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Product Description: Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of their Baghdad neighborhood—when books, not bombs, ruled Mutanabbi Street. War has been the backdrop of their young lives. And now Iraq isn't just at war with Americans...read more

Paperback:

9781467751773 | Carolrhoda Books, August 1, 2014, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of their Baghdad neighborhood—when books, not bombs, ruled Mutanabbi Street.

Miscellaneous:

9780761387244 | Carolrhoda Books, January 1, 2012, cover price $26.60

School and Library:

9780761373834 | Carolrhoda Books, February 1, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of their Baghdad neighborhood when books, not bombs, ruled Mutanabbi Street.

School and Library:

9780763653958 | Candlewick Pr, October 9, 2012, cover price $16.99

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Product Description: Rosalba is a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in rural Mexico. Like her mother and grandmother, she weaves stories of her people onto blouses, ensuring that the age-old traditions continue. But new influences are entering her life...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781455822379 | Unabridged edition (Candlewick Pr, September 27, 2011), cover price $49.97 | About this edition: Rosalba is a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in rural Mexico.
9781455822393 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, September 27, 2011), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: Rosalba is a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in rural Mexico.

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Product Description: Rosalba is a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in rural Mexico. Like her mother and grandmother, she weaves stories of her people onto blouses, ensuring that the age-old traditions continue. But new influences are entering her life...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781455822362 | Unabridged edition (Candlewick Pr, September 27, 2011), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Rosalba is a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in rural Mexico.
9781455822386 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, September 27, 2011), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Rosalba is a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in rural Mexico.

School and Library:

9780763648206 | 1 edition (Candlewick Pr, September 27, 2011), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: An ancient calendar comes to an end in 2012-- and many predict the world will end with it.

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Product Description: Oy lives in America now, but she loves to go to the back room of Pak's auto shop on Saturdays to learn traditional Thai dances. She loves it almost as much as being a member of the Quail Club―five friends who gather after school to hatch and care for baby quail...read more

Paperback:

9780763634223 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, February 12, 2008), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Oy, a member of the Quail Club--five friends who hatch and care for a baby quail--wants to perform a traditional Thai dance for the school talent show, but Liliandra threatens to kick her out of the Quail Club if she doesn't team up to do a very different kind of dance, forcing her to make a difficult decision.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781611066364 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Oy lives in America now, but she loves to go to the back room of Pak's auto shop on Saturdays to learn traditional Thai dances.
9781611066340 | Unabridged edition (Candlewick Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Oy lives in America now, but she loves to go to the back room of Pak's auto shop on Saturdays to learn traditional Thai dances.
9781611066357 | Unabridged edition (Candlewick Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: Oy lives in America now, but she loves to go to the back room of Pak's auto shop on Saturdays to learn traditional Thai dances.

School and Library:

9780763626358 | Candlewick Pr, March 14, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Now in fifth grade, Oy wants to do a Thai dance at the school talent show until Liliandra threatens to kick her out of their club if they do not perform an American-style skit together.

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Product Description: In Thailand, Oy was called by her own name, but in her first school in America, the teacher renames her Olivia. Everything else is different too. The other girls leave her out of their games, and a boy named Frankie teases her. Then Liliandra, a popular girl in the class, sees a photo of Oy in her Thai dancing dress and offers to let Oy into her club if she brings the dress to school...read more

Hardcover:

9780763615697 | Candlewick Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: When Oy and her Thai American family move to a new neighborhood, her third-grade classmates tease and exclude her because she is different.

Paperback:

9780763629939 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, March 1, 2006), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When Oy and her Thai American family move to a new neighborhood, her third-grade classmates tease and exclude her because she is different.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781611066272 | Unabridged edition (Candlewick Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: In Thailand, Oy was called by her own name, but in her first school in America, the teacher renames her Olivia.
9781611066289 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: In Thailand, Oy was called by her own name, but in her first school in America, the teacher renames her Olivia.

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Product Description: Oy lives in America now, but she loves to go to the back room of Pak's auto shop on Saturdays to learn traditional Thai dances. She loves it almost as much as being a member of the Quail Club―five friends who gather after school to hatch and care for baby quail...read more
By Carolyn Marsden and Amy Rubinate (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781611066371 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: Oy lives in America now, but she loves to go to the back room of Pak's auto shop on Saturdays to learn traditional Thai dances.

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Product Description: In Thailand, Oy was called by her own name, but in her first school in America, the teacher renames her Olivia. Everything else is different too. The other girls leave her out of their games, and a boy named Frankie teases her. Then Liliandra, a popular girl in the class, sees a photo of Oy in her Thai dancing dress and offers to let Oy into her club if she brings the dress to school...read more
By Carolyn Marsden and Amy Rubinate (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781611066302 | Unabridged edition (Candlewick Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $24.97 | About this edition: In Thailand, Oy was called by her own name, but in her first school in America, the teacher renames her Olivia.
9781611066296 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $24.97 | About this edition: In Thailand, Oy was called by her own name, but in her first school in America, the teacher renames her Olivia.

