New Books
Here's a sampling of some of the new books that recently arrived at Northwest AEA. You can find them using our online catalog or feel free to contact us with any questions. There's also a downloadable 6-page mini-catalog you can download with all the titles.
TeachingBooks is one of the AEA Digital Resources. TeachingBooks provides resources for teachers that help them introduce students to authors, locates lesson plans, provides links to video trailers and audiobook readings. You'll find examples within this newsletter. Here's a link to a list from TeachingBooks with resources you can use with the new titles.
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After the Snowfall A fox explores the forest in winter and encounters a deer, an owl, squirrels, mice, ducks, otters, a moose, rabbits and crows. | The Boy Whose Head was Filled with Stars Picture book biography of astronomer and mathematician Edwin Hubble. Tracks Hubble as a boy when he became fascinated by the stars, to how he became famous for discovering other galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. | The Comeback Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen dreams of becoming a figure skating champion, but a remarkably talented new girl at the arena and a racist classmate at school test her resolve. |
After the Snowfall
A fox explores the forest in winter and encounters a deer, an owl, squirrels, mice, ducks, otters, a moose, rabbits and crows.
The Boy Whose Head was Filled with Stars
Picture book biography of astronomer and mathematician Edwin Hubble. Tracks Hubble as a boy when he became fascinated by the stars, to how he became famous for discovering other galaxies beyond our own Milky Way.
The Comeback
Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen dreams of becoming a figure skating champion, but a remarkably talented new girl at the arena and a racist classmate at school test her resolve.
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Eyes that Kiss in the Corners A young girl notices that her eyes are different from those of her friends. Her eyes, as she says, "kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea." The girl goes on to describe how they take after the eyes of her mother and grandmother, explaining all the wonderful attributes she sees in their depths. And when she again reflects on her own eyes, she sees they are both beautiful and powerful. | Ground Zero: A Novel of 9/11 On September 11, 2001, Brandon is visiting his dad at work in the World Trade Center when the first plane hits. He begins a harrowing journey to escape and survive. On September 11, 2019, Reshmina has grown up in Afghanistan surrounded by war, but she dreams of peace. When her village is attacked, she comes across a wounded American soldier named Taz, and she must make an impossible choice that could put her family in grave danger. | Home is in Between Immigrating to America, a young girl navigates between her family's Bengali traditions and her new country's culture. |
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
A young girl notices that her eyes are different from those of her friends. Her eyes, as she says, "kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea." The girl goes on to describe how they take after the eyes of her mother and grandmother, explaining all the wonderful attributes she sees in their depths. And when she again reflects on her own eyes, she sees they are both beautiful and powerful.
Ground Zero: A Novel of 9/11
On September 11, 2001, Brandon is visiting his dad at work in the World Trade Center when the first plane hits. He begins a harrowing journey to escape and survive. On September 11, 2019, Reshmina has grown up in Afghanistan surrounded by war, but she dreams of peace. When her village is attacked, she comes across a wounded American soldier named Taz, and she must make an impossible choice that could put her family in grave danger.
Home is in Between
Immigrating to America, a young girl navigates between her family's Bengali traditions and her new country's culture.
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Ice: Poems about Polar Life Collects more than twenty children's poems expounding on the wildlife and environment of the polar regions. Poems offer facts, scientific concepts, and warnings about global warming, and are accompanied by full-color illustrations. | Journey Around the Sun: The Story of Halley's Comet A giant frozen ball of gas and ice known as Halley's Comet narrates its many visits past Earth, beginning with human's earliest recorded sightings of it. The comet describes what human life was like in each century and discusses the scientific advancements made by humankind, including Edmond Halley's understanding of the comet's connection in history and the prediction of its 1758 visit. | The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics Describes the harm that plastics create in the environment, from microplastics found in wildlife to garbage patches in the ocean, and discusses creative ways individuals are combating the problem. Includes a timeline, a list of the top ten ocean polluters, and summaries and websites about the programs, scientists, and activists profiled in the book. |
Ice: Poems about Polar Life
Collects more than twenty children's poems expounding on the wildlife and environment of the polar regions. Poems offer facts, scientific concepts, and warnings about global warming, and are accompanied by full-color illustrations.
Journey Around the Sun: The Story of Halley's Comet
A giant frozen ball of gas and ice known as Halley's Comet narrates its many visits past Earth, beginning with human's earliest recorded sightings of it. The comet describes what human life was like in each century and discusses the scientific advancements made by humankind, including Edmond Halley's understanding of the comet's connection in history and the prediction of its 1758 visit.
The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics
Describes the harm that plastics create in the environment, from microplastics found in wildlife to garbage patches in the ocean, and discusses creative ways individuals are combating the problem. Includes a timeline, a list of the top ten ocean polluters, and summaries and websites about the programs, scientists, and activists profiled in the book.
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Let Liberty Rise: How America's Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty Chronicles the story of how everyday Americans came together to fund the construction of the Statue of Liberty, and highlights Joseph Pulitzer's campaign to fund the pedestal for the statue. Highlights the contributions of American citizens including school children, farmers, factory workers, immigrants, housewives, office clerks, and the rich. | Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued In 1938, British stockbroker Nicholas Winston arranged to save the lives of 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi capture in Czechoslovakia by arranging train rides and host families in London. The life of one of the children, Vera Gissing, changes forever as she's forced to grow up in a new home with memories of a past she can't forget. | Snoozie, Sunny, and So-So Best friends Snoozie, a cat, and Sunny, a dog, encounter a quiet dog on their morning walk who's been feeling "so-so" since the loss of a friend. Their chance meet-up develops into a friendship, helping So-So, as she's now called, cope with her loss. |
Let Liberty Rise: How America's Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty
Chronicles the story of how everyday Americans came together to fund the construction of the Statue of Liberty, and highlights Joseph Pulitzer's campaign to fund the pedestal for the statue. Highlights the contributions of American citizens including school children, farmers, factory workers, immigrants, housewives, office clerks, and the rich.
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued
In 1938, British stockbroker Nicholas Winston arranged to save the lives of 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi capture in Czechoslovakia by arranging train rides and host families in London. The life of one of the children, Vera Gissing, changes forever as she's forced to grow up in a new home with memories of a past she can't forget.
Snoozie, Sunny, and So-So
Best friends Snoozie, a cat, and Sunny, a dog, encounter a quiet dog on their morning walk who's been feeling "so-so" since the loss of a friend. Their chance meet-up develops into a friendship, helping So-So, as she's now called, cope with her loss.
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The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall's Life, Leadership, and Legacy Picture book biography of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Follows Marshall through his childhood and his desire to fight for fairness for Black Americans to how he became appointed to the Supreme Court. |
The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall's Life, Leadership, and Legacy
Picture book biography of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Follows Marshall through his childhood and his desire to fight for fairness for Black Americans to how he became appointed to the Supreme Court.
