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Strawberry Shortcake 1: The Baby Berrykin Baking Challenge

Georgia Ball Mrs · Spotlight
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Strawberry Shortcake enters a regional baking competition, but when someone starts sabotaging the other contestants, it's up to Strawberry to figure out the culprit is before they target her. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division...
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Strawberry Shortcake 2: The Baby Berrykin Baking Challenge

Georgia Ball Mrs · Spotlight
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Strawberry Shortcake made it through the regional baking competition, but the Purple Piemanne has more tricks up his sleeves planned to put himself on top. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.
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Dragons in a Bag

Zetta Elliott · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author!When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she's not his grandmother--but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical...
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Explorer Academy: The Nebula Secret

TRUDI TRUEIT · Under the Stars
Pages: 208
Format: Library Binding

Adventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school for explorers.Cruz leaves his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become...
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Gods and Heroes: Mythology Around the World

KORWIN BRIGGS · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Kids love epic stories--listening to them, sharing them, creating them. Now, introducing a book that celebrates the myths and legends that have been the cornerstone of civilizations since the beginning of time. Gods and Legends is the perfect introduction to the rich tales from 23 cultures...
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Knights vs. Dinosaurs

MATT PHELAN · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Renowned for their courage, their chivalry, and their ability to fight mythical creatures, the Knights of the Round Table must face their most dangerous opponents yet - DINOSAURS!This heavily illustrated middle grade novel from award-winning author and artist Matt Phelan is a hilarious,...
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Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective of Pharaoh's Court

Amy Butler Greenfield · Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

Starring an egotistical royal cat and his scarab-beetle sidekick, this hilarious illustrated novel reads like Laurel and Hardy crossed with The Egypt Game.Ra relishes his role as Pharaoh's beloved--and outrageously spoiled--cat. So when an amulet goes missing from the palace, Ra has no interest...
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Wicked Nix

Lena Coakley · Amulet Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A visually stunning, middle-grade classic in the making about Wicked Nix, the foulest of the fairies Mischievous woodland fairy Nix is up to no good. His beloved fairy queen has gone away, leaving him with a very important job: He must protect the forest from a most dangerous enemy - humans....
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Thundercluck!

PAUL TILLERY · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Cancel your dinner plans and dig in to Thundercluck! by Paul Tillery IV and Meg Wittwer. This is the first book in a hilarious new series stuffed with Norse mythology, black-and-white illustrations by the dozen, and a superhero chicken ready to ruffle some feathers. When danger calls . . . BAGAW!...
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Soccer School Season 1: Where Soccer Explains

Alex Bellos · Walker Books US
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

At Soccer School, every lesson revolves around one thing: soccer!Coaches (and authors) Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton cleverly use the lens of soccer to immerse kids in math, geography, biology, and more. Loaded with awesome true stories and science, the first book in the Soccer School...
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