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Ivy

Katherine Coville · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 134
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Jessica Day George and E. D. Baker comes a charming young fantasy about a girl, her grandmother, and an animal hospital devoted to fantastical creatures. Ivy's grandmother is a healer - to mostly four-legged patients of the forest. Although the woodland creatures love her,...
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The Copernicus Legacy: The Crown of Fire

Tony Abbott · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 553
Format: Print book

This concluding book in bestselling author Tony Abbott's critically acclaimed middle grade adventure series is a mile-a-minute thrill ride. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson."Upon my life, I will." Across the centuries, every Guardian who has protected one of the twelve...
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Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Rick Riordan · Hyperion Books for Children
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your...
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The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade

Max Brallier · Viking Children'S Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"Terrifyingly fun! Max Brallier's The Last Kids on Earth delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs."--Jeff Kinney, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Diary of a Wimpy KidDiary of a Wimpy Kid meets The Walking Dead in this very funny post-apocalyptic graphic novel...
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The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk

Jan Thornhill · Groundwood Books
Pages: 44
Format: Print book

For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive.In this stunningly...
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Pirates and Shipwrecks: True Stories

Tom Mccarthy · Nomad Pr
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

When Daniel Collins and the crew of the Betsey set sail for Cuba in 1824, they have no idea of the horrors that lie ahead. This is just one of the stories in a collection of five true tales about pirates and shipwrecks that introduces readers to the perils of the high seas.Pirates and Shipwrecks:...
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party

Nathan Hale · Amulet Books
Pages: 123
Format: Hardcover

The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It s also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape. From the preparation...
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Some Kind of Happiness

Claire Legrand · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

Reality and fantasy collide in this heartfelt and mysterious novel for fans of Counting by 7s and Bridge to Terabithia, about a girl who must save a magical make-believe world in order to save herself.Things Finley Hart doesn't want to talk about: -Her parents, who are having problems....
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Three Pennies

MELANIE CROWDER · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A girl in foster care tries to find her birth mother before she loses her forever in this spare and beautifully told novel about last chances and new opportunities.For a kid bouncing from foster home to foster home, The Book of Changes is the perfect companion. That's why Marin carries...
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The Best Bear in All the World

Jeanne Willis · Dutton Children's Books
Pages: 102
Format: Print book

For the 90th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh, a sequel featuring new stories and a new character from the Hundred Acre Wood. Now a New York Times Bestseller. The Trustees of the Pooh Properties have commissioned four authors to write in the timeless style of A.A. Milne to create a quartet...
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Ginger the Stray Kitten

Holly Webb · Tiger Tales
Format: Print book

Rosie loves visiting the barn cats that live on the farm near her grandmothers house. Her favorite is a kitten she has named Ginger. When the farm is sold, a rescue shelter is called to collect the cats for adoption. Can Rosie find Ginger so she can bring Ginger home?,
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Squish #8: Pod vs. Pod

Jennifer L. Holm · Random House
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling, Eisner-winning creators of Babymouse, it's green . . . it's blobby . . . it's gross . . . it's SQUISH(!) , a comic-book-loving amoeba whose adventures are perfect for fans of Captain Underpants. Uh-oh! Squish's friend Pod just hasn't been himself...
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Pirate Spacecat Attack

GERONIMO STILTON · SCHOLASTIC (US)
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The on board computer on spaceship MouseStar 1, Hologramix, is out of order! To fix it, Geronimo Stiltonix must take it to a brilliant inventor who lives on a distant planet. But while Hologramix is being repaired, pirate spacecats attack, and steal it! Can the spacemice get Hologramix...
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Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Gets Slimed!

Frances O'Roark Dowell · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) has three goals for fourth grade: 1. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. 2. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. 3. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. It's a tall order, but he's confident that he can achieve it, especially...
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Descendants 2 Junior Novel

ERIC GERON · Disney Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay may be the children of terrible villains, but they're fitting in amazingly well on Auradon.
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