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Fish fry

Saunders, Susan

Edith wakes up and rushes out of bed. She is excited because today is the fish fry. The whole town gathers down by the river to fish and have a picnic.

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celebration, community, family, fishing, food, nutrition, picnic, recreation, traditions

Fish for supper

Goffstein, M.B.

Take a look at grandmother's typical routine for a day. This routine includes mealtime and fishing.

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fishing, goal setting, grandparents, morning, night

Fish for breakfast: A little animal book

Gunthorp, Karen

Tom the cat wants fish for breakfast. When he is unsuccessful in catching a fish, his friends save the day and they have breakfast together.

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ambition, animals, cat, fishing, food, friendship, giving, persistence, recreation

Fish eyes: A book you can count on

Ehlert, Lois

If you had one wish it might be a fish. You can count many types of fish from one to ten.

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colors, counting, critical thinking, fish, nonverbal communication, sequence, verbal communication, wish

First words and pictures

Salt, Jane//Hawksley, Gereard

A baby has many new things to see and touch at the supermarket. At home, it is time to unload the groceries and make dinner.

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animals, baby, bedtime, birds, clothing, community, exercise, family, food, growing up, insects, market, nutrition, parents, pets, preparation, recreation, shopping, siblings, sleep, toys, transportation, worm

First things first

Fraser, Betty

Various situations are presented and explained by a suitable proverb. Each situation begins with the statement, What do you say when..

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feelings, humor, manners, moods

First snow

McCully, Emily Arnold

Little mice children enjoy the first snow with Grandma and Grandpa. They skate, make a snowman, and sled down the hill.

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acceptance, animals, decision making, exercise, family, fun, grandparents, mouse, nonverbal communication, playing, seasons, self confidence, skating, sliding, snow, verbal communication, weather, winter

First snow

McCully, Emily Arnold

A scared little mouse discovers the joys of sledding in the first snow of winter (A Wordless Book)

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animals, assertiveness, decision making, exercise, family, grandparents, mouse, parents, seasons, self esteem, siblings, skating, sledding, snow, weather, winter

First pooch: The Obamas pick a pet

Boston Weatherford, Carole

Throughout their father's twenty-two month campaign for president, Malia and Sasha Obama beg their parents for a dog. Finally, when their father becomes the forty-fourth president of the United States, he rewards their patience and good behavior in his victory speech: Malia and Sasha will get their new puppy. What type of dog will they choose? Finally, on April 14th, 2009, a new puppy moves into the White House. It is a Portuguese water dog, and the girls name him Bo.

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allergies, american, animals, author's note, comparisons, decision making, dog, family, health, history, numbers, pets, president, secrets, sequence, siblings, success, united states

First pink light

Greenfield, Eloise

Tyree, a young boy, waits patiently all night long for the return of his father.

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african american, assertiveness, conflict resolution, family, multicultural, nonverbal communication, parents, patience, verbal communication

First flight

McPhail, David

A little boy takes his first airplane fight until his teddy bear disrupts the trip.

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assertiveness, bear, fear, feelings, independence, mischief, stress management, transportation, travel

First delights

Tudor, Tasha

Sally uses her five senses to observe the changes around the farm. She hears robins, sees flowers, pets kittens, and tastes syrup in the spring. Sally sees, smells, tastes, feels, and hears new sounds during the changing seasons.

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autumn, five senses, seasons, spring, summer, winter

First comes spring

Rockwell, Anne

The seasons are described through the activities of the bears, the weather, the changes in the environment, and the attire of Bear child.

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activities, animals, autumn, baseball, bear, biking, christmas, easter, exercise, family, halloween, holidays, jumping, parents, seasons, skating, spring, summer, swimming, winter

First come the zebra

Barasch, Lynne

In the Kenyan grassland, Abaani, a Maasai boy takes his cattle out to graze. While he is out he sees a vegetable stand with a young boy from the Kikuyu farms, who are rivals of his tribe because they destroy their land. While arguing, a group of Kamba women and children approach to trade for fruits and vegetables, and one baby wanders toward three warthogs. Abaani sees this and knows he can save the baby himself so he calls to Haki to help. Together they save the boy, which is the beginning of a growing friendship. They learn how to appreciate one another and hope to teach their families to be friends.

Fire truck

Sis, Peter

Matt has a love for fire trucks, enough to want to be one. He dreams of becoming a fire truck, and does everything a fire truck does before he gets back to the reality of being a little boy.

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dreams, feelings, fire engine, food, happiness, numbers, nutrition, rescue, sequence, transportation

Fire diary

Rosenblatt, Lily

A young girl loses everything she has in a fire. In her diary, she works through her feelings of loss and pain. She also plans strategies to escape fires in the future.

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change, fear, feelings, fire, goal setting, grief, loss, memories, prevention, sadness

Fire and stone

Le Guin, Ursula K.

A dragon terrorizes a city. Min and Polo discover what the dragon wants and saves their city in the process.

