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Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness

Donna Janell Bowman · Lee & Low Books Inc.
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growing up an enslaved child in Tennessee, Doc was sent to plantations around the state to care for sick and wounded animals. When the Civil War ended and Doc was freed, he began to dream of breeding a winning racehorse. But those...
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My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish: Any Fin is Possible

Mo O'Hara · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

When Tom rescued Frankie the goldfish from his older brother's evil science experiment by zapping him back to life with a battery, he never expected his pet to become a BIG FAT ZOMBIE GOLDFISH with incredible hypnotic powers ... but it's helpful when they are thwarting his big brother's...
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Treasure Hunters: Quest for the City of Gold

James Patterson · jimmy patterson
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Gear up for an exciting new adventure with the thrill-seeking Kidds as they search for a missing city in South America made entirely of gold!When Bick and Beck Kidd find a hidden trove of pirate treasure, it includes a map with clues to an even bigger score: the lost Incan city of Paititi....
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Against the Odds

AMY IGNATOW · Amulet Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In the second title in the slam-dunk new series from bestselling author Amy Ignatow, the Odds are back and trying to figure out just who inflicted these lame abilities on them in the first place. Nick can still teleport four inches to the left, and Farshad's thumbs are still super strong....
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The Griffin's Feather

Cornelia Funke · Chicken House
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

It's now been two years since Ben and Firedrake defeated Nettlebrand and rescued the silver dragons. Both boy and dragon have finally found homes, but they must live hundreds of miles apart and can only see each other every once in a while.During one such visit, news reaches Ben, the Greenblooms,...
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The Bad Guys in Attack of the Zittens

AARON BLABEY · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 159
Format: Paperback

It's a zombie kitten apocalypse!Can the Bad Guys save the world from evil Dr. Marmalade's meowing monsters?!? They'll need help from foxy Agent Fox, a swampy secret zombie antidote, and the feistiest, toothiest, hungriest granny around. Get ready to watch the fur fly!
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Just Like Jackie

LINDSEY STODDARD · HarperCollins
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Family is family, no matter what it looks like. Readers will cheer for this pitch-perfect story, just right for fans of such books as The Great Gilly Hopkins and Fish in a Tree.For as long as Robinson Hart can remember, it's just been her and Grandpa. He taught her about cars, baseball,...
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The Dam Keeper

Robert Kondo · First Second
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Life in Sunrise Valley is tranquil, but beyond its borders lies certain death. A dangerous black fog looms outside the village, but its inhabitants are kept safe by an ingenious machine known as the dam. Pig's father built the dam and taught him how to maintain it. And then this brilliant...
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The Warden's Daughter

Jerry Spinelli · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 343
Format: Print book

From Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee, Stargirl) comes the "moving and memorable" (Kirkus Reviews, starred) story of a girl searching for happiness inside the walls of a prison. Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison--not as a prisoner, she's the warden's...
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The Land of Flowers

Thea Stilton · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters as they travel to help a new magical land! The mice encounter fairies and other strange and fantastical creatures as they work together to solve a mystery to save the realm from peril. It's a fabumouse adventure!
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The Tweenage Guide To Not Being Unpopular

Jimmy Gownley · Turtleback Books
Pages: 187
Format: Book

In the original Amelia Rules!, the gang encounters mobs, makeovers, and bad catch phrases in a daring attempt to "not" be "un"popular. Illustrations. 208 pp. 50, 000 print. Pub. 4/10. This item is Non-Returnable.
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Suee and the Shadow

GINGER LY · Amulet Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Meet Suee: Twelve years old, wears her hair to the left in a point, favors a black dress, has no friends - and she likes it that way! When Suee transfers to the dull and ordinary Outskirts Elementary, she doesn't expect to hear a strange voice speaking to her from the darkness of the school's...
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The Night Garden

POLLY HORVATH · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

From Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author Polly Horvath is this magical middle-grade novel about a garden that grants wishes. It is World War II, and Franny and her parents, Sina and Old Tom, enjoy a quiet life on a farm on Vancouver Island. Franny writes, Sina sculpts,...
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Chasing the Milky Way

Erin E Moulton · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 283
Format: Hardcover

In a book that pairs science with mental illness, and heart with adventure, Erin E. Moulton delivers a moving story about family, friendship and the lengths we go for the people we love.Lucy Peevy has a dream--to get out of the trailer park she lives in and become a famous scientist. And she's...
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Writing With Rosie: You Can Write a Story Too

Patricia Reilly Giff · Holiday House
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

In a humorous and entertaining guide, two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff breaks down the process of writing fiction into steps, all while trying to cope with the constant distractions from her exuberant seventy-pound golden retriever puppy, Rosie. Citing examples...
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