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Age Range
4 - 8
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
2025-06-03
Page Count
32
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Grade Level
Pre-K - 3rd
ISBN
9780593206096
Lexile
640
Themes
creativity
innovation and invention

Marianne the Maker

Written by Kelly Corrigan & Claire Corrigan Lichty and Illustrated by George Sweetland

Marianne's days are filled with schedules, structure, and soccer. There's just one problem: Marianne is a maker. She needs every minute of her weekends to scheme and dream, draw and design, to build and rebuild! This is the story of how a creator with a crackerjack imagination finds a not-so-great way to skip practice and create her masterpiece. But will her dad understand?

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Age Range
4 - 8
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
2025-06-03
Page Count
32
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Grade Level
Pre-K - 3rd
ISBN
9780593206096
Lexile
640
Themes
creativity
innovation and invention
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