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Gr 6—10—While the old food pyramid, retired in 2005, might have been a better-looking graphic, using it in current publications is unacceptable; the USDA daily food guide changed to a new graphic titled "My Plate," but these books feature the 1992 graphic...
PreS-Gr 1—Halloween looms, and several pumpkins scheme to scare the children who will soon be trick-or-treating...
Gr 2—3—In rhyming quatrains, Muir tells the story of a furry pop-eyed spider whose greatest pleasure is eating bugs and slugs, until he realizes that he has no friends to eat with...
Gr 8 Up—In this witty, irreverent romp through history, the authors attempt to give teens what The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have done for adults, but in this case provide an amusing way of engaging with America's past...
Gr 3—5—In this installment, a new classmate, Benny Obi, eats dried bug snacks and claims to know kung fu...
PreS-Gr 2—The bossy narrator from How to Be a Baby—by Me the Big Sister (2007) and How to Get Married—by Me the Bride (2009, both Random) explains to her friends and baby brother how to get a job...
Gr 10 Up—Gays in the Military addresses "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT), the policy that bans gay men and women from serving openly in the armed forces...
Gr 5—8—Fantasy and historical fiction blend meticulously in this richly imaginative novel...
PreS-Gr 1—Imaginative Ella May returns home from the beach with a rock encircled in a thin white line and dubs it her "wishing stone...
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