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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and reading late into the night."--Amazon.com.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds...
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62 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm
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English
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This simple biography of Beatrix Potter, best known for writing The tale of Peter Rabbit, includes excerpts from her published letters and journals and reveals why she drew and wrote about animals.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"When Henri Matisse was a boy, he drew pictures everywhere. And when he grew up, he became a famous artist whose paintings were beloved around the world. Them late in life, a serious illness confined Henri to just his bed and a wheelchair. But amazingly, from there he created some of his finest works , the enormous and breathtaking paper cut-outs."--Jacket flap.
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"A lushly illustrated picture-book biography of two young Pakistani heroes, Malala Yousafzai and Iqbal Masih, from acclaimed nonfiction author/illustrator Jeanette Winter"--
"Two stories of bravery in one beautiful book! Meet two brave young heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the right to freedom and education in this inspirational nonfiction picture book from acclaimed author-illustrator Jeanette Winter. One country: Pakistan. Two children: Iqbal...
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26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Español
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Cuenta la verdadera historia sobre la lucha de un librarian para guardar la colección inestimable de su community de libros cuando llega la guerra a Basora, Iraq.
Tells the true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books when war comes to Basra, Iraq.
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Español
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La historia de Wangari Maathai, ecologista y ganadora del Premio Nobel de la Paz.
This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 x 26 cm
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English
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Tells the story of Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage climate activist who has sparked a worldwide student movement and is demanding action from world leaders who refuse to address climate change.
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