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Summer Wonders

Bob Raczka - Albert Whitman
Format: Hardcover

A book that celebrates all things summer--from playing at the park to swimming at the pool to catching fireflies. Children will delight in the rhymes that captures summertime fun. "Divers, swimmers, flat rock skimmers. Joggers, walkers, sidewalk chalkers. Marchers, pipers, stars...
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Hooray for Summer!

Kazuo Iwamura - North-South
Format: Hardcover

A sudden summer thunderstorm sends the squirrel children scampering. It's a hot summer afternoon. Nothing is stirring. Not the frogs, not the flowers, not even the grass. Then suddenly birds are flocking overhead. Small animals are racing for shelter. The rain starts pouring down. Thunder...
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The Night Before Summer Camp

Natasha Wing - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback

The first day of summer camp is almost here, and one little camper doesn't know what to expect. For a while everything is hunkydory . . . until rest time rolls around and he gets a bad case of nervous butterflies. But an unlikely friend appears out of the crowd and reassures him that the best...
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Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

Megan McDonald - Candlewick Press
Format: Paperback

Based on the screenplay by Kathy Waugh and Megan McDonald. Features full-color stills from the movie.Roar! Its not bad enough that Mom and Dad are heading to California, leaving Judy and Stink with Aunt Awful er, Opal, but now Judys two best friends are going Splitsville, too. Just when...
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A couple of boys go to Antarctica

Marla Frazee - Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

"This Caldecott Honor book captures the fun and freedom of a week of summer vacation spent with a best friend and their grandparents, eating, laughing, and using lots of imagination." - Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor

When James and Eamon go to a week...

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