Books from Candlewick Press
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Sahwira: An African Friendship
By Carolyn Marsden, Philip Merlin MatzigkeitThe strong friendship between two boys, one black and one white, who live on a mission in Rhodesia, begins to unravel as protests against white colonial rule intensify in 1964.
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Blessed
By Cynthia Leitich SmithInside the kitchen, I studied the Viking range, stainless-steel appliances, and the silver Colonial chan- delier hanging above the marble island. I could almost imagine Bradley at the stove, sautéing porcini and veal kidneys in a veal ...
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Private Lessons
By Cynthia SalaysayAnd another boy here — Michael Chan — played a Brahms intermezzo that made me forget everyone I'd heard so far today. These people are headed for conservatory. Which means I could head for conservatory, too. A thought that floors me.
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Soccer School Season 2: Where Soccer Explains (Saves) the World
By Alex Bellos, Ben Lyttleton... lessons High: 5! in notebook: 137 G U FREE HUGS I'm charge! in Trick:Fave Supports: Birthplace: (South player: Brings Africa) Kaizer Boss, Grant the H Missouri Chiefs Leadbitter team together 164 about soccer: PSYCHOLOGY QUIZ 1.
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A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
By Laura Amy SchlitzSands. of. Dee. by Charles Kingsley “O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands of Dee.” The western wind was wild and dank withfoam, And all alone went she.
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Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights
By James Haskins, Benny AndrewsPresents the life of W.W. Law, an NAACP activist, whose efforts to register black voters, and lead a successful business boycott resulted in Savannah, Georgia being the first city in the south to end racial discrimination.
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Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights
By Jim HaskinsA gripping biography of the mail carrier who orchestrated the Great Savannah boycott — and was instrumental in bringing equality to his community.
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Gaia Warriors
By Nicola Davies, James LovelockExamines the causes and effects of global warming and offers opinions from leading scientists about what can be done to help the Earth.
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My Cousin's Keeper
By Simon FrenchWhen the odd new kid at school turns out to be his cousin, Kieran feels embarrassed and resentful.
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The Tightrope Walkers
By David Almond“Kathleen Ferrier,” Mam said. “Poor soul.” “Poor soul?” “To keep herself locked away like that . . .” “Why does she lock herself away like that?” “Maybe there's no answer. Maybe she's just happier like that. And Kathleen Ferrier herself ...
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Pagan's Crusade
By Catherine JinksGardens on the roof , all laid out neatly around stone seats and rainwater cisterns and sheltered courtyards . You can see practically the whole of Jerusalem , from the western side . Rockhead takes a detour across the roof just to ...
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X-Indian Chronicles: The Book of Mausape
By Thomas YeahpauA collection of interwoven stories that chronicles the lives of several X-Indians--those Indians who have lost their traditional beliefs, traditions, and medicines--as they grow up and become young men.
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The Quail Club
By Carolyn Marsden“It's Kelly Marie.” Oy held up one finger to let Luk know she'd be right back, then carried the phone into her room. “Where have you been?” Kelly Marie wanted to know. “We had a Quail Club meeting and you weren't there.
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The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II
By Michael RosenI suppose they died in the camps.” That’s all young Michael Rosen, born in England just after the end of the Second World War, was told about the six great-aunts and great-uncles who had been living in Poland or France at the beginning ...
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What's So Special about Shakespeare?
By Michael RosenCelebrated poet, critic, and Shakespeare enthusiast Rosen offers kids a whirlwind tour of William Shakespeare's life, his London, and four of his plays: "A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, " and "The Tempest." Illustrations.
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Bah! Humbug!
By Michael RosenWill the story's message of Christmas cheer and the redemptive power of love reach his father's distracted Scrooge heart?
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On the Move: Poems about Migration
By Michael RosenNow, in a companion book to The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II, Michael Rosen has brought together forty-nine of his most powerful poems, exploring the themes of migration and displacement through the lens of his ...
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The Yellow House
By Blake MorrisonA little girl's fascination with the yellow house she passes each day leads her into its garden which is full of fantastic surprises.
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It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families
By Michael Emberley, Robie H. Harris... Connecticut DAVID S. CHAPIN , M.D. , director of gynecology , Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center , Boston , Massachusetts DONALD J. COHEN , M.D. , director , professor of psychiatry , pediatrics , and psychology , Yale University ...
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Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis
By Paul B. JaneczkoIn his third book about deception during war, Paul B. Janeczko focuses his lens on World War II and the operations carried out by the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, aka the Ghost Army.