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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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The kid who changed the world

Andy Andrews · Tommy Nelson
Format:  book_printbook : Fiction : Primary school : English

Beginning with Norman Borlaug and going back to those who influenced him directly or indirectly, shows how one ordinary boy came to develop "super plants" that helped save billions of people from starvation.
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The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems

Paul B. Janeczko · Candlewick
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Toast a marshmallow, be a tree in winter, read braille - Paul B. Janeczko and Richard Jones invite you to enjoy an assortment of poems that inform and inspire.Today I walked outside and spied a hedgehog on the hill. When she and I met eye to eye, she raised up straight and still. Be they...
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Hap-Pea All Year

Keith Baker · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Keith Baker's New York Times bestselling peas are back for more fun - this time exploring the months of the year!Hap-pea January! Let's get going, grab your mittens - hooray, it's snowing! The peas have rolled through the letters, numbers, and colors. Now, they're back with all of their...
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All I'll Ever Want

Pat McKissack · Schwartz & Wade
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

This final, magnificent picture book from three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack is a poignant and uplifting celebration of the joy of giving. "Misery loves company," Mama says to James Otis. It's been a rough couple of months for them,...
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Fox & Chick: The Party: and Other Stories

Sergio Ruzzier · Chronicle Books
Pages: 56
Format: Hardcover

Fox and Chick don't always agree. But Fox and Chick are always friends. With sly humor and companionable warmth, Sergio Ruzzier deftly captures the adventures of these two seemingly opposite friends. The luminous watercolor images showcased in comic-book panel form will entice emerging...
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Arturo and the Bienvenido Feast

Anne Broyles · Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Arturo and his grandmother, Abue Rosa, are preparing a welcome dinner for his aunt's fiance?, but when his grandmother unexpectedly needs to rest, Arturo must prepare the feast himself. Includes recipes.
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This Is Christmas

TOM BOOTH · Aladdin
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

From the author and illustrator of Night at the Stadium and Day at the Beach comes a modern holiday classic about a chipmunk who has to learn the true meaning of Christmas.It is Christmas Eve and Little Chipmunk asks his mother, "What is Christmas, Mama?" His Mama tells him that...
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The Injured Fox Kit

TINA NOLAN · TIGER TALES
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Abandoned, lost, neglected? There's always a home at Animal Magic! In a perfect world, there would be no need for Animal Magic. But Ella and Caleb Harrison, who live at the animal rescue center with their parents, know that life isn't perfect. Every day there's a new arrival...
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Howl at the Moon: A Branches Book (Haggis and Tank Unleashed #3)

Jessica Young · Branches/Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Pick a book. Grow a reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence...
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The Treasure of the Sea: A Geronimo Stilton Adventure

Thea Stilton · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters are needed to help Aquamarina, the magical land of the ocean! The enchanted Music of the Sea has stopped playing, and no one knows why. If it doesn't return soon, the realm will perish! The mouselets and their friend Will Mystery travel to the underwater...
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Where's Halmoni?

Julie J Kim · Little Bigfoot
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Beautifully illustrated and told by debut author Julie Kim, this picture book in a graphic-novel style follows a young Korean girl and boy whose search for their missing grandmother leads them into a world inspired by Korean folklore, complete with mischievous goblins (dokkebi) , a greedy...
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Groundhog's Runaway Shadow

David Biedrzycki · Charlesbridge
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Phil and his shadow used to do everything together. But Phil got tired of Shadow shadowing him, so Shadow up and left. True friends, however, have a way of finding each other somehow. If the groundhog doesn't see its shadow come February 2nd, young readers will have an idea of where it might...
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I Got a Chicken for My Birthday

Laura Gehl · Carolrhoda Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

What a birthday girl wants more than anything from her Abuela are tickets to the amusement park. Instead she gets a chicken. But this chicken is no ordinary chicken; it has plans! With a lot of hard work, and help from lots of other animals, this chicken may just end up building the girl...
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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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