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Adam Canfield of the Slash
Michael Winerip
Format: Paperback
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"Between laughs, readers will be prompted to think about what constitutes truth, how the media massages it, and the importance of ethics, fairness, and getting the facts right." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)Adam Canfield has to be the most overprogrammed middle-school student in America.... |
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Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon
Paula Danziger - Putnam's
Format: Print book
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Amber Brown.Justin Daniels.Best friends...a team that really knows how to have fun, that knows how to help each other out.When Amber has trouble with fractions, Justin is there with the answers.When Justin writes a messy report, it's Amber to the rescue with neat cursive writing.They've... |
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Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon
Torben Kuhlmann - North-South Books
Format: Print book
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A long time ago a mouse learned to fly . . . and crossed the Atlantic. But what happened next? Torben Kuhlmann's stunning new book transports readers to the moon and beyond! On the heels of Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse comes Armstrong: A Mouse on the Moon -- where dreams are determined... |
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Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1)
Eoin Colfer - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Book
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Twelve year old Artemis Fowl is not your typical Irish kid. He is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairy folk of their pot of gold. Fantastic stuff from beginning to end, the Artemis... |
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The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket - HarperEntertainment
Format: Book
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SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESViolet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.In the first two books alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive... |
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A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington Bear)
Michael Bond
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Paddington, the most endearing bear from Darkest Peru, first charmed American audiences forty years ago. Now a new generation will surely be won over by Paddington's particular brand of preposterous humor and gentle satire. The Browns first meet Paddington on a railway platform in London.... |
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Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
Stephen Manes
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Is it possible? Can an ordinary human being really become a perfect person in three short days? Milo Crinkley thought so. What gave him the idea was a book that fell on his head one day at the library--a book with the impressive title Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! The author,... |
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Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Kate DiCamillo’s beloved, best-selling debut novel is now available in a paperback digest edition.Kate DiCamillo’s first published novel, like Winn-Dixie himself, immediatelyproved to be a keeper — a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor winner, the inspiration for a popular... |
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The BFG
Roald Dahl - Puffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become... |
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Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
Lincoln Peirce - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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"Big Nate is funny, big time."--Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy KidFor fans of the hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Get ready to meet Big Nate! In the first novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Big Nate is in a class by himself!Nate knows he's meant for big things.... |
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The Borrowers
Mary Norton
Format: Hardcover
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This is the classic story--read and loved by children all over the world--of Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty, who live under the kitchen floor in a quiet, half-empty house and get their livelihood by borrowing from the human beans. Delectable fantasy.--Booklist, |
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Bud, not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis - Laurel-Leaf Books
Format: Paperback
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. |
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Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
Deborah Howe - Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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BEWARE THE HARE! Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits...and fangs! |
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Charlotte's Web
E. B. White
Format: Book
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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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Chocolate Fever
Robert Kimmel Smith - Puffin; Reissue edition
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Henry Green is a boy who loves chocolate. He likes it bitter, sweet, dark, light, and daily; for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks; in cakes, candy bars, milk, and every other form you can possibly imagine. Henry probably loves chocolate more than any boy in the history of the world.... |
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Daisy Dawson Is on Her Way!
