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This Book Is Spineless

Lindsay Leslie · Page Street Kids
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

With suspense and humor, this wary and unadventurous book uses the five senses to try and figure out what kind of story might be on its pages.Does it hear spooky wails from a ghost story?Can it see a mysterious something peeking around a corner?Is that the dizzy feeling of zero gravity...
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Out of This World: The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington

Michelle Markel · Balzer Bray
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated picture book biography about the fascinating life of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, from Michelle Markel and Amanda Hall, the acclaimed team behind The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau.Ever since she was a little girl, Leonora Carrington loved to draw...
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The Good Egg

Jory John · HarperCollins
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling creators of The Bad Seed, a timely story about not having to be Grade A perfect!Meet the good egg. He's a verrrrrry good egg indeed.But trying to be so good is hard when everyone else is plain ol' rotten.As the other eggs in the dozen behave badly, the good...
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Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor

Laurie Wallmark · Sterling Children's Books
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Movie star by day, ace inventor at night: learn about the hidden life of actress Hedy Lamarr! To her adoring public, Hedy Lamarr was a glamorous movie star, widely considered the most beautiful woman in the world. But in private, she was something more: a brilliant inventor. And for many...
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Song for a Whale

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One-Third Nerd

Gennifer Choldenko · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A funny, fast-paced, and heartfelt story from the Newbery Honor-winning author of the Al Capone series.Fifth grade is not for amateurs, according to Liam. Luckily, he knows that being more than one-third nerd is not cool. Liam lives in the Bay area near San Francisco with his mom and two younger...
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Under My Hijab

Hena Khan · Lee & Low Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Grandma wears it clasped under her chin. Aunty pins hers up with a beautiful brooch. Jenna puts it under a sun hat when she hikes. Zara styles hers to match her outfit. As a young girl observes six very different women in her life who each wear the hijab in a unique way, she also dreams...
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Perfect

Max Amato · Scholastic Press
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

A fussy eraser and a mischievous pencil spar in this picture book adventure.In this funny and light-hearted picture book, a fussy eraser tries to keep the pages clean by erasing the scribbles of a mischievous pencil. But before long, the eraser discovers what can happen when two opposing...
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Middle School: Born to Rock

JAMES PATTERSON · jimmy patterson
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the next book in James Patterson's bestselling Middle School series, Rafe Khatchadorian's hilarious little sister, Georgia, is back for another rollicking adventure! This time, she's vying to be crowned winner of the Battle of the Bands--if she doesn't die of embarrassment...
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Captain Marvel Little Golden Book

John Sazaklis · Golden Books
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

Superhero Captain Marvel shows that she's out of this world in this action-packed Little Golden Book!Meet Marvel's out-of-this-world new superhero Captain Marvel as she uses her amazing powers of flight and super strength to fight alien threats to Earth! Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will...
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Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet

Curtis Manley · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

A Junior Library Guild SelectionDo you wonder if humansare the only beings who wonderif they are alone in the universe?Our sun is a star.In the night sky are all kinds of stars,and orbiting those starsare planets like the ones in our own solar system.Could those planets have lifelike we do on Earth?Planet...
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Junior High Drama: A Graphic Novel

Louise Simonson · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Welcome to Memorial Middle School, where drama fills the classrooms and follows students home on the bus. Social awkwardness. Mean girls. Hallway gossip. It's all part of life in junior high, but maybe it helps to know you aren't alone. Can Lucia avoid the boy-girl party? Will Kamilla...
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