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961) Chavo the Invisible
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Chavo is the last player to get picked for capture the flag. But that's okay. Chavo's small, but he just might surprise people with his quick thinking. Can Chavo protect his flag? Will he outwit the other team? Find out in this word-free graphic novel, the third installment in the Game for Adventure series.
Publisher
Playaway View
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 video media player (approximately 3 hr.) : digital, sound, color ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Playtime with Ernie: Come and play today with Ernie! Ernie encourages preschoolers to use their imaginations as they learn to distinguish sights and sounds while engaging in interactive play.
Let's play games: Everybody's favorite game show host Guy Smiley invites you to play along with his Sesame friends! Sesame friends engage preschoolers in interactive fun that promotes social interaction while teaching basic cognitive concepts.
Playtime with...
964) The whisper
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
965) Beautiful hands
Author
Publisher
Blue Dot Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Little hands can do so many wonderful things: plant ideas; lift spirits; stretch imaginations. This colorful concept book rouses children to use their hands for the good and reach for their dreams.--Publisher.
967) STEAM student!
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad tablet : digital, sound, color ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 USB cable and 1 AC power adapter (in case 22 x 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
"These games and learning tools will help kids explore the world through science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Learn about the solar system; Discover why the seasons happen; Improve literacy skills; Advance math skills."--
968) The Baghdad clock
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Baghdad, 1991. A young Iraqi girl and her best friend find themselves living in war-torn Baghdad during the first Gulf War. Populated by a host of colourful characters, we share the two girls ' dreams, music, school life and first loves as they grow up in a city torn apart by civil war. And as the bombs fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country, the city services collapse while abandoned dogs roam the streets and...
969) Trowbridge Road
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Possessing no memories of his life before entering an orphanage, young Duncan recites fantastical stories about his origins and is astonished when his singer mother claims him into an adult world of hazy bars and a salty Vietnam veteran lover.
971) My own world
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life is difficult for nine-year-old Nathan. All he dreams of is hanging out with his older brother, watching Raiders of the Lost Ark, and enjoying summer vacation far away from the neighborhood bullies. When he overhears his parents talking about a family crisis, he seeks sanctuary from his troubles. In an abandoned lighthouse, Nathan discovers a portal to a berry-colored world where time has little meaning and he, finally, is in control. There,...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
193 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the story of a girl. A girl who lives in the country. A girl encountering fragments, both bitter and sweet, of the world around her. It's the story of the shape of her world."--
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (319 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (99 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
Español
Description
Cronos: A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
The devil's backbone: After Carlos, a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War, arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Pan's Labyrinth: In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter...
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Princeton Architectural Press edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 14 cm
Language
English
Description
"...Part artist's book, part cookbook, and part children's book, Mud Book is a spirited, if not satirical, take on almost every child's first attempt at cooking and making. Through the humble mud pie--add dirt and water!--Cage and Long encourage children to explore their imagination and to get their hands dirty, and they offer this warning: "Mud pies are to make and look at, not to eat." "--
976) Sincerely, Harriet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Harriet Flores struggles with boredom and an unrequited crush while learning to manage her chronic illness through a long, hot, 1990s summer in Chicago. She uses her imagination to cope, which sometimes gets her into trouble, as she makes up fantastical fibs and wonders if there are ghosts upstairs. One neighbor, Pearl, encourages Harriet to read and write, leading Harriet to have a breakthrough and discover the power of storytelling.
977) Shape capers
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A group of children shakes shapes out of a box and discovers the fun of using circles, squares, triangles, semicircles, rectangles, and their imaginations.
978) Every-day dress-up
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl imagines her own future as she puts on costumes and pretends to be great women from history, including Amelia Earhart, Lucille Ball, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
979) Just what Mama needs
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A puppy named Abby assumes a different identity for each day of the week until Sunday, when she is just herself.
980) A way to the stars
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Joe is starstruck, determined to find his way up, up, up to the magical lights in the night sky. "In your dreams!" his pals say. But when Joe and his dad put their heads and hearts together, there's no stopping them. Together they climb ladders, construct towers, and launch rockets in a tireless quest to reach the unreachable.
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