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Mr. Popper's penguins
by Richard & Florence Atwater.
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1985; 1 videocassette (42 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 teacher's guide.
The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin definitely changes the lives and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.
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My brother Sam is dead
Random House.
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1986; 1 videocassette (26 min., 16 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 videogram.
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral.
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The Newbery Award reader
edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg ; introduction by Virginia Hamilton.
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1984; xiii, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
A collection of short fictional works by eighteen winners of the Newbery Award, an award presented each year to an outstanding work of fiction for young people.
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Newbery/Caldecott medal acceptance speeches
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1994; 1 sound cassette (32 min.)
The giver : 1994 Newbery award acceptance speech / by Lois Lowry -- Grandfather's journey : 1994 Caldecott award acceptance speech / by Allen Say.
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Newbery/Caldecott medal, Laura Ingalls Wilder award acceptance speeches. 2001
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2001; 1 sound cassette (45 min., 6 sec.) : analog.
Contains the acceptance speeches by the 2001 winners of the Newbery and Caldecott medals and of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award.
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A Newbery Christmas : fourteen stories of Christmas by Newbery Award-winning authors
selected by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh ; introduction by Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh.
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1991; x, 189 p. ; 26 cm.
A collection of stories about Christmas, by Newbery Award-winning authors such as Eleanor Estes, E.L. Konigsburg, Madeleine L'Engle, and Katherine Paterson.
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A Newbery Halloween : a dozen scary stories by Newbery award-winning authors
selected by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh ; introduction by Lloyd Alexander.
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1993; xi, 189 p. ; 26 cm.
A collection of short stories with a Halloween theme, by such Newbery Award-winning authors as E.L. Konigsburg, Beverly Cleary, Virginia Hamilton, and Paul Fleischman.
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Number the stars
Lowry, Lois.
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2004; 3 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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Olive's ocean
Henkes, Kevin.
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2003; 217 p. ; 20 cm.
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
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Our only May Amelia
Holm, Jennifer L.
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1999; 253 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
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Our only May Amelia
Holm, Jennifer L.
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2000; 3 sound cassettes (278 min.) : analog, Dolby processed.
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
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Out of the dust
Hesse, Karen.
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1997; 227 p. ; 20 cm.
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
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