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"Every child in the world has a birthday. But how children celebrate this occasion depends on where they live. In this latest addition to the Around the World series, award-winning author Margriet Ruurs explores the fascinating ways that children experience birthdays. You'll meet fourteen kids from different countries, each celebrating a birthday according to their local traditions. Bram from Belgium never gets to sleep in on his birthday - his family...
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Thee world needs help to keep it clean. It's Dino-Earth Day. . .LET'S GO GREEN! These dinos take care of the environment all year long--especially on Earth Day! Today they're cleaning up a park, planting trees, learning how to recycle and compost, and using their creativity to turn junk into treasure. Go green. . .dino-style!
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Kate Douglas Wiggin was an important reformer of children's education at the turn of the century. During a period when children's use in society was often little more than for cheap labor, Kate Douglas Wiggin was dedicated to the betterment of youth. She was the first person to found a free kindergarten school in San Francisco in 1878. Her passion for children's rights carried over to her successful career as an author of children's books. In her...
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The story tells of how Prince Gregor, and his hero, the daring Winfried of England, journey through treacherous land to reach the heathen people of the forest on Christmas eve. When they arrive, Winfried rescues the heathen from an unspeakable evil, destroys the great oak tree where they worshiped their false god, and points to a young fir tree, "the tree of the Christchild," as the people's new sign of worship, symbolizing laughter, songs, and rites...
10) Hanukkah
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Updated for 2020, young readers learn about Hanukkah through simple text, photos, and activities.
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Halloween es una época emocionante del año. La gente adorna sus casas y jardines con calabazas y figuras aterradoras. En la noche de Halloween, algunos niños se disfrazan y salen a pedir dulces. Otras personas organizan una fiesta de Halloween. Este divertido libro muestra a los niños algunas tradiciones estadounidenses de Halloween a través de llamativas ilustraciones. El lenguaje apropiado para la edad hace que este libro sea una lectura fácil...
12) Elf in the house
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A little girl wakes up on Christmas Eve and hears different sounds while she walks through the house.
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Christmas is an important Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. Readers will learn that people celebrate it by going to Mass, decorating a Christmas tree, giving gifts, and spending time with family and friends. Complete with simple text and colorful photographs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and...
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Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday known as the "festival of lights." Read about this holiday as you add all the latkes and doughnuts there are to eat! This nonfiction math book combines math and reading skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject-area content. The dynamic images, detailed sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning addition easy and fun. Text features include a table of contents, a glossary,...
17) Celebrate!
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Pumpkins for Halloween, fireworks for the 4th of July, and cake for a birthday. These are things that we use to celebrate holidays and special events. Perfect for 1st grade students, this book teaches these 7 high-frequency words from Fry's First 100 words list: she, said, time, there, a, is, and for. The short sentences and clear images support the text to help with memorization. The rebus pictures and simple text build grade 1 reading comprehension...
19) Hannah's Way
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After Papa loses his job during the Depression, Hannah's family moves to rural Minnesota, where she is the only Jewish child in her class. When her teacher tries to arrange carpools for a Saturday class picnic, Hannah is upset. Her Jewish family is observant, and she knows she cannot ride on the Sabbath. What will she do? A lovely story of friendship and community.
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How can a vegetable be 'rude'?" Talia wonders, when she mis-hears her grandmother asking her to gather root" vegetables for a Rosh Hashanah stew. As Talia digs in the garden, she collects the twisted, ornery carrots and parsnips-the rude" vegetables that she thinks her grandmother wants-and finds a good home for the rest.