Charles Turner
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Children's Picture Book Classics
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Reading is Snow Much Fun
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Reading is Snow Much Fun
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The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
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He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found--dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, police psychologist, and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent, and even they were no match for the killer.
3) Apt. 3
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The sounds of a harmonica lead to an understanding between a blind man and two boys who live in the same building in the city.
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Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.
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On a rainy day two brothers try to discover who is playing the harmonica they hear in their apartment building.
6) The trip
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Halloween in a new neighborhood, where he doesn't know anyone, finds Louie making new friends and taking a new trick-or-treat route.
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An excellent introduction to the life of the woman who helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, A Picture Book of Rosa Parks covers much more than her crucial role in initiating the Montgomery bus boycott. Such issues as school desegregation and the presence of the Ku Klux Klan are offered as backdrops to her life story and help provide an accurate reflection of this stirring time in history.
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The memorable and courageous story of the nine teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 who helped crack the wall" of segregation is clearly presented in this inspiring story. With accurate background information, and simple profiles of the individuals involved, this presentation is a wonderful introduction to school segregation and civil rights history.
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In A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln, all the pertinent facts of the life, times and importance of the sixteenth president of the United States are presented in a simple, straightforward text that accurately expresses Lincoln's life story, as well as the flavor of the 1800s. A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. offers a brief, but effective biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who practiced nonviolent civil disobedience and...
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From her life as a slave child who was whipped for stealing a lump of sugar, to her role as a leader in the Underground Railroad, and as a nurse and spy during the Civil War, Harriet Tubman lived a fascinating life that is clearly presented in A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman. This lively biography is well-paced and includes the added feature of brief songs that set the tone of the times. Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, escaped to freedom...
15) Beach road
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A classic summer legal thriller from the most popular storyteller of our time.
Dark mysteries invade East Hampton as a struggling lawyer fights to save an old friend from being framed for murder.
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small, with occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. So, when he is hired to defend a local man accused of a triple murder in East Hampton, he knows...
Dark mysteries invade East Hampton as a struggling lawyer fights to save an old friend from being framed for murder.
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small, with occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. So, when he is hired to defend a local man accused of a triple murder in East Hampton, he knows...