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6) Frog Music
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"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he...
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Toddlers love trains and the noises they make. Listen Up! Train Song uses repeating verse and bright photographs to match this enthusiasm with a unique take on the conceptual sound book that is perfect for reading aloud. Each spread uses onomatopoeia to highlight the ting-a ling! of subway door chimes, the chuff-a-gruff-a! of a diesel engine, and more. And after the children have sung along through the colorful pages, a final note to caregivers offers...
8) Snowpiercer
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The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
10) Choo-choo school
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Pub. Date
2020
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"No racing in the haul-ways! From the [...] author Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a look at seven adorable train cars on their first day of school. All aboard the train-car pool! A new lineup of students is off and rolling to Choo-Choo School. After reciting their classroom rules -- Work hard, play fair, be kind -- it's time for some math to get the wheels turning. Then everyone's ready to climb a hill in gym (it's good to blow off steam), sing songs in music...
13) Best of James
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A collection of 8 stories featuring Thomas the Tank Engine and his friend James.
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[2007]
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Experience the joy and magic of Sodor Island's holiday season. See if Percy's snow-covered face tricks James and the rest of the engines into thinking they have seen the very scary Jack Frost. Cheer on Thomas, Harold, Percy and Terence as they shovel out stranded villagers just in time for Christmas.
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When trouble strikes at the Blue Mountain Quarry, Thomas is sent to help his Narrow Gauge engine friends. While shunting and hauling, he discovers a little green engine hiding in the tunnels. Thomas is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery but discovering the truth is harder than he imagined! Will Thomas be able to help his new friend? or will the little engine be sent away from Sodor forever? Find out in Thomas' most mysterious adventure...
19) Go!
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Pub. Date
[2001]
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Illustrations accompany the lyrics to twenty-three songs about things that go. Includes a CD recording of all the featured songs.
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[2014]
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Celebrates and embraces the fascination preschoolers have with both trains and dinosaurs. Ride along on the Dinosaur train with Buddy and his family through the Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic time periods to meet new friends, like Erma Eoraptor, one of the first species of dinosaurs. Sing songs with King Cryolophosaurus to celebrate Troodon Train Day, and see how fast and amazing the new Rocket Train is!
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