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Aphrodite the Diva
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Aphrodite the Diva
by Joan Holub;Suzanne WilliamsSocial life at Mount Olympus High School can be tough for the teenage gods and goddesses, in these sassy, modern spins on the classic myths.
$5.95
Paperback Book | Grades 5-6
Grades 5-6 $5.95
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Why Do Snakes Hiss?
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Why Do Snakes Hiss?
by Joan Holub and Anna DivitoKids love animals and asking questions! There's so much to find out! They will find the answers to their questions—and much more—in this fun, fact-filled introductions to two of their favorite animals.
$4.95
Paperback Book | Grades 1-2
Grades 1-2 $4.95
Interest Level:
3-5
Lexile Framework:
410L
Grade Level Equivalent:
3.6
Guided Reading Level:
O
Age:
8-11
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Subject:
Immigration, Determination and Perseverance, Extended Families, Jewish Experience, Tolerance and Acceptance
Sisters Lila and Rose are spending the year with their eccentric grandmother, who runs a doll hospital. The girls are not pleased with this arrangement, but they begin to enjoy themselves when they learn their grandmother has a special power to "read" the lives of the dolls she is working to restore. In each book in this series, their grandmother tells the girls the story of a different doll.
In the first book, we meet Tatiana, a doll who travels to Ellis Island with her owner, a Russian girl named Ella.
Ella (and Tatiana) must leave Russia to flee the Pogroms. Ella's father has to stay back in Russia to care for his ailing mother, so Ella travels with family friends from whom she becomes separated on the ship bound for America. Because they are alone, Ella and Tatiana spend several months in a children's detention center on Ellis Island waiting for Ella's father. Upon his arrival, Ella gives Tatiana to a Romanian girl she has befriended — and it is this woman's granddaughter who brings Tatiana into the doll hospital, becoming Lila and Rose's first friend in their grandmother's town.
