Stories Celebrating Community Helpers, Pt 2
Police Officers
Police officers - Paulette Bourgeois and Kim LaFave
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2004
ISBN-13: 9781553377436
ISBN-10: 1553377435
Call Number: E BOURG
A look at the life of a pair of police officers follows them as they investigate a crime that leads to the capture of bicycle thieves, and includes information on other types of police work and the "stay alert, stay safe" safety rules.
Police officers on patrol - K. R. (Kersten R.) Hamilton and R. W. (Robert W.) Alley
Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
ISBN-13: 9780670063154
ISBN-10: 0670063150
Call Number: E HAMIL
Offers a raucous tale with rhyming verse about a wild ensemble of police officers at work as they race about town, ride on horses, chase down bandits, and do what needs to be done to keep everyone safe.
Police : hurrying! helping! saving! - Patricia Hubbell and Viviana Garófoli
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2008
ISBN-13: 9780761454212
ISBN-10: 0761454217
Call Number: E HUBBE
Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate police officers and what they do, including giving directions, providing first aid, and directing traffic. By the author of Trains: Steaming! Pulling! Huffing!.
Traffic pups - Michelle Meadows and Dan Andreasen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2011
ISBN-13: 9781416924852
ISBN-10: 141692485X
Call Number: E MEADO
Plush canine motorcycle police officers zoom through the town pursuing suspects, clearing the road of accidents, and serving as escorts.
The police cloud - Christoph Niemann
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2007
ISBN-13: 9780375839634
ISBN-10: 0375839631
Call Number: E NIEMA
Realizing his dream of becoming a police officer, a fluffy cloud is saddened when his cloudy make-up gets in the way of helping out his fellow officers, yet after shedding some tears and, in the process, putting out a big fire, the fluffy cloud finally discovers his true calling in life!.
Sherman Crunchley - Laura Joffe Numeroff, Nate Evans and Tim Bowers
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2003
ISBN-13: 9780525471301
ISBN-10: 0525471308
Call Number: E NUMER
Following the tradition of the Crunchley dog family, Sherman is expected to succeed his father as Biscuit City's Chief of Police, but the only thing he likes about being a police officer is the hat he wears. 
Officer Buckle and Gloria - Peggy Rathmann
Publisher: Putnam's
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1995
ISBN-13: 9780399226168
ISBN-10: 0399226168
Call Number: E RATHM
Officer Buckle puts everyone to sleep with his painfully dull if informative lectures on safety, until he takes on a new partner, Gloria, Napville's new police dog, who knows just how to liven up Officer Buckle's safety speeches. BOMC.
Police officers - Jacqueline Laks Gorman and Jacqueline Laks Gorman
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2010
ISBN-13: 9781433933509
ISBN-10: 1433933500
Call Number: 363.22 G
Explains what police officers do, including helping people in trouble, stopping people who break the law, and directing traffic.
Police officers at work - Karen Latchana Kenney and Brian Caleb Dumm
Publisher: Magic Wagon
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
ISBN-13: 9781602706521
ISBN-10: 1602706522
Call Number: 363.23 K
Explores the role of a police officer.
Police officer - Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher: Marshall Canvendish Benchmark
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2007
ISBN-13: 9780761426189
ISBN-10: 0761426183
Call Number: 363.23 R
"Easy to read text with rebuses explores the job duties of a police officer"
Postal Workers
Send it! - Don Carter
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2003
ISBN-13: 9780761315780
ISBN-10: 0761315780
Call Number: E CARTE
Enhanced with plaster-and-paint illustrations, a concept book introduces the days of the week and various modes of transportation as a package is wrapped, mailed, shipped, flown, carried, and moved to a far away location in order to reach its destination in time for a special birthday.
Penguin post - Debi Gliori
Publisher: Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2002
ISBN-13: 9780152167653
ISBN-10: 015216765X
Call Number: E GLIOR
Milo, the youngest in a long line of Penguin Post penguins, finds his life suddenly confusing when he learns that a new brother or sister is on the way, and he is assigned with the task of delivering mail to his neighbors, but a special surprise at the end of his route changes his mind!
