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Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir

Julie Bertagna · Yosemite Conservancy
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

A Junior Library Guild Selection!John Muir led an adventurous life, starting with his wild and playful boyhood in Scotland to his legendary exploits in America, where he became an inventor, a global explorer, and the first modern environmentalist - and even made friends with a president!...
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Focused

Alyson Gerber · Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Clea can't control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework . . . but she gets distracted. She knows she can't just say whatever thought comes into her head . . . but sometimes she can't help herself. She know she needs to focus . . . but how can she do that when the people...
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Over the Moon

Natalie Lloyd · Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive.It wasn't always this way....
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The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James

Ashley Herring Blake · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James navigates heart surgery, reconnecting with her lost mother, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girl in this stunning, heartfelt novel--perfect for fans of Ali Benjamin and Erin Entrada Kelly.When Sunny St. James receives a new heart, she decides...
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Sweeping Up the Heart

Kevin Henkes · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

"After an eventful spring break, seventh-grader Amelia Albright's life changes forever"--
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Tangled In Time: The Portal

Kathryn Lasky · HarperCollins
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

For fans of the Royal Diaries series and Gail Carson Levine, Newbery Honor-winning author Kathryn Lasky delivers the first enchanting adventure in a compelling new middle grade series about a newly orphaned girl who finds herself time-travelling between the present day and the court of the two most...
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Jasmine?s New Rules / Tiana?s Best Surprise / Aurora Plays the Part

Disney Press · Blackstone Pub
Format: Preloaded Digital Audio Player

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John Henry, Steel-Drivin' Elf: A Graphic Novel

Benjamin Harper · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 40
Format: Library Binding

In Gem Forest there's no stronger elf than John Henry. With a single swing of his hammer, he can carve out a perfect mining tunnel. So when a sales-gnome says he has a machine that digs better than any miner, John Henry is ready to prove him wrong. But as the contest begins, the device...
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Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Whale: A Graphic Novel

Penelope Gruber · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 40
Format: Library Binding

In Atlantis, there's no one taller or mightier than the merman Paul Bunyan. At only twelve years old, he's already dragged the city away from an underwater volcano and cleared a deep-sea forest of human garbage to save a baby blue whale. But now the towering hero has come face-to-face...
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Velociraptor

Sara Gilbert · Creative Paperbacks
Pages: 24
Format: Paperback

Journeying back through time, Dinosaur Days acquaints readers with eight creatures of the Mesozoic era. Using age-appropriate language, this new series will whet young paleontologists' appetites as it uncovers when and where important fossils have been found as well as what these fossilized...
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