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Featured Books

The Skeleton Inside You, Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science (Level 2)
by Phillip Balestrino and True Kelley (Illustrator)
HarperCollins Publishers, Revised Edition, 1989
ISBN 0064450872
Ages 4 to 8
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Teach children all about their amazing skeleton and what it can do. Easy-to-understand text and light-hearted illustrations explain how the skeleton's 206 bones join together, how they grow, how they help make blood, what happens when they break and how they mend.

Bones: Our Skeletal System
by Seymour Simon
Morrow Junior Books, 1998
ISBN 0688146449
Ages 8 to 11
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Spectacular photographs and clear text teach amazing facts about the 206 bones that make up our skeletons, what makes bones hard and durable, and what happens when they weaken. Learn how bones work with muscles and joints so we can run, walk and bike.

Dadblamed Union Army Cow
by Susan Fletcher and Kimberly Bulkchen Root (Illustrator)
Candlewick Press, 2007
ISBN 9780763622633
Ages 5 to 8
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That dadblamed cow follows her owner into the Union army then straight on south go fight the war. She needs unstomped grass to eat, she gets stuck in the mud, and she’s just plain DANGEROUS in battle. But when food gets scare, frost nips the soldiers toes and flies buz 'round their heads, this peculiar cow is mighty useful and gives the weary soldiers some surprising comforts. This uplifting, heartwarming book is based on a a true story and newspaper reports from the Civil War.

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