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1) Chicken Big
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A giant chicken hatches from an enormous egg, but the other chickens cannot accept that he is one of them.
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Baseball season has arrived and Mo Jackson is all set to play with his team, the Lions. But Mo always bats last, and he always plays right field-- and no balls ever come to right field. Mo wants to get a home run, but he keeps striking out. His team is losing! Will Mo ever get his chance to help the Lions win?
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Sixty-eight rooms adventures volume 4
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In the Art Institute of Chicago's miniature Thorne Rooms, the Thorne Rooms key and a mysterious set of rings lead Ruthie and Jack to new historical eras and a woman who went missing as a young girl.
8) Flat Stanley
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"Based on the original Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown, c1964"--T.p. verso.
A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.
9) Actual size
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Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals.
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Sixty-eight rooms adventures volume 1
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Art Appreciation for Youth
National Art Month (Middle Grades)
OBD Reading Colors Your World Chapter Books - YOUTH
National Art Month (Middle Grades)
OBD Reading Colors Your World Chapter Books - YOUTH
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Ruthie thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to her until her sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, where she and her best friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore the Thorne Rooms--the collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various time periods and places--and discover their secrets.
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"Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins football team. The kids on the rival team tease him for being a 'butterfingers' who's too tiny to catch the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan up his sleeve to turn Mo's little size into a big win for the Robins"--
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Stink Moody volume 1
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OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
OBD President's Day (February) - YOUTH
OBD Ready for Chapter Books 2 - YOUTH
OBD President's Day (February) - YOUTH
OBD Ready for Chapter Books 2 - YOUTH
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The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school. Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then, one day, the ruler reads-can it be?-three feet, seven and three quarters inches! Is...
15) Little Excavator
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"Little Excavator wants to help the big rigs transform a vacant lot into a neighborhood park, but he is too small to get the job done! That is, until he finds a job that is a perfect Little E-sized task"-- ǂc Provided by publisher.
16) Bigger! Bigger!
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Putting on her construction hat, a young girl uses her imagination as she builds a doghouse, a bridge, and a skyscraper.
17) Short
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"Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive, one of the adults with dwarfism who've joined the production's motley crew of Munchkins, and with...
19) I spy sizes
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"Identifying attributes of objects is a staple of early elementary education, and one of these attributes is size. This valuable volume provides an excellent opportunity for review and assessment of the appropriate use of size words, such as big, small, large, and little, as well as other vocabulary that young readers should become familiar with. The at-level text is specially crafted to be achievable for beginning readers, who will find plenty of...
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Illustrates the concept of big, bigger, and biggest by comparing the physical measurements of such large things as a blue whale, a mountain, a star, and the universe.
A blue whale is big; it's the BIGGEST animal alive. But it isn't the biggest thing there is. After all, a blue whale would look small sitting on top of a mountain. And though a mountain is large, it's no more than a pebble in relation to the whole earth. So is the earth the biggest...
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