James Rumford

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1) Rain school

Author

Pub. Date

2010

Lexile measure

AD 510L

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Language

English

Description

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The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away.

2) Don't touch my hat!

Author

Pub. Date

2007

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

AD 680L

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Language

English

Description

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A sheriff in the Old West fights crime with the help of his lucky ten-gallon hat.

3) Nine animals and the well

Author

Pub. Date

2003

Lexile measure

730L

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm

Language

English

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A fable about a group of animals which strives to bring the perfect present to the Indian raja-king's birthday party. Discusses how the numerals we use originated in India.

4) Traveling man: the journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354

Author

Pub. Date

2001

Lexile measure

AD 740L

Physical Desc

34 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Language

English

5) Sequoyah: the Cherokee man who gave his people writing

Author

Pub. Date

2004

Lexile measure

AD 620L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Language

English

6) Silent music: a story of Baghdad

Author

Pub. Date

2008

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

AD 830L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm

Language

English

Description

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As bombs and missiles fall on Baghdad in 2003, a young boy uses the art of calligraphy to distance himself from the horror of war.

7) Tiger and turtle

Author

Pub. Date

2010

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

AD 760L

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

Description

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When a tiger and a turtle both want a flower that has fallen to the ground, they argue over it until a fight breaks out between them.

8) Seeker of knowledge: the man who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs

Author

Pub. Date

2000

Lexile measure

830L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 29 cm

Language

English

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A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.