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When You Trap a Tiger

Tae Keller - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An uplifting story of a girl discovering a secret family history when she makes a deal with a magical tiger from her grandmother's stories, the Korean version of "Once upon a time..."Some stories refuse to stay bottled up...When Lily and her family move in with her sick...
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The Last Kids on Earth

Max Brallier - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, with one million copies in print!"Terrifyingly fun! Delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs."--Jeff Kinney, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Diary of a Wimpy Kid Ever since the monster...
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Number the Stars 25th Anniversary

Lois Lowry - HMH Books for Young Readers; Anv edition
Format: Hardcover

This 25th anniversary edition celebrates a true milestone for this Newbery Medal-winning classic with a fresh new look and an introduction by Lois Lowry.Thistime-honored story champions a young girls bravery and good will in helping her best friend survive in a veryunwelcoming, war-tornworld....
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M.C. Higgins the Great

Virginia Hamilton - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

M.C.'s family is rooted to the slopes of Sarah's Mountain. His great-grandmother escaped to the mountain as a runaway slave and made it her home. It bears her name, and her descendants have lived there ever since. When M.C. looks out from atop the gleaming forty-foot pole that...
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Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book #5: Amelia Bedelia Shapes Up

Herman Parish - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Amelia Bedelia usually loves recess. One day, though, she doesnt get picked for a team and she begins to have second thoughts about sports. Whats so great about jumping and catching, anyway? But when everyone sets out to change her mind, Amelia Bedelia shapes up and discovers how to be a true...
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Charlotte's Web

E. B. White - Harper & Brothers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's...
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Shiloh

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Aladdin Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Marty will do anything to save his new friend Shiloh in this Newbery Medal-winning novel from Phillis Reynolds Naylor.When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight - and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh,...
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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: 35th Anniversary Edition

E L Konigsburg - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away....She didn't like discomfort....Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. To a large place, a comfortable place, an indoor place,...
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DK Readers L2: LEGO Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

Emma Grange - DK Children
Format: Paperback

Relive the exciting story of the iconic Star Wars: Episode V movie, retold in LEGO form for young readers with their favorite LEGO Star Wars minifigures and sets. Follow the adventures of the rebels as they fight against the Galactic Empire and see Luke Skywalker take on Darth...
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Fractions in Disguise: A Math Adventure

Edward Einhorn - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover

When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor a.k.a. GCF vows to track it down. Knowing that the villainous Dr. Brok likes to disguise his ill-begotten fractions, GCF invents a Reducera tool that strips away the disguise, reducing the fraction and revealing its true form....
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The Chocolate Touch

Patrick Skene Catling - HarperTrophy
Format: Paperback

In a laugh-out-loud hilarious twist on the legend of King Midas, a boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate. Can you ever have too much of your favorite food? John Midas is about to find out ... .First published in 1952, The Chocolate Touch was an instant...
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The War that Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerNewbery Honor BookWinner of the Schneider Family Book Award (Middle School) Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of 2015New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds...
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As Brave As You

Jason Reynolds - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Kirkus Award Finalist Schneider Family Book Award Winner Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires - literally - in this piercing middle grade novel by the winner of the Coretta Scott King - Johnson Steptoe Award.Genie's...
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The Crossover

Kwame Alexander - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

2015 Newbery Medal Winner2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award WinnerNew York Times Bestseller "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year...
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Circus Mirandus

Cassie Beasley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015A New York Times Bestseller Fans of The Magician's Elephant, Savvy, and Roald Dahl will fall in love with Circus Mirandus, which celebrates the power of seeing magic in the world. Do you believe in magic?...
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Small Spaces

Katherine Arden - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story in the tradition of R. L. Stine destined to become a classic. When eleven-year-old Ollie lost her mother in a plane crash, she sought solace in her books. So when...
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Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor: Book One

Jon Scieszka - Amulet Books
Format: Print book

"I never thought science could be funny . . . until I read Frank Einstein. It will have kids laughing." - Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid "Huge laughs and great science - the kind of smart, funny stuff that makes Jon Scieszka a legend." - Mac Barnett,...
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Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

Carlos Hernandez - Rick Riordan Presents
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses this question: What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)...
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The Original Adventures #1

John R Erickson - Viking Books
Format: Paperback

Hank has been accused of murder! In a fit of despair, Hank resigns his position as Head of Ranch Security and decides to join the outlaw coyotes. There he's known as Hunk (that's Hank in coyote language) . Hank meets Missy Coyote, sister to Scraunch -- the meanest, roughest, toughest,...
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Who Is Jane Goodall?

Roberta Edwards - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback

A life in the wild! Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wanted to study them in their natural habitats. So at age twenty-six, off she went to Africa! Goodall's up-close observations of chimpanzees changed what we know about them and paved the way for many female...
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