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Friendship According to Humphrey

Betty G. Birney · Putnam Juvenile
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Everyone's favorite classroom pet has a lot to share - and learn - about friendship!After the holidays, Humphrey is shocked by a big surprise in Room 26-a new class pet! Humphrey tries to be welcoming, but Og the frog doesn't respond to any of his friendly squeaks or visits (remember,...
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Skateboard Struggle

Jake Maddox · Stone Arch Books
Format: Paperback

After Evan's older brother breaks his leg skateboarding, their parents ban skateboarding for the whole family. But Evan loves skateboarding too much to quit. When his grandmother catches him practicing for a competition, Evan knows his secret is out. He has to decide what's more...
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Gregor and the Code of Claw

Suzanne Collins · Scholastic Press
Pages: 412
Format: Hardcover

The stunning conclusion to the riveting Gregor the Overlander series.Everyone in the Underland has been taking great pains to keep The Prophecy of Time from Gregor. Gregor knows it must say something awful but he never imagined just how awful: It calls for the warrior's death. Now, with...
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A Long Line of Cakes

DEBORAH WILES · Scholastic Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Emma Lane Cake has five brothers, four dogs, and a family that can't stay put. The Cake family travels from place to place, setting up bakeries in communities that need them. Then, just when Emma feels settled in with new friends . . . they move again.Now the Cakes have come to Aurora...
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Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847

Kristiana Gregory · Scholastic
Pages: 168
Format: Book

Thirteen-year-old Hattie Campbell records the details of her family's harrowing migration to Oregon in a covered wagon and describes the many challenges, both joyful and tragic, that mark the journey.
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Lions & Liars

KATE BEASLEY · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Frederick Frederickson has a food-chain theory about life. There are lions, like the school bully. Gazelles, like the bullied kids. There are meerkats, and the fleas that live on the butts of meerkats. Frederick's a flea.Fifth grade is off to a terrible start when Frederick is sent to a disciplinary...
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Ohio

Nancy Kline · Childrens Pr
Pages: 80
Format: Library Binding

Discusses the geography, economy, people, and places of interest in Ohio.
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Insatiable Appetites

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington returns in the new action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It's a time of unexpected change for Stone Barrington. A recent venture has achieved a great victory, but is immediately faced with a new challenge: an underhanded foe who's...
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Megabat

Anna Humphrey · Tundra Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A sweet and hilarious chapter book about a boy and a bat, two unlikely friends who bond over loneliness, jellyrolls and Darth Vader.Daniel Misumi has just moved to a new house. It's big and old and far away from his friends and his life before. AND it's haunted . . . or is it?Megabat was just...
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Inkspell (Inkheart Trilogy)

Cornelia Funke · Chicken House
Pages: 635
Format: Hardcover

The captivating sequel to INKHEART, the critically acclaimed, international bestseller by Cornelia Funke, an author who is emerging as a truly modern classic writer for children.Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters...
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The Prophet of Yonwood (Ember, Book 3)

Jeanne DuPrau · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 3289
Format: Hardcover

It's 50 years before the settlement of the city of Ember, and the world is in crisis. War looms on the horizon as 11-year-old Nickie and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina. There, one of the town's respected citizens has had a terrible vision of fire and destruction....
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Theodore Boone: the Abduction

John Grisham · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 217
Format: Hardcover

Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes are higher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone--who knows April better than anyone--has answers. As fear ripples through his small hometown and the police...
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Dragonbreath

Ursula Vernon · Dial Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

It's not easy for Danny Dragonbreath to be the sole mythical creature in a school for reptiles and amphibians?especially because he can't breathe fire like other dragons (as the school bully loves to remind him) . But having a unique family comes in handy sometimes, like when his sea-serpent...
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Spirit Animals: Book 3: Blood Ties

Garth Nix · Scholastic, 2014.
Pages: 186
Format: Print book

The adventure continues in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series.Erdas is a land of balance. A rare link, the spirit animal bond, bridges the human and animal worlds. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan each have this gift-and the grave responsibility that comes with it.But...
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Extra Credit

Andrew Clements · Atheneum Books for Young Readers; English Language edition
Format: Hardcover

It isn't that Abby Carson can't do her schoolwork. She just doesn't like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade - unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra-credit project to find a pen pal in a distant...
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