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Heidi M D Elston · Big Buddy Books
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

- Historic Photographs- Primary Source Documents- Timeline- Fast Facts- Benefits and Perks- Chart of All Presidents' Terms
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The Trouble with Twins

Kathryn Siebel · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Kate DiCamillo meets Lemony Snicket in this darkly comic novel about two sisters who learn they are each others' most important friend. Imagine two twin sisters, Arabella and Henrietta - nearly identical yet with nothing in common. They're the best of friends . . . until one day they...
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Friendship Bracelets: 31 Original Bracelets

Michele Howarth · Tuva
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

This book includes advanced techniques, a wide range of patterns, tips for working with different materials, and enough of a foundation in knotting to allow readers to create their own bracelet designs!
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Abracadabra!: Fun Magic Tricks for Kids

Kristen Kelly · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Summon your inner Houdini and learn simple magic tricks that will wow your family and friends!How did he do that? Have you ever racked your brains trying to figure out how that birthday party magician pulled a dove out of his sleeve? Or spent sleepless nights wondering just how he made...
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Ashes

Laurie Halse Anderson · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 298
Format: Print book

Return to the American Revolution in this blistering conclusion to the trilogy that began with the bestselling National Book Award Finalist Chains and continued with Forge, which The New York Times called "a return not only to the colonial era but to historical accuracy."As the Revolutionary...
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James K. Polk

BreAnn Rumsch · Big Buddy Books
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

This biography introduces readers to James K. Polk including his early political career and key events from Polk's administration, including the Oregon Treaty, the Mexican War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement...
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Spy Ski School

Stuart Gibbs · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep in this follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated Spy School, Spy Camp, and Evil Spy School.Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen - he keeps flunking Advanced...
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Savanna Showdown

Kristin Earhart · Scholastic Inc., 2015.
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

This amazing race is getting wild!When the teams take on the African savanna, the competition heats up, and Mari starts to feel the pressure. She's never been the strongest or the fastest racer. Sure, she knows almost everything about lions and rhinos and zebras. But facts can only...
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