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Make it With Your Hands October 2023
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They Made it with Clay...
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Shaped by her hands : potter Maria Martinez
by Anna Harber Freeman
A picture book biography of the renowned Native American potter describes how she learned the art form under the guiding hands of her aunt before discovering an aesthetic new firing technique that rendered her creations famous.
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The Golem's latkes
by Eric A. Kimmel
Instructed by busy Rabbi Judah to make Hanukkah latkes while he meets with the emperor, housemaid Basha enlists a golem's assistance and leaves to visit a friend, unaware that the golem's enthusiasm soon causes the rabbi's house to overflow with too many latkes.
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A single shard
by Linda Sue Park
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village and longs to learn how to create the delicate ceramics himself after he watches master potter Min making his beautiful pottery.
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In honor of broken things
by Paul Acampora
"Three unlikely friends meet in a middle school pottery class and learn how to piece their lives back together again, all the while discovering that that some things can never be unbroken-and that's okay too"
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Many shapes of clay / : A Story of Healing
by Kenesha Sneed
"Eisha spends her day making clay shapes in her Mama's art studio. One shape in particular gives her a sense of joy and nostalgia-it reminds her of the time she picked lemons with her Papa. But when her clay turns to stone and breaks into pieces, Eisha feels a great sadness. Together with her Mama, she finds a unique way of moving forward and seeing her sadness in new light"
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Emperor Qin's terra cotta army
by Michael Capek
Describes the archeological discovery of thousands of life-sized terracotta warrior statues in northern China in 1974, the continued excavation of the site, and what the statues indicate about the period when they were made
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