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1) Mustafa
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Mustafa and his family traveled a long way to reach their new home. Some nights Mustafa dreams about the country he used to live in, and he wakes up not knowing where he is. Then his mother takes him out to the balcony to see the moon ? the same moon as in their old country. In the park, Mustafa sees ants and caterpillars and bees ? they are the same, too. He encounters a "girl-with-a-cat," who says something in a language that he can?t understand....
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In this book in the Stella and Sam series, Marie-Louise Gay has gone back in time to answer the questions often asked by the children who read and love the books.
Where does Stella get her wild ideas? How big is Stella's imagination? What did Stella look like when she was small? How did Stella come to be the big sister to Sam that we all know and love?
Although Marie-Louise Gay didn't know what she would find when she started to explore Stella's...
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Travels with my family volume 4
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Charlie and Max go on a trip to Croatia, visit a poisonous garden, an island where grown men steal fish from one another, and learn that feuds can divide neighbors generations later. He also learns that you don't need to speak the same language to communicate with others.
4) Caramba!
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This enhanced book, in celebration of Groundwood's 35th anniversary, includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Marie-Louise Gay.
Caramba is a sweet, shy cat who bravely accepts that he is different, and then discovers his own special talent.
Award-winning author and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay, best known for her Stella and Sam books, brings us an endearing character in Caramba, a sweet, shy cat who bravely accepts that he is different,...
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Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition - by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while...
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Travels with my family volume 2
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In the sequel to Travels With My Family, the family is on the road again -- this time to spend a year in a tiny village in southern France. They experiences the spring migration of sheep up to the mountain pastures, the annual running of the bulls (in which Charlie's father is trapped in a phone booth by a raging bull), and other adventures large and small. Most of all, though, Charlie and his little brother, Max, grow fond of their new neighbors...
7) Hopscotch
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When her family must move once more, Ophelia uses her imagination to make magic out of a scary situation.
Giant rabbits with sharp teeth circle the old motel where they are staying. Ophelia can also hear crow-witches cackling from the trees. And when it's time to go to her new school, she encounters an ogre who blocks the road with his giant ogre laughs.
But most frightening of all is when Ophelia is left in her new class and realizes that everyone...
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Travels with my family volume 1
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Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while...
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Travels with my family volume 3
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Charlie can't wait for school to be over. But he's wondering what particular vacation ordeal his parents have lined up for the family this summer. Canoeing with alligators in Okefenokee? Getting caught in the middle of a revolutionary shootout in Mexico? Or perhaps another trip abroad? Turns out, this summer the family is staying put, in their hometown. Montreal, Canada. A "staycation," his parents call it. Charlie is doubtful at first but, ever resourceful,...
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