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|  | Sheep Out to Eat by Margot Apple, Nancy Shaw
A group of sheep visit a tea shop looking for a snack. Color illustrations accompany the rhyming text. AUTHOR: Margot Apple, Nancy Shaw
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | 1621 by Catherine O'Neill Grace, Cotton Coulson, Margaret M. Bruchac, Sisse Brimberg, Plimoth Plantation Staff
A look at the story of the first Thanksgiving--this time told from the perspective of the Wampanoag people. Illustrated with color photographs taken at Plimoth Plantation--a modern-day re-creation of the Pilgrims' first settlement. AUTHOR: Catherine O'Neill Grace, Cotton Coulson, Margaret M. Bruchac, Sisse Brimberg, Plimoth Plantation Staff
PUBLISHER: National Geographic Society
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | When the Circus Came to Town by Lawrence Yep, SuLing Wang
Ursula always wanted to see the circus. That is, until she caught smallpox. Now all she wants is to hide her scarred face. But Ah Sam, her parents' Chinese cook, has other ideas. He brings to town a magical circus and finds a way to give Ursula the confidence she needs to face the world. In return, Ursula finds a way to make Ah Sam happy. She creates the biggest, best Chinese New Year celebration that Whistle, Montana, has ever seen! Based on actual events that occurred in the early twentieth century, two-time Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep's novel captures both the overwhelming pain of being different and the simple comfort in finding the community to which you belong. AUTHOR: Lawrence Yep, SuLing Wang
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Extinction by David McClintock, Thomas Bernhard
An Austrian writer named Murau goes to Rome to tutor a young man; his parents are killed in a car crash, and he returns home for the funeral, consumed by his loathing for the country of his birth and for the German weltanschaung. David McLintock's translation of Thomas Bernhard's bleak and honest novel won the Times Literary Supplement Schlegel-Tieck Prize for excellence in German translation. AUTHOR: David McClintock, Thomas Bernhard
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | In the Synagogue by Roz Schanzer
Description not available.The Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Purim, and Shabbat as experienced by children using their five senses. On board pages. AUTHOR: Roz Schanzer
PUBLISHER: Kar-Ben Copies, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Boy in the Water by Jonathan Marosz, Stephen Dobyns
After his wife and child die in a fire, Jim Hawthorne, a psychologist, feels indirectly responsible, and he leaves his old life behind to work at a school for children at risk--only to find it is run by corrupt opportunists. Hawthorne resolves to expiate his own guilt by saving the school. AUTHOR: Jonathan Marosz, Stephen Dobyns
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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