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From the author of "Maizie" and "Hound Heaven" comes a lovingly told story that captures the special experience shared between a grandparent and child. On a warm and sunny day, a young girl helps her grandfather tend his bees. Full color ....
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What goes on beneath the New York City streets? A lot more than you'd imagine! Above there are skyscrapers and sunshine, schools and families, pigeons and pets. Below there are tunnels, restaurants, jazz clubs, subways - and maybe, once, an alligator!
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Ben has always dreamed of becoming a cowboy, but after he and his family move from the West to New York City, they must give up their ranch. Then Ben learns that there are cowboys in New York City. Full color....
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It was a hot and buggy afternoon in the summer of 1862, when Peter Thorn, the cemetery tender of Gettysburg, left his pregnant wife and three small sons to join the Union army. In his absence, his family would bear witness to the most ferocious and bloody battle of the Civil War. On July 1, 1863, a shell exploded in the Thorn’s kitchen when the brutal Battle of Gettysburg began. The cannons sounded on Cemetery Hill, as more than 51,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured during the three day battle. For days after the battle, seven-year-old Fred, his pregnant mother, Elizabeth, and his grandfather worked to honor the dead by digging graves and burying Union and Confederate soldiers.
Neither the Thorn family nor the rest of America would be the same again after witnessing the terrible toll the battle took. Though the Gettysburg Address paid tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives, this is a tribute to the family that so dutifully tended to the soldiers after they had fallen.
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Cool Bopper is a bebopper in the Snazzy Catz Jazz Club. Like Charlie Parker, Cool Bopper bops hard below silver stars and blue moons of night. One evening, Cool Bopper puts down his saxophone and begins to scat: "A-BOP-BOP-BE-BOP, A-BOP-BOP-BOP!" And out pop his choppers! Cool Bopper's choppers get lost in the beboppin' crowd. Now Cool Bopper is not the same without his choppers. He can't bop. He can't scat. He can't blow his horn. How will Cool Bopper regain his choppers?...
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