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2) Inside Cat
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Told in rhyming text, Inside Cat views the world through many windows, watching the birds, squirrels, and people go by--but when the door opens it discovers a whole new view.
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In this blend of fiction, allegory, and inspiration, Andrews tells the story of Jones--a mysterious man who shows up when things look the darkest for the people of Orange Beach, Alabama, and whose unique gift of noticing things that others miss helps us understand why things happen and what we can do about it.
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Relates how one boy--who had friends, enjoyed reading, playing saxophone in the band, and had never been in trouble before--became a monster capable of entering his high school with a loaded gun and firing on his classmates, as told from the viewpoints of several victims. Each perspective is written by a different writer of young adult fiction.
6) Just because
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From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
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From New York Times bestselling author Andy Andrews comes the sequel to The Noticer! In the quiet coastal town of Fairhope, Alabama, a mysterious old man named Jones has set up shop to do the one thing he knows best—"noticing" the little things that make a big difference in people's lives. Perspective is a powerful thing.
Through a chance encounter at a local bookstore, Andy Andrews is reunited with the man who changed
...9) In the dark
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"They came in the dark, and took the narrow path that only witches used. Everyone said that's what they were . . .But what if everyone was wrong? Watch what happens when one girl steps into the woods and gets to know these newcomers. The spooky black cat? Meet Mingus! The broomsticks and cloaks? Cloth and wooden handles. And those shadows in the sky? Handmade kites, fluttering in the breeze. When the breeze becomes a blustery storm, everything changes...including...
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"Helps children consider the colors of their everyday lives . . . and imagine how others around the world experience the very same things"--
11) A weed is a seed
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Pairs of rhyming verses show that such things in the natural world as weeds, a breeze, sand, and ice can be seen both positively and negatively.
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With rare insight, the author take readers on a journey that proves the importance of perspective, the power of connection, and the ability everyone has to make the impossible come true, through an inspirational story in which Jones, a mysterious elderly man with white hair and endless wisdom, opens an unusual business in Orange Beach, Alabama, that always seems to have exactly what visitors are looking for.
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Grandpa builds a beautiful little vegetable garden, but a big ugly rock is in the way. He digs it with a shovel. Thinking that it is as big as a car, he decides to bypass it when planting vegetables. Grandma nearly trips over the rock when watering the seedlings, so she digs it with a shovel. Thinking that it is as big as a house, she decides to walk across it when she is there. Papa stumbles over the rock when he is going to trim the seedlings, so...
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