Kevin Henkes
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BPL Find Your Voice 2023
Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
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Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
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OBD Back To School - Youth
OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
OBD Summer 2021 Book Talks - Youth
Third Grade
OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
OBD Summer 2021 Book Talks - Youth
Third Grade
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Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
8) Waiting
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Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.
9) My garden
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After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
10) Sun flower lion
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Invites the reader to see the sun, bright as a flower, a flower on a hill that looks like a lion, a lion that dreams of flowers as big as the sun, and more.
11) Old Bear
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When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.
12) Junonia
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The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway are.
14) Oh!
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The morning after a snowfall finds animals and children playing.