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Perfect for new readers in the first grade: a comic about a child, a parent, and the magic of a starry night. By Geisel Award-Winner Michael Emberley!A blackout! Right in the middle of ?the last? bedtime story. The child cries. It?s too dark! The parent gathers stars from the sky light up the child?s room. Now someone else is crying! It?s the moon! The parent returns the stars to they sky, and parent and child pack up their blankets and pillows to sleep outside.New readers can practice phonics reading with the silent letters "g" and "o" in words such as too, night, light, right, and tight. Children can also read about these characters in I Did It! a Theodor Geisel Award Winner and Let?s Go!, which is on the ALA Best Graphic Novels reading list.I Like to Read Comics are perfect for kids who are challenged by or unengaged in reading, kids who love art, and the growing number of young comics fans. Filled with eye-catching art, humor, and terrific stories, these comics provide unique reading experiences for growing minds. We hope that all new readers will say, ?I like to read comics!?A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

A Taiwanese-American girl is nervous about visiting Taiwan? until her paternal grandmother, her Nainai, takes her on a mountain-climbing adventure and shows her its wonders.Traveling from California to Taiwan for the first time, even with her parents and her Nainai around her, is a lot for a little girl to take in. The plane ride lasts forever, she can?t read any of the signs, and she?s worried there will be unfamiliar bugs. But then Nainai becomes her tour guide, and Taiwan transforms. As they huff and puff up Nainai?s favorite mountain, stomachs full of bao and juicy sausage, Nainai spins yarns about riding to the movies in pedicabs, eating frozen pineapple, and playing pinball to win snacks. Even the bugs turn out to be more cool than scary.At the top of the mountain is a surprise: all sorts of people playing and exercising?and they all remember Nainai. The little girl is filled with pride when they can tell just who she is: ?your granddaughter!?Author Livia Blackburne shares an author?s note about the inspiration she drew from childhood visits to Taiwan, her parents? childhoods there, and her own mountain-climbing Nainai. The deep well of lived experience is evident on every page, and is perfectly evoked by Joey Chou?s intricate, colorful illustration. Whether it?s a reflection of home or a window into somewhere brand-new, kids, grandparents, and everyone in between will love following Nainai to the top of her mountain.

Clue meets Knives Out for the younger set in this twisty-turny middle grade mystery-comedy with delightfully dry humor and impeccable plotting.Eleven-year-old orphan Nico Lombardi has been unfairly indentured at a remote mountain inn for five years now. Just as he gathers the courage to escape, the inn gets booked by the remaining members of a ?tontine,? an investment scheme where a cash prize is awarded to whomever lives the longest. In other words, every guest wants access to the fortune. Preferably as soon as possible.During their stay, a chaotic race to control the fate of the tontine takes over the normally sleepy inn. Nico watches in horror as a series of comically disastrous events unfolds?some of which might aid his escape, and some of which might get him in big trouble. Before he can even put the right clues together, three unexpected revelations change the course of everyone?s future!Arch humor and an incredible cast of strange and calculating characters keep the pages turning in this Wes Anderson-esque mystery filled with funny mishaps and misunderstandings.With illustrations, a hotel map, character dossiers, a personality quiz, and a test to see how YOU would fare in a tontine caper, this read is perfect for fans of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello?s Library and The 39 Clues series.A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

How does this city garden grow? With help from L?il Sissy and her siblings--and love, love, love! A celebration of nature, family, and food.Visiting the city  from her home in the suburbs, an African American girl sees how a few packets of seeds, some helping hands, and hard work transform an empty lot in a housing project into a magical place where vegetables grow and family gathers. It?s the magic of nature in the heart of the city!Bernette Ford?s autobiographical story is a loving glimpse at a girl, her siblings, and her uncle, and  their shared passion for farming. L?l Sissy?s fascination with measurement, comparison, and estimation introduces children to STEM concepts. And the progress of Uncle John?s garden introduces readers to the life cycle of plants.Frank Morrison, winner of multiple Coretta Scott King awards and an NAACP Image Award, depicts dramatic cityscapes as well as the luscious colors and textures of Nature. A Smithsonian Magazine Best Children''s Book of the YearA BCCB Blue Ribbon BookA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

In this new and updated edition, award-winning author Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve introduces young readers to the Seminoles people.The Seminoles are known as  ?the people who never surrendered.? As White settlers continued to encroach on their land, the Seminoles moved farther and farther into the Florida Everglades and adapted to their new environment with their hard work and ingenuity. And after defending their land in three Seminole wars, they never signed a formal peace treaty with the United States.This accessible nonfiction picture book introduces the Seminoles? early history, daily way of life, ceremonies, and more. Learn how they adapted to the Florida Everglades and their unique cultural practices, like their flat roll hairstyle and the role of an ever-burning fire in the annual Green Corn Dance. This updated edition provides the most up to date and accurate information on the Seminole people of past and present. The back of the book includes a section on Seminole life today. Author Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve grew up on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation and for over 40 years has brought the richness of Native American culture and heritage to thousands of children for over 40 years as teacher and children?s book author. Her First Americans books introduce young readers to the many diverse and unique Native American nations that first called this land home.