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The Light Bulb Conspiracy
Using historical photographs, film footage, and interviews with people in Europe, the United States, and Ghana, the female narrator takes viewers from the beginning of mass production in the 1920s with Henry Ford’s Model-T to General Motors’ annual car models to Bernard London’s proposal during the New Deal era for compulsory planned obsolescence that he believed would keep people working and create a continuous market demand for consumer goods to the 1950s when designers subscribed to this mantra...
Summer on Wheels
Gary Soto’s delightful road trip (Scholastic, 1995) takes place on bikes as Hector and Mando decide to visit Hector’s relatives across California during summer break...
Hey, Presto!
PreS-Gr 1–Presto and Monty live in an alleyway surrounded by garbage and rats, but this cat and dog are happy because they have each other...
The Perfect Hug
PreS-K–Like the penguin who searched for a kiss in Walsh’s The Biggest Kiss (S & S, 2011), a young panda also sets out on a journey to find an “exactly right” hug...
Mimi's Village And How Basic Health Care Transformed It
Gr 1-4–This book is part of a series that intends to educate and inspire youngsters to help other children around the world...
Ganesha's Sweet Tooth
Gr 1-3–Two traditional events in the life of the Hindu god Ganesha are imaginatively recast as though happening during his childhood: “he was just like every other kid except that he had an elephant’s head and cruised around on a magical mouse collecting fruit, rice, sweets, and other gifts from the temples in his neighborhood...
Mousetronaut
K-Gr 2–In this picture book based on the space shuttle Endeavor, mice are being trained alongside human astronauts and selected to accompany the 2001 mission...
If You Spent a Day With Thoreau at Walden Pond
PreS-Gr 2– In 1845, at age 28, Thoreau built a tiny cabin in the woods beside Walden Pond outside the town of Concord, Massachusetts...
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