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River Falls
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January 2001
Younger Fiction---
- Arthur’s Fire Drill
by Mark Brown
Random House, 2000
To help comfort and ease D.W.’s fear about fire drills, Arthur begins
to practice fire drills at home.
- Drawing Lesson from a Bear
by David McPhail
Little Brown and Company, 2000
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A bear explains how he becomes an artist, first experimenting with simple
drawings, then continuing to draw both things around him and things in his
imagination. Includes tips for drawing.
- Welcome
by Kevin O’Malley
Walker Publishing Company, 1997
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An illustrated collection of scary stories with humorous endings,
featuring such elements as a boy being followed home by a coffin, a rapping
noise in a haunted house, and strange intruders at the front door.
---Older Fiction---
- The Roundhill
by Dick King-Smith
Crown Publishers, 2000
+ Kin
While on summer holiday in 1936, fourteen-year old Evan meets a
mysterious girl who bears a striking resemblance to the Alice of "Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland."
- Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba
by Patricia McKissack
Scholastic,
2000
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Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth century West
African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day
against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.
- Anastasia: the last Grand Duchess
by Carolyn Meyer
Scholastic, 2000
+ Mey
A novel told in diary format from the point of view of the youngest
daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. She describes her privileged life in which her
family lived and how it all changed when the Russian Revolution brought
tragedy to her family.
---Non-Fiction---
- Mother Goose Remembers
by Clare Beaton
Barefoot Books, 2000
+ 398.8 Bea
On each page, the reader is asked to find Mother Goose’s feather, which
leads the readers through each page of rhymes in a topsy,turvy nursery world
- Mississippi River: A journey Down the Father of Waters
by Peter
Lourie
Boys Mill Press 2000
+ 917.681 Lur
An exploration of one of America’s great rivers, both historically and
geographically, from its headwaters in Minnesota to its mouth at the Gulf of
Mexico.
- Steam, Smoke and Steel : Back in Time with Trains
by Patrick O’Brien
Charlesbridge Publishing, 2000
+384.36 O’Br
A boy traces the development of railroad engines from coal to steam to
diesel as he recounts his family’s experience of driving trains over the
years. Illustrated in watercolor and gouache.
New Books of Past Months
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