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Nov.01.2010
Tofu and his cousin are invited to visit their uncle who is a fisherman in the Pacific Northwest. When their uncle gives the boys a little skiff to fix up, they learn about teamwork, friendship, the sea, and a special song their Uncle Hiroshi teaches them. He tells the boys the sailors sing this...
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Sep.18.2008
Tofu Ling is the first in the series of books about Tofu and his family. The Ling family are mice that live in the floor boards of an artist shop. While the Lings are busy preparing for the fall harvest, Tofu is busy day dreaming and using his imagination to discover the world around him. When...
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Jul.10.2008
The toddler in Kathy Stinson's Red Is Best has a problem. As she explains on the opening page, "My mom doesn't understand about red." Red is Kelly's favourite, and yet her mother is forever trying to convince her to wear other colours. Her mother's reasons are uniformly practical--for...
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Jul.09.2008
Meredith and Mallory Brynn are mirror twins born on either side of midnight one snowy New Y ear’s Eve. They have always been inseparable. But after they are nearly killed in a mysterious fire on their thirteenth birthday, the bond that has always joined them unravels. They begin to have visions and...
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Feb.15.2008
Rockabye is Rebecca Woolf’s heartfelt and often hilarious account of what happens when an irrepressible young city girl gets pregnant by accident and decides to keep the baby and marry the boyfriend. Forced to come of age almost overnight, Woolf charts her transformation from odd-job doing,...
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