Las Animas - Bent County Library District

How do dogs say hello? Which knd of dog can't bark? Why do some dogs bury their toys? In this books you'll find the answers and learn lots more interesting things about dogs.

One side of this upside-down book celebrates all of the things grandmas do for their grandchildren. Turning the book over and around produces a similar celebration of grandpas.

"Replica is a "flip book" that contains two narratives in one, and it is the first in a duology. Turn the book one way and read Lyra's story; turn the book over and upside down and read Gemma's story ... Lyra's story begins in the Haven Institute, a building tucked away on a private island off the coast of Florida that from a distance looks serene and even beautiful. But up close the locked doors, military guards, and biohazard suits tell a different...

"In the first half of this playful flip book, readers follow Lucy the Cat on her wild day through town. To read about Lucy's owner's perspective of the same day, flip the book over and start reading from the back!"--

A nature picture book offering perspectives on looking up and looking down.

One of the most mesmerizing memoirs of the literary season: a wrenching, hilarious, and stylistically groundbreaking story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. "Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. He was twenty-four, Beth was twenty-three,...

In rhyming stories printed back to back, pigs from one to ten take baths to clean up and then get dirty again.

"In this groundbreaking collection of poems, José Olivarez explores every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural. Grappling with the contradictions of the American Dream with unflinching humanity, he lays bare the ways in which 'love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts.' Whether readers enter this collection in English or via the Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, these extraordinary poems are sure to become...

The lives of a fourteen-year-old Mexican prostitute, living in the United States illegally, and a wealthy American girl intersect in a dramatic way.

A special sauce turns a boy into a robot, and he then transforms everyone and everything into robots, including the book.