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Lebron James

Jameson Anderson · Checkerboard Books
Format: Hardcover

32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Journey on a Runaway Train
Journey on a Runaway Train

Gertrude Chandler Warner · ALBERT WHITMAN
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

In this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations -- all around the world! After finding a painted turtle figurine, the Aldens are introduced to the Silverton family and Reddimus...
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Pedal It!: How Bicycles are Changing the World
Pedal It!: How Bicycles are Changing the World

Michelle Mulder · Orca Book Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Pedal It celebrates the humble bicyclefrom the very first boneshakers to the sleek racing bikes of today from handlebars to spokes to gear sprocketsand shows you why and how bikes can make the world a better place Not only can bikes be used to power computers and generators they can also...
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Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat
Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat

Gary Paulsen · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

From three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen comes a laugh-out-loud novel about six wacky misfits who get stuck together in a school restroom and discover friendship.It seemed like a normal school day, until a horrible storm forced the very cautious school administration to make everyone...
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Poop Detectives: Working Dogs in the Field
Poop Detectives: Working Dogs in the Field

Ginger Wadsworth · Charlesbridge
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

How can dogs that sniff for excrement, urine, vomit, and mucus help protect animals from extinction? Scat-detection dogs like Wicket, Tucker, and Orbee are conservation heroes and pioneers in a cutting-edge field of science. Canine detec-tives use their super sense of smell to locate the scat...
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The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot

Peter Brown · Little
Pages: 279
Format: Print book

Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious...
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Army Night Stalkers in Action
Army Night Stalkers in Action

Stephen Person · Bearport Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Approved Common Core. Library Binding
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Paris for Two
Paris for Two

Phoebe Stone · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The best cure for a terrible crush on someone like Windel Watson is a trip across the ocean. That's what twelve-year-old Petunia Beanly thinks, until she hears where her family is moving. Not Paris. Not France. Anywhere would be better. Because that's where Windel will be, too. When the Beanly...
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The Eighth Day
The Eighth Day

Dianne K. Salerni · Harper
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

In this riveting fantasy adventure, thirteen-year-old Jax Aubrey discovers a secret eighth day with roots tracing back to Arthurian legend. Fans of Percy Jackson will devour this first book in a new series that combines exciting magic and pulse-pounding suspense.When Jax wakes up to a world...
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A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket
A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket

Deborah Hopkinson · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From an award-winning author of historical fiction comes a story of survival, crime, adventure, and horses in the streets of 19th century New York City.Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he's sold to a padrone by his poverty-stricken...
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Birds vs. Blades?: Offshore Wind Power and the Race to Protect Seabirds
Birds vs. Blades?: Offshore Wind Power and the Race to Protect Seabirds

Rebecca E Hirsch · Millbrook Press
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

It's a chilly winter evening. A northern gannet lets out a loud graaak. Swiftly and carefully, a scientist scoops the bird off the surface of the water into a net so that a team of experts can implant a high-tech tag. Scientists will track this seabird - and many others - to learn its movement...
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Sleepover Girls: Ashley Goes Viral
Sleepover Girls: Ashley Goes Viral

Jen Jones · Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pages: 102
Format: Print book

Anyone who knows Ashley knows she is super-serious about her blog, Magstar, and now she has taken it up a notch with her new YouTube channel! Making the fashion and beauty videos is a total blast, and when one of her videos gets featured on a major teen mag website, she goes from amateur...
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Play-doh pioneer : Joseph McVicker
Play-doh pioneer : Joseph McVicker

Lee Slater · ABDO Publishing Company
Pages: 32
Format:  Print book : Biography : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

"In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the pioneer of Play-Doh, Joseph McVicker. Follow the story from McVicker's childhood, his education at Brown University, joining his father's company Kutol Products, and his reinvention of the company's Kutol Wall Cleaner...
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Tyme #1: Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel
Tyme #1: Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel

Megan Morrison · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Think you know Rapunzel's story? Think again, because the tower was only the beginning..." -- Jennifer Nielsen, New York Times bestselling author of THE FALSE PRINCEIn all of Tyme, from the Redlands to the Grey, no one is as lucky as Rapunzel. She lives in a magic tower that...
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The Silver Door
The Silver Door

Emily Rodda · Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author Emily Rodda returns to the world of Deltora in book two of her brilliant new trilogy.Rye made it through the golden Door and rescued his oldest brother, but his troubles are far from over. The walled city of Weld in which he lives is still under attack...
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