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1) So Big
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"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely considered to be Edna Ferber's greatest achievement, So Big is a classic novel of turn-of-the-century Chicago. It is the unforgettable story of Selina Peake DeJong, a gambler's daughter, and her struggles to stay afloat and maintain her dignity and her sanity in the face of marriage, widowhood, and single parenthood." --
2) So big!
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Just when a little bear starts to feel overwhelmed on his first day of school, he meets a new friend, and together they find the courage to overcome their fear.
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"So Big" is author Edna Ferber's breakout, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of life on an American farm and features one of the most iconic characters in 20th century fiction, the hardscrabble schoolteacher-turned-truck-farmer Selina Peake DeJong.
A sensation when it was first published, "So Big" tells the story of young Selina, who moves to the tiny farming town of High Prairie to become a schoolteacher and winds up marrying local farmer, Purvis DeJong....
10) Feelings So Big
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"When things get tricky, do you ever feel like your feelings get so big inside you that you can't keep them in any longer? And do you feel like they're too big for you and you just don't know what to do and how to feel better?
I do, I have a plan…'
When little people get big feelings, they don't always know how to manage them or how to work through their feelings so they're not so big and not so scary. This book talks about a plan that every little...
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These easy to learn activity songs are designed for pre-school and primary grade learners. Each song is repeated in an instrumental version. Once children have learned a song, they can sing along without hearing the words, or make up their own words and create their own movements.
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At the end of the twenty-first century, Earth is under the control of a single intelligence, the apparently benign One True. Mars, meanwhile, is slowly terraforming, and the human settlers there are still free of One True's control...but they need a pressure suits to survive outside, and it will be a century or more before the planet's fit for terrestrial life.
Terpsichore Murray is growing up on Mars. She wants to quit school and become, like her...
16) So big
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"After her mother dies, Selina Peake's father takes her to Chicago, where she attends a finishing school. When her father is killed, leaving her penniless, Selina's friends learn that he was a gambler and drop her. Only Julie Hemple helps her, persuading her father, August Hemple, to get Selina a job as a schoolteacher in a small Dutch community near Chicago. There, Selina lives with a farm family, helping their adoring son Roelf with his lessons....
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Celebrate the very special bonds of love between a mother and her child in this tender tale. As a young boy gets ready for bed the night before the first day of school he talks to his mother about everything from his first tiny wail to his halting first steps to his triumphant first bike ride. This nostalgic look book sweetly depicts the unconditional love between a mother and her son. Perfect for celebrating a child's first day of school.
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