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• Presidents of the United States
  Title: Presidents of the United States Author:  Time for Kids Publisher: HarperCollins Subject/Category: Intermediate Grade Levels:  I - Intermediate or gr 3-5 Year Reviewed: 2007 Review: Want to know which President was the tallest? Who was the youngest to take the oath of office? This is another book in the series of great resources for children from Time-Life. This gives a brief biography of each U.S. President, along with some little known facts that children love to discover. ISBN 006081554X Price: $17.99
• Explore the Tropical Rain Forest
  Title: Explore the Tropical Rain Forest Author: Linda Tagliaferro Publisher: Capstone Subject/Category: Intermediate Grade Levels:  I - Intermediate or gr 3-5 Year Reviewed: 2007 Review: Another in the series of Fact-Finders books that is easy for elementary aged students to understand. The photographs of the actual areas and animals make it very interesting and easy to learn the information. ISBN 0736864075 Price: $16.95
• You Wouldn't Want to be a Roman Soldier
  Title: You Wouldn't Want to be a Roman Soldier Author: David Stewart Publisher: Watts Subject/Category: Intermediate Grade Levels:  I - Intermediate or gr 3-5 Year Reviewed: 2007 Review: Cartoon-like illustrations and interesting fracts about Roman times make this book a good addition to the series��You wouldn�t want to be.� ISBN 0531124231 Price: $12.95
• Cats to the Rescue
  Title: Cats to the Rescue Author: Marilyn Singer Publisher: Henry Holt Subject/Category: Intermediate Grade Levels:  I - Intermediate or gr 3-5 Year Reviewed: 2007 Review: This is a collection of true stories about cats. From attack cats to brave mother cats we hear about tales of felines that will impress and inspire. ISBN 0805074333 Price: $16.95
• Travel of Thelonious, The
  Title: Travel of Thelonious, The Author: Susan Schade Publisher: Simon & Schuster Subject/Category: Intermediate Grade Levels:  I - Intermediate or gr 3-5 Year Reviewed: 2007 Review: This is the first book in the Fog Mound series. It introduces Thelonious, a young squirrel with a taste for legends and is swept away by a flood and left in the Ruined City. He meets a porcupine librarian and a helicopter-flying bear and they take a dangerous journey to the Fog Mound, an idyllic land holding clues to humanity�s disappearance. The chapters alternate between illustrated prose and detailed sequential art display. ISBN 068987684X Price: $14.95
• Muhannad Ali, the Greatest
  Title: Muhannad Ali, the Greatest Author: Jeff Savage Publisher: Capstone Subject/Category: Intermediate Grade Levels:  I - Intermediate or gr 3-5 Year Reviewed: 2007 Review: One of the biographies in the Fact Finders Series. This is a short biography about the life and career of Muhammad Ali. It describes his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky and his early introduction to boxing followed by him becoming a professional prizefighter. ISBN 0736854444 Price: $16.95
• Journey, Stories of Migration, The
  Title: Journey, Stories of Migration, The Author: Cynthia Rylant Publisher: Scholastic Subject/Category: Intermediate Grade Levels:  I - Intermediate or gr 3-5 Year Reviewed: 2007 Review: Buttrflies, locusts, whales, caribou, and other animals move from place to place their whole lives. This is an introduction to migration with beautiful paintings of the animals� journeys. ISBN 0590307177 Price: $16.99
• One Left Behind, The
  Title: One Left Behind, The Author: Willo Davis Roberts Publisher: Atheneum Subject/Category: Intermediate Grade Levels:  I - Intermediate or gr 3-5 Year Reviewed: 2007 Review: Eleven-year-old Mandy is accidentally left at home alone for the weekend. She is remembering her twin sister, Angel, who has been dead for about a year. Someone breaks into the house and steals food. Mandy investigates and draws courage by doing what she thinks Angel would have done. She finds a teenager, Zander and his toddler brother in an abandoned cottage up the road. Zander says they are trying to get away from kidnappers and Mandy must determine what is truth and what is not. ISBN 0689850751 Price: $16.95
• Electricity
  Title: Electricity Author: Adele Richardson Publisher: Capstone Subject/Category: Intermediate Grade Levels:  I - Intermediate or gr 3-5 Year Reviewed: 2007 Review: Questions and answers are given on pages with simple but accurate illustrations. ISBN 0736854517 Price: $16.95
• Night Boat to Freedom
  Title: Night Boat to Freedom Author: Margot T. Raven Publisher: F