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LEGO City: Need for Speed!

Trey King · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

There's never a dull moment in LEGO(R) City, especially when you there's a race full of monster trucks, racecars, and more!A new LEGO(R) City race-themed adventure 6x9, featuring monster trucks, racecars, hilarious antics, and even a bear on a bicycle! The fun never stops in LEGO...
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A Different Pond

Bao Phi · Capstone Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed poet Bao Phi delivers a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and son -- and between cultures, old and new. A Different Pond is an unforgettable story about a simple event -- a long-ago fishing trip. As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's...
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Pine & Boof: The Lucky Leaf

ROSS BURACH · HarperCollins
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Frog and Toad meets Elephant & Piggie in the first installment of a humorous and heartfelt new picture book series about the adventures of Boof the bear and Pine the porcupine, from the acclaimed author-illustrator of There's a Giraffe in My Soup and I Am Not a Chair!One blustery day,...
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Me, Me, Me

Annika Dunklee · Kids Can Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

When best friends Annie, Lillemor and Lilianne learn their school will be having a talent show, Annie says they should enter as an all-girl singing group. Her friends are all in --- until Annie tries to force everyone to go along with her choice of song, costumes, band name and lead singer....
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Places to Be

MAC BARNETT · BALZER BRAY
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

From the award-winning, bestselling Mac Barnett and Renata Liwska comes a classic and luminous book perfect for fans of The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood and Waiting by Kevin Henkes.With an elegant simplicity, this picture book celebrates all our wide-ranging emotions - and the adventures...
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Marvel's Captain America: Civil War Reader #2

Marvel · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

A leveled reader based on the new movie, Captain America: Civil War! 2016 MARVEL. All Rights Reserved.
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Zeke Meeks vs His Big Phony Cousin

D L Green · Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint,
Pages: 121
Format: Hardcover

Zeke can't wait for his cousin Sam to arrive for a visit. But once Sam arrives, Zeke quickly tires of his guest's constant bragging and sucking up. Is Sam really perfect or is he just a big phony?
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Gum Luck

Rhode Montijo · Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

Gabby Gomez's love of bubble gum has resulted in her becoming Gum Girl! With her new powers Gabby can save the day, but keeping her gummy alter-ego a secret is another matter altogether. Will she tell her parents who she is at the expense of admitting she disobeyed her mother's...
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Miguel Cabrera

Joanne Mattern · Mitchell Lane Pub Inc
Format: Book

Presents the life of the Venezuela-born baseball player and chronicles his accomplishments in the major leagues.
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Shapes

Sara Pistoia · Child's World
Format: Book

Examples of various familiar objects introduce both plane (flat) and solid (multidimensional) shapes.
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Take a Closer Look at Your Eyes

Janet Slike · Child's World
Format: Print book

Book by Slike, Janet
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Issun Boshi: The One-Inch Boy

Icinori · Gestalten; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover

This classic Japanese fairy tale tells the story of Issun Boshi, the tiny son of an old, long childless couple. Tiny and brave--these are the two most striking characteristics of Issun Boshi. His mother had longed to have a child for so many years that she finally added even if it is a very...
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The Emerald Berries

Poppy Green · Spotlight
Pages: 117
Format: Library Binding

Sophie Mouse and her best friend Hattie Frog are on the hunt for some special berries found only in one part of the forest: Weedsnag Wag. Their daring adventure turns scary when they get lost along the way. But with the help of a squirrel that disappeared years ago, the girls may be able...
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The Book with No Pictures

B.J. Novak · Dial Books
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

A #1 New York Times bestseller, this innovative and wildly funny read-aloud by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any reader into a comedian.You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here's how books work. Everything written on the page...
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