Kathryn Brown
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"Ever since she was a little girl, Jane Addams hoped to help people in need. She wanted to create a place where people could find food, work, and community. In 1889, she chose a house in a run-down Chicago neighborhood and turned it into Hull House--a settlement home--soon adding a playground, kindergarten, and a public bath, By 1907, Hull House included thirteen buildings. And by the early 1920s, more that nine thousand people visited Hull House...
4) Tough Boris
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Although he is a very tough pirate, Boris von der Borch cries when his parrots dies.
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Curious Eeny Mole emerges from her dark hole home to discover the world up above.
There were once three sisters who lived at the bottom of a deep, dark hole. Their names were Eeny, Meeny, and Miney Mole. In that hole dark was light, day was night, and summer and winter seemed the same. The older sisters, Meeny and Miney, were happy in their hole. They loved the deep darkness of it, the soft dreaminess of it, the familiar tidiness of it. They did...
6) Mama loves
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Some little pigs describe the many things and activities that their mother loves and shares with them.
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Tom's grandmother is very forgetful and repeats herself often, but as long as he is there to help her, everything works out just fine. Sometimes Tom's grandmother forgets the way home from the market, or that Tom's name is Tom and not Roy. But Tom doesn't mind. He loves to help his grandmother and just spend time with her. The special bond between a beloved grandmother affected by memory loss and her devoted grandson is described in Reeve Lindbergh's...
15) The Lightey Club
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Henry enlivens the dull summer she and her two sisters are being forced to spend with their grandparents by inventing imaginative stories about Lightey the Lightning Bug and his insect friends.