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Shadows of Sherwood

Kekla Magoon · Bloomsbury
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

The night her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley must learn to fend for herself. Her home, Nott City, has been taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown. After fleeing for her life, Robyn has no choice but to join a band of strangers-misfit kids, each with their own special...
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Really New School: A Choose Your Own Ending Action Adventure

Jan Fields · Magic Wagon
Format: Book

Up2U Adventures--where the ending is Up2U! Ana thinks that her new school is very strange. Middlehurst Elementary School has a lot of rules. And everyone follows them. Or else. When Ana and her new friend Bryce discover a secret passage, they know that something suspicious is going on. Will...
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Commercial Fisherman

Ellen Labrecque · Cherry Lake Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a commercial fisherman. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent...
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Choose Your Own Career Advenuture in Hollywood

Don Rauf · Cherry Lake Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

What do people do in Hollywood? Readers pick from eight different scenarios and experience "next best thing to being there yourself" opportunities for interactive career exploration. Sidebars promote additional learning activities and independent reaserch
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Comedy Magic

Jr. Canavan Thomas · Windmill Books
Format: Book

Have you ever seen an apple bounce without being bruised? How about a thimble hop from one finger to another all on its own? Learn the secrets of these and many more magic tricks as they are explained with fully-illustrated, step-by-step instructions.
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Bryce Harper

Matt Scheff · Sportszone
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

This title introduces readers to Bryce Harper, providing exciting details about his life and going deep inside the key moments of his MLB career. The title also features informative fast facts, a timeline, and a glossary. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
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What is the water cycle?

Louise Spilsbury · Britannica Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group
Pages: 32
Format:  Print book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Blackfire's Back!

Larry Stucker · DC Comics
Format: Hardcover

Starfires big sister Blackfire is back with a vengeance! Will the rest of the Teen Titans become victims of this super-sibling rivalry? Follow Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire as these teenage super heroes team up to take down super-villains and schoolwork alike. Each book...
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What's Great About Florida?

Mary Meinking · Lerner Publications
Format: Book

What's so great about Florida? Find out the top ten sites to see or things to do in the Sunshine State! Explore Florida's endless beaches, thrilling theme parks, and stirring history. The Florida by Map feature shows where you'll find all the places covered in the book. A special...
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Intruders at Rivermead Manor: A Kit Mystery

Kathryn Reiss · American Girl Publishing Inc
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback

To help her family make ends meet, Kit takes a job helping an elderly lady at a rundown mansion called Rivermead Manor. When she discovers a hidden room in the old house, she is sure its secrets will make a great newspaper article. But then Jessamine, Kit's long-lost friend, appears...
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Three Pennies

MELANIE CROWDER · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A girl in foster care tries to find her birth mother before she loses her forever in this spare and beautifully told novel about last chances and new opportunities.For a kid bouncing from foster home to foster home, The Book of Changes is the perfect companion. That's why Marin carries...
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The Ghost Wind Stallion: A Kaya Mystery

Emma Carlson Berne · American Girl Publishing Inc
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Kaya's people tell a story about unusual silver stallions of long ago that had powerful medicine -- a strong connection to the spirit world. Now Kaya's blind sister, Speaking Rain, has dreamed of a stallion like none she's ever met. Then the two girls come upon a silver stallion...
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Ms. Bixby's Last Day

John David Anderson · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

John David Anderson, author of Sidekicked and The Dungeoneers, returns with a funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking contemporary story about three boys, one teacher, and a day none of them will ever forget.Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The boring ones, the mean...
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Connecticut

John Hamilton · ABDO & Daughters
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Welcome to Connecticut, the Constitution State! Your students will ride the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry, uncover tracks at the Dinosaur State Park, visit Mystic Seaport, and more as they learn about Connecticut's history, plants and animals, industries, sports, cities, famous people, and more...
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Fish Finelli

E.S. Farber · Chronicle Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book

When the Whooping Hollow town bully, Bryce Billings, bets Fish Finelli that he can't find Captain Kidd's treasure, Fish and his best buds Roger and T. J. must embark on a quest to find the long-lost booty! Between sneaking into the library to track down Captain Kidd's treasure...
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