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Chinese New Year

Rebecca Pettiford · Jump!
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

In Chinese New Year, early readers will learn about this Chinese holiday and the ways people celebrate it. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they explore this unique holiday.
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Octopuses

Christina Leaf · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Armed with intelligence, eight arms, and a beak, octopuses amaze scientists and students alike. Octopuses often decorate their dens with shells. Some have been observed tapping their prey on the shoulder to surprise them before chowing down. Others may completely disappear with camouflage....
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Love, Santa

Martha Brockenbrough · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

In a series of letters, a young girl writes to Santa to ask about the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, and of course, Christmas goodies. Year after year, Santa writes back, and a heartwarming relationship develops, until one year, the girl writes to her mother instead: Mom, are you Santa? Her mother...
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The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 1

Neil Gaiman · HarperCollins
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The first volume of a glorious two-volume, four-color graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning novel The Graveyard Book, adapted by P. Craig Russell and illustrated by an extraordinary team of renowned artists.Inventive, chilling,...
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Knife's Edge

Hope Larson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old twin adventurers Cleopatra and Alexandra Dodge are reunited with their father and realize that two family heirlooms reveal the location of a treasure that is their birthright. When they set sail with Captain Tarboro on the Almira, they know they're heading into danger -- the ocean...
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Maya Lin: Thinking with Her Hands

SUSAN RUBIN · Chronicle Books
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one of the most famous pieces of civic architecture in the world. But most people are not as familiar with the reserved college student who entered and won the design competition to build it. This accessible biography tells the story...
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I'm Big Now!

Anthea Simmons · Andersen Press USA
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

When you are big, you're not the baby anymore, but sometimes you want to do the baby things you used to do before! In this funny journey of discovery, one little girl decides to try out being a baby again, but discovers it is more fun being the big sister of the family.
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Where, Oh Where, Is Baby Bear?

Ashley Wolff · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Baby Bear is back in this cozy, seek-and-find companion to the celebrated Baby Bear Sees Blue and Baby Bear Counts One.When Mama and Baby Bear go out to look for food one night, curious Baby Bear wants to wander and explore. Each time his Mama Bear calls for him, Baby Bear turns up in a different...
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Rain Reign

Ann M Martin · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller!Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein) , which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's...
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Crabs

Rebecca Pettiford · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Did you know that crabs look like mini, clear lobsters when they are babies? Crabs have to molt many times before they even look like adults with hard outer shells. Some crabs grow their own shells while others find used shells to call their own. Find out about a crab's life cycle,...
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Catch the Wind: My Journey with Caroline

Kathleen Ernst · American Girl

What if you suddenly found yourself in Carolines world, right in the middle of the War of 1812? How would it feel to know your home is under attack--and how would you stay strong during such a scary time? Join Caroline on adventures where the two of you could find ways to help the Americans...
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Bus Drivers

Mari C Schuh · Blastoff! Readers
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces bus drivers to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
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Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Kate DiCamillo · Candlewick Press
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never...
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Black Panther The Young Prince

RONALD L SMITH · Marvel Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Black Panther. Ruler of Wakanda. Avenger.This is his destiny. But right now, he's simply T'Challa-the young prince.Life is comfortable for twelve-year-old T'Challa in his home of Wakanda, an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. When he's not learning how to rule a kingdom...
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Rocket and Groot: Stranded on Planet Strip Mall!

TOM ANGLEBERGER · Marvel Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

After battling deadly space piranhas in Sector 7 of the Cosmos, Rocket and Groot crash-land on a planet made entirely of strip malls!There are dry cleaners, nail salons, 99 cent stores, 98 cent stores, chain restaurants,and maniacal robots bent on customer service. Sounds like paradise,...
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