Steve Voake - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine if you woke up one day and found you could talk to animals! A lighthearted tale with lots of appeal for early chapter-book readers.Even though Daisy Dawson is late for school again she cant help but stop to free a butterfly trapped in a web. And when she does, something amazing... |
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Dealing with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book One
Patricia C Wrede - Magic Carpet Books Harcourt
Format: Paperback
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Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart. . . . And bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon . . . and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for. |
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Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary - Morrow
Format: Print book
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Beverly Cleary's Newbery Medal-winning book explores the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy, Leigh Botts, in letter form as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal... |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1
Jeff Kinney - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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Boys don't keep diaries -- or do they?The launch of an exciting and innovatively illustrated new series narrated by an unforgettable kid every family can relate toIt's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share... |
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Dinosaurs Before Dark
Mary Pope Osborne - Random House
Format: Paperback
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Jack and Annie's very first fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series - the Magic Tree House!Where did the tree house come from?Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home.... |
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Echo
Pam MunÌ?oz Ryan - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of a 2016 Newbery Honor, ECHO pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades... |
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The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
Candace Fleming
Format: Print book
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These contemporary fables are instructive, hilarious, and now in paperback!The fourth graders at Aesop Elementary are, well, unusual. Theres Calvin Tallywong, who wants to go back to kindergarten. But when he actually gets the chance, hes forced to do the squirrel dance and wear a yellow-school-bus... |
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The Fairy Tale Detectives
Michael Buckley - Amulet Books
Format: Paperback
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In paperback for the first time, the Sisters Grimm take readers to a world where fairy tales are fact and not everyone is who they seem! In book one of this bestselling series, sisters Sabrina and Daphne are sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm. The sisters learn... |
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Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson - Moline Public Library
Format: Paperback
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An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review) .During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with... |
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Flush
Carl Hiaasen
Format: Book
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Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys. You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup. Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral... |
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Found
Margaret Peterson Haddix - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one of the missing." The second one says, "Beware!... |
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Freckle Juice
Judy Blume - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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What's a guy gotta do to get some freckles? This perennial bestselling favorite from Judy Blume has a fresh new look!More than anything in the world, Andrew Marcus wants freckles. His classmate Nicky has freckles - they cover his face, his ears, and the whole back of his neck. But when... |
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Frindle
Andrew Clements - Aladdin Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty... |
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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
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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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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Regan Barnhill - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2017 Newbery Award The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book... |
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Gooney Bird Greene
Lois Lowry
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From the moment Gooney Bird Greene arrives at Watertower Elementary School, her fellow second-graders are intrigued by her unique sense of style and her unusual lunches. So when story time arrives, the choice is unanimous: they want to hear about Gooney Bird Greene. And that suits her just... |
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Harriet the Spy: 50th Anniversary Edition
Louise Fitzhugh - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; 50 Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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This special 50th Anniversary Edition of the classic and ground-breaking coming-of-age novel, Harriet the Spy, includes tributes by Judy Blume, Meg Cabot, Lois Lowry, Rebecca Stead, and many more, as well as a map of Harriet's New York City neighborhood and spy route and original author/editor... |
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Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A winner of England's National Book Award, the acclaimed debut novel tells the outrageously funny, fantastic adventure story of Harry Potter, who escapes a hideous foster home thanks to a scholarship to The Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
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Heartbeat
Sharon Creech - HarperTrophy
Format: Print book
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Run run run.That's what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she's barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating . . . thump-Thump, thump-Thump. It's a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything's shifting: Her mother is pregnant, her grandfather is forgetful, and her best... |
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Heat
Mike Lupica - Philomel Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller inspired by the true-life story of a former little leaguer Twelve-year-old Michael Arroyo lives in the shadows of Yankee Stadium, home of his heroes, but a place that might as well be on a different continent since he can't afford to see the inside.... |
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Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library
Clifford, Eth
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Mary Rose and Jo-Beth are sisters who hardly ever agree on anything, but they both feel as if this night will never end. First their car runs out of gas in an unfamiliar city and their father goes in search of a gas station. Then Jo-Beth makes Mary Rose go with her to find a bathr |
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Henry Huggins
