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Chatterbooks @ The Post Road Library
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Violet the Pilot
by Steve Breen
Determined to show her classmates what an amazing inventor she is, Violet Van Winkle decides to take part in the big air show and win a ribbon with her own invention, but when a perilous event involving the Boy Scout troop occurs, Violet jumps into action and surprisingly ends up becoming the hero of the whole town!
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Mr. Ferris and his wheel
by Kathryn Davis
It's almost time for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and American architects are hoping to design a star attraction to rival the French Eiffel Tower. Mechanical engineer George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. has a daring idea: a huge, round, moving structure made from steel, a new metal unrivaled in both lightness and strength. After overcoming obstacles ranging from mockery to quicksand, Ferris and his team finally complete their wheel, which delights fairgoers and goes on to become a staple of fairgrounds around the world.
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Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
by Melissa Sweet
A tribute to the first creator of the giant helium balloons that fill the sky during the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade traces the work of pioneering artist Tony Sarg, whose innovative "upside-down puppet" creations have become the parade's trademark. By the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Tupelo Rides the Rails.
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Extra yarn
by Mac Barnett
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
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