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Five Elements #2: The Shadow City
DAN JOLLEY · HarperCollins
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The second book in an epic middle grade series full of awesome elemental powers, nightmarish creatures, and nonstop adventure that will thrill kids who love Avatar: The Last Airbender, Rick Riordan, and Brandon Mull.Five elements. Two worlds. One city ... and one chance to save it.In the past... |
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Shadow Magic
Joshua Khan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 321
Format: Hardcover
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Thorn, an outlaw's son, wasn't supposed to be a slave. He's been sold to Tyburn, an executioner, and they're headed to Castle Gloom in Gehenna, the land of undead, where Thorn will probably be fed to a vampire. Lilith Shadow wasn't supposed to be ruler of Gehenna. But following the murder... |
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Battle of the Bulge
Rick Atkinson · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An account of the Battle of the Bulge, Nazi Germany's last concerted attempt to halt the American Army advance in Europe. |
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Hit the Ground Running
Alison Hughes · Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Sixteen-year-old Dee and her seven-year-old brother, Eddie, have been on their own for six weeks. Their father has seemingly vanished into the baking Arizona desert. Their money is drying up and the rent is coming due, but it's a visit from a social worker and the prospect of being separated... |
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Vampires
Peter Castellano · Gareth Stevens Pub.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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Theres a very clear line from Bram Stokers Dracula to the glut of vampire stories available in bookstores today. However, tales of bloodsucking creatures predate Dracula and exist in the mythology of many cultures. Covering the history of the vampire myth as well as how its used today,... |
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Who Was Maya Angelou?
Ellen Labrecque · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
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Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But much like her poem, "Still I Rise," Angelou was able to lift herself out of her situation and flourish. She moved... |
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Target Practice
Mike Maihack · GRAPHIX
Pages: 167
Format: Hardcover
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A funny, action-packed graphic novel featuring a young Cleopatra -- yes, THAT Cleopatra -- who's transported to the future and learns it's up to her to save the galaxy!
When a young Cleopatra (yes, THAT Cleopatra) finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future,... |
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World at War, 1944
Mary Pope Osborne · Random House
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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The first Magic Tree House® Super Edition - and Jack and Annie's most dangerous mission ever in the scariest time the world has ever knonw - World War II. With a longer story and additional facts and photographs, this is a thrilling adventure no reader will want to miss! When the magic... |
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The Iron Trial
Holly Black · Scholastic Pr
Pages: 295
Format: Book
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From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a riveting new series that defies what you think you know about the world of magic.
Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial.
Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.
All his life,... |
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The Mortification of Fovea Munson
Mary Winn Heider · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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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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Arctic Foxes
· Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
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Arctic foxes are master hunters of the north! These small predators use their keen sense of hearing to listen for the rustlings of lemmings under the snow. Then, they leap to break through the layers of white to snatch their prey! This title walks readers through the fascinating adaptations... |
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Olive and the Backstage Ghost
Michelle Schusterman · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 209
Format: Hardcover
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A ghost story with a literary heart for fans of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and The Graveyard Book. Theater kids and ghost-story readers alike will find new meaning in the term stage fright.
All great theaters have their ghosts. . . .
After Olive Preiss... |
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The Statue of Liberty
Mari Schuh · Blastoff Reader
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover
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At over 300 feet tall, the Statue of Liberty is a towering symbol of hope. The statues torch has lit the way to freedom for generations of Americans. This book examines the history and power of one of the United States most enduring monuments. |
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Awesome Engineering Trains, Planes, and Ships
Hoge Raad (Strafkamer) · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding
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Follow the development of trains, planes and ships, as they have grown more powerful, faster, and more fantastical through engineering skill, design and ambition. |
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Avalanche!
Terry Lynn Johnson · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
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A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are skiing with their parents in Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains where there is a ground-shaking rumble. Unstable snow rushes downhill and buries them in icy white.... |
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