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Giant Pumpkin Suite

Melanie Heuiser Hill · Candlewick
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Who are you, if you can't be what you always expected? A moving coming-of-age tale of prodigy and community, unlikely friendship and growing things.Twelve-year-old Rose Brutigan has grown seven inches in the last eight months. She's always been different from her twin brother, Thomas,...
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Dinosaur Atlas

Anne Rooney · Lonely Planet
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Travel back in time over 200 million years to lost prehistoric lands and the dinosaurs that roamed them with Lonely Planet Kids' Dinosaur Atlas. Kids can unfold maps and lift the flaps to reveal amazing facts and illustrations about how they lived and where they were discovered. They'll...
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Do You Really Want to Meet Triceratops?

Annette Bay Pimentel · Amicus Illustrated/Amicus Ink
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

A young child adventures back in time to 67 million years ago to meet a Tyrannosaurus rex, learning about what this dinosaur ate, its size, and how it caught prey. This illustrated narrative nonfiction title includes a map of fossil findings, glossary, and further resources.
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Tangled: The Series - Let Down Your Hair

Scott Peterson · IDW Publishing
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback

Based on the hit Disney Channel series! Join Rapunzel on brand-new adventures, along with her boyfriend Eugene, her best friend Cassandra, and trusted pet companions Pascal the Chameleon and Maximus, the stallion with the nose of a bloodhound!Newly freed from Gothel and reunited with her birth...
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The Dragon's Eye

Sarwat Chadda · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan are prisoners. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, the four young Greencloaks have been captured by the ruthless Oathbound.Rather than facing trial with the rest of their order, the friends and their spirit animals find themselves smuggled to a remote...
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Finding Langston

Lesa Cline-Ransome · Holiday House
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes. When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known...
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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

Wade Hudson · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Fifty of the foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators--including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander--share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this beautiful, full-color keepsake collection,...
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Smithsonian: The Dinosaur Book

DK PUBLISHING. · DK Children
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Everything you need to know about dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine reptiles, and mammals in this essential prehistoric encyclopedia for kids.With more than 1,000 images and fascinating facts, The Dinosaur Book brings young readers face-to-face with some of the most incredible creatures ever...
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Dactyl Hill Squad: Rescue Run

DANIEL JOS OLDER · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

It's 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the Draft Riots break out, and a number of their fellow orphans are kidnapped by an evil...
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24 Hours in Nowhere

DUSTI BOWLING · Sterling Children's Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Reminiscent of Louis Sachar's Holes with its quirky characters and unique desert setting, this is a middle-grade read that will easily transport readers somewhere special." - School Library Journal (Starred review) When you come from Nowhere, can you ever really make...
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