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How are baby animals born? This story tells about two different types of animal birth with easy text and beautiful illustrations.
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- Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan, Computer Scientist (Picture Book Biography) Amazon.com
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In Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan, Computer Scientist, elementary-aged children follow Dorothy’s journey from math teacher to human computer and beyond, a journey made difficult because she was an African American woman working during a time of segregation.
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- Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (Paula Wiseman Books) Amazon.com
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Douglass spent his life advocating for the equality of all, and it was through reading that he was able to stand up for himself and others.
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Set during the devastating tsunami of 2004, MAMA is the touching true story of a baby hippo that was separated from his mother when the wave hit. After struggling alone for several days, the baby was rescued by Kenyan wildlife officers and brought to live in an animal refuge. There, all by himself, he adopted a new “mother”–that just happened to be a 130-year-old giant male tortoise.
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