Ed Young
4) Hook
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A chick hatched by hens turns out to be an eaglet who must get help from a boy in learning how to fly.
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Siete ratones ciegos de siete colores tratan de identificar a un elefante. Cada uno toca una parte distinta del elefante. No pueden ponerse de acuerdo sobre la identidad del animal hasta que uno de ellos lo recorre de un lado a otro, de arriba a abajo y de una punta a la otra.
Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as...
7) My Mei Mei
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Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
11) Nighttime Ninja
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"Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure."-- Provided by publisher.
13) Pinocchio
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The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked. Includes vocabulary notes in the margin, a brief biography of the author, and instructions for making a hand puppet.
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This masterpiece of eighteenth-century English poetry tells the epic tale of a sailor who endures a fate worse than death for killing an albatross.
After callously shooting an albatross with his crossbow, a sailor is doomed to a nightmarish voyage from the Antarctic to the Equator before returning home as the sole survivor of the journey. When the haunting figure Life-in-Death wins his soul in a game of dice, the sailor is doomed to forever roam the...
16) Wabi Sabi
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Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
18) White Fang
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In the desolate, frozen wilds of north-west Canada, a wolf-cub soon finds himself the sole survivor of the litter. Son of Kiche - half-wolf, half-dog - and the ageing wolf One Eye, he is thrust into a savage world where each day becomes a fight to stay alive.
19) Tsunami!
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A wealthy man in a Japanese village, whom everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.
20) Moon tiger
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After getting in trouble because of her little brother Michael, Jessica Ellen imagines a visit from a wonderful giant tiger who can take her flying through the night or eat Michael.









