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The Invisible String

Patrice Karst - Devorss & Co.; 18th Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

A steady best-seller and The Invisible String is reaching all over the World! OVER 100,000 copies sold! "That's impossible", said twins Jeremy & Liza after their Mom told them they're all connected by this thing called an Invisible String. "What kind of string"?...
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I Love You Like Crazy Cakes

Rose A Lewis - Little, Brown
Format: Audio CD

This story of a woman who travels to China to adopt a baby girl, based on the author's own experiences, is a celebration of the love and joy a baby brings into the home. Full color.
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How Many Sleeps 'til My Birthday?

Mark Sperring - Tiger Tales
Format: Print book

Meet Daddy Grizzle and Little Pip. Psst, Daddy Grizzle, wake up! wake up! I think it's my birthday . . .Like every small bear, Little Pip can't wait till his birthday! How will his Daddy Grizzle explain just how many sleeps there are to go?
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A Chair for My Mother

Vera B Williams
Format: Hardcover

This classic and award-winning picture book was written and illustrated by the celebrated Vera B. Williams and was named a Caldecott Honor Book by the American Library Association. "A tender knockout . . . it's rare to find much vitality, spontaneity, and depth of feeling
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Rory the Dinosaur: Me and My Dad

Liz Climo - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Meet Rory the dinosaur. He can't wait to tell his dad all about the things he can do all by himself, from crossing rivers to finding shelter from the rain. Little does Rory know, his father is never far behind. Comic artist Liz Climo celebrates the bond between father and child with her adorable,...
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The Great Big Book of Families

Mary Hoffman - ‎Dial Books; 1401st edition
Format: Hardcover

This fun and fascinating treasury features all kinds of families and their lives together. Each spread showcases one aspect of home life-from houses and holidays, to schools and pets, to feelings and family trees. Ros Asquiths humorous illustrations perfectly complement a charming...
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Pecan Pie Baby

Jacqueline Woodson - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Gia is tired of hearing about the new baby. It hasn't even been born yet, but everyone, even her friends, seem fixated on it. Gia thinks things are fine just the way they are! And she's worried: if the baby's such a big deal now, what's going to happen to Gia's nice,...
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My Daddy Is a Silly Monkey

DIANNE HOFMEYR - Otter-Barry Books
Format: Hardcover

My daddy is a great big bear. He gets out of bed and grumbles and grouches, scratches and yawns!This charming picture book for younger children portrays a day in the life of a dad and daughter in a single-parent home, as they get up, have breakfast, go to school, go swimming, make dinner...
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The Red Blanket

Eliza Thomas - Scholastic Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A touching and beautiful adoption story that reveals the challenges as well as the joys of forming a new family.This is a story about a little girl who needed a mommyand a forgotten blanket that needed a little girland a woman who needed them both.This is a journey about the forming of a family.It...
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Mama, I'll Give You the World

Roni Schotter - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

For one magical night, Luisa wants to make her single mother's worries disappear.Every day after school Luisa goes to Walter's World of Beauty to watch her mama work-- cutting, coloring, and curling customer's hair, transforming them into the images of their dreams. Mama works...
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Just Like Me

Nancy J Cavanaugh - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Every Soul a Star and Inside Out & Back Again, Just Like Me is a funny, uplifting summer camp story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world from the award-winning author of This Journal Belongs to Ratchet.Who eats Cheetos with chopsticks?!...
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A Snicker of Magic

Natalie Lloyd - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

Introducing an extraordinary new voice---a magical debut that will make your skin tingle, your eyes glisten . . .and your heart sing.Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, a town where people could sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. But that was long ago, before a curse...
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The Higher Power of Lucky

William Prynne - ‎Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Format: Hardcover

Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-old Lucky runs away from her small town with her beloved dog by her side in order to trek across the Mojave Desert in this Newbery Medal-winning novel from...
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My One Hundred Adventures

Polly Horvath - Schwartz & Wade Books
Format: Print book

THE WINNER OF a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and countless other awards has written her richest, most spirited book yet, filled with characters that readers will love, and never forget. Jane is 12 years old, and she is ready for adventures, to move beyond the world of her siblings...
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Being Teddy Roosevelt

Claudia Mills - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Riley O'Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to get a saxophone so he can take instrumental music. His mother can't afford to rent him a sax, and he's sure he'll...
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Rocky Road

Rose Kent - Knopf Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Ice cream warms the heart, no matter what the weather.That's the Dobson family motto. Whenever things get tough, they break out the special heart-shaped bowls and make sundaes. The road has been especially rocky lately for Tess and her deaf little brother, Jordan. Their plucky Texan...
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