Claire A Nivola

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1) Life in the ocean: the story of oceanographer Sylvia Earle

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Pub. Date

[2012]

Description

A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world.

2) Elisabeth

Author

Nivola, Claire A

Pub. Date

[1997]

Formats

Book, Picture

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Forced to flee the Nazis, a young girl and her family eventually end up in the United States where, years later, with a young daughter of her own, she is improbably reunited with the beloved doll she left behind in Germany.

3) Planting the trees of Kenya: the story of Wangari Maathai

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Nivola, Claire A

Pub. Date

[2008]

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Presents the story of Wangari Maathai who left Kenya to go to college in America. When she returned home she was struck by how the clearing of land had harmed both the land and the people of Kenya. She started a movement to reforest the nation.

4) Orani: My Father's Village

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Nivola, Claire A

Pub. Date

2011

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Children's book author Claire A. Nivola explores the village of Orani, the tiny hamlet in the mountains of central Sardinia where her father lived before moving to New York during World War II.

5) The forest

Author

Nivola, Claire A

Pub. Date

[2002]

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A mouse sets out to overcome a lifelong fear of the forest.

6) Star Child

Author

Nivola, Claire A

Pub. Date

2014.

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Star Child wants very much to visit Earth, but his elders tell him that to do so he will have to be born a human child and endure an existence far different from what he has known.

7) El bosque

Author

Nivola, Claire A

Pub. Date

c2002

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A mouse sets out to overcome a lifelong fear of the forest.

8) Emma's poem: the voice of the Statue of Liberty

Author

Glaser, Linda

Pub. Date

2010

Formats

Book, eBook, Picture

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The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.

9) The mouse of Amherst

Author

Spires, Elizabeth

Pub. Date

c1999

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When she moves into Emily Dickinson's bedroom, Emmaline the mouse discovers her own propensity for poetry.

10) The flag maker

Author

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Pub. Date

[2004]

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Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.