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Towers Falling
Jewell Parker Rhodes · Little
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window,... |
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Grover Cleveland, Again!: A Treasury of American Presidents
Ken Burns · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 89
Format: Print book |
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The instant New York Times bestseller!A gorgeous collection of American presidents filled with fun facts and sparkling with personality, from nonfiction master Ken Burns. This special treasury from America's beloved documentarian Ken Burns brings the presidents to life for our nation's... |
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National Geographic Readers: Ibn al-Haytham: The Man Who Discovered How We See
Libby Romero · National Geographic
Pages: 48
Format: Print book |
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Celebrated in a film featuring Omar Sharif in his final role, meet the scientist known as the "Father of Optics," Ibn al-Haytham!During the golden age of science, knowledge, and invention in Muslim civilization -- also known as the "Dark Ages" in Western Europe -- this... |
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Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume I: The Fearsome Foursome
Amicus Arcane · Disney Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press' spookiest chapter book series yet: "Tales from the Haunted Mansion" Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each new book tells the story of one of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts. With eerie illustrations throughout and a beautiful... |
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Serafina and the Twisted Staff
Robert Beatty · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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Serafina's defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the catamount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds:... |
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The Inside Job:
Jackson Pearce · Bloomsbury Usa
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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Hale, who turned double-agent against the corrupt spy organization he was raised in, knows his super-spy parents can't come home until the Sub Rosa Society is neutralized--and that he and his friends are all that's standing between SRS and their worldwide crimes. So Hale wants to hit the bad guys... |
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Dead End in Norvelt
Jack Gantos · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the years best contribution to childrens literature and the Scott ODell Award for Historical Fiction!Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named... |
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The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza
Jack Gantos · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book |
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The fifth and final book in the groundbreaking Joey Pigza series brings the beloved chronicle of this wired, wacky, and wonderful boy to a crescendo of chaos and craziness, as everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey just as he starts to get his feet on the ground. With his dad MIA in the wake... |
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Jack Gantos · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover |
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"They say I'm wired bad, or wired sad, but there's no doubt about it -- I'm wired."Joey Pigza's got heart, he's got a mom who loves him, and he's got "dud meds," which is what he calls the Ritalin pills that are supposed to even out his wild mood swings. Sometimes Joey... |
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From Norvelt to Nowhere
Jack Gantos · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 278
Format: Print book |
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This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal-winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania.... |
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