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Sunlight and Shadows: A Josefina Classic Volume 1

Valerie Tripp · American Girl; Reprint edition

A special surprise brings a lot of newness to the rancho, including learning how to read, play the piano, and weave. But how will these new skills help her family and keep memories of Mamá close? Then, Josefina is grateful for a new idea that helps save their ranch after a devastating...
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NFL Today: Dallas Cowboys

Sara Gilbert · Creative Paperbacks Inc
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback

No professional sports league in America can match the popularity of the National Football League, and no books can match the drama and excitement of NFL Today! This hit series has been fully revised and updated to encapsulate the origins, stars, and unforgettable moments of all 32 NFL teams,...
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Simple machines in your home

Gillian Gosman · Powerkids Pr
Format: Print book

24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Cynthia Kadohata · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata comes a brilliantly realized sports novel about a hockey player who must discover who he is without the sport that defines him.Hockey is Conor's life. His whole life. He'll say it himself, he's a hockey beast. It's his dad's whole life too - and Conor...
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Grimmtastic Girls #1: Cinderella Stays Late

Joan Holub · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 183
Format: Paperback

The authors of the hit Goddess Girls series put a fun and girly twist on another super-popular theme: fairy tales!Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia...A Grimmtastic girl named Cinderella is starting her first week at Grimm Academy on the wrong foot. Cinda's totally evil stepsisters...
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The School of Music

Meurig Bowen · Wide Eyed Editions
Pages: 95
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the School of Music, a place bursting with talent, creative energy and special encounters. It is a place of nuts-and-bolts learning -- getting the basics for beginners right -- as much as a place where musical imagination runs riot and where everyone has triple-fun with the sound...
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At Battle in World War I: An Interactive Battlefield Adventure

Allison Lassieur · Capstone Press
Format: Print book

Some call it the War to End All Wars, the first global war in history. World War I is a bloody, miserable fight between the Axis countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire and the Allied forces of the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. Will you Fly as a pilot...
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The Mortification of Fovea Munson

Mary Winn Heider · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Fovea Munson is nobody's Igor. True, her parents own a cadaver lab where they perform surgeries on dead bodies. And yes, that makes her gross by association, at least according to everyone in seventh grade. And sure, Fovea's stuck working at the lab now that her summer camp plans...
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National Geographic Kids Everything World War I: Dig in With Thrilling Photos and Fascinating Facts

Karen Latchana Kenney · National Geographic Children's Books

Explore the fascinating history of Americas first World War, meet the greatest military leaders and tacticians, and learn about key battles in this compelling new book in the popular Everything series.   Each book in the National Geographic Kids Everything series has more than 100 pictures,...
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Harry Potter: A Journey Through a History of Magic

SCHOLASTIC. · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

As the British Library unveils a very special new exhibition in the UK, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, readers everywhere are invited on an enchanting journey through the Hogwarts curriculum, from Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology to Defense Against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, and more...
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The Secret of Nightingale Wood

LUCY STRANGE · Chicken House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees -- or thinks she sees -- in the shadows of their new home, Hope House.All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange...
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The New Year's Eve Sleepover from the Black Lagoon

Mike Thaler · Abdo Group
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

When Hubie attends his first sleepover to celebrate New Year's Eve, he is worried about how things will go on his first night away from home, especially with all the talk he has been hearing about a New Year's Revolution.
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I Survived the American Revolution, 1776

LAUREN TARSHIS · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between...
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Barbie and the Secret Door

Molly McGuire Woods · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Girls ages 8-12 will love reading the whole story of Barbie's latest film, releasing in fall 2014. This Junior Novelization features eight pages of full-color images taken directly from the movie!
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The Glass Voice

Olivia Snowe · Stone Arch Books
Format: Paperback

When Chantellas mother died, she thought it couldnt get much worse. But now she is bullied by her stepfamily, and her dad has done nothing about it! Her one chance out is a singing competition. Chantella has a beautiful singing voice, but her stepsiblings are jealous. In this modern retelling...
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