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How to Make Awesome Comics

NEILL CAMERON · David Fickling Books
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback

Want to have awesome ideas, every time? Feel like turning your ideas into amazing stories? And ever wish you could make your creations come alive with incredible artwork?If any of these things sounded cool to you, then How to Make Awesome Comics is the perfect book to help you on your way to comics/cartooning...
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Full of Beans

Jennifer L Holm · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award Five Starred Reviews A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016 Grown-ups lie. That's one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest bunch of barefoot conchs (that means "locals")...
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The Land of Forgotten Girls

Erin Entrada Kelly · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Erin Entrada Kelly, the author of the acclaimed Blackbird Fly, writes with grace, imagination, and deepest heart about family, sisters, and friendship, and about finding and holding on to hope in difficult times.

Two sisters from the Philippines, abandoned by their father and living...

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The Last Straw

Jeff Kinney · Amulet Books
Pages: 217
Format: Paperback

soft cover has wear front and back possibly including minor creasing and curled/bumped inside in good clean condition no writing or underline thank you for your business.
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Firelight

Kazu Kibuishi · Graphix
Pages: 197
Format: Print book

Emily, Trellis, and Vigo visit Algos Island, where they can access and enter lost memories. They're hoping to uncover the events of Trellis's mysterious childhood -- knowledge they can use against the Elf King. What they discover is a dark secret that changes everything. Meanwhile, the Voice...
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The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade

Jordan Sonnenblick · Scholastic Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In sixth grade, bad things can happen to good kids. Bullies will find your weakness and jump on it. Teachers will say you did something wrong when really didn't mean to do anything wrong. The kids who joke the loudest can drown out the quieter, nicer kids. Maverick wants to change all that....
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Under Locker and Key

Allison K. Hymas · Aladdin
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Jeremy Wilderson teams up with his rival crime fighter to stop the stealing spree that's wreaking havoc on Scottsville Middle School in this action-packed MAX novel.

Jeremy Wilderson is not a thief. In fact, he is his middle school's one and only retrieval specialist....
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The Executioner's Daughter

Jane Hardstaff · Egmont Usa
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

All her life, Moss has lived in the Tower of London with her father, who serves as the executioner for King Henry VIII. Prisoners condemned to death must face Pa and his axe - and Moss catches their severed heads. Her father insists he has no choice: if he leaves the Tower, he will be killed....
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Brave

Svetlana Chmakova · JY
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback

In his daydreams, Jensen is the biggest hero that ever was, saving the world and his friends on a daily basis. But his middle school reality is VERY different--math is hard, getting along with friends is hard...Even finding a partner for the class project is a huge problem when you always...
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Adam Levine

John Bankston · Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

At sixteen, Adam Levine had a record deal. His band Karas Flowers was on a popular TV show and he thought he would be a star. When his first record didnt sell, the band broke up. Afterward, he discovered music he really wanted to play. Most bands werent playing it and many people didnt...
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Ripley's Special Edition 2013

Inc Scholastic · Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Another years worth of wild and wacky information from Ripleys Believe It or Not pages of awesomely weird information such as rainbow clouds in the Himalayas a Chinese building in shape of teapot a woman whos worn and lived in pink clothes for years a kidney stone the size of a coconut...
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Star-Crossed

Barbara Dee · Aladdin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Mattie is chosen to play Romeo opposite her crush in the eighth grade production of Shakespeare's most beloved play in this Romeo and Juliet inspired novel from the author of Truth or Dare.

Mattie, a star student and passionate reader, is delighted when her English...
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The House on Spooky Street

Laurie S Sutton · Stone Arch Books
Format: Print book

In this You Choose mystery, Scooby-Doo and the gang visit the great city of New Orleans. When the gang is forced to stop by an old mansion, it seems they've discovered a haunted house filled with witches and vampires. But who's really behind the haunting? Reader's choose...
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In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse

Joseph Marshall · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 163
Format: Hardcover

Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy - though you wouldn't guess it by his name: his father is part white and part Lakota, and his mother is Lakota. When he embarks on a journey with his grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, he learns more and more about his Lakota heritage - in particular, the story...
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Ice Rink Rookie

Jake Maddox · Stone Arch Books
Format: Hardcover(Library Binding)

Pilar Ramirez loves ice-skating, and she's never let the fact she was born without part of her right foot hold her back. So she's decided to join the hockey team. But being a rookie isn't easy, and what's worse, a fellow player accuses Pilar's newbie mistakes of hurting...
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