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Yours Sincerely, Giraffe

Megumi Iwasa · Gecko Press
Pages: 102
Format: Hardcover

Giraffe is bored, as usual. He'd love a friend to share things with. So he writes a letter and sends it as far as possible across the other side of the horizon. There he finds a pen palPenguin.
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U.S. Landforms: What You Need to Know

Linda Crotta Brennan · Capstone Press
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

The United States has some of the most unique, amazing landforms in the world. Young readers will learn about some of its most notable landforms from sea to shining sea.
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PJ Masks Save the Library!

Daphne Pendergrass · Simon Spotlight
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Head into the night to save the library with Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read based on PJ Masks, the hit preschool series airing on Disney Junior!The villain Romeo has a new machine. It erases stories from books so he can put his picture inside. Can Owlette save...
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I See the Sea: Teaching Homophones

Mary Lindeen · The Childs World Inc
Pages: 16
Format: Print book

Learn about homophones through easy, engaging text andcolorful photographs. Additional features to aid comprehension include logical narratives, bolded key words, detailed photographs, an answer key, sources for furtherresearch, and an introduction to the author. This item is Non-Returnable.
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Trains

Hal Rogers · Child's World
Format: Print book

Describes what trains are, how they are used, and different kinds.
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The Prince and the Porker

PETER BENTLY · HARRY N ABRAMS
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Pignatius was passing the palace one day, when he saw ten fresh buns left to cool on a tray . . . When Pignatius sees fresh pastries cooling on the windowsill of the palace kitchen, he's tempted to try them. Surely, the cook won't miss just one. But Pignatius's greed gets the better...
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Big Rigs

Rebecca Pettiford · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Many big rigs can also be called 18-wheelers. These long transport machines need eighteen big wheels to support a tractor front and trailer back. This title revs young readers up as it unloads information about the parts and purpose of big rigs.
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Disney Fairies Graphic Novel #14: Tinker Bell and Blaze

Tea Orsi · Papercutz
Pages: 62
Format: Paperback

Tinker Bell is Pixie Hollow's best tinker and she's always on the lookout for new lost objects that she can turn into amazing, magical inventions! But when Tink goes on a scavenger hunt at the beach, she forgets to invite her firefly friend Blaze. Can these two repair their friendship,...
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Ruby's Chinese New Year

Vickie Lee · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

In this picture book celebrating Chinese New Year, animals from the Chinese zodiac help a little girl deliver a gift to her grandmother.Ruby has a special card to give to her grandmother for Chinese New Year. But who will help her get to grandmother's house to deliver it? Will it be clever...
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Hearing

Sally Hewitt · Qeb Pub
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Packed with games and activities, Hear This! helps young learners to understand how their sense of hearing works.
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Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs

Linda Sue Park · Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

At once funny and informative, Yaks Yak presents animals acting out the verbs made from their names. Illustrations rich in comic details show hogs hogging, slugs slugging, and other spirited creatures demonstrating homographs, words with different meanings that are spelled and pronounced...
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The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art

Barb Rosenstock · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A Caldecott Honor BookVasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowers - like a proper artist. But as Vasya...
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Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure

James Dean · Harper
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Join Pete in New York Times bestselling author James Dean's Pete the Cat picture book series as Pete has a groovy Easter adventure. In this paper-over-board picture book, complete with poster, punch-out cards, and stickers, Pete helps out the Easter Bunny! Fans of Pete the Cat: I Love My White...
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The Scariest Book Ever

BOB SHEA · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Reader beware! This is the scariest book ever! Or so claims its melodramatic ghost narrator. You can go ahead and turn the page, but don't expect him to come with you. Anything might pop out of that black hole in the middle of the forest. What do you mean it's just a bunny? Well, it's probably...
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Akissi: Tales of Mischief

MARGUERITE ABOUET · Flying Eye Books
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback

Akissi: Tales of Mischief brings together all the hilarious and heartfelt Akissi comics by Marguerite Abouet, the award winning author of Aya of Yop City.Poor Akissi! The neighborhood cats are trying to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost ends up in a frying pan and she's...
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