The giant hug - Sandra Horning and Valeri Gorbachev
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2005
ISBN-13: 9780375824777
ISBN-10: 0375824774
Call Number: E HORNI
When Owen sends a real hug to his grandmother for her birthday, he inadvertently brings cheer to the postal workers as they pass the hug along through the postal system.
I miss you every day - Simms Taback
Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2007
ISBN-13: 9780670061921
ISBN-10: 0670061921
Call Number: E TABAC
A little girl misses someone so much that she wraps herself up like a package and sends herself through the mail, in this imaginative picture book filled with vibrant illustrations.
Mail carriers - JoAnn Early Macken and JoAnn Early Macken
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2010
ISBN-13: 9781433933455
ISBN-10: 1433933454
Call Number: 384.145 M
Photographs and simple text describe the work done by mail carriers.
Santitation Workers
A smelly story - Erica Farber and Huck Scarry
Publisher: Sterling
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2011
ISBN-13: 9781402784453
ISBN-10: 1402784457
Call Number: E FARBE
When Huckle loses his watch in the garbage, he and his friends follow along as a truck puts the garbage on a boat, which then carries it to a dump.
I stink! - Kate McMullan and Jim McMullan
Publisher: Joanne Cotler Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2002
ISBN-13: 9780060298494
ISBN-10: 0060298499
Call Number: E MCMUL
A big city garbage truck makes its nighttime rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
Here comes the garbage barge! - Jonah Winter
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2010
ISBN-13: 9780375852183
ISBN-10: 0375852182
Call Number: E WINTE
When a little town on Long Island is inundated with garbage, its citizens become more environmentally aware, while a garbage barge travels the North American coast in search of a dumping location.
Trashy town - Andrea Griffing Zimmerman, David Clemesha and Dan Yaccarino
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1999
ISBN-13: 9780060271398
ISBN-10: 0060271396
Call Number: E ZIMME
Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.
Sanitation workers - JoAnn Early Macken
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2010
ISBN-13: 9781433938092
ISBN-10: 143393809X
Call Number: 628.44 M
Provides an easy-to-read explanation of what sanitation workers do.
Soldiers
Hero dad - Melinda Hardin and Bryan Langdo
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2010
ISBN-13: 9780761457138
ISBN-10: 0761457135
Call Number: E HARDI
A child demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
Love, Lizzie: Letters to a military mom : Letters to a Military Mom - Lisa Tucker McElroy and Diane Paterson
Publisher: Whitman
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2005
ISBN-13: 9780807547779
ISBN-10: 0807547778
Call Number: E MCELR
Nine-year-old Lizzie writes to her mother, who is deployed overseas during wartime, and includes maps that show her mother where Lizzie has been visiting, in a title that includes nonfiction tips for helping children of military families.
The U.S. Army - Mary Barbier
Publisher: World Almanac Library
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2004
ISBN-13: 9780836856804
ISBN-10: 0836856805
Call Number: 355 B
Presents the history of the United States Army from 1775 to the present day and discusses the Army's peacetime duties as well as contributions during wartime.
Eyewitness soldier - Simon Adams
Publisher: DK Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
ISBN-13: 9780756645397
ISBN-10: 0756645395
Call Number: 355.009 A
The world's most trusted nonfiction series is now available with a CD of clipart included in the hardcover edition that compliments a fact-filled title full of spectacular photographs and illustrations.
Letters to a soldier - David Falvey
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
ISBN-13: 9780761456377
ISBN-10: 0761456376
Call Number: 956.704 F
When Mrs. Julie Hutt's fourth-grade class in Roslyn, New York, wrote letters to soldiers abroad to thank them for their service and ask them what it is like to be a U.S. soldier, First Lieutenant Falvey, a military police officer serving in Baghdad with the Army National Guard, answered their questions and shares his own personal photographs and words along with the children's letters.
Teachers
Miss Nelson is missing! - Harry Allard and James Marshall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1977
ISBN-13: 9780395252963
ISBN-10: 0395252962
Call Number: E ALLAR
The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a vile substitute.
