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Author: Gene Baer
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780060203610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA distant marching band grows larger and louder as it nears, and then softer and smaller as it goes away again.
Author: Gene Baer
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe marching band is in the distance. Big as ants. Loud as crickets. Here it comes! Big as crickets. Loud as birds. Coming closer! Louder and louder, brighter and brighter. Hear the drums! Hear the horns! The band is here, marching by. Thump, Thump, Thump! Rat-a-tat-tat!
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ISBN-13: 9780780705128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sue McCleaf Nespeca
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780838908402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy use picture books with children? -- Extending picture books through art -- Extending picture books through drama -- Extending picture books through music -- Extending picture books through math -- Extending picture books through science.
Author: Heather Smith
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2019-09-30
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 145982105X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK★ “Smith spins a quietly moving narrative...Wada’s large-scale woodblock style illustrations are a perfect complement to the story’s restrained text...The graceful way in which this book handles a sensitive and serious subject makes it a first purchase."—School Library Journal When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father . . . and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his neighbor, Mr. Hirota, begins a mysterious project—building a phone booth in his garden. At first Makio is puzzled; the phone isn't connected to anything. It just sits there, unable to ring. But as more and more villagers are drawn to the phone booth, its purpose becomes clear to Makio: the disconnected phone is connecting people to their lost loved ones. Makio calls to the sea to return what it has taken from him and ultimately finds his voice and solace in a phone that carries words on the wind. The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden is inspired by the true story of the wind phone in Otsuchi, Japan, which was created by artist Itaru Sasaki. He built the phone booth so he could speak to his cousin who had passed, saying, "My thoughts couldn't be relayed over a regular phone line, I wanted them to be carried on the wind." The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011 destroyed the town of Otsuchi, claiming 10 percent of the population. Residents of Otsuchi and pilgrims from other affected communities have been traveling to the wind phone since the tsunami.
Author: Charlie Schroeder
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0142196800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's the middle of a heat wave, and Charlie Schroeder is dressed in heavy clothing and struggling to row a replica eighteenth-century bateau down the St. Lawrence River. Why? Months earlier, Schroeder realized he knew almost nothing about history. But he wanted to learn, so the actor spent a year reenacting it. This book is Schroeder's account of the time he spent chasing Celts in Arkansas, raiding a Viet Cong village in Virginia, and flirting with frostbite en route to "Stalingrad" in Colorado. Along the way, he illuminates just how much the past can teach us about the present.--From back cover.
Author: BAER
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1992-03-20
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780694003860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe flashing colors and crashing sounds of a parade come closer and closer as a marching band plays to a crescendo . . . then gradually fade away as the band passes down the street. ‘The rhythmic text and changes in letter size convey a sense of excitement, the intensity of the colors makes the shapes sing from the pages." —H.
Author: Virginia Castleman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1481438735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSisters Anna and Sara must rely on each other for strength as they face being separated by the foster care system in this heartwrenching tale of sisterhood, family, and survival. Sara and Anna Olsen face an uncertain world. Their mother left home and may—or may not—be coming back. Their father is a drummer in a band and comes home long after the girls go to sleep—if he comes home at all. Too often, ten-year-old Sara and twelve-year-old Anna are left to fend for themselves. Then one night, three loud knocks at the door change everything: their father is in jail and social services has come to take the girls away. Rather than risk being split up, Sara and Anna decide their only option is to run away. But the girls don’t get very far, and when the authorities catch up with them, Sara and Anna are forced back into the foster care system. Along the way, the girls encounter good people who want to help them but they also meet people who have no patience for mistakes or accidents. As Anna begins to act out or withdraw completely, Sara knows that it’s up to her to take care of her older sister. But what if she can’t anymore? What if she finds a forever home that may not include Anna? Will Sara keep the promise she made to her mother to stay with her sister or will she find the courage to do what’s best for herself? In a starred review VOYA said “Sara’s story will tug at heart strings; Readers will cheer for her to succeed.” Inspired by true events, this heartrending and hopeful novel of survival, friendship, and sisterhood, tells the tale of two sisters who must find the strength to face anything that life may throw their way.
Author: Joan Steinau Lester
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1451693184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A novel about deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Douglas Perry
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-03-31
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0143126288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city’s soul As leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables’ daring raids were only the beginning of Ness’s unlikely story. This new biography grapples with the charismatic lawman’s complicated, largely forgotten legacy. Perry chronicles Ness’s days in Chicago as well as his spectacular second act in Cleveland, where he achieved his greatest success: purging the profoundly corrupt city and forging new practices that changed police work across the country. He also faced one of his greatest challenges: a mysterious serial killer known as the Torso Murderer. Capturing the first complete portrait of the real Eliot Ness, Perry brings to life an unorthodox man who believed in the integrity of law and the power of American justice.
