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You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Clean Water!

Roger Canavan · Franklin Watts
Format: Book

What would life be like if you had to do without modern inventions? How would you cope without a toilet or live without electricity? Starting from these thought-provoking questions, each title takes us on a historical journey to see how people coped in the past, and how they developed ingenious...
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The Rise of Humans

David West · Smart Apple Media
Format: Hardcover

In twelve beautifully crafted scenes, discover a world where a new kind of mammal has appeared from the disappearing forests and has begun to walk on two legs. From simple tool-making to mastering a control over fire, witness the evolution of our ancestors as they leave Africa and spread...
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From the Kane Chronicles Brooklyn House Magician's Manual

Rick Riordan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Greetings, initiate! Carter Kane, here. Congratulations on reaching Brooklyn House in one piece. This accomplishment signals that you're descended from Ancient Egyptian royalty, and you have magic powers. But what good is power without knowing how to use it? That's where this training manual...
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How to Be a Supervillain: Born to Be Good

MICHAEL FRY · jimmy patterson
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A sequel has never been this good...at being bad! In this highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling How to Be a Supervillain, Victor Spoil must save the world from an evil scheme to enslave the superheroes and villains--to his parents' utter disappointment.Victor Spoil hates the Junior...
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Baby Gorillas at the Zoo

Cecelia H Brannon · Enslow Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Simple text illustrated by full-page color photos gives readers an inside look into the life of a baby gorilla at the zoo. They will learn about what a baby gorilla eats, how it plays, and at what age it learns to walk. An illustrated Words to Know section at the beginning of the book prepares...
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Buddy: America's First Guide Dog

Meish Goldish · Bearport Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

In 1928, a group of reporters watched as a young blind man named Morris Frank attempted to cross the busiest street in New York City with only the help of a dog. Cars and trucks zoomed by, horns blaring. Would the guide dog--a German shepherd named Buddy--be able to stay calm and lead Morris...
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Royal Crown: From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

MEG CABOT · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

It's the first coronation of a female monarch of Genovia in 200 years, and Her Royal Highness, Princess Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison, is giving you the inside scoop in this newest (illustrated!) diary from New York Times -- bestselling author and illustrator Meg Cabot!Olivia...
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Showing Off

Sarah Mlynowski · Scholastic, Inc.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Some people in school are afraid of the kids in the Upside-Down Magic class. Others just call them flops. But Nory and her friends in Upside-down Magic won't let that stop them. Not with a school-wide talent show coming up! Except... Nory's afraid her fluxing magic will go wonky and upset...
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Eyewitness to the role of women in world war ii

Jill Sherman · The Child's World
Pages: 32
Format:  Print book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

Through narrative nonfiction, tells about numerous roles of women during the war, including as spies, army nurses, factory workers, and pilots.
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Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic

Jason Segel · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic is the sequel to the hilariously scary New York Times bestselling novel Nightmares! by multitalented actor Jason Segel and bestselling author Kirsten Miller. You thought the nightmares were over? You better keep the lights on! Charlie Laird has a dream...
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Scooby-Doo! A Science of Magnetism Mystery: The Magnetic Monster

Megan Cooley Peterson · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

A heavy metal monster at a heavy metal rock concert? Scooby-Doo and the gang find themselves drawn to a magnetic mystery in which a creepy iron creature is destroying everything in sight. Join their scientific investigation of the magnetizing monster and help repel its powers!
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Brave Chef Brianna

Jillian Crab · KaBOOM!
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

To prove herself as a great chef, a young woman sets up a restaurant as the sole human in a city full of monsters.Brianna Jakobsson has big cooking dreams, and when her ailing restaurateur father poses a challenge to his only daughter and fifteen sons, she seizes the opportunity. She's...
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Be Prepared

VERA BROSGOL · First Second
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

All Vera wants to do is fit in -- but that's not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps. Vera's single mother can't afford that sort of luxury, but there's one summer camp in her price range...
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Raphael

Brian And Walz Lynch · Spotlight
Format: Hardcover

"Raphael is looking for answers and might find them with Alopex, but can they survive the night?"--
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