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The National Parks: Preserving America’s Wild Places
Middle grade readers visiting any of the hundreds of national park sites will find their enjoyment and appreciation of the experience much enhanced by this graphic overview.
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A Day in the Life of a Caveman, a Queen and Everything In Between: History As You’ve Never Seen It Before
This highlight reel survey may not break any new ground, but it does offer readers in lower elementary grades a broad general picture of our story, from more than a few unusual points of view.
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The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories
Of interest more for the contributors than the content but a unique showcase for some new and up-and-coming Native American talents.
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Leave It to Plum!
A buoyant tale for younger middle grade readers, with a mild dose of danger for spice and an extroverted protagonist on a mission to “mingle, guide, delight.”
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Packing for Mars for Kids
Along with plenty of laughter, this work may engender even more respect for the toughness of those first generations of space travelers.
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Where’s My Cat?
A clever way to encourage budding artists to look for visual correspondences in the world around them.
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Radium Girls
Of particular interest to upper level readers as a landmark case in the history of workplace safety legislation, but what shines here most brightly are the voices and characters of the women involved.
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A New Baby
The eye candy may bring emergent readers flocking, but the light informational payload positions this more as a tool for literacy training than a celebration of its ostensible topic.
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A New Home
Moving books that address emotions, real life circumstances, and types of families in more nuanced ways abound, which renders this underwhelming addition useful, perhaps, in reading labs—but not elsewhere.
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