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For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla Guide to the Norse Worlds

Rick Riordan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

So you've made it to Valhalla. Now what? This "who's who" guide to the gods, goddesses, and other important figures of Norse mythology was commissioned by Helgi, who, after more than a millennium as manager of Hotel Valhalla, became fed up with answering the same questions from...
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Survivors #1: The Empty City

Erin Hunter · Harper
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

From the #1 nationally bestselling author of Warriors comes an action-packed animal fantasy series that shows readers the world through the eyes of dogs. Survivors is full of wild and wonderful adventure (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) that will thrill fans of Spirit Animals and Wings...
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The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters: The Jolly Regina

Kara Lareau · Amulet Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

In the spirit of A Series of Unfortunate Events and the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series, The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters will captivate middle-grade readers looking for humor, hijinks, and a swashbuckling good time. Meet Jaundice and Kale Bland, two sisters...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1

Jeff Kinney · Amulet Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Boys don't keep diaries - or do they?The launch of an exciting and innovatively illustrated new series narrated by an unforgettable kid every family can relate toIt's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways...
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Squirrel Meets World

Shannon Hale · Marvel Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

WHO RUNS THE WORLD? SQUIRRELS! Fourteen-year-old Doreen Green moved from sunny California to the suburbs of New Jersey. She must start at a new school, make new friends, and continue to hide her tail. Yep, Doreen has the powers of . . . a squirrel! After failing at several attempts to find...
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The Goat

Anne Fleming · Groundwood Books
Pages: 168
Format: Print book

When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building. Rumor says there s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be? As Kid soon discovers, a goat...
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The Good Fight : How World War II Was Won

Stephen E. Ambrose · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the finest historians of our time, has written an extraordinary chronicle of World War II for young readers. From Japanese warplanes soaring over Pearl Harbor, dropping devastation from the sky, to the against-all-odds Allied victory at Midway, to the Battle of the Bulge...
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Hazy Bloom and the Tomorrow Power

Jennifer Hamburg · Farrar
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

One perfectly ordinary afternoon, a vision flashes through third-grader Hazel "Hazy" Bloom's mind -- of flying peas. The next day in the school cafeteria, a food fight erupts that involves the very same airborne veggie. After one or two more seemingly silly visions come true in unexpected...
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Children of the Great Depression

Russell Freedman · Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children...
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North Dakota

Robin Landew Silverman · Children's Press
Pages: 80
Format: Library Binding

Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, culture and people of the state of North Dakota
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