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The garden thief

Gertrude Chandler Warner; Tim Jessel · Albert Whitman
Format:  eBook : Document : Elementary and junior high school : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats

"The Alden children help solve a case surrounding missing vegetables and vandalism in the community garden"--
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Into the Gauntlet

Margaret Peterson Haddix · Scholastic Inc.; Library ed. edition
Format: Hardcover

The explosive finale to the #1 bestselling series!Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, have had enough. Not only do they have to find the 39 Clues first, they're expected to reunite their backstabbing family - the same people who killed their parents. But Amy and Dan haven't...
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Neil Flambé and the Bard's Banquet

Kevin Sylvester · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Neil travels across the pond for a real honey of a case in the fifth book in The Neil Flambé Capers, the culinary mystery series celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey calls "good fun."Neil Flambé has had enough with solving crime. After his adventures in Japan, he is back in his beloved...
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Origami Farm Animals

Lisa Miles · Stevens Publishing LLLP, Gareth
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Learn basic folding techniques and common bases while creating ducks, pigs, roosters, and more out of paper. Fun tidbits about each animal accompany the step-by-step instructions and colorful photographs of each real animal -- and its origami lookalike.
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Fun and Festive Spring Crafts: Flower Puppets, Bunny Masks, and Mother's Day Pop-up Cards

Randel McGee · Enslow Elementary
Format: Print book

In spring, winter ice melts away, flowers bloom, and animals have babies. In FUN AND FESTIVE SPRING CRAFTS FLOWER PUPPETS, BUNNY MASKS, AND MOTHERS DAY POP-UP CARDS, follow easy step-by-step instructions to create unique crafts as you learn about spring. Discover the ancient Greek myth...
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DK Eyewitness Books: Vietnam War

DK · DK CHILDREN
Format: Book

Vietnam War complements the new look of the Eyewitness series by touring the major battles of the Vietnam conflict.
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Voices of Pearl Harbor

Sherry Garland · Pelican Publishing
Format: Hardcover

December 7, 1941-the day a sleeping giant awoke. Japan's surprise attack devastated the American Naval Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and forced the Americans into WWII. These moving accounts of the lives affected by the assault capture the scope of the day's emotions and repercussions....
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The Map to Everywhere

Carrie Ryan · Little, Brown & Company, 2014.
Pages: 433
Format: Print book

Wherever you need to go--the Map to Everywhere can take you there.To Master Thief Fin, an orphan from the murky pirate world of the Khaznot Quay, the Map is the key to finding his mother. To suburban schoolgirl Marrill, it's her only way home after getting stranded on the Pirate Stream,...
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Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives

Elizabeth Rusch · HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

At 1135 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets. Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombias Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide...
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A Shiloh Christmas

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A rescued beagle and his boy owner seek love and understanding for their troubled small town in this holiday companion to the Newbery Medal-winning Shiloh, from Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.Christmas is coming and Marty and his rescued pup Shiloh are sure glad about that - for their town is sure...
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