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System Overload: Herobrine's Revenge Book Three

Mark Cheverton · Sky Pony Pr, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

With the Minecraft server at risk of a devastating crash, Gameknight999 must square off for a final time against an evil digital enemy!More glitches are appearing across the Minecraft server. An entire forest of treetops have disappeared. A mountain fell to the ground as if sliced in two by a giant...
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Twelve Minutes to Midnight

Christopher Edge · Albert Whitman & Company, 2014. Â2012.
Pages: 253
Format: Print book

Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Victorian Britain's bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her spine-chilling tales--concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch--are gripping the public. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam...
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Nuts to You

Lynne Rae Perkins · Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

How far would you go for a friend? In Nuts to You, the funny and moving new novel by Newbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins, two squirrels go very far indeed to save a friend who has been snatched up by a hawk. Nuts to You is short, funny, and surprising - an Incredible Journey with squirrels....
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Who Was Alexander the Great?

Robin H Waterfield · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series!When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him to conquer! This, of course, was not the case....
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My Year of Epic Rock

Andrea Pyros · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Paperback

If Life Was Like a SongNina Simmons song would be You Cant Always Eat What You Want. Peanut allergies, ugh. But thats okay, because as her best friend Brianna always said, Were All in This Together.Until the first day of the seventh grade, when Brianna dumps her to be BFFs with the popular...
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Get into Chess

Rachel Stuckey · Crabtree Publishing Company
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Chess is one of the most popular and challenging strategy games of all time! This engaging title covers the rules, pieces, moves, and strategies. Step-by-step photos bring matches to life and connect readers to the instructions. Fact boxes highlight fascinating facts and records including...
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Nature Attacks!

Lauren Tarshis · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 155
Format: Hardcover

Gripping true stories of real kids who have survived horrifying disasters from the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series!The author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series brings us four more harrowing true stories of real kids in the midst of horrible disasters.From...
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Clash of the Dinos: Watch Dinosaurs Do Battle!

Jinny Johnson · Firefly Books
Format: Book

The most terrifying reptiles ever to walk the planet battle it out in glorious full-color illustrations. Who would win in a fight to the death between an Allosaurus and a Kentrosaurus? Now eager readers can find out, as each dinosaurs strengths and weaknesses are exposed and the winner...
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Molly & Pim and the Millions of Stars

Martine Murray · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

For fans of Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers comes a story about mothers and daughters and magical trees that Rebecca Stead calls "an utter delight." All Molly wants is to be normal like her friend Ellen Palmer. Ellen, with her neat braids and a tidy house and a mother and father...
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Pangu Separates the Sky from the Earth: A Chinese Creation Myth

Anita Yasuda · Short Tales - Beginning Readers
Format: Book

Pangu Separates the Sky from the Earth: A Chinese Creation Myth (Short Tales: Chinese Myths) [Library Binding] [Jan 01, 2014] Yasuda, Anita
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The Stormy Southern Ocean

Doreen Gonzales · Enslow Elementary
Format: Book

The Southern Ocean is home to many different plants and animals. It also has many resources that make many of the things we use every day. Discover the plants and animals that live in, on, and near this special place, the scientists who explore its mysteries, and why we need to protect...
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Cleopatra vs. the Roman empire : power, conquest, and tragedy

Ellis Roxburgh · Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pages: 48
Format:  Print book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

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I See Rainbows

Kathryn Beaton · Cherry Lake Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Young children are naturally curious about the world around them. Tell Me Why I See Rainbows offers answers to their most compelling questions about rainbows. Age-appropriate explanations and appealing photos encourage readers to continue their quest for knowledge. Additional text features...
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The Great Depression and World War II: 1929-1945

Susan E. Hamen · Abdo Publishing Company
Format: Print book

Discusses the social, political, and economic conditions in the United States during the Great Depression and World War II, providing details on the New Deal, the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Night Gardener

Jonathan Auxier · Harry N Abrams Inc
Pages: 350
Format: Print book

This much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Auxier's exceptional debut, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, is a Victorian ghost story with shades of Washington Irving and Henry James. More than just a spooky tale, it's also a moral fable about human greed and the power of storytelling.The...
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