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By the Great Horn Spoon!
Sid Fleischman - Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover
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It is 1849 and Jack Flagg stows away on a ship headed for the California gold fields where he plans to recoup his Auntie Arabella's fortune. |
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi. - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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H "Avi's plot is engineered for maximum thrills, with twists, turns, and treachery aplenty. . . . A page-turner to delight Avi's fans, it will leave readers hoping for a sequel."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) H " . . . [T]he book is a page-turner from beginning to end . . . [A] meticulously... |
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The Xanadu Adventure
Lloyd Alexander - Dutton Children's Books
Format: Print book
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Lloyd Alexander's beloved Indiana Jones-style heroine, Vesper Holly, is back for one last adventure. Delving into the mystery of the origins of Western civilization, Vesper and her friends set out for the site of the legendary Troy, only to fall into a trap laid by the despicable... |
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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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Airman
Eoin Colfer - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Print book
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Conor Broekhart was born to fly. In fact, legend has it that he was born flying in a hot air balloon at the world's fair. In the 1890's Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor... |
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My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George - Dutton
Format: Print book
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"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest." - The New York Times Book ReviewSam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods - all by himself. With... |
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Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
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Jean Craighead George's Newbery Medal-winning classic about an Eskimo girl lost on the Alaskan tundra now features bonus content. This edition, perfect for classroom or home use, includes John Schoenherr's original scratchboard illustrations throughout, as well as extra materia |
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Stowaway
Karen Hesse - Scholastic
Format: Print book
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In the summer of 1768, an eleven-year-old butcher's apprentice named Nicholas Young climbed aboard a ship, hid himself from captain and crew, and waited to be carried far away from the life he hated in London. Nick didn't know it, but the ship he chose -- H.M.S. Endeavour -- was bound... |
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Hoot
Carl Hiaasen - Moline Public Library
Format: Paperback
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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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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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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD
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In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.This... |
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
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Haunted by his parents' divorce, Brian Robeson, sole survivor of a plane crash, must draw on his untested skills to survive in the wilderness. |
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Frozen Stiff
Sherry Shahan - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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What begins as a two-night camping and kayaking trek in the untamed Alaskan wilderness turns into a test of survival for Cody and her cousin Derek. While their mothers are in Juneau picking up supplies for Yakutat Lodge, the cousins sneak off in an old pickup. The taste of freedom is soon... |
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Cryptid Hunters
Roland Smith - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Hardcover
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After their parents are lost in an accident, thirteen-year old twins Grace and Marty are whisked away to live with their Uncle Wolfe-an uncle that they didn't even know they had! The intimidating Uncle Wolfe is an anthropologist who has dedicated his life to finding cryptids, mysterious... |
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Jaguar
Roland Smith
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While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River to a jaguar preserve in Brazil, fourteen-year-old Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune hunters. |
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Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest
Nancy Springer - Philomel Books
Format: Print book
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She has never met her father-the outlaw folks call Robin Hood. But with her mother murdered and no one to care for her, thirteen-year-old Rowan has no choice but to track him down. Disguised as a boy, she picks up a band of followers, including Lionel, the gentle giant, and Ettarde, the runaway... |
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The White Giraffe
Lauren St. John - Dial; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When Martine's home in England burns down, killing her parents, she must go to South Africa to live on a wildlife game preserve, called Sawubona, with the grandmother she didn't know she had. Almost as soon as she arrives, Martine hears stories about a white giraffe living in the preserve.... |
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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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Homecoming (The Tillerman Series #1)
Cynthia Voigt - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A glowing book...An enthralling journey to a gratifying end."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWThe Tillerman kids' mother just left them one day in a car in a mall parking lot. Their father, too, had left them a long time ago. So, as usual, it was up to thirteen-year-old Dicey,... |
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