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Product Description: Hopes of adoption test the friendship of two girls — one biracial — in a lyrical novel touching on themes of identity and the meaning of home.Pina and Susanna. Susanna and Pina. For as long as they’ve lived at the Istituto di Gesù Bambino — a home for babies abandoned after the War — they have been best friends...read more

School and Library:

9780763637392 | 1 edition (Candlewick Pr, March 23, 2010), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Hopes of adoption test the friendship of two girls — one biracial — in a lyrical novel touching on themes of identity and the meaning of home.

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Product Description: "A story of family and the legacy of war full of subtle details about life in contemporary Vietnam. . . .Binh’s dreams will resonate with all young readers." — KIRKUS REVIEWSEvery day nine-year-old Binh sells fruit and sodas to the girls whose families can afford to send them to school, and every night she returns to her one-room home to share a simple meal with her family...read more

Paperback:

9780763643812 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, September 8, 2009), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: "A story of family and the legacy of war full of subtle details about life in contemporary Vietnam.

School and Library:

9780763631758 | Candlewick Pr, February 13, 2007, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: When her grandmother reveals that the daughter that she had given up for adoption is coming from America to visit her Vietnamese family, nine-year-old Binh is convinced that her newly-discovered aunt is wealthy and will take care of all the family's needs.

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Product Description: "A sensitive portrayal of a family in Thailand. . . . This gracefully told story will resonate with many young readers." — BOOKLIST (starred review)Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market...read more

Paperback:

9780763633769 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, August 14, 2007), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Eleven-year-old Noi worries that she will have to stop painting the silk umbrellas her family sells at the market near their Thai village and be forced to join her older sister in difficult work at a local factory instead.

School and Library:

9780763622572 | 1 edition (Candlewick Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Eleven-year-old Noi worries that she will have to stop painting the silk umbrellas her family sells at the market near their Thai village and be forced to join her older sister in difficult work at a local factory instead.

Prebinding:

9781439590140 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "A sensitive portrayal of a family in Thailand.

Product Description: A Chinese-American girl longs for friendship with a classmate adopted from China in this subtle, insightful middle-grade novel.Ginny is sure the new girl in her second-grade class will be her best friend. After all, Stephanie is Chinese, just like Ginny...read more

Hardcover:

9780763630126 | Candlewick Pr, October 10, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A Chinese American girl torn between her family's traditional values and the more modern ones in her second grade classroom learns that friendship cannot be bought.

Paperback:

9780763640613 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, September 9, 2008), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A Chinese-American girl longs for friendship with a classmate adopted from China in this subtle, insightful middle-grade novel.

Prebinding:

9781439582916 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A Chinese-American girl longs for friendship with a classmate adopted from China in this subtle, insightful middle-grade novel.

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Product Description: "A quiet, lyrical story that sensitively explores issues of friendship and being true to oneself." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNALWhen Mina, a self-professed "girlie-girl," discovers that she excels at track, her friends are as surprised as she is, especially competitive Ruth...read more

Hardcover:

9780763621179 | Candlewick Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: When Mina discovers that she can run faster than her athlete friend, Ruth, she thinks she must choose between running and friendship.
9780124269200, titled "Overproduction of Microbial Products" | Academic Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $90.00 | also contains Overproduction of Microbial Products

Paperback:

9780763633042 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, June 12, 2007), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When Mina discovers that she can run faster than her athlete friend, Ruth, she thinks she must choose between running and friendship.

Prebinding:

9781435272835 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 9, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "A quiet, lyrical story that sensitively explores issues of friendship and being true to oneself.
9781417790593 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Forced to move from his Navajo reservation at Bird Spring and missing his father, Gregory faces his new life and school as best he can, but when he is befriended by a blunt and straight-talking classmate, Gregory finds the dose of reality exactly what he needs to help get him through it all.

Hardcover:

9780670061938 | Viking Childrens Books, May 17, 2007, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: When drought and his father's absence force them to leave the Navajo reservation at Bird Springs, ten-year-old Gregory, his mother, and sister move to a motel in Tuscon, Arizona, where one of Gregory's teachers helps him confront his painful past.

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Gloria's Christmas begins with frustration when she is forced to go to work with Mama, but by the end of the day, she appreciates her family and enjoys the holiday.
By Robert Casilla (illustrator) and Carolyn Marsden

Hardcover:

9780670036356 | Viking Childrens Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Gloria's Christmas begins with frustration when she is forced to go to work with Mama, but by the end of the day, she appreciates her family and enjoys the holiday.

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