Brian Floca
1) Locomotive
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English
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Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
3) Five trucks
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English
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Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.
6) Lightship
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
Description
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog.
7) Ragweed
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English
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Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
8) Poppy
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English
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"At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stands an old charred oak. A great horned owl, Mr. Ocax, waits there. With his piercing gaze, he surveys the lands he calls his own, watching for the creatures he considers his subjects. None dares disobey him, until the night a courageous deer mouse name Poppy makes a stand, only to find herself in terrible danger. To lead her family to a better life, will Poppy battle Mr. Ocax to the end?"--Back cover.
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World-renowned swimmer and bestselling author Lynne Cox and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Brian Floca team up to bring us this inspiring story of an elephant seal who knew exactly where she belonged.
Here is the incredible story of Elizabeth, a real-life elephant seal who made her home in the Avon River in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. When Elizabeth decides to stretch out across a two-lane road, the citizens worry she might get...
Here is the incredible story of Elizabeth, a real-life elephant seal who made her home in the Avon River in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. When Elizabeth decides to stretch out across a two-lane road, the citizens worry she might get...
10) Old wolf
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English
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"A wolf and bird must fight the starving time and find food, while a human boy learns to hunt"--
11) Poppy and Ereth
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English
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After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
12) Ereth's birthday
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English
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Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
13) Poppy's return
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Series
Poppy and friends volume 5
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
14) Marty McGuire
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Series
Marty McGuire books volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
129 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
Description
When tomboy Marty is cast as the princess in the third-grade play, she learns about improvisation, which helps her become more adaptable.
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Marty McGuire books volume 2
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English
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With help from her Grandma Barb, Marty builds a habitat for worms in her school cafeteria as part of the Save the Earth Project.
16) Let's fly a kite
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2000.
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33 pages : color illustrations.
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English
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Two squabbling siblings learn about symmetry when their babysitter helps them build and fly a kite.
17) Poppy and Rye
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English
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When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
19) Ragweed & Poppy
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[2020]
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English
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The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca. How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? This book tells their hilarious story! Adventurous golden mouse Ragweed is on a freight train leaving the city of Amperville. On his journey he meets Lotar, a young, annoying, and lost raccoon who's desperate to reunite with his mother....