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Eva's Big Sleepover: A Branches Book

Rebecca Elliott · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 80
Format: Library Binding

Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina....
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Know Your Numbers Toys

Mary Elizabeth Salzmann · Sandcastle
Format: Book

Teach kids to count and read at the same time! Know Your Numbers: Toys introduces early readers to numbers by paring them with simple sentences about toys. Beautiful photos and graphics tie the written, numeral, and visual forms of each number together. For instance, one page has a picture...
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Hot and Cold

Steffi Cavell-Clarke · Kidhaven
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Young readers are introduced to the basic science concept of temperature and how to properly identify things that are hot and cold in this age-appropriate text. Fun facts, striking, full-color photographs, and diagrams provide insight into this essential elementary science curriculum topic....
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A Bad Day at Pirate School

JOHANNA GOHMANN · Calico Chapter Books
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

One day, Piper has a very bad day at pirate school. She can't find her silver eye patch. She drops her lunch overboard. She falls down in wooden leg practice. Piper can't wait for the day to be over! But when their teacher loses his golden compass, Piper is the one who finds it. Calico...
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My Bird

Norman D Graubart · PowerKids Press
Format:  Book : Juvenile audience : English : First EditionView all editions and formats

Learn about the large family of birds, including scarlet macaws, parakeets, and many others. Straightforward text introduces the concept of pet ownership to young readers.
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Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas

Natasha Yim · Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover

In this Chinese American retelling of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," a careless Goldy Luck wreaks havoc on the home of a family of panda bears. She eats up the littlest panda's rice porridge, breaks his rocking chair, and rumples all the blankets on his futon. When Goldy...
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Go, Popplio!

Maria S. Barbo · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Join Ash and Pikachu on their latest adventure in Alola, the brand-new Pokémon region. They'll meet and catch some amazing new Pokémon, including First Partners Rowlet, Litten, and Popplio.
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Skyscrapers

Virginia Loh-Hagan Edd · Cherry Lake Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

The 21st Century Junior Library Extraordinary Engineering series explains how important feats of engineering are accomplished. Skyscrapers examines the engineering concepts that make these awe inspiring structures possible. Sidebars encourage readers to engage in the material by asking...
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Halloween

Markovics Pearl · Bearport Pub Co Inc
Pages: 16
Format: Library Binding

"Young readers will learn about Halloween" --
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Plant Cycle

Samantha Bell · Cherry Lake Pub
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Using the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) , the My World of Science series provides the earliest readers with background on key STEM concepts. Plant Cycle explores the life cycle of plants in a simple, engaging way that will help readers develop word recognition and reading...
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Interactive Rides

GRACE HANSEN · Abdo Kids Jumbo
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

This title explains that today's interactive rides are based off of old mill rides in which people rode in boats or carts on tracks through dark tunnels. Readers will learn that today's interactive rides involve much more complicated technology that takes riders on exciting adventures...
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Mighty Moby

Ed Young · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A Moby Dick-inspired picture book adventure unlike any you've ever seen--with a surprise ending--from Caldecott Medal-winning artist Ed Young.
Deep in the dark ocean, Mighty Moby lurks. Up above the ocean waves, a one-legged captain pursues the whale he clashed with long ago.
Mighty...
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Full of Fall

April Pulley Sayre · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Discover the magic - and the science - behind fall leaves with this companion to the celebrated Raindrops Roll and Best in Snow.

With gorgeous photo illustrations, award-winning author April Pulley Sayre explores the transformation trees undergo in fall. The book takes...
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Engineers Build Models

Reagan Miller · Crabtree Pub Co
Format: Book

Models play an important role in engineering. Models are used to test and improve designs. Readers will learn how engineers use different kinds of models and identify how a model and its subject are alike and how they are different.
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Adventures in Flatfrost

Jordan Quinn · Little Simon
Format: Hardcover

Prince Lucas and Clara venture to the land of the giants and train Ruskin to control his fire in this fifth chapter book in the fantastical Kingdom of Wrenly series. After a game of hide-and-seek, Prince Lucas and Ruskin are in trouble again. They have melted all the ice in the castle,...
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