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The Smelly Search

Geronimo Stilton · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Geronimo Stiltonoot and friends have been invited to participate in a Stone Age treasure hunt! How fun! The one issue is that it has been set up by Gossip Radio host Sally Rockmousen, Geronimo's rival. Is it some sort of trick? The hunt is full of difficult riddles and very stinky dinosaurs......
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Fair Ball

Derek Jeter · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Inspired by Derek Jeter's own life, Fair Ball is the fourth middle grade novel in the New York Times bestselling Jeter Publishing Program and focuses on the theme "the world isn't always fair."Life isn't always fair. You can't control that, but you can control...
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The Thrifty Guide to the American Revolution: A Handbook for Time Travelers

Jonathan W Stokes · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The only guidebook you need for your next time travel vacation!The Thrifty Guide to the American Revolution provides useful information for the practical time traveler, like: * Where can I find a decent hotel room in colonial New England? Are major credit cards accepted? * How do I join...
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

DUSTI BOWLING · Sterling Children's Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned." - School Library Journal (Starred review) Chosen for the Autumn 2017 Kids' Indie Next List! Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms...
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Life of Zarf: Troll Overboard

Rob Harrell · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Land of Stories meets Dork Diaries in the third book of the hilarious fractured fairy tale series about an unpopular troll and his underdog pals As a troll, Zarf is already at the bottom of the food chain when it comes to popularity at Cotswin Middle School. So when his Gramps shows up at career...
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King Flashypants and the Evil Emperor

Andy Riley · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Edwin isn't any ordinary boy. He is a king with a crown, his own suit of armor, a castle with secret passages and water slides -- oh, and the most horribly evil man in the universe living next door. Emperor Nurbison is permanently up to no good. He wants Edwin's kingdom for himself, so when...
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Thea Stilton and the Dancing Shadows: A Geronimo Stilton Adventure

Thea Stilton · Scholastic
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Geronimo's sister Thea narrates this adventure packed with mystery and friendship!The Thea Sisters are headed to Italy for a ballet competition! But the mouselets aren't just there to dance -- they are there to investigate. A group is plotting to rig the prestigious contest, and the future...
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The Underwater Planet

Geronimo Stilton · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

While at the beach, Geronimo Stiltonix stumbles upon a mysterious treasure map! The spacemice follow it and end up on Aquarix, a planet that's entirely underwater. During their exploration, they face fur-eating seaweed, ferocious piranha aliens, and . . . pirate spacecats! Squeak! Can the spacemice...
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The Littlest Train

Chris Gall · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

In this endearing story of a tiny toy train, the creator of the hit series Dinotrux now breathes life into more than a half-dozen trains that climb, haul, chug, zip, and zoom.In a small room, down a short flight of stairs, there lives a little toy train...about to have a BIG adventure!...
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Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea

LYNNE RAE PERKINS · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From Newbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins, this effervescent story introduces two sisters - Alix and Jools - and takes readers on an unforgettable journey to the beach. In the style of the author's acclaimed Nuts to You, this joyful celebration of sisters, family, and the ocean contains black-and-white...
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Big Nate: Revenge of the Cream Puffs

Lincoln Peirce · Andrews Mcmeel Pub
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

It's one, two, three strikes, you're out, as the Cream Puffs seek sweet revenge!Here come the Cream Puffs! Nate and his baseball team, saddled with the most embarrassing moniker in Little League history, want to show the world they're not just a bunch of cupcakes. But it won't be easy....
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Waste of Space

Stuart Gibbs · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling series Tensions are running high when multi-billionaire Lars Sjoburg is poisoned and demands to go home and everyone is looking to Dash Gibson to solve the case in this third and final book in the New York Times bestselling Moon Base Alpha series.Moon Base Alpha...
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Unicorn vs. Goblins: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure

Dana Simpson · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 170
Format: Print book

Not every kid skips a rock across a pond and winds up with a unicorn best friend, right? The popular friendship of Phoebe and Her Unicorn is back for a third collection of adventures so heavenly they had to be shared.School's out! That means no more teachers, no more books, and lots of time...
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Pennybaker School Is Headed for Disaster

Jennifer Brown · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Fallgrout always thought of himself as a regular kid until the day he accidentally creates a little big of magic using his grandpa's old potions. Suddenly, he's pulled from public school and enrolled in Pennybaker Academy for the Uniquely Gifted, where kids are busy perfecting their...
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A Properly Unhaunted Place

William Alexander · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From National Book Award-winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two kids who try to save their town by bringing back its ghosts.Rosa Ramona Díaz has just moved to the small, un-haunted town of Ingot - the only ghost-free town in the world. She doesn't want...
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