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Three for Thanksgiving

Our libraries will be closed on Thanksgiving and the day after, so now's the time to pick up some reading to take you through the holiday. We have many cookbooks to help plan the feast, but of our other collections these three books tell stories especially true to life and true to the heart to help make your holiday a warm one.

Arthur's April Fool

By Marc Brown

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Arthur is supposed to do a magic show for the school assembly on April Fool's Day, but how can he remember his tricks when Binky the bully has him worried?

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Fried Feathers for Thanksgiving

By James Stevenson

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Mean witches Dolores and Lavinia try to spoil Thanksgiving for everyone else, but nice witch Emma and her friends outwit them.

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Don't Eat Too Much Turkey!

By Miriam Cohen

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There's a lot to do to get ready for Thanksgiving! The first graders paint a mural, write a play and make a giant turkey costume. Will Anna Maria's bossy ways spoil everybody's fun?

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Summer Soldiers

By Susan Hart Lindquist

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Not all wars are fought on battlefields. After his father goes off to France during the summer of 1918, eleven-year-old Joe takes on hard new responsibilities on his parents' sheep ranch and learns grownup truths about bullies and prejudice.

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Riding the Tiger

By Eve Bunting

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This tiger ride is no flight of fun fantasy and is for older readers. A new boy in town decides to hang with a swaggering tiger until he realizes the animal is more terrifying than magnificent. Danny realizes it's much harder to get off the tiger's back than to get on. This book presents an allegory for gang involvement.
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Leo the Late Bloomer

By Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego

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Leo the tiger cub doesn't seem to be good at doing anything in particular, but supported with his parents' love and patience he does eventually bloom and find his place in the world.
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Word Nerd

By Susin Nielsen

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When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich, friendless nerd Ambrose, forced to be home-schooled by his overprotective mother, coerces his neighbor Cosmo into taking him to the West Side Scrabble Club, where people accept him for who he is. 

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The Liberation of Gabriel King

By K.L. Going

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Soon-to-be fifth-grader Gabriel spends his summer trying to overcome fears of spiders and sixth graders, but when his best friend is threatened with a Ku Klux Klan visit, fear takes on a very different look.

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Jackson Jones and Mission Greentop

By Mary Quattlebaum

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His plot in a community garden brings 10-year-old Jackson Jones more zucchini than he cares to see and the unwanted attention of a bully, but when a company plans to destroy the garden, Jackson turns his attention to trying to save it.

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