Sakamoto's swim club : how a teacher led an unlikely team to victory by Abery, Julie 

BTSB Prebound(Kids Can Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 040220 Available

Dewey: 797.2/BAges: 5-8   
AR: 2.2 LG Lexile: 480 AD

Genres:

Subjects: Sakamoto, Soichi,|d1906-1997 Swim teams - Hawaii - Maui - History Swimming - Hawaii - Maui - History Swimming coaches - Biography American stories in rhyme

Summary: When the children of workers on a 1930s Maui sugar plantation were chased away from playing in the nearby irrigation ditches, local science teacher Soichi Sakamoto had an idea. He offered to take responsibility for the children-and then he began training them how to swim.

Smitten with kittens by Minor, Florence Friedmann 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2022)

BTSB #: 343382 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-7   
Lexile: 500 AD F&P: J

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Cats - Fiction Stories in rhyme Animal babies - Fiction

Summary: Celebrate all the things that kittens do as they play, explore, and make mischief!

Wait and see by Frost, Helen 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 360791 Available

Dewey: 595.7/NAges: 3-7   


Genres:

Subjects: Praying mantises Insects - Behavior Arthropods

Summary: Lyrical language and stunning photographs explore the life of the praying mantis.

Worst-case Collin by Caprara, Rebecca 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2021)

BTSB #: 185805 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.5 MG Lexile: 680

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Hoarders - Fiction Grief - Fiction Death - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction Mathematicians - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Collin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problem that is spiraling out of control, leaving Collin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone else, even as he struggles with his own grief.

Zoobilations! by Florian, Douglas 

BTSB Prebound(Beach Lane Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 343576 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 4-8   


Genres:

Subjects: Animals - Poetry American poetry Children's poetry

Summary: A collection of poems celebrating animals, from weasels to hammerhead sharks.