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Please Don't Eat Me

Liz Climo · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Beloved author-illustrator Liz Climo is back with a hilarious take on (reluctant) friendship that will appeal to fans of We Don't Eat Our Classmates and I Want My Hat Back!When a carefree bunny is approached by a voracious bear in the woods, Bunny has just one request: "Please...
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A Big Bed for Little Snow

Grace Lin · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A companion to the Caldecott Honor book A Big Mooncake for Little Star!

A heartwarming and tender picture book introducing readers to their first snow, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin.
When it was quiet, Little Snow grinned and then jumped,...
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

Kwame Mbalia · Rick Riordan Presents
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods.
Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save...
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What Is a Refugee?

Elise Gravel · Schwartz & Wade
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

An accessible picture book that oh-so-simply and graphically introduces the term "refugee" to curious young children to help them better understand the world in which they live.Who are refugees? Why are they called that word? Why do they need to leave their country? Why are they...
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Firefighters' Handbook

Meghan McCarthy · Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author-illustrator Meghan McCarthy comes an entertaining picture book that explores the training and day-to-day life of being a firefighter as they put out fires and saves lives.

Do you have what it takes to be a firefighter?

From attending the Firefighter...
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Welcome to Spanish with Sesame Street ®

J. P. Press · Lerner Publications TM
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Sesame Street characters help readers learn Spanish so they can connect with new friends who speak the language. Welcoming words relating to everyday life and friendship give readers new language tools to become smarter, kinder friends.
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The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives

Eloise Greenfield · Alazar Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

The Women Who Caught the Babies highlights important aspects of the training and work of African-American midwives and the ways in which they have helped, and continue to help, so many families by "catching" their babies at birth. The blend of Eloise Greenfield's poetry and Daniel...
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Endangered Operation

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Join Carmen Sandiego and decide where in the world to go next in this globe-trotting, daring caper! Help Carmen save wild animals of all kinds, especially the rare Amur tiger cub kidnapped from you by VILE. With 20 possible endings, your adventures can take you all over the world - or out of the game....
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The Big Shrink

Sarah Mlynowski · Scholastic Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The Upside-Down Magic kids are back in another topsy-turvy adventure in the next installment of this New York Times bestselling series!

Marigold Ramos can magically make things small - sometimes very, very small. The only problem? She can't figure out how to make them big again.

Maybe...
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The Hidden Witch

MOLLY KNOX OSTERTAG · Graphix
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys in his family, he isn't a shapeshifter. He's taking classes with his grandmother and helping to keep an eye on his great-uncle whose corrupted magic wreaked havoc on the family.Meanwhile,...
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Return of the Temujai

John Flanagan · Philomel Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The Herons take to the high seas in the action-packed eighth installment of the Brotherband Chronicles, Brotherband: Return of the Temujai from John Flanagan, author of the internationally bestselling Ranger's Apprentice series!

The Herons are home in Skandia, but the usually...
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Complete Jane Austen

Anna Milbourne · EDC Publishing / UBAM
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From teenage girls waiting to dance at their very first ball, to mothers hunting for rich husbands for their daughters, Jane Austen's love stories are famous throughout the world. This collection of adaptations of all six novels - and one shorter tale - with beautiful illustrations...
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Under the Broken Sky

Mariko Nagai · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully told middle-grade novel-in-verse about a Japanese orphan's experience in occupied rural Manchuria during World War II.Twelve-year-old Natsu and her family live a quiet farm life in Manchuria, near the border of the Soviet Union. But the life they've known begins to unravel...
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The 100th Day of School

Flynn Brendan · Pop!
Pages: 24
Format: Paperback

This book introduces readers to the history, meaning, traditions, and celebrations of the 100th Day of School. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary,...
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Earth Day

Charly Haley · Cody Koala
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

This book introduces readers to the history, meaning, traditions, and celebrations of Earth Day. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index....
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How Is Root Beer Made?

Grace Hansen · Abdo Kids Jumbo
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

This title will take readers into factories where root beer is brewed using special root extracts, water, sugar, and yeast! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
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The Beast

Ally Condie · Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Thrilling, intense, with pulse-pounding chills . . . Everything you could want in a series." --Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil

New York Times bestselling authors Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs...

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The Cherry Pie Princess

Vivian French · Kane Miller Books / EDC Publishing
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback

Bored and lonely Princess Peony wants to learn how to DO things - like cooking! But when Peony borrows a cookbook from the public library, the king has the old librarian who tried to help the princess arrested for "speaking out of turn." Can Peony stand up to her father and make...
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Untitled

RACHEL RENE RUSSELL · Aladdin
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Nikki Maxwell's summer is packed with drama in this fourteenth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!

Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little...
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