Beverly Cleary - Harper Trophy
Format: Paperback
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In the first novel from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, boys and girls alike will be charmed instantly by an average boy whose life is turned upside down when he meets a lovable puppy with a nose for mischief. This timeless classic now features a foreword written by New York... |
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Holes: 10th Anniversary Edition
Louis Sachar - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book
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10th Anniversary EditionLouis Sachar received great recognition for his groundbreaking story of Stanley Yelnats - a boy with a history of bad luck. As School Library Journal predicted in their starred review of the book when it was first published, "Kids will love Holes." A decade... |
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Hoot
Carl Hiaasen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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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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How to Eat Fried Worms
Thomas Rockwell
Format: Paperback
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"Because of a bet, Billy is in the uncomfortable position of having to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days. A hilarious story that will revolt and delight bumptious, unreachable intermediate-grade boys and any other less particular mortals that read or listen to it.... Colorful, original... |
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How to Steal a Dog
Barbara O'Connor - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it. Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left... |
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Inkheart
Cornelia Funke - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook
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Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life. Not like when you listen to an audiobook with such enchantment that the characters seem to jump off the pages and into your bedroom...but for real. Imagine they could actually climb out of the pages and into our world.... |
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In the Land of the Lawn Weenies: and Other Warped and Creepy Tales (Starscape)
David Lubar - Starscape
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Kids can be such monsters. Literally.From the award-winning author of Hidden Talents, two remarkable short story collections - Kidzilla and The Witch's Monkey - together for the first time. Plus several brand new stories. Each hilarious and harrowing. A substitute teacher finds out she has some... |
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Ivy and Bean
Annie Barrows - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Best friends Ivy and Bean are back and looking for adventure in the second installment of this engaging new series. This time theyve made an amazing discoverya ghost in the school bathroom! Ivy and Bean can see its cloudy form and its glowing eyes. They can hear its moaning voice. This... |
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James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
Format: Print book
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A little magic can take you a long way.After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things... |
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Judy Moody
Megan McDonald - Candlewick; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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The mercurial Judy Moody will delight any kid whos known a bad mood or a bad dayand managed to laugh anyway.And, the winners of the Judy Moody All-About-Me Contest are announced! See the amazing winning and runner-up entries at httpwww.fablevision.comjudymoodywinnerstest.html and find... |
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Just Ella (Aladdin Fantasy)
Margaret Peterson Haddix - Aladdin
Format: Paperback
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It's a familiar story: In spite of the obstacles put in her way by her wicked stepmother, Ella goes to the ball, sweeps Prince Charming off his feet, and is chosen to be his bride. Now she's comfortably ensconced in the palace, awaiting marriage to the man of her dreams. It's... |
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Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover
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One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism.... |
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jim Benton - Scholastic; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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Take a peek inside the diaries of Jamie Kelly! She's cool (sometimes) , nice (mostly) , and funny (always) . Kid-friendly humor & art, along w/JKBenton's signature style make this series a standout!Read the hilarious, candid (& sometimes mean) diaries of Jamie... |
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The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan - Disney Hyperion
Format: eBook
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. |
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Lily's Crossing (Newbery Honor Book)
Patricia Reilly Giff
Format: Book
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This year, as in other years, Lily has planned a spectacular summer in Rockaway, in her family's cozy house on stilts over the Atlantic Ocean. But by the summer of 1944, World War II has changed almost everyone's life. Lily's best friend, Margaret, and her family have moved to a wartime... |
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)
C. S. Lewis - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read.A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition features cover art by three-time Caldecott... |
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The London Eye Mystery
Siobhan Dowd - David Fickling Books
Format: Print book
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Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off-except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police... |
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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (Newbery Honor Book)
Richard Peck - Dial; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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This Newbery Honor Winner and National Book Award Finalist is an unforgettable modern classic and features the debut of the larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice—two city slickers from Chicago—make their annual summer visits... |
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Loser
Jerry Spinelli - HarperCollins; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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From renowned Newbery-winning author Jerry Spinelli comes an incredible story about how not fitting in might just lead to an incredible life.Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand... |
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Lunch Walks Among Us (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist)
Jim Benton
Format: Paperback
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Franny K. Stein is not your average girl -- she's a mad scientist. She prefers poison ivy to daisies, and when Franny jumps rope, she uses her pet snake. The kids in Franny's class think she's weird, wacky, and just plain creepy. Tired of being stared at, Franny decides to attempt her most... |
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Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years,... |
