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My Little Pony: Meet Starlight Glimmer!

Magnolia Belle · Little
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

A leveled reader featuring Starlight Glimmer from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!Starlight Glimmer is a Unicorn with amazing magical skills who didn't always use her magic for good. Now that she has a second chance at being good, how will she make new friends?Passport to Reading Level...
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Ninja on the Farm

Luke Flowers · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

In the first book in this fun Level 1 reader series, Moby Shinobi heads to the farm! Moby tries to collect eggs, gather hay, and feed the pigs, but each try ends in a funny mess. Moby wants to help Farmer Bob, but what if his ninja skills aren't right for the job? Then the cows break...
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Henry and Mudge and Mrs. Hopper's House

Cynthia Rylant · Simon Spotlight
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Level 2: Reading Independently • More complex stories • Varied sentence structure • Paragraphs and short chapters Mom and Dad are all dressed up for the Valentine's Day Dance. But not Henry and Mudge; they hate all that mushy stuff. They're going to play at Mrs....
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Dinosaurs in disguise

Stephen Krensky · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

From ancient Egypt to medieval jousts, from office jobs to grocery shopping, one boy reimagines the modern world with dinosaurs in hiding. This fun, light read will tickle readers' funny bones while subtly introducing themes of conservation and stewardship, inspiring children to question...
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Triangle

Mac Barnett · Candlewick
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen conspire again on a slyly funny tale about some very sneaky shapes.Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks. . . . With this first tale in a new trilogy,...
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Tidy

Emily Gravett · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Pete the badger learns that being tidy isn't always the best thing in this save-the-environment picture book from award-winning author and illustrator Emily Gravett.Pete the badger likes everything to be neat and tidy at all times, but what starts as the collecting of one fallen leaf...
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Princess Cora and the Crocodile

Laura Amy Schlitz · Candlewick Press
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled princess a day off - and a deliciously wicked crocodile a day on.Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths...
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Lexie the Word Wrangler

Rebecca Van Slyke · Nancy Paulsen Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

This clever celebration of words and their meanings features a strong cowgirl who wrangles words alongside cattle. Lexie is the best wrangler west of the Mississippi - word wrangler, that is. She watches over baby letters while they grow into words and ties shorter words together into...
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Jerry Pinkney · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A classic read-aloud favorite addressing the perennially hot topic of bullying, retold by multi-acclaimed artist Jerry Pinkney.Jerry Pinkney puts his indelible stamp on another beloved folktale in the same vein as the Caldecott Medal-winning The Lion & the Mouse and the highly acclaimed...
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The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet!

Carmen Agra Deedy · Scholastic Press
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

La Paz is a happy, but noisy village. A little peace and quiet would make it just right. So the villagers elect the bossy Don Pepe as their mayor. Before long, singing of any kind is outlawed. Even the teakettle is afraid to whistle!But there is one noisy rooster who doesn't give two mangos...
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Full of Fall

April Pulley Sayre · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Discover the magic - and the science - behind fall leaves with this companion to the celebrated Raindrops Roll and Best in Snow.With gorgeous photo illustrations, award-winning author April Pulley Sayre explores the transformation trees undergo in fall. The book takes readers through the leaves'...
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Music Time

Gwendolyn Hooks · Lee & Low Books Inc.
Pages: 32

Henry dreams of becoming a rock star drummer and practices at home whenever he can. One day while Henry is drumming, his mom has to work, and asks him to stop playing. Henry decides to go outside to play his drum and he sees his friends. Henry wants to keep practicing, but he also wants...
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Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books

Michelle Markel · Chronicle Books
Pages: 44
Format: Hardcover

This rollicking and fascinating picture book biography chronicles the life of the first pioneer of children's books - John Newbery himself. While most children's books in the 18th century contained lessons and rules, John Newbery imagined them overflowing with entertaining stories, science,...
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MVP #1: The Gold Medal Mess

David A Kelly · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 128
Format: Library Binding

From the author of the Ballpark Mysteries comes a brand-new sports-themed chapter book series featuring the coolest club around - the Most Valuable Players! Five friends are ready for their school's Olympics field day. There will be relay races, archery contests, and more! But not everyone...
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