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Piper Green and the Fairy Tree: Pie Girl

Ellen Potter · Yearling
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback

Love Ramona or Judy Moody? Then you definitely need to know Piper Green! The girl with the fairy tree in her backyard returns, and this time the fairies have left her a mysterious pirate patch. Every year, Piper Green looks forward to a visit from the Sea Star, a community boat that docks...
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Dino-Racing

Lisa Wheeler · Carolrhoda Books
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

In this installment of dino competition, meat eaters face off against plant eaters in three high-speed auto events: drag racing, off-road racing, and stock-car racing. Lisa Wheeler's rhymes explore thoughtful questions such as: Which dinosaurs would make the best chasers for support in a desert...
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You Made Me a Mother

Laurenne Sala · Harpercollins
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

In this beautiful celebration of motherhood, the universal message of unconditional love for a child shines through. Laurenne Sala's heartwarming text, accompanied by New York Times bestselling artist Robin Preiss Glasser's charming illustrations, creates a firsthand look at the powerful...
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Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg

Lori Mortensen · Clarion Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Cowpoke Clyde's house was completely clean - he'd even shooed off the horseflies: "Then right behind his cookin' pot, / he spied one thing he'd plumb forgot: / ol' Dawg, his faithful, snorin' friend, / all caked with mud from end to end." Needless to say,...
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Daddies Are Awesome

Meredith Costain · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Daddies are awesome! They're warm and delicious.They tickle and hug you and shower you with kisses.Loving and thoughtful, playful and daring, cuddly and caring--daddies are awesome. This gentle rhyming text celebrates the special bond between father and child. Adorable doggy daddy and pup illustrations...
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Wallpaper

Thao Lam · Owlkids
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

New from the creator of Skunk on a String comes Wallpaper, a wordless picture book in Thao Lam's signature paper collage style. It tells the story of a young girl whose family moves into a new house. Outside, she can hear other kids playing, but she's too shy to say hello. So she picks...
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Cork and Fuzz

Dori Chaconas · Viking Juvenile; 1St Edition edition
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Cork is a muskrat. Fuzz is a possum. From their first meeting in a hollow log to playing pin-the-tail-on-the-turtle, from collecting rocks to dodging falling pinecones, Cork and Fuzz are always up to something unusual. The gentle humor and simple story will entertain beginning readers,...
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Making a Friend

Tammi Sauer · HarperCollins
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A clever picture book about the fun of making new friends and building unlikely relationships - and playing in the snow! From the bestselling author of Nugget and Fang.Beaver is good at making just about everything...but not friends. One winter day, Beaver sees some snowflakes in the sky and gets...
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Shark Nate-O

Becky Cattie · little bee books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Nate loves sharks. He reads shark books every day, watches sharks on TV, and talks about them nonstop. He even likes to pretend he's a shark wherever he goes! However, there is one small problem. . . .Nate can't swim. When his older brother points this out, Nate works hard to overcome...
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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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The Little Red Fort

Brenda Maier · Scholastic Press
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Ruby's mind is always full of ideas. One day, she finds some old boards and decides to build something. She invites her brothers to help, but they just laugh and tell her she doesn't know how to build. "Then I'll learn," she says. And she does! When she creates a dazzling fort...
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Mr. Putter & Tabby Stir the Soup

Cynthia Rylant · Harcourt
Pages: 44
Format: Hardcover

Mr. Putter and Tabby love homemade soup. But when at last they have all the right ingredients to make some, they find that their treasured stove, Bessie, is on the blink. Luckily, their neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, is happy to share hers. But watch out--her good dog, Zeke, would much rather...
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Hurricane Heroes in Texas

Mary Pope Osborne · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Jack and Annie are caught out in the rain in the most dangerous Magic Tree House mission yet!Jack and Annie are on a mission! When the magic tree house whisks them back to Galveston, Texas, in 1900, they find out that a big storm is coming. But even though there is rain and wind, no one believes...
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On the Other Side of the Garden

Jairo Buitrago · Groundwood Books
Pages: 56
Format: Hardcover

From one of the great creative teams in picture books, On the Other Side of the Garden is about a city girl learning to accept the change brought about by her parents' separation when she is taken to her grandmother's house in the country and befriended by an owl, a frog and a mouse.When...
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Ninja! Attack of the Clan

Arree Chung · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

A ninja must be ready for anything! Maxwell is a strong, courageous, silent ninja, but he also wants somebody to play with. Mama, Papa, and little sister Cassy are all too busy, leaving Maxwell disappointed and alone. When Maxwell gets called to dinner, he finds an empty dining room....
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