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Worth

A. LaFaye · Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers; 1ST edition
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

After Nathaniel's leg is crushed in an accident, his father brings home an orphan boy, John Worth, to help work the fields. Worth has come to Nebraska from New York City on the Orphan Train, which brings homeless children west to find new lives. Nathaniel feels increasingly jealous...
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Goosebumps Most Wanted #7: A Nightmare on Clown Street

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

The infamous, Most Wanted Goosebumps characters are out on the loose and they're coming after you! Catch them all, undead or alive!Ray Gordon really likes the circus. His uncle, Theo, is a performer in Koko's Klown Academy and he invites Ray to come join him for the summer. At first,...
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Saving Wonder

Mary Knight · Scholastic Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Having lost most of his family to coal mining accidents as a little boy, Curley Hines lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian Mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky. Ever since Curley can remember, Papaw has been giving him a word each week to learn and live. Papaw says words are Curley's...
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Finding Bigfoot: Everything You Need to Know

ANIMAL PLANET · Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A howl in the distance. The biggest footprint youve ever seen. A blurry figure in the distance. These are the clues that lead us to believe there is something out there--Bigfoot. Already a fan of the wildly successful FINDING BIGFOOT show on Animal Planet? One of the top-performing shows...
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Teddy & Co.

Cynthia Voigt · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Fans of classic toy stories like Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, and Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins will love Teddy & Co. by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt.Winner of a Parents Choice Silver Honor Award Teddy is a thinking kind...
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Restart

GORDON KORMAN · Scholastic Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He knows...
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The case of the runaway dog

James Preller; John Speirs; R W Alley; Oliver Wyman · Scholastic Audio
Format: Audiobook

1 sound disc (52 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 paperback book (74 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.)
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North Korea

Elizabeth Raum · Heinemann
Format: Book

North Korea offers complete coverage of this fascinating country, including sections on history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure and government, and culture. It also includes a detailed fact file, maps and charts, and a traceable flag.
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Lungdon: Book Three

Edward Carey · The Overlook Press, 2015.
Pages: 502
Format: Print book

The extraordinary conclusion to the Iremonger TrilogyA NPR Best Book of 2015! A 2014 New York Times Notable Book! A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2014 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick! A Publishers Weekly Indie Pick: Big Books from Small Presses!The Iremonger family is at large in London,...
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Stick Dog Tries to Take the Donuts

Tom Watson · Harper
Pages: 209
Format: Print book

The Stick Dog series continues in Tom Watson's hilarious Stick Dog Tries to Take the Donuts!Stick Dog and his team of strays are off on another outrageous canine caper. To snatch some breakfast treats for his hungry pals, Stick Dog will need to stop a moving truck, outfox a man on a telephone...
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Half a Chance

Cynthia Lord · Scholastic Press
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover

A moving new middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of RULES.When Lucy's family moves to an old house on a lake, Lucy tries to see her new home through her camera's lens, as her father has taught her -- he's a famous photographer, away on a shoot. Will her photos ever meet his high...
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A Home for Mr. Emerson

Barbara Kerley · Scholastic Press,
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

From the award-winning creators of THOSE REBELS, JOHN & TOM, a joyful portrait of an American icon and an inspiring blueprint for how to live your life."All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."Before Ralph Waldo...
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The 39 Clues: Unstoppable: Nowhere to Run

Jude Watson · Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

The Cahill family has a secret. For five hundred years, they have guarded the 39 Clues – thirty-nine ingredients in a serum that transforms whomever takes it into the most powerful person on earth. If the serum got into the wrong hands, the disaster would rock the world. So certain...
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