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What To Do With a Box

Jane Yolen · Creative Editions
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

If you give a child a box, who can tell what will happen next? It may become a library or a boat. It could set the scene for a fairy tale or a wild expedition. The most wonderful thing is its seemingly endless capacity for magical adventure, a feature imaginatively captured in cardboardesque...
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The Sound of Applause: A Rebecca Classic Volume 1

Jacqueline Greene · American Girl

Rebecca Rubin is growing up in the bustling city of New York in 1914. She dreams of being a star on the silver screen, but her performance this year is on the stage at school. She has to share the spotlight with her cousin Ana, though, and Rebecca fears the audience will laugh instead of applaud....
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Rain Forest Food Chains

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

"Vibrant photographs and carefully leveled text introduce early fluent readers to the rain forest biome and the many food chains it hosts. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
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Return to the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel

Melissa de la Cruz · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The sequel to the #1 New York Times best seller The Isle of the Lost
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The Deadly 7

Garth Jennings · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

When eleven-year-old Nelson's beloved older sister goes missing, he is devastated. She's his only friend and means the world to him. Then his parents join the search and leave Nelson in the care of his crazy uncle Pogo, a plumber who is working at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. There in a dusty...
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Lord of the Mountain

Ronald Kidd · Albert Whitman & Company
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

Nate's family has a secret, and it's wrapped up in a song. The problem is, his preacher father hates music, and when he catches Nate hanging around downtown Bristol with musicians like Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, he comes down hard on him. So Nate sets out in search of himself...
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The Initiation

Ridley Pearson · Harpercollins
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

"Will leave you dying to know more." - Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson seriesThe New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatchers and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the riveting first tale of the Lock and Key trilogy about the origins...
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Death Adders

Davy Sweazey · Bellwether Media
Format:  Book : Juvenile audience : English

"Engaging images accompany information about death adders. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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In Over Their Heads

Margaret Peterson Haddix · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

Nick and Eryn must figure out a way to save the world without sacrificing their newly discovered family in this follow-up to Under Their Skin, which BOOKLIST called "crisp, intriguing, and thought-provoking" in a starred review.In Under Their Skin, twins Nick and Eryn successfully...
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City of Ghosts

VICTORIA SCHWAB · Scholastic Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it) , she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead . . . and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost.So things are already pretty strange. But they're about...
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The Accelerati Trilogy Book One Tesla's Attic

Neal Shusterman · Hyperion Books for Children
Pages: 246
Format: Book

After their home burns down, fourteen-year-old Nick, his younger brother, and their father move into a ramshackle Victorian house they've inherited. When Nick opens the door to his attic room, he's hit in the head by a toaster. That's just the beginning of his weird experiences with the old junk...
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Rise of the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel

MELISSA DE LA CRUZ · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Ride with the tide! Deep beneath the waves, King Triton's powerful trident has passed through the magical barrier that surrounds the Isle of the Lost-keeping villains in and magic out. And when Mal's longtime rival Uma, daughter of Ursula, gets wind of this, she can't believe her luck....
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The Doldrums

Nicholas Gannon · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"A dreamy charmer of a book, full of clever wordplay that practically demands it be read out loud." - New York TimesHave you ever wanted to hold a little piece of the impossible? The Doldrums is an extraordinary debut about friendship, imagination, and the yearning for adventure...
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Stealing Our Way Home

Cecilia Galante · Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Saying goodbye is never easy.Everything changed after Pippa and Jack's mother died last spring. Pippa stopped speaking, Jack started picking fights, and their father's struggling business began to fail. Now, with school starting again, Pippa doesn't know how she'll manage a class presentation...
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Arctic Tundra

Ellen Labrecque · Read Me!
Format: Book

Read this book to learn about one of Earth's last frontiers: the arctic tundra. Learn about the harsh weather, extreme landforms, and unusual living things found in this habitat.
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