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Coaches

Rebecca Pettiford · Bullfrog Books
Format: Hardcover

In Coaches, beginning readers will learn how coaches teach kids the skills they need to play sports. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they discover what coaches do on the job.
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You Are My Pumpkin

Joyce Wan · Cartwheel Books
Pages: 14
Format: Print book

From the adorable mind of Joyce Wan comes a Halloween-themed board book filled with animals and images associated with the holiday -- in Joyce's unique, signature style! This sweetly spooky board book includes Joyce's iconic bold lines, glitter, and embossing on the cover as well...
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Pig the Pug

Aaron Blabey · Scholastic Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Pig is a greedy and selfish Pug. He has all the bouncy balls, bones, and chew toys a dog could ever want yet he refuses to share with his poor friend, Trevor. Little does he know, however, that being greedy has its consquences. Join Pig as he learns to share - the hard way!. Young readers...
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This Is NOT a Cat!

David LaRochelle · Sterling Children's Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Sunny Hills Mice School where the first lesson is recognizing DANGER! And that means CAT. So Miss Mouse shows her students pictures of things that are, and are not, a kitty. But the kids are a bit restless . . . until something enters the classroom that makes them all sCATter....
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Goldilocks and the Just Right Potty

LEIGH HODGKINSON · Nosy Crow
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Little Goldilocks wants to wear underwear - big-girl underwear that's not too silly and not too frilly, but just right. But that means she also needs to find the "just right" potty. Will she know when she needs to go? And will she get to the potty in time? Find out in this lighthearted...
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Night Job

KAREN HESSE · Candlewick
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

With lyrical narration and elegant, evocative artwork, Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse and illustrator G. Brian Karas share the nighttime experience of a father and child.When the sun sets, Dad's job as a school custodian is just beginning. What is it like to work on a Friday night while the rest...
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What Your Second Grader Needs to Know

E.D. Hirsch Jr. · Bantam
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback

"A revised and updated version of What Your Second Grader Needs to Know, Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education, with readings and activities in Literature, Mathematics, History, science, and the arts"--
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Sloth at the Zoom

HELAINE BECKER · Owlkids
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

One day, a sloth accidentally gets delivered to the Zoom! She was supposed to be dropped off at the Zzzzzoo, a much more laid-back, slow-paced place. She had been looking forward to long, languorous naps while the sun gently warmed her belly. But at the Zoom, the zebras gallop so fast they...
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This Orq.

Lori Nichols · Boyds Mills Press
Format: Hardcover

Orq the cave boy LOVES Woma the woolly mammoth. But Mom says Woma shed; Woma smell; Woma not house-trained. Is there any way Orq can convince his mother that Woma belongs with them? Orq has a plan. Well, kind of. Good thing Woma always nearby. An adorable friendship story at its core, This...
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Night Lights

Tish Rabe · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Learn why fireflies flash their lights in this glow-in-the-dark book based on the hit PBS Kids show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! Sally and Nick are making shadow shapes when the batteries in their flashlight conk out. Luckily, the Cat knows where they can get some light: from...
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No Nap! Yes Nap!

Margie Palatini · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Mama says, NAP.Baby says, NO NAP!Baby wants to CLAP, DRINK, READ....Anything but NAP!Margie Palatini brings her signature humor to this rollicking sing-song read-along, inviting readers on a fast-paced chase through every room in the house as we follow Mommy on her quest to settle Baby...
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Amazing Autumn

Jennifer Marino Walters · Red Chair Press
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

The fall season can be truly amazing with colorful leaves in big soft piles, Halloween pumpkins and pumpkin pie. Oh my, what an Amazing Autumn.
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It's Not the Baby

J Patrick Lewis · Amicus Ink
Pages: 14
Format: Board book

Who is making all the mischief in this house? It's not the baby! Short rhyming lines in this board book pose a toddler-appropriate whodunit and expressive art shows the true culprits. Little ones will chime on the repeated title refrain and will delight in the surprise ending - when...
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Geraldine

ELIZABETH LILLY · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A debut picture book that stands above the crowd, Elizabeth Lilly's Geraldine is a story about how hard it is being the new kid. How really hard it is being different. And how especially hard it is being a giraffe in a school of human children.
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I Love You, Grandma!

Tish Rabe · Golden Press
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

For the first time in Little Golden Books, a grandma story! A four-year-old boy narrates this sweet rhyming story about how fun it is to visit his grandma. Together they walk on the beach, garden, wave at trains, and bake! At the end of the day, they watch the stars twinkling in the sky until...
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