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It's Alive! It's Alive!

R. L. Stine · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Livvy and Jayden are the stars of their school's robotics team. Livvy is especially enthusiastic because her own mother works in a robotics lab and experiments with Artificial Intelligence. To impress her mom, Livvy and Jayden build a robot. Livvy wants to name their robot "Francine,"...
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The Iliad

Gareth Hinds · Candlewick
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer's classic wartime epic. More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known...
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Emily Windsnap and the Pirate Prince

Liz Kessler · Candlewick
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Emily Windsnap ends up surrounded by pirates - and on a life-changing adventure - in the eighth installment of the New York Times best-selling series.Traveling home by cruise ship should be a relaxing break after Emily's latest adventure, but things take a turn when the ship is overtaken...
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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away

Erica Armstrong Dunbar · Aladdin
Pages: 272
Format: Book

A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life - now available as a young reader's edition! In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong...
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Eva and Baby Mo: A Branches Book

Rebecca Elliott · Branches
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback

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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The Lost Heir

TUI T SUTHERLAND · Graphix
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The lost heir to the SeaWing throne is going home at last.She can't believe it's finally happening. Tsunami and her fellow dragonets of destiny are journeying under the water to the great SeaWing Kingdom. Stolen as an egg from the royal hatchery, Tsunami is eager to meet her future subjects...
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Game of Stars

Sayantani DasGupta · Scholastic Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Saving the multiverse is no gameWhen the Demon Queen shows up in her bedroom, smelling of acid and surrounded by evil-looking bees, twelve-year-old Kiranmala is uninterested. After all, it's been weeks since she last heard from her friends in the Kingdom Beyond, the alternate dimension...
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Backyard Bears: Conservation, Habitat Changes, and the Rise of Urban Wildlife

Amy E Cherrix · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

North Carolina's black bears were once a threatened species, but now their numbers are rising in and around Asheville. But what happens when conservation efforts for a species are so successful that there's a boom in the population? Can humans and bears live compatibly? What are the long-term...
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This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality

Jo Ann Allen Boyce · Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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Pokémon: Sun & Moon, Vol. 3

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