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The One and Only Ivan

Katherine Applegate - Harper
Format: Book

Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller, this stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated...
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The One and Only Bob

Katherine Applegate - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Return to the unforgettable world of the Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling novel The One and Only Ivan (soon to be a major motion picture!) in this incredible sequel, starring Ivan's friend Bob!Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister...
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Love That Dog

Sharon Creech - HarperCollins
Format: Print book

With a fresh and deceptively simple style, acclaimed author Sharon Creech tells a story with enormous heart. Written as a series of free-verse poems from Jack's point of view, Love That Dog shows how one boy finds his own voice with the help of a teacher, a writer, a pencil, some yellow...
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Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick
Format: Paperback

Recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, here is a funny, poignant, and utterly genuine first novel from a major new talent.The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket--and comes out with a dog. A big,...
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Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never...
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

Kate DiCamillo - Thorndike Press
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Newbery Medal 2004 This is the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in darkness but covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted...
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The Tiger Rising

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel of friendship by Kate DiCamillo, author of the celebrated debut novel BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE.Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth...
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Hoot

Carl Hiaasen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more. A New York Times bestseller!Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls...
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Bunnicula, a rabbit-tale of mystery.

Deborah & James Howe - Seedlings Braille Books for Children
Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats

80 pages
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Song for a Whale

- Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the story of a deaf girl's connection to a whale whose song can't be heard by his species, and the journey she takes to help him.From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old...
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Because of the Rabbit

Cynthia Lord - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

On the last night of summer, Emma tags along with her game warden father on a routine call. They're supposed to rescue a wild rabbit from a picket fence, but instead they find a little bunny. Emma convinces her father to bring him home for the night.The next day, Emma starts public school...
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Rain Reign

Ann M Martin - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller!Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein) , which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands...
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Shiloh Movie Tie-in

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Atheneum
Format: Paperback

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, belongs to Judd Travers, who drinks too much and has a gun -- and abuses his dogs. So when Shiloh runs away from...
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Pax

Sara Pennypacker - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Longlist * New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the YearFrom bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become...
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I, Cosmo

Carlie Sorosiak - Walker Books US
Format: Hardcover

A golden retriever narrates a hilarious, heart-tugging tale of a dog and his humans as he tries to keep his family together while everything around them falls apart.Ever since Cosmo became a big brother to Max ten years ago, he's known what his job was: to protect his boy and make him happy....
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Skunk and Badger

Amy Timberlake - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Wallace and Gromit meets Winnie-the-Pooh in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship, from Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake and Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. No one wants a skunk. They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Important Rock Rooms. Skunks...
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Charlotte's Web

E. B. White
Format: Book

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." This hardcover edition includes a foreword by two-time Newbery winning author Kate DiCamillo. Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These...
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The Trumpet of the Swan

E. B. White - HarperCollins; Collectors edition
Format: Hardcover

Swan SongLike the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis cant trumpet joyfully. In fact, he cant even make a sound. And since he cant trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.Louis tries everything...
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