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Plants vs Zombies: Timepocalypse

Paul Tobin · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

PopCap's immensely popular Plants vs. Zombies game gets another serving of hilarious, plant-filled, zombie-zapping comics! Crazy Dave--the babbling-yet-brilliant inventor and top-notch neighborhood defender--helps his niece, Patrice, and young adventurer Nate Timely fend off Zomboss's latest...
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Oddity

Sarah Cannon · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Join a tough eleven-year-old as she faces down zombie rabbits, alien mobs, and Puppet Cartels while trying to find her missing twin in Sarah Cannon's imaginative middle-grade debut, Oddity.Welcome to Oddity, New Mexico, where normal is odd and odd is normal. Ada Roundtree is no stranger...
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Fairies Forever

LISA ANN SCOTT · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Brooke and Izzy are finally getting the wish they really want: Calla the fairy is going to shrink the girls to her size so they can visit Fairvana and meet Calla's magical friends! They can't wait to go. But when it's time to say goodbye, will the girls be able to leave their...
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Novel Nightmare: The Purloined Story

Jan Fields · Magic Wagon
Format: Book

In this action-packed series, Carter Lewis and Isabelle Hunter help their computer crazy uncle who has created a totally new kind of book experience. You don't read Uncle Dan's version of classic books; you live them in a virtual reality simulation. When Uncle Dan realizes someone...
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The Dragon's Eye

Sarwat Chadda · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Confidential until May 2018!
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Saving Crafter: Herobrine Reborn Book One: A Gameknight999 Adventure: An Unofficial Minecrafter's Adventure

Mark Cheverton · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Gameknight999's best friend in Minecraft is dying, and only the User-that-is-not-a-user can save him!Herobrine, the artificially intelligent virus intent on escaping Minecraft and infecting the Internet with his evil, was captured after an epic showdown on the shores of Minecraft. Gameknight999,...
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Goosebumps Most Wanted #4: Frankenstein's Dog

R L Stine · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

The infamous, Most Wanted Goosebumps characters are out on the loose and they're coming after you! Catch them all undead or alive!Kat is reluctant to visit her Uncle Vic Frankenstein because of all the rumors about him. People in the small town where he lives say he's a mad scientist...
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Massachusetts (Hello USA)

John F. Warner · Lerner Pub Group
Pages: 84
Format: Library Binding

Grades 3-5--This revision of the 1994 edition includes words and music for the state song, a recipe for Nestle Toll House cookies, a list of four Web sites, and an additional map. The concluding section on the efforts to clean up Boston Harbor has been updated, as have population statistics....
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The Prophet of Yonwood

Jeanne DuPrau · Yearling
Pages: 289
Format: Paperback

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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Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?

Megan Stine · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

The truly inspiring story of the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.Outspoken, energetic, and fun, Sonia Sotomayor has managed to turn every struggle in life into a triumph. Born in the Bronx to immigrant parents from Puerto Rico, Sonia found out at age nine that she had diabetes, a serious...
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Pirates of Underwhere

Bruce Hale · HarperCollins
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Stephanie has a whole underwear drawer full of trouble.A week ago, Stephanie's biggest problem was finding enough time to complete her homework and study for her Mathletes competition. Now, thanks to her big-mouth brother, Zeke, she has to deal with magical toilet brushes, sinister...
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The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

James Cross Giblin · Clarion Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Many people believe Hitler was the personification of evil. In this Sibert Medal-winning biography, James Cross Giblin penetrates this façade and presents a picture of a complex person - at once a brilliant, influential politician and a deeply disturbed man.In a straightforward and nonsensational...
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