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1) Madeline
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English
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The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format.
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Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 5
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English
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Llama Llama's mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, but when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.
6) Powwow day
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English
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[Lasell] Native American
Dedham's National Native American Heritage Month List (Children's Titles)
Watertown Summer Reading Grade 1
Dedham's National Native American Heritage Month List (Children's Titles)
Watertown Summer Reading Grade 1
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Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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Readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish and Goodbye Stranger will find a mysterious magic and unforgettable friendship in The Someday Suitcase, written by the critically acclaimed author of Rules for Stealing Stars. Clover and Danny are the kind of best friends who make each other even better. They're so important to each other that Clover believes they're symbiotic: her favorite science word, which describes two beings who can't function without...
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AAPI Stories and Voices - Kids
Asian/Pacific American Awards
Newbery Medal Winners
Wayland YA Booklists: Mythology & Folklore Inspired
Asian/Pacific American Awards
Newbery Medal Winners
Wayland YA Booklists: Mythology & Folklore Inspired
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"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal- if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller,...
10) Saving Winslow
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When his father brings home an ailing, newborn donkey, Louie names the animal Winslow and takes care of him, but everyone, including Louie's quirky friend Nora, thinks Winslow is not going to survive.
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To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century.
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Violet Mackerel books volume 2
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English
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With her knack for seeing the positive, six-year-old Violet anticipates extraordinary results after getting her tonsils removed, such as making a special new friend and turning her everyday voice into an opera voice.
13) Sick day
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Holiday House
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2012
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English
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When Boy is sick, his friends Dog and Bird try to help him feel better.
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Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope. Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved; how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs; and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began talking...
18) Breathe: a novel
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"Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her...
19) Bear feels sick
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When Bear is too sick to play, his animal friends go to his cave to make him soup and tea and keep him company.
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"In a small Irish village, tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to have eaten nothing for months. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. An educated skeptic, Lib expects to expose the fast as a hoax within days. But the long hours she spends with Anna begin to chip away at her assumptions about the child, the Irish and their faith, and herself. Is...
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