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Silicon Valley Reads can purchase them locally for a discount price.
Minimum of five copies in each set of books.
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Children's Companion Books for Silicon Valley Reads
2011
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Now your family can discuss together the themes
of the Silicon Valley Reads selection - a wonderful way to encourage reading
and thinking with a new perspective |
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Alabama Moon
by Watt Key
About the book
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest
shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in
the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless
enemy, and finally a new life. (Grades 4 - 8)
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 One
By Kathryn Otoshi
About the book
Introduces young readers to numbers, counting, and primary and secondary
colors by offering the story of ill-tempered Red who got too powerful for
his own good and had to be brought down to size by One--a single entity with
the courage to stand up for what was right. (Grades K - 3).
Listen to Kathryn Otoshi read One at the annual Project Cornerstone
breakfast in 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TGaDSMAS1E
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 Pouch!
By David Ezra Stein
About the book
A baby kangaroo takes his first tentative hops outside of his mama's
pouch, meeting other creatures and growing bolder each time. (Grades Pre -
K).
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