Books from Candlewick Press
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Long Lankin
By Lindsey BarracloughCopyright © 2011 by Lindsey Barraclough Cover design by James Fraser. Photograph copyright © 2012 by Christophe Dessaigne/Trevillion Images All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an ...
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Red Butterfly: How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk Out of China
By Sophie Blackall, Deborah NoyesHow a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk Out of China Deborah Noyes, Sophie Blackall. Silk , my red butterfly wings flapping , is our people's solemn secret , thousands of moons old , spun by a little worm that feeds on the mulberry ...
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Chasing Orion
By Kathryn LaskyWhen a beautiful teen with polio enters their lives, a girl and her older brother find themselves drawn into a web of lies in this compelling novel by a best-selling author. (Age 10 and up) Eleven-year-old Georgie loves science-fiction ...
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John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
By Kathryn Lasky, Stan FellowsDepicts the life of John Muir--writer, scholar, inventor, shepherd, farmer, explorer, and naturalist--who devoted his life to the land, influenced the first national park in America--Yosemite--and founded the Sierra Club in 1892.
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Tumble Bunnies
By Kathryn Lasky, Marylin HafnerFeeling untalented in the team sports scheduled for his school's Sports Spectacular, Clyde the rabbit develops his own event, a freestyle tumbling routine with a dazzling move called the "twirly burly."
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One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
By Kathryn Lasky, Matthew TruemanDescribes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural selection.
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Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
By Kathryn Lasky, Christopher G. KnightDescribes efforts to protect sea turtles, particularly Kemp's ridley turtles, and help them reproduce and replenish their once-dwindling numbers.
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Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
By Kathryn Lasky, Nneka BennettA biography of Sarah Breedlove Walker who, though born in poverty, pioneered in hair and beauty care products for black women, and became a great financial success.
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Silk & Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider
By Kathryn Lasky, Christopher G. KnightSearching for a Dangerous Spider Kathryn Lasky, Christopher G. Knight. Silk ~ K. i Venom W'.!';»'"'¥ ' I Searching for a Dangerous Spider 'B, 1 ' .
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
By Tanya Lee StoneRuth Nichols was another exceptional pilot who had been setting aviation records for decades. The air force invited her to Wright Air Development Center, in Dayton, Ohio, to take some of the astronaut tests and see how she fared.
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Mimi
By John Stephen Newman“I meant to get my homework done, Ms. Hardy," I blurted out in a rush. “I was in the middle of math when Mrs. Lemon rang the doorbell—" "Shh!" said Ms. Hardy in a kind voice. “That's not what I want to talk to you about, Mimi.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
By Frank Cottrell BoyceDown on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants ...
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
By Frank Cottrell BoyceFrank Cottrell Boyce. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time is approved by the Ian Fleming Estate. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or, ...
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
By Frank Cottrell BoyceFrank Cottrell Boyce. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again is approved by the Ian Fleming Estate. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or, if real, ...
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The Unforgotten Coat
By Frank Cottrell BoyceWhen two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in her sixth grade class, Julie, who lives in a town near Liverpool, England, named Bootle, becomes their new friend and "Good Guide," navigating them through soccer, school ...
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
By Frank Cottrell BoyceThe Tootings plan to go home, but they accidentally send themselves back to the Jurassic Age, and after being chased by a T-rex they head to Prohibition-era New York where Chitty enters a race to the lost city of El Dorado and back again.
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
By Laura Amy SchlitzCosman, Madeleine Pelner. Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony. NewYork: George Braziller, 1976. Coulton, G. G. The Medieval Village. New York: Dover Publications, 1989. Craft, Ruth. Pieter Brueghel's The Fair.
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The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
By F. Scott FitzgeraldFrom the green light across the bay to the billboard with spectacled eyes, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 American masterpiece roars to life in K. Woodman-Maynard’s exquisite graphic novel—among the first adaptations of the book in this ...
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
By Laura Amy SchlitzA collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
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Fallout
By Todd StrasserInternationally best-selling author Todd Strasser has written his most impressive and personal novel to date, ruthlessly yet sensitively exploring the terrifying what-ifs of one of the most explosive moments in human history.