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The Oboe Goes Boom Boom Boom by Colleen AF Venable
This funny description of each instrument in the band might just help you to find your perfect instrument! The band director leads the reader through each instrument and how each one works. Felicity frequently interrupts by banging on her drum, but by the end even she has chosen just the right instrument! The last pages contain short biographies of some real band members who inspired the characters in the book.
This nonfiction book tells the story of Helen Martini, the Bronx Zoo's first female zookeeper. In the 1940s the rules about keeping wild animals weren't as strict as they are now and we knew less about how to properly care for animals like tigers in captivity. Mrs. Martini's husband worked for the Bronx Zoo and when some tiger cubs were being ignored by their mother at the zoo, he brought them home for his wife Helen to care for them! She treated them just like human babies and they thrived to the point that she could return them to the zoo. This became a tradition of bringing home animals for Helen to care for until she established a nursery at the zoo. The story of a groundbreaking woman who stopped at nothing to care for animals who needed her help.
Anya and the Dragon is the story of fantasy and mayhem in tenth century Eastern Europe, where headstrong eleven-year-old Anya is a daughter of the only Jewish family in her village. When her family’s livelihood is threatened by a bigoted magistrate, Anya is lured in by a friendly family of fools, who promise her money in exchange for helping them capture the last dragon in Kievan Rus. This seems easy enough, until she finds out that the scary old dragon isn’t as old—or as scary—as everyone thought. Now Anya is faced with a choice: save the dragon, or save her family.
Collection of books about elections and voting:
Here are some titles from the Lawrence School library that are about voting and elections.
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