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Someone Named Eva

Milada celebrates her eleventh birthday happily with family and friends despite the hardships brought on by three years of Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia. A few weeks later, German soldiers arrest the entire village. The men and women are separated and sent to camps, but Milada and one other village girl are not. Since both girls have the blonde hair and blue eyes of Hitler’s Aryan ideal, they are sent to Germany to be retrained and adopted by loyal Nazi families. Milada struggles to remember her grandmother’s words to her on her eleventh birthday, “Remember who you are, Milada. Remember where you are from. Always.”

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Help Me, Mr. Mutt!

When humans have a problem, they write Dear Abby; but the best help for the suffering canine is Mr. Mutt. Each troubled hound is given doggone good advice—all of which ends with a P.S. suggesting that the family cat is less than a worthy pet. Of course, Mutt’s family cat The Queen comes back with her own thoughts on this. By the end of the book, Mr. Mutt and The Queen come to blows, and our canine advisor must be rescued by his fans. There are plenty of laughs for both pets and their humans.

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Where I Live

Diana is happy in her life. She loves her house, her best friend Rose, and even her pesky little sister. To top things off, she has just won a poetry contest, and the prize is enrollment in a poetry workshop. Her life couldn’t be better—until her father (who always jokes) gets serious; he and her mother talk quietly together. She is afraid her parents are getting a divorce. The good news is that they are not, but the bad news is that her father lost his job. Diana’s family will have to move.

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Maybelle in the Soup

Maybelle the cockroach and Henry the flea live in the Peabody household where everything has to be just so. The two friends know the rules for survival: “When it’s light, stay out of sight; if you’re spied, better hide; and never meet with human feet.” Henry is good at following the rules, but Maybelle gives way to temptation when the Peabody’s have a dinner party. When she ends up on the spoon of one of the guests, the hilarity begins.

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Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City

The Red Tail Hawk, known as Pale Male, does not have an easy time of it. The trials, tribulations, and final triumph of the hawk who nests on the ledge at one of New York City’s most exclusive addresses is presented with a perfect melding of words and illustrations.

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Lady Liberty: A Biography

Through free verse and illustrations that put the reader in the events, The Lady’s biography is told. Each double page spread tells of people involved in the process of bringing her to New York Harbor—from the idea, to the creation of the statue, to the pennies sent in by children across the United States to pay for her base, to the celebration of her placement.

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