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Matilda
Roald Dahl - Perfection Learning
Format: Book
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Matilda is one of Roald Dahl's most magical stories! Now part of the "Puffin Modern Classics" series. Matilda Wormwood's father is a mean crooked crook. And her mother's just plain stupid. They think Matilda is a nuisance who should watch more TV and read fewer books!... |
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Millicent Min, Girl Genius
Lisa Yee
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Who would have thought being smart could be so hard (and funny)?Millicent Min is having a bad summer. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Her fellow 11-year-olds hate her for going to high school. And her mother has arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong,... |
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick; 1rst EDITION edition
Format: Hardcover
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A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline honors the enduring power of lovequotSomeone will come for you but first you must open your heart quotOnce in a house on Egypt Street there lived a china rabbit named Edward... |
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Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
Sarah Miller - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in Desperate for work shed taken on a seemingly impossible job -- teaching a child who was deaf blind and as ferocious as any wild animal But Helen Keller needed more than a teacher... |
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Moo
Sharon Creech - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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This uplifting New York Times bestseller reminds us that if we're open to new experiences, life is full of surprises.Fans of Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's Love That Dog and Hate That Cat will love her newest tween novel, Moo. Following one family's momentous move from the city to rural... |
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Beverly Cleary - W. Morrow
Format: Print book
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In this imaginative adventure from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, a young mouse named Ralph is thrown into a world of excitement when a boy and his shiny toy motorcycle check into the Mountain View Inn.When the ever-curious Ralph spots Keith's red toy motorcycle, he vows to ride... |
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Mr. Popper's Penguins
Richard Atwater - Little
Format: Hardcover
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Mr. Popper's Penguins is one of the handful of American books for children that has attained the status of a classic. First published in 1938, this story of a housepainter who is sent a male penguin by the great Admiral Drake, and who, thanks to the arrival of a female penguin, soon has twelve... |
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. |
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Betty MacDonald - HarperCollins; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-WiggleMrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house ans smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen... |
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive... |
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My Weird School #1: Miss Daisy Is Crazy!
Dan Gutman - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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With more than 6.5 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!For A.J. and the gang at Ella Mentry School, weirdness and fun are all part of the routine. In this first book in the outrageously funny series that has reached millions of readers around the world,... |
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No Talking
Andrew Clements - Aladdin
Format: Paperback
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It's boys vs. girls when the noisiest, most talkative, and most competitive fifth graders in history challenge one another to see who can go longer without talking. Teachers and school administrators are in an uproar, until an innovative teacher sees how the kids' experiment can provide... |
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles... |
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The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate - Harper
Format: Book
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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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Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook
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Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on the porch and a pet monkey named Mr. Nilsson. Whether Pippis scrubbing her floors, doing arithmetic or stirring things... |
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Ramona the Pest
Beverly Cleary - W. Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Ramona Quimby is excited to start kindergarten. No longer does she have to watch her older sister, Beezus, ride the bus to school with all the big kids. She's finally old enough to do it too!Then she gets into trouble for pulling her classmate's boingy curls during recess. Even worse, her crush... |
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Rules
Lord, Cynthia
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This 2007 Newbery Honor Book is a humorous and heartwarming debut about feeling different and finding acceptance. Now in After Words paperback!Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that |
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Alvin Schwartz - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's soon to be a highly anticipated feature film!A classic collection of chillingly scary tales, collected and retold by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by renowned artist Brett Helquist (illustrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events and more!)... |
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See You Later, Gladiator
Jon Scieszka - Viking
Format: Print book
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Joe, Sam, and Fred discover that "When in Rome, you might not really want to do as the Romans do." Hard knock gladiator school, cheating chariot racers, and a poison-packing emperor are just the beginning of the guys' Roman education. Their only hope to escape the bloodthirsty... |
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Shakespeare's Secret
Elise Broach - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book
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Hero changed into a T-shirt, grabbed a book, and padded barefoot into her sister's room. The large windows overlooked the backyard. She could see the moonlight streaming over the trees and bushes, making long, crazy shadows across the grass. Was there a diamond hidden out there somewhere?... |
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Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. Sometimes he takes his .22 rifle to see what he can shoot, like some cans lined up on a rail fence. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer.... |
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Louis Sachar - Harpercollins
Format: Book
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There was a terrible mistake-Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high! (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that's why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirteenth floor. |
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Smarter Than Squirrels (Down Girl and Sit Series)
Lucy Nolan
Format: Paperback
