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Wings of Fire Book Five: The Brightest Night

Tui Sutherland · Scholastic, Incorporated
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

The dragonets struggle to fulfill the prophecy and -- somehow -- end the war in this thrilling new installment of the bestselling WINGS OF FIRE series!It all comes down to this: The Dragonets of Destiny must finally bring the epic war to an end, reconcile the seven tribes, and choose the next...
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Save Me a Seat

Sarah Weeks · Scholastic Press
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL. Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own. Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding...
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Spirit Animals: Book 4: Fire and Ice - Library Edition

Shannon Hale · Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

The adventure continues in this fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series.Strange things are happening at the frozen edge of the world. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have crisscrossed Erdas in their quest to stop the ruthless Conquerors. Only the four of them, supported by the gifts...
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Lost in Bermooda

Mike Litwin · Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Bermooda is a tropical island that is undiscovered by the outside world and is primarily populated by walking, talking cows of human intelligence. The cows came to the island hundreds of years ago by a ship carrying livestock that wrecked upon the shoals around the southern tip of the island....
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The Invention of Money

Nicolas Brasch · PowerKids Press
Format: Book

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Humanitarian Aid Worker

Louise Spilsbury · PowerKids Press
Format: Print book

Humanitarian aid workers dedicate their lives to helping people in need. They bring medicine, emergency supplies, and other kinds of disaster relief to countries affected by war, natural disasters, and poverty. Aid workers help refugees and also build infrastructure, hospitals, and schools...
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Dolphin Rescue: A True-Life Story

Jinny Johnson · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 89
Format: Paperback

The thoroughly moving books in the Born Free series tell the stories of wild animals around the world that have been saved from a lifetime of cruelty and suffering.The Born Free Foundation€™s mission is to protect many different species in their natural habitats, working with local...
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Trials of Apollo, The Book Two The Dark Prophecy

Rick Riordan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 414
Format: Hardcover

Zeus has punished his son Apollo--god of the sun, music, archery, poetry, and more--by casting him down to earth in the form of a gawky, acne-covered sixteen-year-old mortal named Lester. The only way Apollo can reclaim his rightful place on Mount Olympus is by restoring several Oracles...
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Game Over, Pete Watson

Joe Schreiber · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him. Will he be able to save his friends and family and the entire world from...
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Cheer Choice

Jake Maddox · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 63
Format: Hardcover

When Colleen's best friend and co-captain changes schools, she's devastated. The cheerleading squad won't be the same without Meredith. But when Colleen learns that Meredith is teaching her new squad the routine they created together for an upcoming competition, she's hurt....
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The Dino Files #1: A Mysterious Egg

Stacy McAnulty · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

What if a fossil in your backyard . . . came to life?! Frank's grandma is a famous paleontologist (that's a dinosaur scientist). But she's also an adult who makes up rules. Rules like: no digging for dinosaur bones when you have a sunburn. That means Frank is stuck playing...
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Framed!

James Ponti · Aladdin
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director's speed dial and several international criminals' most wanted lists all because of his Theory of All Small Things in this hilarious start to a brand-new middle grade mystery series.So you're only halfway through your homework and the Director...
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Carrie Underwood

Kylie Burns · Crabtree Pub Co
Format: Book

Carrie Underwood is a country music singer and songwriter. This book details her life and quick rise to fame as a winner of the television competition American Idol. The hot, young star has won several music awards and has even broken her own Guinness World Record for having the most number...
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West of the Moon

Margi Preus · Harry N Abrams Inc
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover

In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America. After being separated from her sister and sold to a cruel...
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Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil War

Debbie Levy · Disney Hyperion
Pages: 62
Format: Print book

Amid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onward by song. There were songs to wake them up and songs to call them to bed,Songs to ready them for battle and to signal their retreat,Songs to tell them that their side was right, and the other...
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