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Drooling And Dangerous: The Riot Brothers Return!

Mary Amato - Holiday House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Orville and Wilbur Riot have never been strangers to adventure, and according to Riot Brother Rule #15, You can't do the same mission twice. So now they're back with more games, more missions, and loads more fun. One day they are spies on the trail of dangerous criminals, the next...
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Inspector Flytrap

Tom Angleberger - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

From husband-and-wife team Tom Angleberger, creator of the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series, and Cece Bell, author/illustrator of the Newbery Honor graphic novel El Deafo, comes the start to a funny and clever illustrated chapter-book series about a mystery-solving...
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Freckle juice

Judy Blume

Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.
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Alien Invasion in My Backyard: An EMU Club Adventure

Ruben Bolling - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"There's no mystery - the EMU Club is a hit! This is a fun, funny adventure that kids will love to read." - Lincoln Peirce, author of Big Nate "The EMU Club inhabits exactly the world I always hoped to live in when I was 12, when the answer to questions like 'Where...
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Minnie and Moo & the Seven Wonders of the World

Denys Cazet - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Minnie and Moo are the best of friends. Moo has her books. Minnie has her espresso machine. Farm life is good. Almost perfect. Until Moo overhears the not-so-good news that the farmer needs money so desperately that he must sell the farm. No! He mustn't! Not if Minnie and Moo can help...
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Annabel the Actress Starring in Gorilla My Dreams

Ellen Conford - Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Meet Annabel -- Annabel the actress, that is. Annabel's dream is to be a famous actress, but when she finally lands her first role, it isn't quite what she had in mind. She has to start somewhere, though, even if it means pretending to be a gorilla at a little kid's birthday...
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The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure

Kevin Cornell - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

They're darling. They're daring. They know their shapes! They're chicks on a mission - and on this, their first (mis) adventure, the Chicken Squad launches a galactic backyard expedition.Meet the Chicken Squad: Dirt, Sugar, Poppy, and Sweetie. These chicks are not your typical...
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Leroy Ninker Saddles Up: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume One

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo's New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books.Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse - until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's...
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Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers

John Dougherty - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious send-up of fantasy quest novels, perfect for fans of Adam Gidwitz and Jon Scieszka. Welcome to the kingdom of Great Kerfuffle! Great Kerfuffle is really great. And there's usually a kerfuffle (the clue's in the name really) . This particular kerfuffle started the day Stinkbomb's...
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Dory Fantasmagory

Abby Hanlon - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Move over, Junie B. Jones and Ivy & Bean! Here comes a lovably energetic little sister with a BIG personality - and an imagination to match!As the youngest in her family, Dory really wants attention, and more than anything she wants her brother and sister to play with her. But she's...
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Captain Pug

Laura James - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

On one very ordinary day Pug's nose knows that breakfast is on its way. And with breakfast, come crumbs - but not just any old crumbs, jam tart crumbs. Jam tarts are Pug's favorite food, and he loves nothing more than to share them with his best friend, Lady Miranda. But just before Pug can finish...
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Super Burp! #1

Nancy Krulik - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback

The first day at a new school is always the hardest, right? No, not always as George finds out the hard way. On the second day at ... Sugarman Elementary School, he is suddenly seized by uncontrollable burps, burps so loud they practically break the sound barrier, burps that make him do wild...
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The Dragonsitter

Josh Lacey - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Dear Uncle Morton: You'd better get on a plane right now and come back here. Your dragon has eaten Jemima. Emily loved that rabbit! I'd better go now. I can smell burning. --Eddie
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How To Survive Third Grade

Laurie Lawlor
Format: Book

Ernest Clark is not exactly Lincoln School's most popular third grader. But it isn't his fault. Can he help it if he is small? Or if his mother gives him weird haircuts? No. There must be some way to survive third grade. Making a friend would help. And Ernest sees his chance wh
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Toy Academy: Some Assembly Required

Brian Lynch - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Playing is serious business.Welcome to Toy Academy: where toys learn to play. This is where action figures train to battle, stuffed animals study the art of the hug, and collectibles practice standing very, very still. Though Grumbolt isn't really any of those things, he's determined to fit in. But when...
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Betty Bard MacDonald - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

The incomparable Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves children good or bad and never scolds but has positive cures for Answer-Backers, Never-Want-to-Go-to-Bedders, and other boys and girls with strange habits. '[Now] in paperback . . . for a new generation of children to enjoy.' 'San Francisco Examiner...
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Let's Get Cracking!: A Branches Book [J GRAPHIC NOVEL]

Cyndi Marko - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Book

Kung Pow Chicken is the superhero everyone has been waiting for!

This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations...
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Stinky Spike the pirate dog

Peter Meisel - Bloomsbury Usa
Format: Print book

"When Spike finds himself adrift at sea he is rescued by a crew of surly pirates, who spend their days hunting for treasure. Spike knows that he was meant to sniff out treasure, but his sense of smell leads him to some unusual treasure."--
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Detective Gordon: The First Case

Ulf Nilsson - Gecko Press
Format: Hardcover

Someone's stealing nuts from the forest, and it's up to Detective Gordon to catch the thief! Unfortunately, solving this crime means standing in the snow and waiting for a long time... If only he had an assistant?someone small, fast, and clever?to help solve this terrible case....
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Spy Toys

Mark Powers - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

The world's leading toy manufacturer gives each toy it creates a tiny, computerized brain and a unique personality making for some seriously awesome toys. But sometimes there's a faulty toy . . .Dan is a "Snugliffic Cuddlestar" bear--he should be perfect for hugging. But because...
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The Best School Year Ever

Barbara Robinson - HarperCollins
Format: Audio CD

"The Herdmans are the most famous kids at Woodrow Wilson School. In fact, they are the most famous kids in the whole town -- and they are the worst kids in the history of the world. They are dirty, rotten, lazy, and ornery. They tell lies and smoke cigars and set fire to things. They...
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Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

Louis Sachar - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Strange Strangers Come to Wayside School . . .Welcome back to Wayside School! After closing for 242 days to get rid of the cows (don't ask), everyone's favorite thirty-story school is finally back in session.But all is not well at the school with no nineteenth floor. Mrs. Jewls,...
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The Adventures of Benny

Steve Shreve - Two Lions
Format: Hardcover

As Benny goes on five adventures that take him from the woods behind his house to the pyramids of Egypt, he comes face to face with a host of bad guys—pirates, a mummy, and even his very own Booger-Man! And what about all those monkeys?Join Benny on these wild adventures as he confronts...
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Princess Cora and the Crocodile

Laura Amy Schlitz - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled princess a day off - and a deliciously wicked crocodile a day on.Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking...
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The Knights of the Kitchen Table #1

Jon Scieszka - Puffin
Format: Paperback

Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their styles!  The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor.
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Lulu and the Brontosaurus

Judith Viorst - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

It's Lulu's birthday and she's decided she'd like a pet brontosaurus as a present. When Lulu's parents tell her that's not possible, Lulu gets very upset. She does not like it when things don't go her way. So she takes matters into her own hands and storms off into...
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The Bad Luck Chair

Sue Wilkowski - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

Every kid at Brookside Elementary knows the legend. If you sit in The Bad Luck Chair, you’ll be cursed with bad luck forever. When Addy walks into the classroom to find it at her desk, she feels like she is living her worst nightmare. How can she, a quiet kid who just wants to go unnoticed,...
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