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025408
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New York, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2016.
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36pOchre Spine
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The true tale of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash.
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9781481430951 Hb.
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011184
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Noida, Random House India, 2009.
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48pSky Blue Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Anita Kumari is seven years old and lives in a village in Bihar, tending her goats and watching the other children go to school-until one day, she sneaks into their classroom and takes up teaching them to pay for her schoolbooks and comes up with a bright idea of being a beekeeper.
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9788184000467 Pb.
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011956
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India, Going to school,
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28pPurple Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Anuradha Rathore is studying medicine in Jodhpur Medical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. When Anu was young she contracted Polio - and although it affected the way she walks it has not slowed Anu down in any other way. Anu has studied very hard and won a place at medical college under a reservation for students with physical disabilities. Anu failed once at school and she still finds college challenging, but she wants to be a doctor so she can prevent other children from contracting Polio.
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010743
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New York, Random House, 1999.
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99pRed Spine
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Stepping Stones (True stories)
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Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.
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0679891986 Pb.
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011958
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India, Going to school,
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50pLight Green Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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She was inspired by the famous policewoman Kiran Bedi and decided to take up the same profession. Today, Bhanwari is 24 years old and is in charge of the 'women's desk' in the police station where she works, listening to the problems of women in her district and trying to help as much as she can.
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019954
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New York, Beach Lane Books, 2010.
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28pBlue Spine
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After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and reading late into the night.
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9781416997788 Hb.
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014195
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Birdman
/ Charles, Veronika Martenova; Galouchko, Annouchka Gravel (ill.); Daigle, Stephan (ill.)
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2006
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New York, Tundra Books, 2006.
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30pYellow Spine
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When his family dies suddenly, Noor Nobi, a humble tailor in Calcutta, India, finds a way to mend his broken heart by purchasing, healing, and releasing illegally caged birds. Based on a true story.
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0887767400 Hb.
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026990
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Black panther
/ Bala, Aravind Krish; Rajagopalan, Ashok (ill.)
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2011
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Chennai, Tulika Publishers, 2011.
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32pGreen Spine
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A thrilling book based on a true story of an encounter with the endangered cat in the Western Ghats of India. Perched on a treetop at a waterhole in a reserve forest in Kerala, the author and his friend, Natarajan, an Irula tribesman, were waiting to sight a tiger. This was when Natarajan told him the story of his first encounter with a black panther in the Anamalai Hills – which happened after he had been roaming those hills for forty years!
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9788181469885 Pb.
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018306
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New York, Puffin Books, 1997.
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32pGreen spine
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Puffin young readers - Level 2 (Progressing reader)
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The true story of a mother cat that becomes a celebrity when it rescues its kittens from a burning building in New York in 1996.
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9780448494821 Pb.
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025844
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New York, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2019.
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36pBlue Spine
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In 1912, orphaned Irish street musician Jonathan Harker accidentally stows away on the Titanic, where he is befriended by Wallace Hartley, called "the bravest man in the world" for playing violin with the band as the Titanic sank.
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9781481494618 Hb.
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012545
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New York, Yearling, 2010.
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323pRed Spine
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Discusses how Bulu, a Jack Russell terrier born on a crocodile farm in Zambia, became a foster parent for orphaned baby animals after being adopted by Anna and Steve Tolan, former police officers who left England to live in the African bush.
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9780375847240 Pb.
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026009
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New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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329pWhite Spine
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A harrowing, heartrending, illustrated account of the author's childhood escape from the terrors of war.
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9780374313715 Hb.
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022166
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London, Franklin Watts, 2015.
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47pMagenta Spine
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Michel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his schoolyard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Against the odds, Michel managed to escape and find his way back to his family, but he was never the same again. After immigrating to Canada, Michel was encouraged by a teacher to share what happened to him in order to raise awareness about child soldiers around the world, and this book is part of that effort.
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9781445145655 Pb.
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ID:
024211
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Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2010.
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36pSky Blue Spine
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The true story of how scientist George Schaller and four mountain men set out to save the chiru (antelope-like creatures that cannot survive captivity and live on the high plains of Tibet) from near extinction.
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9780618581306 Hb.
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ID:
020725
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London, Simon and Schuster, 2010.
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32pOrange Spine
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Based on the true story of Ace and John, who bought Christian the Lion cub home from a London Department store as a pet and looked after him until he was sent to the wild.
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9781847389152 Pb.
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024119
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New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2012.
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212pWhite spine
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Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have astonishing lessons to reveal. Take Vishnu, who achieves every material success but never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talks so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever; an impoverished village woman provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area; a do-gooder ghost decides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a woman in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget.
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20 copies
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9780143418658 Pb.
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ID:
014108
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New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2012.
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212pWhite Spine
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Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have astonishing lessons to reveal. Take Vishnu, who achieves every material success but never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talks so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever; an impoverished village woman provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area; a do-gooder ghost decides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a woman in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget.
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20 copies
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9780143418658 Pb.
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011950
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India, Going to school,
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32pMulti-colour Spine
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Girl Stars - Going to school
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Durga Bai is a health worker with Arth, an organization in the tribal belt of Udaipur District, Rajasthan. Durga travels by herself, by bus, to 22 villages every month and talks to 2,000 women everyday about how to improve their health and the health of their children. In the villages Durga visits, women are not educated and many girls do not go to school. Durga explains health concepts in a local dialect, ensuring that as many children as she meets are vaccinated, visit medical centers and go to school.
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025567
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New York, Square Fish, 2004.
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96pBrown Spine
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Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, and even after the professor has a fatal heart attack while at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return until the day the dog dies. Based on a true story; includes an author's note and glossary of Japanese words.
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9780312558062 Pb.
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ID:
024056
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New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
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402pWhite Spine
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The inspiring story of a 12-year-old American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe who change each other's lives when her letter for her class's pen-pal project finds its way to him.
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9780316241335 Pb.
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