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Goodbye Spring, Hello Summer (Kenard Pak’s Changing Seasons)

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:49:52 +0000

As the sun shines bright, rainy days disappear, and new flowers begin to bloom, everyone knows–summer is on its way!

Join a young girl as she roams grassy plains and shady forests, greeting all the signs of the coming season. In a series of conversations with everything from the rolling hills to the chickadees up above, she says goodbye to spring and welcomes the liveliness of summer.

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Crack Goes the Cascarón: An Eggcellent Not-Just-For-Easter Shellebration!

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:49:09 +0000

“Shell-abrate a joyous Latine tradition with Toti and his family in this upbeat … story, hatched in time for Easter”–Provided by publisher.

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Dino-Birthday (Dino-Holidays)

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:48:28 +0000

Dinosaurs celebrate their birthdays with a variety of different parties, presents, and games depending on the season.

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Happy Mother’s Day from the Crayons

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:47:37 +0000

“Red Crayon loves his mom because she works extra hard, especially on the holidays. Yellow and Orange Crayons love their grandma who has a been like a mom to them. And White Crayon loves his mom a ton, even if he can’t always see her. In this inclusive celebration of all kinds of families, the Crayons … show how much [they] love celebrating their moms–and other family members–on Mother’s Day”

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Will the Pigeon Graduate?

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:46:20 +0000

The Pigeon had better graduate! He did the work! He paid attention to the little details! He overcame some BIG obstacles! The Pigeon’s got this . . . Or does he?

Do YOU think The Pigeon will graduate?

Grab your caps, don your gowns, and raise your hands for The Pigeon’s biggest adventure yet in this uplifting, hilarious, and inspirational graduation picture book from three-time Caldecott honoree Mo Willems. It’s a PhD* in fun!

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A Day at the Beach with the Very Hungry Caterpillar

Brian Gadberry — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:02:00 +0000

The Very Hungry Caterpillar discovers fun things to do at the beach including playing with beach toys, collecting seashells, and splashing in the water.

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Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Brian Gadberry — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:00:34 +0000

October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she writes in her request to the attorney general, “and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.” It’s been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence,
Cristina embarks on a path toward justice . Liliana’s Invincible Summer is the account–and the outcome–of that quest . In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: Liliana is a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of
increasingly normalized gendered violence. Rivera Garza traces her sister’s history, depicting everything from Liliana’s early romance with a handsome but possessive and short-tempered man to that exhilarating final summer of 1990 when she loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.

Using her skills as an acclaimed scholar, novelist, and poet, Rivera Garza collected and curated evidence–handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, interviews with Liliana’s loved ones–to document her sister’s life. Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, she confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines how this tragedy continues to shape who she is–and what she fights for–today.

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Something Fabulous

Brian Gadberry — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:56:49 +0000

Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems, literally. It was always his father's hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. But, unfortunately, too many novels at an impressionable age have caused her to grow up…romantic. She is so romantic that a marriage of convenience will not do, and after Valentine's proposal, she flees into the night, determined never to set eyes on him again. Arabella’s twin brother, Mr. Bonaventure “Bonny” Tarleton, has also grown up…romantic. And fully expects Valentine to ride out after Arabella and prove to her that he's not the cold-hearted cad he seems to be. Despite copious misgivings, Valentine finds himself on a pell-mell chase to Dover with Bonny by his side. Bonny is unreasonable, overdramatic, annoying, and…beautiful? And being with him makes Valentine question everything he thought he knew. About himself. About love. Even about which Tarleton he should be pursuing.

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Summer of the Mariposas

Brian Gadberry — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:54:53 +0000

In this young adult retelling of The Odyssey, Odilia and her four sisters journey to Mexico to return a dead man to his family and encounter magical creatures along the way.

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Dr. Seuss’s Summer Things

Brian Gadberry — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:53:13 +0000

“Written in super-simple rhyme, this fun, sturdy board book features Thing One and Thing Two as they spend a summer day at the shore– swimming, floating, boating, and more! Perfect for summer birthdays, baby showers, or any time of year, this is an ideal way to celebrate the season and
introduce the very youngest children to the magical world of Dr. Seuss!”

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