Paul Fleischman
1) Seedfolks
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Language
English
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
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English
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From the Publisher: Written to be read aloud by two voices-sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous-here is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the mayfly to the love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise. In this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleischman verbally re-creates the "Booming/boisterious/joyful...
3) Weslandia
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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Description
Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"We're living in an aha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never seen before. The downsides weren't visible for centuries, but now they are. Suddenly everything needs rethinking - suburbs, cars, fast food, cheap prices. It's a changed world. This book explains it. Using politics, psychology, and history for attitude, Eyes Wide Open shows how to see the principles driving events...
5) Saturnalia
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive andcontented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
7) Bull Run
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English
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Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
8) Whirligig
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Language
English
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Description
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
This book profiles twenty-six authors with original and distinctive approaches to literature and language. From a man who used vanity license plates to tell stories and a woman who made new poems by subtracting letters from published works, to people who studied word origins and variations, this is a celebration of the adventurers who have explored language with a sense of curiosity and playfulness. -- adapted from information provided and jacket....
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Series
Publisher
Henry Holt Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this companion to Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, Paul Fleischman and Julie Paschkis turn to the universal story of creation"--
The author draws from a variety of folk traditions to put together the story of creation, including elements from many cultures.
16) Time train
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A class takes a field trip back through time to observe living dinosaurs in their natural habitat.
17) Sidewalk circus
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A young girl watches as the activities across the street from her bus stop become a circus.
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Series
Publisher
Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The story of a child confronting a man-eating giant or witch is told the world over. These heroes go by many names and might be average in size or no bigger than a thumb. Though they're often scorned for being the youngest and smallest, they're well-armed with cleverness and courage."--Provided by publisher.
20) Mind's eye
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.
