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Perijee & Me
Ross Montgomery · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Perijee and Me is a hilarious and touching story about an unusual friendship, a heart-stopping adventure, and the power of kindness when you're faced with an alien invasion. If E.T. the Extra Terrestrial is still "right here" in your heart, then you're sure to fall hard... |
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Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard: A Peter Nimble Adventure
Jonathan Auxier · Amulet Books, 2015.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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It's been two years since Peter Nimble and Sir Tode rescued the kingdom of HazelPort. In that time, they have traveled far and wide in search of adventure. Now they have been summoned by Professor Cake for a new mission: To find a twelve-year-old bookmender named Sophie Quire. Sophie... |
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Big Nate Flips Out
Lincoln Peirce · Balzer Bray
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Big Nate is back the fifth instalment of his own super-funny series. Big Nate is created by Lincoln Peirce, who inspired Jeff Kinney, author of 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid'. Big Nate is flipping out! Everyone knows N-A-T-E does NOT equal N-E-A-T! And when Nate's sloppiness gets out of hand,... |
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Who Was Gandhi?
Dana Meachen Rau · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied law in London and spent his early adulthood in South Africa, he remained devoted to his homeland and spent the later part of his life working to make India an independent nation. Calling for non-violent... |
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Ms. Bixby's Last Day
John David Anderson · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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John David Anderson, author of Sidekicked and The Dungeoneers, returns with a funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking contemporary story about three boys, one teacher, and a day none of them will ever forget.Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The boring ones, the mean... |
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Waiting for Augusta
Jessica Lawson · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 329
Format: Print book
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With a fresh, funny voice, lots of adventure, and a healthy dose of magic, from the author of The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher and Nooks & Crannies - which School Library Journal called "original, engaging, and funny" in a starred review - comes a profound... |
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Cécile's Gift
Denise Lewis Patrick · Amer Girl
Format: Hardcover
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CxEcile and her friend Marie-Grace volunteer at an Orphanage every week and CxEcile becomes especially close to one little girl named Perrine But there are so many children who have lost their families to yellow fever and CxEcile wishes she could do more to help them When she hears that... |
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Making Bombs for Hitler
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch · Scholastic Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won't she?But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II.Lida's parents are ripped away from her and she is separated from her beloved sister, Larissa.... |
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Forever, or a Long, Long Time
Caela Carter · HarperCollins
Pages: 343
Format: Hardcover
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From rising new talent Caela Carter, author of My Life with the Liars, comes an achingly beautiful and endearing story about two foster children who want desperately to believe that they've found their forever home. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me, Leslie Connor's... |
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Cleo Edison Oliver, Playground Millionaire
Sundee Tucker Frazier · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 213
Format: Print book
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Cleopatra Edison Oliver has always been an entrepreneur, just like her inspiration, successful businesswoman Fortune A. Davies. So when Cleo's fifth-grade teacher assigns her class a "Passion Project," Cleo comes up with her best business idea yet: the finest "tooth-pulling"... |
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Brave Like My Brother
Marc Tyler Nobleman · Scholastic Press
Pages: 104
Format: Hardcover
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When Charlie's brother, Joe, is called up to fight in World War II, he promises to write letters to ten-year-old Charlie as often as he can. It won't make up for not being there to help Charlie out with the neighborhood bullies, but it's all Joe can do. Life is tough for a soldier, and Joe tells... |
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Mayday
Karen Harrington · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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Click'd, Book 1 Click'd
Tamara Ireland Stone · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Allie Navarro can't wait to show her best friends the app she built at CodeGirls summer camp. Click'd pairs users based on common interests and sends them on a fun (and occasionally rule-breaking) scavenger hunt to find each other. And it's a hit. By the second day of school, everyone... |
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The Land of Forgotten Girls
Erin Entrada Kelly · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Erin Entrada Kelly, the author of the acclaimed Blackbird Fly, writes with grace, imagination, and deepest heart about family, sisters, and friendship, and about finding and holding on to hope in difficult times.Two sisters from the Philippines, abandoned by their father and living with... |
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