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Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance

Ferguson Publishing. · Ferguson Pub; 16 edition
Format: Hardcover

The five-volume Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, 16th Edition is an essential resource for public, college, high school, and junior high school libraries; career centers; guidance offices; and other agencies involved with career exploration and planning. Along with revisions...
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Trials of Apollo, The Book One The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

How do you punish an immortal?By making him human.After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern...
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Plants vs. Zombies: Grown Sweet Home

Paul Tobin · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 71
Format: Print book

A new story arc begins! A group of young plants--led by Fred the Sunflower, Jeff the Bloomerang, and Grrawrr-Bear the Bonk Choy--move out of Crazy Dave's garage and into his huge family mansion in Neighborville. Nate and Patrice head over with them to make sure they don't accidentally destroy...
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The Demon Curse

Simon Nicholson · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"Action-packed and fast-paced...will appeal to fans of the '39 Clues.'" -School Library Journal on The Magician's FireYoung Harry Houdini is a master magician, an impressive performance artist who dazzles crowds with his daring feats. But when Harry and his friends Billie and Arthur...
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Bad Kitty Meets the Baby

Nick Bruel · Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Kitty's owners are home with a big surprise for Kitty. But what is it? Kitty, reeling in horror, thinks it's a . . . dog. The neighbor cats are convinced it's a cat. But we all know that it's really a BABY! With Nick Bruel's trademark mix of antic humor (this time involving...
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Abner & Me

Dan Gutman
Format: Paperback

Cannons are blasting! Bullets are flying! Wounded soldiers are everywhere!Stosh has time-traveled to 1863, right into the middle of the Civil War. In possibly his most exciting and definitely his most dangerous trip yet, Stosh has decided to answer the question for all time: did Abner Doubleday,...
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Big Nate Goes for Broke

Lincoln Peirce · Harpercollins Childrens B, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

For fans of the hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, here comes the fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling series Big Nate, now in paperback. BIG NATE IS GOING FOR BROKE!In Book 4, Nate is back in action. This time, Nate's quest to achieve his destiny (you know ... greatness)...
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Mighty Jack and the Goblin King

BEN HATKE · FIRST SECOND BOOKS
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone -- carried into another realm by an ogre.When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy's captor through the portal, they are ready for anything . . . except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds....
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A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day

Andrea Davis Pinkney · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 60
Format: Print book

A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father...
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The Missing Pieces of Me

Jean Van Leeuwen · Two Lions
Pages: 226
Format: Book

More than anything, ten-year-old Weezie wants to please her momma. She babysits her spoiled half-sister, Ruth Ann, and little Jackson. She makes tea for Momma in Gramma Emmeline's beautiful teapot. She even tries to cook dinner. But nothing turns out quite right. And Momma is never pleased....
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Who Was Theodore Roosevelt?

Michael Burgan · Grosset & Dunlap; DGS edition
Format: Paperback

He was only 42 years old when he was sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making TR the youngest president ever.  But did you know that he was also the first sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize? The first to ride in a car? The first to fly in an airplane? Theodore...
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Middle School: Dog's Best Friend

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Releasing the same month as the MIDDLE SCHOOL movie, this next installment of James Patterson's hit series has non-stop laughs starring everyone's favorite underdog.It's a dog-eat-dog world, and Rafe Khatchadorian is just trying to live in it. Life in middle school is finally starting to seem...
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Geronimo Stilton #52: Mouse in Space!

Geronimo Stilton · Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Book

Each Geronimo Stilton book is fast-paced, with lively full-color art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love.New Mouse City was in danger! An evil professor was threatening us all with his terrible inventions. The authorities called upon me, Geronimo Stilton, to thwart his plans by traveling...
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How Not to Be Killed by a Zombie: Book 3

Baron Spector · Magic Wagon; Unabridged edition
Format: Book

Jared, Stan, Mitch, Barry, and Amy live in the small town of Marshfield, or Graveyard City. The town has four old cemeteries, and each kid lives next to one. In fact, theyve witnessed so many strange things in the graveyards that theyve formed a group called the Zombie Hunters! But the Zombie...
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Cabin Fever

Jeff Kinney · Amulet Books
Format: Paperback

Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #6)
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