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animals, bodies of water, cat, community, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, dragons, fire, mythical, nonverbal communication, pond, rescue, stress management, teamwork, verbal communication

Fiona's flea

Keller, Beverly

Fiona finds a stray dog with fleas. Although her parents will not let her keep the dog, she manages to keep one of its fleas. This leads her on a search to find a home for the flea - a flea circus.

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animals, assertiveness, circus, conflict resolution, decision making, dog, family, insects, parents, peer resistance, pets, self esteem

Fiona's bee

Keller, Beverly

A girl befriends a bee and learns how to live with it. They meet many people with whom they resolve conflicts.

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animals, bee, conflict resolution, critical thinking, dog, friendship, insects, self esteem, sharing

Finding the green stone

Walker, Alice

Johnny loses his green stone because of his mean behavior. The entire community helps him look for it, but he finally realizes that he, alone, can find it.

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assertiveness, bully, community, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, helping, lost, mischief, nonverbal communication, self esteem, verbal communication

Finding a job for daddy

Maslac, Evelyn Hughes

Things are harder and different since Laura's dad lost his job. Laura wants to help so she pretends to put a want ad in the newspaper, then interviews him for a job. Laura knows that her dad still has to find a real job, but she wants her dad to be a dad forever.

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careers, communication, conflict resolution, coping, critical thinking, decision making, family, helping, loss, parents, pretend, verbal communication, work

Finders keepers

Lipkind, William//Mordvinoff, Nicolas

Nap and Winkle, two dogs, find a bone. They ask several people and animals who should get the bone before finally realizing that the best thing to is to share.

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animals, conflict resolution, dog, fable, goat, horse, learning, opinions, problem solving, sharing, stress management, verbal communication

Find waldo now

Handford, Martin

As Waldo travels through time, look for him in every era. Waldo visits the cavemen, Egyptians, Romans, Vikings, Middle Ages, Aztecs, and many more!His red and white striped shirt are tough to find!

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adventures, challenges, critical thinking, discovery, egyptian, exploration, future, history, multicultural, native american, nonverbal communication, time, travel

Find the cat

Livermore, Elaine

A dog is looking for his bone and suddenly smells the scent of a cat. The reader and the dog must find the cat.

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animals, cat, dog, five senses, observation, pets, smell

Find the animal abc

Grossett, Dunlap

This alphabet book encourages the reader to find the animal that's first letter corresponds with the letter in the book.

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alphabet, animals, critical thinking, nonverbal communication, sequence

Find demi's sea creatures

Demi.

Children try to identify a certain animal within a larger sea picture.

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animals, assertiveness, bodies of water, ocean, recognition

Fighting words

Merriam, Eve

Dale and Leda are each jealous of what they do not have. They decide to fight and hurl a number of creative words at each other.

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assertiveness, conflict resolution, envy, fight, friendship, games, humor, jealousy, self esteem, verbal communication

Fighting for yes! The story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann

Cocca-Leffler, Maryann

Judy Heumann always hears NO from a young age. She is not allowed to attend public school because she is in a wheelchair. Then after she goes to a special school with special education students, she attends college to become a teacher. But even the New York Board of Education says NO to her becoming a teacher after she earns her teaching degree. Judy joins several other disability rights activists to ensure Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 could be signed into federal law. Their work lays the foundation for the Americans with Disabilities Act. As a living advocate for herself and others, Judy tells her story of civil rights for which she fought tirelessly. By leading and working together with others to fix problems and make changes, disabled people now have less discrimination against them.

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advocacy, author's note, bus, careers, celebration, civil rights, disability, disappointment, family, fight, government, graduation, health, homework, law, microphone, organizations, parents, persistence, school, signs, teamwork, technology, telephone, transportation, writing

Fierce john

Fenton, Edward

After John goes to the zoo, he wants to be a lion. He dresses up like a lion and pretends to be one around his family. They believe that he is the lion from the zoo and that he ate John. He must prove to them that he is not a lion, but John.

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animals, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, imagination, lion, verbal communication, zoo

Fiddler and his brothers

Nygren, Tord

Three brothers who are each special in their own way grow up and must seek their fortunes. They have a lot of adventures. The brother who plays the fiddle seems to come out on top.

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adventures, assertiveness, conflict resolution, family, feelings, goal setting, jealousy, self esteem, siblings, stress management, witches

Fiddle-i-fee

Stanley, Diane

This nursery rhyme is about a little girl that gives a dinner party for her animal friends. She serves them dinner in her playhouse.

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animals, creativity, food, friendship, imagination, nutrition, party, play, rhyme, self esteem

Ferryboat

Maestro, Betsy//Maestro, Giulio

A child describes his journey across a river on a ferryboat. He explains how cars and people can travel on it and describes the pretty sights in the water.

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bodies of water, river, transportation, travel

Fernando's gift: El regalo de fernando

Keister, Douglas

Fernando and Carmina, friends who live with their families in the Costa Ricaru rain forest, discover their climbing tree is cut down. As a present, Fernando gives her a new tree to plant and replace the destroyed rain forest environment.

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environment, family, farm, food, friendship, language, multicultural, nature, nutrition, school, south american, spanish, tree

Felix's hat

Bamcroft, Catherine//Coale, Hannah

Felix loves that orange hat and takes it everywhere he goes. He dreams that a turtle brings him his hat. However, it was really his brother, Fred, who brings him the hat.

