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Valentine's Day from the Black Lagoon

Mike Thaler · Abdo Pub Co
Format: Book

Cupid strikes in the Black Lagoon! Everyone has to make a card for Valentine's Day, including Hubie. What's worse, he has to give it to someone in his class. Plus, he can't draw a green-colored square or a dinosaur. He has to draw a pink or red heart or a cupid. He'd rather eat worms! Aligned...
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From Hot Lava to a Spy Rocket: A Journey Through Transportation

TOM JACKSON · QED PUB INC
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Follow The Link takes the reader on a journey through a network of knowledge. The route they take highlights how the inspiration behind new ideas is often surprising, always unpredictable and sometimes rather bizarre.Step inside the network of time to see how lightning led to communication...
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Gila Monsters

Rebecca Sabelko · Blastoff Reader
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

Gila monsters are as fascinating as they are elusive. Burrowed underground, these colorful carnivores hunt at dawn and eat just four times a year. Curious students will love this journey across the southwestern desert!
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Time Traveling with a Hamster

Ross Welford · Schwartz & Wade Books
Pages: 426
Format: Print book

Back to the Future meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in this original, poignant, race-against-time story about a boy who travels back to 1984 to save his father's life. My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty-nine and again four years later, when he was twelve....
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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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White-Tailed Deer

Katie Marsico · C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

Discover how these creatures survive in the wild, how they raise their young, and how they are related to other species. Each title also raises important ideas about conservation by examining the animal's current status and explaining the ways humans have affected it throughout the years....
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Brazil

Ann Heinrichs · Children's Press
Format:  Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

Take a trip around the world with the latest entries in the Enchantment of the World series! Readers are transported to distant lands with the fascinating text and attention-grabbing photos in these books. Each countrys culture, history, and geography are explored in detail, allowing readers...
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Old school

Jeff Kinney · Amulet Books, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 217
Format: Print book

"Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley...
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Dinosaurs on the Map

Alix Wood · Powerkids Pr
Format: Print book

Long before humans were around, dinosaurs roamed the earth, and they have been a topic of endless fascination since we first discovered their remains. Readers will learn map skills with ease as the compelling dinosaur and fossil images will divert and delight. Budding archaeologists and readers...
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Dragonflies

Patrick Perish · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Some adult dragonflies can fly as fast as 60 miles per houra common speed limit for cars on a highway! Quick flight is essential for them to catch prey in midair. In this childrens title, readers will travel alongside dragonflies moving from page to page.
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Civil War, The

Steven Otfinoski · Children's Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

In 1860, the United States was split in two as several southern states seceded from the Union to form their own nation, the Confederate States of America. As President Abraham Lincoln attempted to hold the country together, war broke out between the Union and the Confederates. Readers will...
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Older Than Dirt: A Wild but True History of Earth

Don Brown · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Almost 14.5 billion years ago, it all started with a BIG BANG and what began as a cloud of gas, dust, and rock eventually took shape and bloomed into a molten sphere. Battered by asteroid collisions, ice ages, and shifting tectonic plates, our fledgling planet finally pushed forth continents....
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How Oscar Indigo Broke the Universe

DAVID TEAGUE · HarperCollins
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover

"Suspend all disbelief and enjoy." - Kirkus (starred review) From David Teague, the coauthor of the critically acclaimed Saving Lucas Biggs, comes a funny and sweet story about learning to have courage even when it feels like the world is ending.Oscar Indigo has never been...
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