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My Mom Is in the Navy
Nancy Miller · PowerKids Press
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding
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The United States Navy is staffed by thousands of dedicated service members. Some of them are moms, too. This non-fiction title introduces readers to life in the U.S. Navy through a narrator whose mother has taken up the call of duty. Readers learn about the Navys past and present, what... |
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My Aunt Is in the Army Reserve
Julian Lowe · PowerKids Press
Pages: 24
Format: Book
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The United States Army Reserves is full of heroes who have dedicated their lives to serving our nation. Equally heroic are their families, whose sacrifices are just as important. This title explores the world of military families, which acts as a unique teaching tool about life in the military.... |
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When Friendship Followed Me Home
Paul Griffin · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 247
Format: Book
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Ben Coffin has never been one for making friends. As a former foster kid, he knows people can up and leave without so much as a goodbye. Ben prefers to spend his time with the characters in his favorite sci-fi books ... until he rescues an abandoned mutt from the alley next-door to the Coney... |
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The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
Catherynne M Valente · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 235
Format: Book
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When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a changeling-a human boy-in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his changeling fate,... |
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Shadow Magic
Joshua Khan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 321
Format: Book
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Thorn, an outlaw's son, wasn't supposed to be a slave. He's been sold to Tyburn, an executioner, and they're headed to Castle Gloom in Gehenna, the land of undead, where Thorn will probably be fed to a vampire. Lilith Shadow wasn't supposed to be ruler of Gehenna.... |
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One Came Home
Amy Timberlake · Knopf Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Newbery Honor BookAn ALA-ALSC Notable Children's BookWinner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel "An adventure, a mystery, and a love song to the natural world. . . . Run out and read it. Right now." - Newbery Medalist Karen CushmanIn the town of Placid,... |
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Lilly and Fin: A Mermaid's Tale
Cornelia Funke · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Library Binding
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Lilly and Fin are merpups - mermaid kids - who love to play and explore the caves outside the mermaid city. They aren't really supposed to leave the city, but that's what makes it so much fun! Surely all those stories about Two-Legs (you know, humans) and sea monsters are just... |
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Goblin Secrets
William Alexander · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 223
Format: Book
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In the town of Zombay, there is a witch named Graba who has clockwork chicken legs and moves her house around - much like the fairy tale figure of Baba Yaga. Graba takes in stray children, and Rownie is the youngest boy in her household. Rownie's only real relative is his older brother... |
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The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate · Harper
Pages: 305
Format: Book
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Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller, this stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated... |
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Pugs of the Frozen North
Philip Reeve · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 211
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New friends Sika and Shen try to beat the odds and win the Great Northern Race--in a sled pulled by a team of sixty-six pugs--in hopes of meeting the Snowfather and having him grant their wish. |
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The badger knight
Kathryn Erskine · Scholastic Press, 2014.
Pages: 325
Format: Print book
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In England in 1346 Adrian has three problems: he is small for his twelve years, he is an albino, so people are suspicious of him, and his father wants him to be a scribe, while he wants to be an archer--but when he runs away to join his friend in the fight against the invading Scots, he learns... |
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy
Nathan Hale · Amulet Books
Pages: 127
Format: Book
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Nathan Hale, the author's historical namesake, was America's first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country" before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series, author... |
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The Potter's Boy
TONY MITTON · David Fickling Books
Pages: 256
Format: Book
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Ryo was born the son of a potter, a fate that he is unsure of once a mysterious wanderer and trained fighter comes to his small village and protects them from a band of thieves. Inspired by the events, Ryo embarks on both a hero's quest and a quest to be a hero. Through his adventures,... |
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