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amphibians, assertiveness, critical thinking, dreams, frog, happiness, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, pond, refusal skills, sadness, security, stress management, turtle, verbal communication

Felix the bald-headed lion

Townsend, Kenneth

Felix, the lion, is embarassed about his bald head and will do anything to cover it up, including stealing hats from people. When none of the hats work, Felix becomes discouraged. With the help of a friendly colonel, Felix becomes the talk of the town.

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animals, body parts, clothing, confidence, critical thinking, differences, embarrassment, feelings, health, lion, self esteem, teasing, uniqueness

Feliciana feydra leroux: A cajun tall tale

Thomassie, Tynia

Feliciana Feydra LeRoux is her grandpa's favorite grandchild, and he lets her do just about anything, except what she most wants to do--go alligator hunting with the boys. Determined to show her grandfather that she can handle the hunt, Feliciana sneaks out only to come face to face with an alligator and become a hero.

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alligator, amphibians, animals, cajun, courage, crab, cricket, critical thinking, crustaceans, decision making, determination, family, fear, french, frog, grandparents, insects, multicultural, parents, reptiles, verbal communication

Felice

Brown, Marcia

Felice is a small striped cat living in Venice with no home or food. A boy starts to feed the cat and adopts him. He decides to name the cat, Felice.

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adoption, animals, assertiveness, cat, conflict resolution, critical thinking, pets

Feel better, ernest

Vincent, Gabrielle

Ernest is sick so Celestine takes care of him because the doctor says he must stay in bed. When Ernest recovers, he and Celestine celebrate.

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animals, bear, celebration, decision making, feelings, friendship, helping, illness, mouse, self esteem, verbal communication

Feathertop

San Souci, Robert D.

A witch makes a scarecrow and decides to play a joke on a judge. The judge does not like witches. The scarecrow, Feathertop, finds it hard to follow through with the witch's wishes.

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animals, cat, critical thinking, deception, decision making, feelings, happiness, love, nonverbal communication, obedience, sadness, scarecrows, verbal communication, witches

Feathers for lunch

Ehlert, Lois

A cat is on the loose and hungry for lunch. He notices many birds in the yard and becomes hungrier. He fails to catch any birds and ends up eating feathers for lunch.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, cat, coping, food, hunger

Feast for 10

Falwell, Cathryn

A family goes grocery shopping. As they find the groceries, they count each item as it is put in the cart. When they get home, they unload the groceries and count the items as they take them out.

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african american, counting, family, food, multicultural, numbers, nutrition, parents, siblings

Father's rubber shoes

Yeo, Yumi

Yungsu's family moves from Korea to America. When Yungsu goes into his new town and sees children playing, he missed his friends from Korea. Yungsu tells his mother that he wants to go back to Korea, but his father explains that their life will be better in America.

Father christmas

Briggs, Raymond

Father Christmas has one very rough day a year, Christmas Eve. He is happy when his day comes to an end for one more year.

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christmas, coping, holidays, relaxation, stress management

Father bear comes home

Minarik, Else Holmelund

Father bear has been fishing out in the ocean. Little bear misses his dad and wants to be just like him when he grows up. Little bear is hoping his dad will bring him a mermaid.

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animals, bear, careers, conflict resolution, family, feelings, fishing, growing up, imagination, loneliness, mermaids, mythical, parents, recreation, verbal communication

Fat chance, claude

Nixon, Joan Lowery

A girl named Shirley is independent and very active while growing up. She meets Claude on their way out West to pan for gold. The two become quick friends and at the end decide to get married.

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acceptance, assertiveness, decision making, differences, friendship, history, independence, marriage, peer resistance, pioneers, refusal skills, self esteem, verbal communication

Fat chance

Borton, Lady

Marty Louise has to stay home the rest of the school year because she has rheumatic fever. Feeling alone, she finds a friend in a dying stray cat that she nurses back to health. Her mother hates cats. Will she let Marty keep him?

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animals, cat, conflict resolution, feelings, friendship, goal setting, illness, imagination, learning, loneliness, sadness, stress management

Fast-slow, high-low

Spier, Peter

Pictures of opposites help us to understand how many different opposites there are. Examples of opposites include more-less and front-back.

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opposites, sizes, time

Fast is not a ladybug

Schlein, Miriam

Some things are faster than people and some are slower. A firetruck must go fast, but growing up must go slow.

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appreciation, critical thinking, growing up, opposites, patience, self esteem

Farming

Gibbons, Gail

Farms are filled with exciting things!There are animals being born, crops being planted then harvested, and cleaning being done. During each season, there are different chores to do on the farm.

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animals, autumn, farm, plants, seasons, spring, summer, winter

Farmhouse

Blackall, Sophie

A farmhouse where twelve children grow up holds evidence of their stories long after they are gone.

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animals, art, author's note, bedtime, books, chores, conflict, correspondence, cow, family, farm, food, home, instruments, music, photography, plants, playing, seasons, siblings, sleep, tree

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