Marianne the Maker

Marianne the MakerBy: Kelly Corrigan, Claire Corrigan Lichty Illustrator: George Sweetland From bestselling author Kelly Corrigan and her daughter debut author Claire Corrigan Lichty comes a new picture book about a determined young inventor! Marianne's days are filled with schedules, structure, and soccer. There's just one problem: Marianne is a maker. She needs every minute of her weekends to scheme and dream, draw and design, to build and rebuild! This is the story

this collection includes seventy-eight contributors from thirty-five countries

The child of immigrants who never learned to speak English

The odds are appalling

By: Alicia Potter | Illustrator:  Matt Tavares   An exuberant picture book applauds the man behind the 1869 National Peace Jubilee

and what will happen next

a journey that takes a barefoot twelve-year-old boy from a village in northern Uganda to the rebel camp of the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army

In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo

a hurricane made landfall and resulted in the tragic death of Jake’s uncle Charley

her true friends

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and research facilities around the country–from the revved-up reflexes and speed of Spider-Man and Superman

Faced with bankruptcy