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Mango & Bambang: The Not-a-Pig

Polly Faber · Candlewick Press
Pages: 135
Format: Print book

An unlikely friendship blossoms between Mango, a little girl with an assortment of talents, and Bambang, an Asian tapir.Mango Allsorts is good at all sorts of things, not just karate and chess. Bambang is most definitely not-a-pig and is now lost in a very busy city. When the two unexpectedly...
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Wish

Barbara O'Connor · Farrar
Pages: 227
Format: Print book

Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue...
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Life of Zarf: The Trouble with Weasels

Rob Harrell · Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Shrek meets Wimpy Kid in this epically funny tale of a troll trying to figure out how to be more popular It's not easy being Zarf. As a troll, he's stuck at the bottom of the middle school hierarchy, way below the prince and knights (populars), ogres and giants (jocks), and even...
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Infinity Ring Book 7: The Iron Empire

James Dashner · Scholastic
Pages: 190
Format: Hardcover

James Dashner returns to the New York Times bestselling series!They've sailed on the Santa Maria, defended famous cities from Vikings and Mongols, and come face-to-face with some of the greatest figures in history. Now, at long last, Dak, Sera, and Riq travel back in time to the moment...
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Dr. Fell and the Playground of Doom

David Neilsen · Crown Books For Young Readers
Pages: 230
Format: Print book

"Such deliciously creepy fun! I fell in love with Dr. Fell! So will urchins and whippersnappers everywhere." - Chris Grabenstein, author of the New York Times bestsellers Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and The Island of Dr. Libris When the mysterious Dr. Fell moves into...
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Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure

Ann M Martin · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has gone away unexpectedly and left her niece, Missy Piggle-Wiggle, in charge of the Upside-Down House and the beloved animals who live there: Lester the pig, Wag the dog, and Penelope the parrot, among others. Families in town soon realize that like her great-aunt, Missy...
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Talking Leaves

Joseph Bruchac · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A new work of historical fiction about Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee alphabet, from the acclaimed author of Code Talker Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns to the village, Uwohali is eager to reconnect. But Sequoyah's...
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The Poet's Dog

Patricia Maclachlan · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

From Newbery Medal winner Patricia MacLachlan comes a poignant story about two children, a poet, and a dog and how they help one another survive loss and recapture love.Teddy is a gifted dog. Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan, he grew up listening to sonnets read aloud and the comforting...
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Skeleton Island

Angie Sage · Bloomsbury
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Araminta and her best friend Wanda are going on a school trip to Skeleton Island, a place rumored to be the site of a scary ghost shipwreck. And when the pair is stranded overnight, they discover that there might be more truth to the island's name than they would have preferred.Now some...
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Mission to Moon Farm

K. E. Rocha · Scholastic Press
Pages: 209
Format: Print book

A few weeks ago, Spencer Plain had never been to Bearhaven. He was rebuilding a computer and eating peanut butter toast and going to school. Normal, human things.But now his parents are missing, he's living with a family of bears and learning how to speak Ragayo (the bears' language) , and has already...
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The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes

Wade Albert White · Little
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A thrilling debut novel where fantasy and science fiction meet, dragons aren't as innocent as they look, and nothing is quite what it seems. Anne has spent most of her thirteen years dreaming of the day she and her best friend Penelope will finally leave Saint Lupin's Institute for Perpetually...
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Wanderville

Wendy McClure · Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC,
Pages: 211
Format: Print book

THE FIRST BOOK IN A HISTORICAL SERIES THAT'S PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE BOXCAR CHILDREN!Jack, Frances, and Frances's younger brother Harold have been ripped from the world they knew in New York and sent to Kansas on an orphan train at the turn of the century. As the train chugs closer...
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The Search for the Homestead Treasure: A Mystery

Ann Treacy · University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 167
Format: Print book

Aunt Ida would boil him in the laundry cauldron if she knew where he was. On the long wagon ride to the old homestead, she warned them about the Gypsies they'd encountered, and now here he was, ducking into a colorful caravan with Samson, a Gypsy boy he had met . . . underwater. And it was the best...
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The Guardian Herd: Starfire

Jennifer Lynn Alvarez · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The first book in a gripping new tween fantasy series about winged horses - perfect for fans of the Warriors, Survivors, and Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. Once every hundred years, a black foal is born, prophesied to either unite or destroy the five herds of flying horses that live...
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William and the Witch's Riddle

Shutta Crum · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

A charming re-imagination of "Sleeping Beauty" in which a boy must solve a witch's riddle in order to save his family and end a centuries-long curse. William and his little brother, Pinch, have been left alone at their home atop the mountain ever since their mother disappeared...
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