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Wilma's Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller

Doreen Rappaport · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

As a child in Oklahoma, Wilma Mankiller experienced the Cherokee practice of Gadugi, helping each other, even when times were hard for everyone. But in 1956, the federal government uprooted her family and moved them to California, wrenching them from their home, friends, and traditions....
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition

J K Rowling · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 259
Format: Print book

The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns...
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Emma Raining Cats and Dogs . . . and Cupcakes!

Coco Simon · Simon Spotlight
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

When Emma's little brother loses the neighbor's dog, the girls must work together to track her down in the latest addition to the Cupcake Diaries series.When the girls bake cupcakes for a big "Adopt a Pet" fundraiser, Emma's little brother Jake decides he wants to get a puppy!...
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Makoons

Louise Erdrich · HarperCollins
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover

In the sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich continues her award-winning Birchbark House series with the story of an Ojibwe family in nineteenth-century America.Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear, Makoons and his twin, Chickadee, have traveled with their family to the Great...
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Blended

SHARON M DRAPER · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Isabella's blended family is more divided than ever in this thoughtful story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper.Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced, so she has to switch...
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The Dyerville Tales

M. P. Kozlowsky · Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover

"Kozlowsky deftly intertwines imagination and adventure with sobering realities; while the story arc itself engrosses and the grandfather's fairy tale-like quest enchants, he underpins the novel with an unceasing melancholy that remembers the human heart, its pain, and its need for hope."...
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Jacky Ha-Ha: My Life Is a Joke

James Patterson · jimmy patterson
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

James Patterson's newest hilarious heroine returns in Jacky Ha-Ha: My Life Is a Joke, the sequel to the smash hit Jacky Ha-Ha---a #1 New York Times bestseller! Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing...
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You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Libraries!

FIONA MACDONALD · Franklin Watts
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

For 5,000 years and more, libraries have been gathering and preserving writings of all kinds. Theyre keepers of the worlds memory. Theyre storehouses of knowledge, and imagination, and fun. Learn about how these places and their collections of written
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Baby Cows

Kari Schuetz · Bellwether Media
Format: Hardcover

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces baby cows to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
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Florida

Tamra B. Orr · C. Press/F. Watts Trade; Revised edition
Format: Book

America the Beautiful, Third Series is bursting with fascinating facts, up-to-date statistics, glorious full-color photographs, and unusual lists guaranteed to elicit at least one WOW! with the turn of every page. America the Beautifuls new dynamic design and editorial approach to the geography,...
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Presidents' Day

Rachel A Koestler-Grack · Blastoff! Readers
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Presidents' Day. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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The Bad Guys in Mission Unpluckable

Aaron Blabey · Scholastic Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

The Bad Guys next mission? Rescue 10,000 chickens from a high-tech cage farm. But they are up against sizzling lasers, one feisty tarantula, and their very own Mr. Snake...who's also known as "The Chicken Swallower." What could possibly go wrong?Get ready to laugh up your lunch...
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Botanicum

Katherine Willis · Big Picture Press
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Discover more than 160 exhibits in this virtual museum, open all hours.The 2017 offering from Big Picture Press's Welcome to the Museum series, Botanicum, is a brilliantly curated guide to plant life. With artwork from Katie Scott of Animalium fame, Botanicum gives readers the experience...
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The Phantom of Nantucket

Carolyn Keene · Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

A dream trip to Nantucket turns into a nightmare in this seventh book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a classic series.Nancy, Bess, and George can't wait to start their trip to Nantucket. The three girls are there to visit Bess’s family friend Jenna and go to the opening...
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