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Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.
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"Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow - the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt's home in the mountains. The girl has always loved Auntie Luce's paintings - the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the...
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Atinuke
1 available
E Atinuke
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North - Kids Easy
E Atinuke
1 available
E Atinuke
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Southeast - Kids Easy
E Atinuke
1 available
E Atinuke
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Join Baby and his doting mama at a bustling southwest Nigerian marketplace for a bright, bouncy read-aloud offering a gentle introduction to numbers.
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Dio
1 available
E Dio
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Dio
1 available
E Dio
1 available
Madison - Kids Easy
E Dio
1 available
E Dio
1 available
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When Bintou, a little girl living in West Africa, finally gets her wish for braids, she discovers that what she dreamed for has been hers all along.
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Okorafo
1 available
E Okorafo
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Main Library - Kids Easy
E Okorafo
2 available
E Okorafo
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Awakened by strange sounds, Anyaugo discovers a giant chicken in her kitchen and has to muster the courage to remove it before the chicken destroys her family's preparations for the New Yam Festival.
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Edgehill - Kids Easy
E Marley
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E Marley
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Marley
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E Marley
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Thompson Lane - Kids Easy
E Marley
1 available
E Marley
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Bellevue - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Marley
1 available
Talking Book E Marley
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North - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Marley
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Talking Book E Marley
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In this illustrated version of Bob Marley's song, a young boy, with the encouragement of three little birds, enjoys life and will not let anything get him down.
7) The field
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Bellevue - Kids Easy
E Paul
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E Paul
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Paul
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E Paul
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Southeast - Kids Easy
E Paul
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E Paul
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Children form teams, build a pitch, and play a joyous game of soccer, in a book with English and Creole (as spoken in Saint Lucia) vocabulary words.
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Cunnane
1 available
E Cunnane
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East - Kids Easy
E Cunnane
1 available
E Cunnane
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Green Hills - Kids Easy
E Cunnane
1 available
E Cunnane
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From rooster crow to bedtime, a Kenyan boy plays and visits neighbors all through his village, even though he is supposed to be watching his grandfather's cows.
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Bellevue - Kids Easy
E Isadora
1 available
E Isadora
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Isadora
1 available
E Isadora
1 available
East - Kids Easy
E Isadora
1 available
E Isadora
1 available
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In a village on the African plains, a little girl stalls bedtime by saying good night to various animals and objects.
10) Imani's moon
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Edgehill - Kids Easy
E Brown-W
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E Brown-W
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Brown-W
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E Brown-W
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Main Library - Kids Easy
E Brown-W
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E Brown-W
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Little Imani of the Maasai people longs to do something great, like touching the moon, but the other children just laugh at her.
11) Islandborn
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Diaz
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E Diaz
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Inglewood - Kids Easy
E Diaz
1 available
E Diaz
1 available
Madison - Kids Easy
E Diaz
1 available
E Diaz
1 available
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Bordeaux - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Diaz
1 available
Talking Book E Diaz
1 available
East - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Diaz
1 available
Talking Book E Diaz
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Diaz
1 available
Talking Book E Diaz
1 available
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"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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Pruitt - Kids Easy
E Velasqu
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E Velasqu
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A young boy has lost Bongo, his favorite stuffed animal, and no matter where he looks for it he cannot find it. Perhaps someone stole it, he thinks, someone like his little sister.
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Chamber
1 available
E Chamber
1 available
Southeast - Kids Easy
E Chamber
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E Chamber
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Mama Panya has just enough money to buy ingredients for a few pancakes, so when her son Adika invites all their friends to join them, she is sure there will not be enough to go around.
14) Off to market
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Dale
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E Dale
1 available
Green Hills - Kids Easy
E Dale
1 available
E Dale
1 available
Southeast - Kids Easy
E Dale
1 available
E Dale
1 available
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East - Kids Easy
E Clarke
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E Clarke
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Clarke
1 available
E Clarke
1 available
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Bordeaux - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Clarke
1 available
Talking Book E Clarke
1 available
Edgehill - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Clarke
1 available
Talking Book E Clarke
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Clarke
1 available
Talking Book E Clarke
1 available
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"When you live at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is using it, maybe not), a bent bucket seat, and bashed tin-can handles. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for going bumpetty bump over the sand hills, past your fed-up mum, and right through your mud-for-walls home."--Back cover....
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Bellevue - Kids Biography
jB M1119j
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jB M1119j
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Bordeaux - Kids Biography
jB M1119j
1 available
jB M1119j
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East - Kids Biography
jB M1119j
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jB M1119j
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"A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees"--Provided by publisher.
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Isdahl
1 available
E Isdahl
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Isdahl
1 available
E Isdahl
1 available
Green Hills - Kids Easy
E Isdahl
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E Isdahl
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Forgetful sisters Siba and Saba are constantly losing things, then dreaming at night of the things that they have lost, until their dreams begin to reveal something else.
18) Thank you, Omu!
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Bellevue - Kids Easy
E Mora
1 available
E Mora
1 available
Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Mora
1 available
E Mora
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Mora
1 available
E Mora
1 available
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Bordeaux - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Mora
1 available
Talking Book E Mora
1 available
Edgehill - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Mora
1 available
Talking Book E Mora
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Mora
1 available
Talking Book E Mora
1 available
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When the aroma of Omu's homemade stew fills the air, her neighbors arrive, one by one, for a taste until all is gone except for her generous spirit.
19) There was a tree
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Isadora
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E Isadora
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East - Kids Easy
E Isadora
1 available
E Isadora
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Isadora
1 available
E Isadora
1 available
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A favorite children's song, "The Green Grass Grew All Around," becomes a colorful book filled with African wildlife.
20) Freedom Soup
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Madison - Kids Easy
E Charles
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E Charles
1 available
Southeast - Kids Easy
E Charles
1 available
E Charles
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Bordeaux - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Charles
1 available
Talking Book E Charles
1 available
Edgehill - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Charles
1 available
Talking Book E Charles
1 available
Hadley Park - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Charles
1 available
Talking Book E Charles
1 available
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"Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make the soup--Freedom Soup--just like she was taught when she was a little girl. Together, they dance and clap as they prepare the holiday feast, and Ti Gran tells Belle about the history of the soup, the history of Belle's family, and the history of Haiti, where Belle's...