Leo Dillon

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1) Rap a tap tap: here's Bojangles, think of that!

Author

Dillon, Leo

Pub. Date

2002

Lexile measure

AD 360L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

2) Jazz on a Saturday night

Author

Dillon, Leo

Pub. Date

2007

Lexile measure

AD 580L

Physical Desc

36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Language

English

Description

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Learn about this popular music form and hear each instrument play on a specially produced CD.

3) If kids ran the world

Author

Dillon, Leo

Publisher

The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

2014.

Lexile measure

AD 520L

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 x 23 cm

Language

English

Description

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In text and pictures, this book tells us how much better the world would be, if kids were allowed to run the world.

4) Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: a West African tale

Author

Aardema, Verna

Series

CALDECOTT MEDAL volume 1976

Pub. Date

1975

Lexile measure

770L

Language

English

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Cause & Effect

Description

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Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.

5) Enchantress from the stars

Author

Engdahl, Sylvia

Series

Elana

Lexile measure

910L

Language

English

Description

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When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system.

6) The tale of the mandarin ducks

Author

Paterson, Katherine

Pub. Date

1990

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

AD 930L

Physical Desc

34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Language

English

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Ask & Answer Questions

Description

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A pair of mandarin ducks, separated by a cruel lord who wishes to possess the drake for his colorful beauty, reward a compassionate couple who risk their lives to reunite the ducks.

7) Ashanti to Zulu: African traditions

Author

Musgrove, Margaret

Pub. Date

1976

Lexile measure

900L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 33 cm

Language

English

Description

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Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.

8) The secret river

Author

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Lexile measure

AD 590L

Language

English

Description

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Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.

9) The people could fly: American Black folktales

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Pub. Date

1985

Lexile measure

480L

Physical Desc

177 pages ; 27 cm

Language

English

Description

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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.

10) Her stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Pub. Date

1995

Lexile measure

960L

Physical Desc

xiii, 112 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

11) Many thousand gone: African Americans from slavery to freedom

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Pub. Date

1992

Lexile measure

990L

Physical Desc

151 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Language

English

12) The goblin and the empty chair

Author

Fox, Mem

Pub. Date

2009

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

AD 550L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Language

English

Description

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A goblin who for many years has been hiding himself so that he does not frighten anyone finally finds a family.

13) To every thing there is a season: verses from Ecclesiastes

Pub. Date

1998

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Language

English

Description

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Presents the selection from Ecclesiastes which relates that everything in life has its own time and season; depicts each verse with a different style of art from around the world.

14) Who's in Rabbit's house?: A Masai tale retold

Author

Aardema, Verna

Pub. Date

1977

Lexile measure

520L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Language

English

15) The people could fly: the picture book

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Pub. Date

2004

Lexile measure

480L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Language

English

Description

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In this retelling of a folktale, a group of slaves, unable to bear their sadness and starvation any longer, call upon the African magic that allows them to fly away.