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Gifts

Ruth Owen · PowerKids Press, 2014.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Readers will be delighted to make these great gifts for friends and family. Projects encourage recycling, turning old items into new crafts. Each project is broken into simple, achievable steps and is illustrated along the way with photographs.
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Charlie Bumpers vs. the Really Nice Gnome

Bill Harley · Peachtree Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Charlie Bumpers has his heart set on playing the role of the evil Sorcerer in the fourth grade play. He's even got the laugh down pat: Mwa-ha-ha-ha! But his dreams of villainous stardom go up in smoke when he finds out that Mrs. Burke has cast him as the Nice Gnome! Determined to rectify...
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Grizzly Bear

Jody Jensen Shaffer · Core Library
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Book by Shaffer, Jody Jensen
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The Last Bogler

Catherine Jinks · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

With the plague of bogles in Victorian London barely contained, bogle hunter Alfred Bunce needs all the help he can get. So Ned Roach becomes a bogler's apprentice, luring child-eating monsters from their lairs just like his friends Jem and Birdie. It's dangerous work that takes Ned into...
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Monsters Unchained!: Over 1,000 Drop-Dead Funny Jokes, Riddles, and Poems about Scary, Slimy, Slithery, Spooky, Slobbery Creatures

Richard Lederer · Marion Street Press, LLC
Format: Book

From the Abominable Snowman to zombies, Monsters Unchained! is the funniest monster book you’ll find.  This collection contains more than 1,000 puns, riddles, narratives, poems, arranged in an alphabetical parade of more than 20 classical monsters, each accompanied by creepy...
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The Battle for the Brightstone

Paul B. Thompson · Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Mikal must find Orry. The safety of the world depends on it. The rogue wizard, Master Harlano, captured Mikal’s magical friend. Inside the talking head lies the secret that can end all magic: the location of the Brightstone. If Harlano and his band of rogues can find and destroy...
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Panda-monium

Stuart Gibbs · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle's resident sleuth when the zoo's newest addition goes missing - before she even arrives! - in Panda-monium, the latest novel in Stuart Gibbs's FunJungle series.FunJungle is frenzied, awaiting the arrival of its most thrilling animal yet - Li Ping...
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

DUSTI BOWLING · Sterling Children's Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned." - School Library Journal (Starred review) Chosen for the Autumn 2017 Kids' Indie Next List! Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms...
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My Little Pony: Pony Tales Volume 1

Thom Zahler · IDW Publishing
Format: Paperback

Six spotlights focusing on everyone's favorite Ponies! Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack each get a whole issue devoted to them.
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Cal Ripken, Jr. : Hall of Fame baseball superstar

Glen Macnow · Speeding Star
Format:  Book : Biography : Juvenile audience : English

Owning the record for consecutive games played, Cal Ripken, Jr., is known as baseball's Iron Man. Find out what other accomplishments landed him in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Yo-Yo World Trick Book: Featuring 50 of the Most Popular Yo-Yo Tricks

Harry Baier · Dover Pubns
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Walk the Dog, Rock the Baby, and perform the Robin Hood, Sky Rocket, and Eiffel Tower! This entertaining book features 50 of the most popular Yo-Yo tricks, along with an illustrated history of the toy and its variations. Helpful diagrams accompany the easy instructions, and you'll also...
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Supergirl: Curse of the Ancients:

JO WHITTEMORE · Amulet Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Kara Danvers, also known as Supergirl, is back in the second title of this new middle-grade series, featuring original adventures not seen on TV. This second title in a planned three-book series picks up where the first book left off and builds upon the world of the TV show, as Supergirl...
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Assassination and Its Aftermath: How a Photograph Reassured a Shocked Nation

Don Nardo · Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint,
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

The world was shocked and frightened when President John F. Kennedy was gunned down by an assassins bullet in 1963. What would happen to the government of the most powerful nation on Earth? When Kennedys vice president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, took the presidential oath of office on Air Force...
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The Spinny Icky Showdown

Laurie Keller · Henry Holt
Pages: 125
Format: Print book

Now that Arnie has conquered the bowling alley and the planet Ufonut, he's back for another round of wild adventures. This time the venue is a traveling television game show (in the spirit of WIPEOUT!) that comes to town. Arnie, Peezo, and their buddies can't wait to participate in the crazy...
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The Unflushables

Ron Bates · jimmy patterson
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

James Patterson presents: The Titans of the Toilet! The Wonders from Down Under! Nitro City's very own sewer superheroes: The Plumbers! Super Mario Bros meets Captain Underpants in this action-packed comedy sure to make a splash!Thirteen-year-old Sully Stringfellow has always admired the great...
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