What do teachers do (after YOU leave school)? - Anne Bowen and Barry Gott
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2006
ISBN-13: 9781575059228
ISBN-10: 1575059223
Call Number: E BOWEN
Rhyming text reveals the surprising ways that teachers behave when their students are not at school.
I know an old teacher - Anne Bowen and Stephen Gammell
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780822579847
ISBN-10: 0822579847
Call Number: E BOWEN
In a take on the well-known cumulative rhyme, a teacher inadvertently swallows a flea, then follows it with an assortment of classroom pets while her students look on in surprise.
Lilly's purple plastic purse - Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1996
ISBN-13: 9780688128975
ISBN-10: 0688128971
Call Number: E HENKE
Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.
My great-aunt Arizona - Gloria Houston and Susan Condie Lamb
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1992
ISBN-13: 9780060226077
ISBN-10: 0060226072
Call Number: E HOUST
A warm-spirited picture book pays tribute to the author's great-aunt, Arizona Houston Hughes, who shared her sense of wonder with generations of students who attended her school in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.
Barbie I can be-- A teacher - Mary Man-Kong and Kellee Riley
Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2011
ISBN-13: 9780375969270
ISBN-10: 0375969276
Call Number: E MANKO
Barbie helps her friend Miss Jones teach a classroom of children, where they read books at storytime, study animals, and learn about space.
Mrs. Watson wants your teeth - Alison McGhee and Harry Bliss
Publisher: Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2004
ISBN-13: 9780152049317
ISBN-10: 0152049312
Call Number: E MCGHE
First-grade teacher Mrs. Watson may look human, but everyone knows she's really a 300-year old alien who steals her students' baby teeth, and a six-year-old heroine has to figure out a way to hide her first loose tooth from this dental menace.
Thank you, Mr. Falker - Patricia Polacco
Publisher: Philomel Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1998
ISBN-13: 9780399231667
ISBN-10: 0399231668
Call Number: E POLAC
Growing out of the author's own gratitude to a special teacher from her childhood, an illustrated story features a little girl whose reading problem is alleviated thanks to a dapper, fun-loving teacher who recognizes her potential.
Ms. McCaw learns to draw - Kaethe Zemach
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2008
ISBN-13: 9780439829144
ISBN-10: 0439829143
Call Number: E ZEMAC
When Ms. McCaw has difficulty drawing a face for a class project, devoted student and constant doodler Dudley Ellington is more than willing to help her and ends up becoming the unlikely hero of the class when everyone asks for a lesson from him as well.
Teachers - JoAnn Early Macken
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2010
ISBN-13: 9781433933479
ISBN-10: 1433933470
Call Number: 371.1 M
Photographs and simple text introduce the work of the teacher, who helps children learn how to read, write, and count.
Veterinarians
Sally goes to the vet - Stephen Huneck
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2004
ISBN-13: 9780810948136
ISBN-10: 0810948133
Call Number: E HUNEC
Sally the Black Labrador goes flying over a tree stump while playing chase in the yard and has to be rushed to the vet's office, but Sally learns quickly that a visit to the vet doesn't have to be scary.
Barbie I can be-- A pet vet - Mary Man-Kong and Jiyoung An
Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2010
ISBN-13: 9780375865817
ISBN-10: 0375865810
Call Number: E MANKO
An early reading skills tale for young Barbie enthusiasts finds the popular doll character pursuing work as a veterinarian and caring for a series of lovable animals.
What happens at a vet's office? - Amy Hutchings
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
ISBN-13: 9781433900716
ISBN-10: 1433900718
Call Number: 636.089 M
In titles that support the primary-grades social studies curriculum, Buddy the bear guides readers behind the scenes to see real people at work in community businesses while subject-specific terms help children build vocabulary and comprehension skills.
Veterinarians - JoAnn Early Macken
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2010
ISBN-13: 9781433938139
ISBN-10: 1433938138
Call Number: 636.089 M
Provides an introduction to the work veterinarians do, the tools they use, the clothing they wear, and their importance to the communities they serve.
Veterinarian - Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2007
ISBN-13: 9780761426226
ISBN-10: 0761426221
Call Number: 636.089 R
"Easy to read text with rebuses explores the different kinds of animals veterinarians care for"

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