Kevin R. Free
2) Verdi
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A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
3) Crickwing
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A lonely cockroach named Crickwing has a creative idea that saves the day for the leaf-cutter ants when their fierce forest enemies attack them.
6) Dizzy
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An acclaimed biographer for children, Jonah Winter brings historical figures to life for young listeners. Here he turns his talents to jazz legend John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. Born into poverty and the victim of vicious parental abuses, Dizzy received a trumpet one day and it changed his life forever. Dizzy follows Gillespie's journey from rural South Carolina to New York City-straight into the burgeoning jazz scene he soon immersed himself in.
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Elizabeth Bluemle garnered high praise for her hilarious debut picture book My Father the Dog. Filled with the same brand of fun and silliness, How Do You Wokka-Wokka? will have kids up and moving around in no time-if they aren't doubled-over with laughter. Everyone Wokka-Wokkas in their own unique way-the key is to let your body go crazy and have fun!
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Death reveals all truths...
Mystery author and sometimes amateur sleuth Christopher Holmes is now happily (all things being relative) engaged to be married and toying with starting a new career as a true-crime writer when he learns a body has been discovered in the backyard of his former home.
To complicate matters, Christopher's ex turns up out of the blue, suggesting the body may belong to Christopher's former personal assistant. It's life as...
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In the whole wide blue sea, there's not a fish as clever as Shrimpy. But poor Shrimpy is so small that no one wants to be his friend. Then, one-day Shrimpy becomes best friends with Big Al, the most popular fish of all. With Big Al beside him, Shrimpy always has plenty to eat, and he gets to swim to wonderful new places. But when Big Al swims too close to the edge of the Big Deep, it's up to clever Shrimpy to save the day.
10) Big Al
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In all the wide blue sea, there's not a nicer fish than Big Al-or one more lonely. He wants nothing more than to make as many friends as he can, but when the other fish look at Big Al, all they see is how scary he looks and how sharp his teeth are. Then one day, a net drops down from above and catches a lot of little fish. It's up to Big Al to come to the rescue! This frisky tale from the best-selling author of the Jake Drake books is sure to help...
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Wherever your home is, it's probably not as tough as Gary, Indiana. Gary has been called a lot of things. The Armpit of Chicago. The Land of Robbing Hoods. Hell. For the children of Gary, living often boils down to surviving. Maybe these kids get caught up in games of gin rummy. Maybe they spin tops as a way to scratch something fun out of their desperation. Maybe they stand by helplessly as their tenement buildings go up in flames. Or maybe they...
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One day, the king wakes to find an asparagus in the middle of his yard. Not just any asparagus, but a really, really, really big one. Even though everybody thinks it is an amazing vegetable, the king wants to get rid of it. But even his very strong and very mean rhinoceros can't pull the asparagus out of the ground. The Mighty Asparagus is a unique and funny story from one of the most creative children's authors.
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Over a century ago Illusionist David Berkeley committed suicide in his mansion by the sea, thus dooming his restless spirit to wander forever. Or so the local legend goes. Professor Rhys Davies, a part-time parapsychologist, is writing a book on California hauntings and he believes the crumbling ruins of Berkeley House will make a terrific chapter - if he can gain access to the house and grounds. The only obstacle is brooding cop and self-appointed...
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Karma Wilson is the New York Times best-selling author of Bear Snores On, whose children's books are a pure delight. One day on the farm, two crazy cows, Mabel and Molly, take Farmer's keys from his back pocket when he isn't looking. And just like that, the cows start-up Farmer's car and drive away. Look out everyone! It's a cattle drive! Mabel and Molly don't exactly know how to drive, or read road signs, but wouldn't you know it, they're on their...
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"Celebrating ingenuity and dreaming big, this inspirational story, featuring Jabari Asims stirring prose and E. B. Lewiss stunning, light-filled impressionistic watercolor paintings, includes an authors note about John Lewis, who grew up to be a member of the Freedom Riders, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and demonstrator on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. John Lewis is now a Georgia congressman, who is still...