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Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
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"Thao Lam's family came to Canada as refugees during the Vietnam War. When Thao started thinking about how to tell this story, she couldn't stop thinking about ants: small, seemingly insignificant creatures who are able to travel amazingly long distances overwater, work hard, and thrive on almost every continent on the planet. Boat People starts with a story inspired by Thao's mother's life: a young girl watches as a bowl of sugar water is put out...
3) Float
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Wordless picture book about a boy who loses his paper boat in the rain"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. She's an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls. Within four years they are parents to three children, two daughters, and a red-headed son who fills his pockets with rocks, plays the violin, and talks to God. To Eleanor, their New Hampshire farm provides everything she always wanted: summer nights watching Cam's softball games, snow days by the fire and the annual tradition of...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Valorie Fisher takes infographics to a new level with bright, colorful visuals that are perfect for young, inquisitive minds. Her eye-catching mix of photographs and illustrations compels readers to dive in and explore how things work -- from paper airplanes to straws, crayons to kites, pencils to boats, this book will answer questions kids have long wanted answers to, and go on to answer questions they didn't even know they had! Do you know why...
Author
Publisher
37 Ink/ATRIA
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and leading gun violence prevention advocate comes the riveting memoir of a mother's loss and call to action, as well as a faith-based exploration of how the nation's gun laws put a deadly target on American lives"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three Arab-American girls learn about their family and cultural history from their grandmother, who grew up in Cairo, Egypt, and moved to New Jersey after her marriage. Includes directions for making Egyptian paper boats.
10) The real boat
Author
Publisher
Templar
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
When a paper boat learns about the ocean, he is determined to go there so he can be a real boat. On his journey he meets all sorts of friends, from the strong little tugboat to the glittering ocean liner.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a lonely little boy receives an invitation to play written on a paper boat, he is sure that he has finally found the friend he's been longing for, but Bear isn't quite the playmate the boy had imagined.
12) Many waters
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
13) Sink or swim
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In January 1942, twelve-year-old Colton is on his family's fishing boat in the Atlantic with his older brother Danny when the boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, and Danny is severely injured; realizing how close the enemy is, Colton takes his brother's enlistment papers and joins the Navy, determined to do his part to defeat Germany--if only he can keep his age a secret and survive life at sea.
15) Inspector Hopper
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspector Hopper and his perpetually hungry assistant McBugg solve three mysteries for their insect friends.
Author
Publisher
The Guild of Master Craftsman Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Beautifully stylised and with a clever use of colour to create exciting effects, these projects will hang well in the most modern of homes. Designs include a butterfly, sail boat, dancer, confetti, cocktail, cloud, heart, cat and mermaid, to name just a few. The projects vary in complexity and will appeal to beginners and experienced quillers alike. They are broken down into concise, fully illustrated step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow,...
17) Origami vehicles
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Learn about the Japanese art of paper folding called origami, including the meaning behind the symbols that are used and how to make the different folds. Then, through easy step-by-step instructions and simple diagrams, you can create an amazing airplane or space shuttle, a cool truck or car, a fun racing boat or submarine, and many other awesome vehicles!"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 'Black paper,' Teju Cole meditates on what it means to keep our humanity--and witness the humanity of others--in a time of darkness. 'Darkness,' Cole writes, 'is not empty.' Through art, politics, travel, and memoir, he returns us to the wisdom latent in shadows, and sets the darkness echoing. The opening essay sets the mood for the book, as Cole travels to southern Italy and Sicily to view a series of Caravaggio paintings. He ponders the suffering...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Portofino, Italy, 1943. A young woman steps off a boat in a scenic coastal village. Although she knows how to disappear in a crowd, Elodie is too terrified to slip by the German officers while carrying her poorly forged identity papers. She is frozen until a man she's never met before claims to know her. In desperate need of shelter, Elodie follows him back to his home on the cliffs of Portofino. Only months before, Elodie Bertolotti was a cello...
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A major new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is quite literally adrift. The piece of paper...