Melissa Iwai

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1) Gigi and Ojiji: what's in a name?

Author

Iwai, Melissa

Series

I can read book

Pub. Date

[2023]

Edition

First edition.

Description

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"Gigi wants to go by something besides her baby name--but Geraldine is too long to write and Hanako, her middle name, doesn't feel quite right. Will Gigi find the perfect name?"--

2) Dumplings for Lili

Author

Iwai, Melissa

Pub. Date

[2021]

Edition

First edition.

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Staff Picks

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Lili loves to cook little dumplings called baos with her grandmother, but when cabbage is needed, Lili races up and down the stairs of her grandmother's apartment building to find the ingredient and help the other grandmothers borrow ingredients for different dumplings, from Jamaican meat patties and Italian ravioli to Lebanese fatayer and more.

3) Thirty minutes over Oregon: a Japanese pilot's World War II story

Author

Nobleman, Marc Tyler

Pub. Date

[2018]

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"In this important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII--the only enemy ever to do so--and comes back 20 years later to apologize."--Provided by publisher.

4) Good night, engines

Author

Mortensen, Denise Dowling

Pub. Date

c2003

Description

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Rhyming verses describe how a variety of vehicles, from locomotives to eighteen-wheelers to automobiles, wind down for a night of rest.

5) Green as a bean

Author

Kuskin, Karla

Pub. Date

2007

Edition

1st ed.

Description

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Questions in verse about the many things you could be if you were square or soft or loud or red or small or fat or fierce or dark.

6) Corn aplenty

Author

Rau, Dana Meachen

Series

Step into reading. Step 1

Pub. Date

c2009

Edition

1st ed.

Description

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Two children watch a local farmer grow a crop of corn and as the corn develops--from seed to harvest time--so does the friendship between the children and the farmer.

7) Hope is a hop

Author

Moore, Katrina

Pub. Date

2023.

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"When Eva's hopes for a cheerful flower garden are dashed by a rascally -- and hungry! -- rabbit, she sinks into despair. But it's from this new vantage point that she discovers something surprising and wonderful about her four-legged-nemesis that reminds Eva of her own growing family and inspires her to try again." -- Provided by publisher.