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  The Great Banned-Books Bake Sale

  Aya Khalil

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  Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together—with their teacher’s help—they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale and use the proceeds to buy diverse books to donate to libraries. The event is a big success: the entire school participates, and the local TV station covers it in the evening news. Prodded by her classmates to read the poem she has written, Kanzi starts softly but finds her voice. “You have banned important books, but you can’t ban my words,” she reads. “Books are for everyone.” The crowd chants “No banned books! No banned books!,” and the next week, the ban is reversed. Aya Khalil appends a note about how The Arabic Quilt was briefly banned from the York, Pennsylvania school system, and the backmatter also includes a recipe for baklawa, the Egyptian pastry that Kanzi prepares for the bake sale.

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  Little Stories from the Land of...

  L. Frank Baum

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  The Fairy land of OZ as you well know, is an enchanted place with many, many inhabitants. Being inquisitive and active beings, they naturally have a lot of adventures all the time. I have collected here, just six of these exciting tales for your listening pleasure. Who has these adventures? Well you know and love almost all of them: There is little Dorothy and her dog Toto of course, Ozma the fairy ruler of OZ, The Tin Woodman, The Scarecrow, Tic-Toc the Mechanical man, Jack Pumpkinhead and The Sawhorse just to name the main ones. So listen to these little glimpses into what goes on in OZ almost every day. Whew! what fun it would be to live there!

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  The Hunt for the Hollower

  Callie C. Miller

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  In this riff on Arthurian legend, a wizardess who is still mastering her powers goes on an epic quest to save her brother from an evil wizard in this magical adventure perfect for fans of Adam Gidwitz and Amanda Foody! 
   
   
   
  The great wizard Merlyn prophesized that his seventh descendant would do wonderful, miraculous things—baffling everyone when his great-great-many-times-great grandchild turns out to be twins. Soon enough, however, it becomes clear which sibling is the Septimum Genus: Percy is a natural with magic. Merlynda (to put it simply) is not. 
   
   
   
  But Merlynda doesn't mind. Percy has always been by her side to cheer her up (and clean up) after her magical bungles—until the twins attempt a forbidden spell to help her control her magic, and Percy vanishes through a portal and straight into the clutches of the magic-stealing, mythical Hollower. 
   
   
   
  Aided by her best friend (who longs to be a knight), a wandering musician (who is fleeing from his past), and her brand-new, fierce familiar (who yearns for a taste of funnel cake), Merlynda sets off on a quest to rescue her brother. But to defeat this ancient evil, she must discover and embrace her true powers—or else lose her brother for good.

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  The Dream Thief

  M.A. Huffman

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  Just because dreams happen in your sleep doesn’t mean they stay there… 
  After too many coincidences and strange happenings, eleven year old Daphne Mulligan begins to believe that her dreams are more than just nighttime wanderings. A recurring dream keeps bringing the foster child back to a ghostly, snow-covered shack. Her regard for the rules and investigative skills are put to the test as she unravels the dark truth of what happened to the family that once lived there. 
  "Absolutely magical." 
  "This book is addictive." 
  "A heart-wrenching and heart-warming book." 
  "Do NOT read this when you should really be going to bed... because you'll keep telling yourself just one more chapter... and then you'll end up staying awake far too late (and may even oversleep the next day)."

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  Seahorses - Photos and Fun Facts...

  Isis Gaillard

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  Do you want to be amazed by Seahorses pictures? Let's see color photos of Seahorses!  
  You and your child will find pictures of Seahorses in short simplified text for children learning to read or those who like picture books.  
  Seahorses: Photos and Fun Facts for Kids. It is Book 74 in the Kids Learn with Pictures Series. This book is around a clear concept: see pictures of Seahorses.  
  This is a stock photo book of animals that ASK QUESTIONS of the pictures shown to the reader to encourage interaction and responses from the child.  
  Be sure to read the other books in the Kids Learn With Pictures Series.

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  Bo at Ballard Creek

  Kirkpatrick Hill

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  An unforgettable story of a little girl growing up in the exhilarating time after the big Alaska gold rushes.Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionBo's family is not the usual, ordinary sort of family, because she didn't get it in the usual, ordinary way.She was headed for a lonely Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by the other miners, the good-time girls, and all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village on the Koyukuk River.Bo learns Eskimo along with English, is involved in the lives of her friends at Ballard Creek ,helps in the cookshack, learns to polka, rides along with Big Annie and her dog team. And there's always some kind of excitement : a bi-plane landing, the first bulldozer, a roaming bear, the dog-team mail delivery, and a lost little boy whose father has died on the winter trail.“A warm tale set in an Alaskan gold-mining town. . . . Bo is an enduring Pollyana in a parka.” —Kirkus ReviewsIllustrations by LeUyen Pham

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