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THE HILARIOUS ADVENTURES OF TWO CONFUSED CANINES Down Girl and Sit are two dogs who are "smarter than squirrels." They know how to protect their masters from all the things that can go wrong in the neighborhood: they bark at paperboys and guard the garbage cans, and keep mischievous squirrels... |
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So B. It
Sarah Weeks
Format: Print book
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You couldnt really tell about Mamas brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girls, and she only knew twenty-three words. I know this for a fact, because we kept a list of the things Mama said tacked to the |
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SQUIRM
CARL HIAASEN - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Newbery Honor-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen--beloved for his modern classics like Hoot and Chomp--delivers a wildly entertaining novel involving snakes, grizzlies, a missing dad, a menacing drone, and more!Some facts about Billy Dickens:... |
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The Star of Kazan
Eva Ibbotson - Puffin Books/Penguin Young Readers Group
Format: Paperback
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After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany. |
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Stuart Little Collector's Edition
E B White
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A special edition of a classic and beloved tale offers the original illustrations colorized in watercolor, adding to the magic of an already enchanting story for all ages. 40,000 first printing. |
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume
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Two is a crowd when Peter and his four-year-old brother, Fudge, are in the same room. Grown-ups think Fudge is absolutely adorable, but Peter and his pet turtle, Dribble, know the truth. Fudge is actually a tiny terror in disguise, causing mischief everywhere he goes. |
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Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
John Grisham - Dutton Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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A perfect murder A faceless witness A lone courtroom champion knows the whole truth . . . and he's only thirteen years old Meet Theodore Boone In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. Theo knows... |
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The Trolls
Polly Horvath
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Laugh-out-loud stories within a storyAunt Sally is beyond any of Melissa, Amanda, and Pee Wee's expectations. She has come all the way from Vancouver Island, Canada, to take care of the children while their parents are away, and right from the start Aunt Sally enchants them with tales of her childhood... |
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Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt - Farrar
Format: Book
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Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less... |
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Tuesdays at the Castle
Jessica Day George - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No one ever knows what the castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that is-takes the time to map out the new additions.... |
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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Karina Yan Glaser - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home... |
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The Wanderer
Sharon Creech - HarperCollins; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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"The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in."Thirteen-year-old Sophie hears the sea calling, promising adventure and a chance for discovery as she sets sail for England with her three uncles and two cousins. Sophie's cousin... |
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The War that Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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#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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The Water Horse
Dick King-Smith
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When eight-year-old Kirstie and her family go beach coming near their home in Scotland, she finds something that looks like a giant fish egg, and is just too interesting to leave on the beach. So she brings it home and sneaks it into the bathtub overnight. The next morning, she is |
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Christopher Paul Curtis - Dell Laurel Leaf
Format: Paperback
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A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they... |
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The Wednesday Wars
Gary D Schmidt - Clarion
Format: Print book
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In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy's mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year in Long Island, New York.Meet Holling Hoodhood,... |
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A Week in the Woods
Andrew Clements - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Collision course The fifth-grade Week in the Woods is a beloved tradition of Hardy Elementary, where Mark Chelmsley (the Fourth) is pretty much killing time before his parents send him off to an exclusive prep school. But then Mark realizes the Week might be a chance to prove to Mr. Maxwell... |
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Westing Game: Anniversary Edition
Ellen Raskin - Dutton Books for Young Readers; Anniversary edition
Format: Hardcover
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For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading... |
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When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Audiobook
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Winner of the 2010 John Newbery MedalFour mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid,... |
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
Shel Silverstein - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Where the Sidewalk Ends turns forty! Celebrate with this anniversary edition that features an eye-catching commemorative red sticker. This classic poetry collection, which is both outrageously funny and profound, has been the most beloved of Shel Silverstein's poetry books for generations.Where... |
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The Wild Robot
Peter Brown - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping... |
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Willow Run
Patricia Reilly Giff - Wendy Lamb Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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1944Meggie Dillons life has been turned upside down by World War II. Her older brother Eddie enlisted and was shipped off to fight in Europe. And people say that anywhere else Grandpa would be turned in because hes German, and people might think hes a spy. Is it true? Could Grandpa be taken... |
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Wonder
R J Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. The book that inspired the Choose Kind... |
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A wrinkle in time
Madeleine L'Engle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, soon to be a major motion picture.It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most... |
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