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- Learn how different cultures around the world set out to live in harmony with the natural world. The seven folk tales are each followed by a hands-on activity that promotes green living and reinforces the eco-messages of the stories. Ages 5 - 11. Hardcover $19.99
Lin Yi's Lantern A Moon Festival Tale - Meet Lin Yi — a little boy with a big heart and a talent for bargaining. Tonight is the moon festival and he wants nothing more than a red rabbit lantern; but first he must buy the things his mother needs at the market. This heartwarming story shows the rewards of putting others first, and includes educational notes at the end about the Chinese moon festival, life in rural China, and the legend of the moon fairy. Ages 5 - 9. Hardcover $16.99
Bear At Work Fun Activities - Youngsters will enjoy hours of fun with this interactive book filled with activities based on our favorite Bear! Features games, puzzles, coloring and more that encourage children to learn about different professions as they head off to work with Bear. Also includes full-color reusable stickers to use in different scenes throughout the book.
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The Beeman - Find out where honey comes from as Grandpa the Beeman teaches the basics of beekeeping to his young grandson. This rhyming story includes endnotes full of essential facts about bees, beekeeping, honey, and the vital part that bees play in the natural world. Ages 5 - 9. Hardcover $16.99
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Here's what my book club is reading for June 2010:
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
by
Stieg Larsson
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's
wealthiest families disappeared over forty years
ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues
to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a
crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel
conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the
pieced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander.
Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable
iniquity and astonishing corruption.
(read more)
Other suggestions:
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
by
Molly Wizenberg
In A Homemade Life: Stories and
Recipes from My Kitchen Table, Molly Wizenberg recounts a
life with the kitchen at its center. From her mother's pound
cake, a staple of summer picnics during her childhood in
Oklahoma, to the eggs she cooked for her father during the weeks
before his death, food and memories are intimately entwined.
(read more)
Every Last One by
Anna Quindlen
In this breathtaking and beautiful
novel, comes an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a
family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem
like inconsequential actions. (read more)
The White Tiger by
Aravind Adiga
Set in a raw and unromanticized
India, The White Tiger—-the first-person confession of a
murderer—-is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for
the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet
deeply endearing.
(read more)
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Other recommended book
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by
Kate DiCamillo
Age
Range: 7
Once, in a house on Egypt Street,
there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was
very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by
a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and
adored him completely.
And then, one day, he was lost.
Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline take us on an
extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net
of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside
of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the
streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true
miracle — that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn
to love, to lose, and to love again. |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by
Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but
scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco
farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her
cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most
important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells
grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has
been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa
cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million
metric tons--as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa
cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered
secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped
lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning,
and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains
virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in
scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific
discovery, as well as its human consequences. |
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