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Breathtaking both for its beauty and its pain, House's second (after Clay's Quilt, 2001) tells a finely nuanced...
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The authors embroider historical encounters into a speculative account of the awakening of a writer's gift. In seven-year-old...
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Columns published over the past five years provide conservative pundit Will's trademark curmudgeonly commentary on the gilded Clinton...
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Playing on his customary theme that children have more on the ball than adults give them credit for,...
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This prolific author/illustrator of some of the most beloved characters in picture books comments, through a pig-tailed young...
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It's hard enough to get preschoolers to lie down for even an hour, but when Little Brown Bear's...
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Simplistic and memoir-like historical about two girls coming of age as their scientist father works to help make...
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A tribute to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson captures the rhythm of the famous tap dancing he did all over...
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Wicked humorist Buckley shoots fish in a barrel and makes them dance. The targets in this sendup of...
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Another installment in this ongoing author and illustrator collaboration (Testing Miss Malarkey, 2000, etc.) explores Miss Malarkey's sojourn...
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The Third World is a heap of severed limbs, the aid the First World offers but the smallest...
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New York private eye Terry Orr is still struggling to recover from the subway murder of his wife...
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There were no razor blades in the Halloween apples. That trick-or-treat caper is an urban legend, says Skal,...
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Egerton assembles more than four dozen previously published pieces by writers such as Nikki Giovanni and Roy Blount...
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Twenty-one Latin American voices rise up in a discordant but memorable collection. Fewer than half of the authors...
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Third and, apparently, last in the series (Knight or Knave, 2001, etc.). In the North, the powers and...
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Sloane has always traveled so light he doesn't even need a first name. As a gifted young painter,...
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Sturdy prose conveys the remarkable, still inspiring story of the struggle to standardize measurements and to apply them...
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A bright, plucky, and (of course) beautiful Cockney girl escapes poverty and violence in the Whitechapel neighborhood of...
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Readers learn a lesson about friendship, self-esteem, and the Italian language in Grant's noteworthy debut. Set in Tuscany,...
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