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Secret on the Thirteenth Floor

Warner, Gertrude Chandler · Albert Whitman & Company
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Black cats? Broken mirrors? The number thirteen? The owner of the art deco apartment building in nearby Silver City believes in all kinds of superstitions. The Aldens aren't so sure about most of them, but there's one thing they do know: something strange is going on on the thirteenth...
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Knock! Knock! Where Is There?

Elling, Brian
Format: Paperback

Another round of sidesplitting jokes based on the New York Times best-selling Where Is? series!This hilarious follow-up collection of jokes featuring all the subjects of the ever-popular Where Is? series will keep kids laughing right through geography class! There are 300 silly jokes about...
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Korean Celebrations: Festivals, Holidays and Traditions

Cho, Tina · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Korean Celebrations takes young readers on an exciting exploration of Korea's colorful festivals and family celebrations - wonderful days that are filled with exciting activities and delicious foods.This book allows children to experience Korean culture firsthand by involving them in games,...
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Weird But True Know-It-All: Ancient Egypt

Flynn, Sarah Wassner · National Geographic Children's Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Powerful pharaohs, deadly curses, beautiful queens, legendary cities, tombs filled with gold ... you'll know it all by the time you finish this smart and wacky book!Did you know that ancient Egyptians formed the world's first police force? The 365-day calendar? We have ancient Egypt...
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Epic Athletes: Stephen Curry

Wetzel, Dan · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Dan Wetzel tells the inspiring, electrifying story of NBA superstar Steph Curry, beginning a new series of sports biographies for young readers! When you think of Stephen Curry, one word comes to mind: greatness. From shooting three-pointers with...
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Groundbreaking Guys: 40 Men Who Became Great by Doing Good

Peters, Stephanie True · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

An illustrated book of biographies highlighting the inspiring and innovative qualities of forty very different men throughout history, for fans of Heroes for My Son and Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.Our history books are full of great men, from inventors to explorers to presidents....
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Child of the Dream

Sharon Robinson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement. In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares on national television "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"...
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How Emily Saved the Bridge: The Story of Emily Warren Roebling and the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

Wishinsky, Frieda · Groundwood Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

The Brooklyn Bridge, the iconic suspension bridge that connects Manhattan and Brooklyn, was completed in 1883. It is thanks to Emily Warren Roebling that the bridge was finished at all. Emily was not an engineer, but she was educated in math and science. She married Washington Roebling,...
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Even More Lesser Spotted Animals

Brown, Martin · David Fickling Books
Pages: 56
Format: Hardcover

Just as Lesser Spotted Animals showed you some of the wonderfully WOW wildlife we never get to see, the next book of the lesser known animal kingdom reveals the stories of even more of the world's unseen and unsung creatures. No king-of-the-jungle, fancy-pants, hair necked lions here...
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Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity.With Wildhood, Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and award-winning science writer Kathryn Bowers have created an entirely new way of thinking...
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