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The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity
“The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity” is a timeless fable featuring willful young Christine's attempts to understand the nature of true learning and friendship. After imagining encounters with a persistent, sassy, mysterious cat, she discovers she can choose to act on behalf of others. Child-friendly exchanges created by a celebrated German children's book writer are accompanied by sophisticated artwork in an exceptionally handsome little volume.- Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2008 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9781571316769
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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Inspired by an antique lithograph, Nelson has created dramatically luminous illustrations that portray Henry “Box” Brown's ingenious design to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 2008 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780545134552
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Hugo is a young orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station where he labors to complete a mysterious invention left by his father. In a work of more than five hundred pages, the suspenseful text and wordless double-page spreads narrate the tale in turns. Black-and-white pencil illustrations evoke the flickering images of the silent films to which the book pays homage.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 2008 (Medal Winner)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780439813785
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Nic Bishop Spiders
Even the squeamish will be awed by Bishop's oversized, dramatic and vibrant up-close color photographs of more than a dozen types of spiders in “Nic Bishop Spider.” His compelling, conversational and knowledgeable text provides basic information and startling facts which all ages will relish.- Nonfiction, Science, Animals
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2008 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780439877565
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Nicholas and the Gang
Originally published in French as “Le petit Nicolas et les copains,” this companion volume to “Nicholas,” a 2006 Batchelder Honor Book, presents the further hilarious escapades of a schoolboy and his classmates in an all-boys school. Sempé's jaunty pen-and-ink artwork extends the energy of the text. Brief, fresh, and funny, the Nicholas stories have been favorites among French schoolchildren for nearly 50 years.- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2008 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780714862262
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Treasure Island
Stevenson's pirate classic elegantly unfolds as Alfred Molina's panoply of accents and the soundscape of the sea place listeners aboard the Hispaniola.- Fiction, Audiobook
- Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production 2008 (Honor Title)
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: 9780739356609