poetry, polish, politics, poverty, prayer, prejudice, presents, racism, religion, russian, sadness, secrets, siblings, snow, song, spiritual, storytelling, toys, traditions, war, weather

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

Habitat spy

Kieber-King, Cynthia

Told in rhyming narrative, Habitat Spy invites children to search for and find plants, invertebrates, birds, and mammals and more that live in 13 different habitats: backyard, beach, bog, cave, desert, forest, meadow, mountain, ocean, plains, pond, river, and cypress swamp. Children will spend hours looking for and counting all the different plants and animals while learning about what living things need to survive.

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amphibians, animals, antelope, author's note, badger, bat (animal), beach, bear, beaver, bee, beetle, binoculars, biology, birds, blackbird, bluejay, bobcat, bodies of water, body parts, bog, butterfly, cactus, cave, classification, cormorant, cow, cycle, deer, dog, dolphin, dragonfly, dug, finch, fish, flowers, forest, fox, frog, goldfish, grasshopper, grassland, habitat, hawk, heron, illustrator's note, insects, jellyfish, moose, moth, observation, opossum, otter, owl, pelican, plover, pond, porcupine, quail, rabbit, reptile, roadrunner, robin, science, scorpion, seagull, seal, sheep, snail, snake, squirrel, starfish, swallow (bird), swamp, swan, toad, tree, turkey, turtle, vision, walrus, wetland, whale, wolf, woods, wren

Grandpa's hammer

Kidd, Ronald

Grandpa always say that it take two things to make dreams come true: faith and a hammer. After Grandma passes away, Grandpa sets aside his hammer and nearly loses his faith. His granddaughter tries everything she can think of to bring back his faith but nothing seems to work. One day, Grandpa visits a Habitat for Humanity worksite with a neighbor and realizes that he can made dreams come true for others.

Raising the roof

Kidd, R.

When David's parents decide to spend the day at Habitat for Humanity instead of with him, he is very upset. After understanding how his parents are helping others, he decides to build his own house.

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accomplishment, awareness, community, conflict resolution, critical thinking, determination, family, feelings, helping, parents, sadness, shelter, stress management

Lullaby for emily

Kherdian, David

A mother sings a lullaby which describes all things that her daughter, Emily, will do as she grows older. Some of the things the mother envisions Emily doing are picking blueberries for cereal, jams, and pies, making cider, playing in the meadow, planting a garden and playing in the snow.

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animals, autumn, baby, birds, exercise, feelings, food, garden, love, nutrition, pets, plants, play, seasons, sledding, sleep, snow, spring, summer, swimming, winter

Silly chicken

Khan, Rukhsana

Rani is jealous of Amiﾒs affection for Bibi, a chicken. Rani finally learns how to lay an egg - much to the motherﾒs delight. However, when left alone one day, the chicken dies and Ami is sad. An egg from Bibi is found, which hatches a new baby chick.

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affection, animals, assertiveness, birth, chicken, death, decision making, dog, family, feelings, jealousy, loss, multicultural, pakistani, parents, sadness, self esteem, verbal communication

Big red lollipop

Khan, Rukhsana

Rubina is excited to get her first invite to a birthday party! However when she asks Ami whether she can go, Ami tells her she has to take her younger sister, Sana. After Sana ruins the party, Rubina has to learn how to overcome her anger and forgive her little sister.

How pizza came to queens

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

There is no pizza in May's town until Mrs. Pelligrino comes to visit and teaches them how to make delicious food.

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careers, community, family, feelings, five senses, food, friendship, italian, multicultural, nutrition, sadness, smell

Sleepers

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

A young girl will not go to sleep. She knows that people sleep other places and proceeds to go through them all. By the time she finishes, she is asleep herself.

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animals, assertiveness, bedtime, creativity, goal setting, refusal skills, self esteem, shelter, sleep, verbal communication

I want a dog

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

When her parents refuse to get her a dog, May creates an imaginary dog out of a roller skate.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, coping, creativity, critical thinking, determination, dog, family, goal setting, growing up, imagination, parents, play, responsibilities

Cowboy dreams

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

A woman remembers her wish as a child to be a cowboy with a real horse. She recalls how she would pretend to be a cowboy and the cowboy songs she used to sing.

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animals, cowboys, horse, imagination, memories, nonverbal communication, pretend, song, stress management, wish

Julian

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

Julian, a high-spirited farm dog, makes life very uncomfortable for the house cat, Victoria, until he helps save her lost kitten.

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animals, cat, conflict resolution, coping, dog, feelings, friendship, lost, pets, stress management

The snow cat

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

Elsie, who lives alone in a snow-covered house on the edge of the woods, makes a friend when a huge snow cat comes to play with her.

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animals, cat, creativity, decision making, feelings, friendship, imagination, loneliness, nature, woods

Armadilly chili

Ketteman, Helen

Billie decides to make armadilly chili. She asks her friends to help her but they are all busy and do not want to help. After Billie makes the chili, all of her friends knock on her door. Billie will not let them eat because they wouldn't help. She soon realizes her chili is missing something: her friends!

Swamp song

Ketteman, Helen

Down in the swamp where the cypress grows, Old Man Gator starts tappin' his toes...Pretty soon, all the swamp animals are movin' and swaggin' to Gator's beat. Sing along with the river otter, bullfrog, dragonfly, and many other swamp animals as their music swells into the natural chorus of croaking, whirring, and buzzing, all brought to life by Ponder Goembel's colored ink and acrylic-wash-paint illustrations.

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alligator, amphibians, animals, bear, birds, boar, bodies of water, dancing, dragonfly, fox, frog, insects, mosquito, otter, pig, rhyme, snake, song, squirrel, storks, swamp, tree, woodpecker

Here comes the strikeout

Kessler, Leonard

Bobby is very good at throwing and catching a baseball, but he can't seem to hit the ball. His friend, Willie, helps him learn that with hard work, Bobby can do anything, especially hit a baseball.

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baseball, critical thinking, friendship, games, goal setting, hard work, persistence, self esteem, sports, stress management

All aboard the train

Kessler, Ethel//Kessler, Leonard

Two children and their mother take an exciting train ride into town. They pass by many interesting things and see lots of interesting people on their journey.

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family, parents, self esteem, siblings, train, transportation, travel

Stan the hot dog man

Kessler, Ethel//Kessler, Leonard

After he retires, Stan becomes a hot dog man. He finds that his new job help him come to the rescue during a big snow storm.

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assertiveness, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, problem solving, retirement, safety, snow, weather

Kim and me: A book about a little boy and his baby sister

Kessler, Ethel//Kessler, Leonard

A three-year old boy describes all the things he can do that his baby sister, Kim, can't do. He then reflects that all the things he used to do, that Kim does now. Someday she will be able to play with him too.

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baby, differences, family, feelings, growing up, happiness, nonverbal communication, siblings

Do baby bears sit in chairs?

Kessler, Ethel//Kessler, Leonard

This rhyming book explores the similarities and differences between baby animals and human babies. The greatest thing in common between all is parental love.

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animals, bear, bee, differences, insects, love, rhyme, self esteem, similarities

My great-grandmother's gourd

Kessler, Cristina

Residents of a Sudanese village rejoice when a traditional water storage method is replaced by modern technology, but Fatima's grandmother knows there is no substitute for the reliability of the baobab tree.

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africa, african, celebration, community, dancing, family, feelings, grandparents, hard work, helping, language, progress, rain, sadness, teamwork, technology, traditions, tree, village, water, wisdom

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