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The Luck Uglies #3: Rise of the Ragged Clover

Paul Durham · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In this exhilarating conclusion to the critically acclaimed Luck Uglies series, the final battle between the Luck Uglies and the treacherous Fork-Tongue Charmers comes to Rye O'Chanter's doorstep. Filled with adventure, humor, friendship, and a hint of magic, this fantasy series is an irresistible...
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Almost a Winner

Molly B Burnham

Fans of Jeff Kinney's humor and Sharon Creech's heartfelt stories will love the second book in this hilarious new series about a ten-year-old boy from a big family who dreams of making it into The Guinness Book of World Records.Win or lose, friends stick together. But wh
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The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle

Janet Fox · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Keep calm and carry on." That's what Katherine Bateson's father told her, and that's what she's trying to do: when her father goes off to the war, when her mother sends Kat and her brother and sister away from London to escape the incessant bombing, even when...
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Tru and Nelle

Greg Neri · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Long before they became famous writers, Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama. This fictionalized account of their time together opens at the beginning of the Great Depression, when Tru is seven and Nelle...
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Maybe a Fox

Kathi Appelt · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when...
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Let's Sew

Dk. · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Get crafty! Learn how to sew with 10 easy projects for kids and beginners in Let's Sew. Filled with sewing ideas and guides, Let's Sew is the perfect book for kids who are joining the DIY trend. Kids will learn the invaluable skill of sewing on a button as well as a running stitch. There...
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Astrotwins -- Project Rescue

Mark E Kelly

Twins Mark and Scott discover an abandoned Apollo command module and take off to rescue a stranded Russian cosmonaut in the second Astrotwins adventure from retired NASA astronaut and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mousetronaut, Mark Kelly.Mark a
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Charmed

Jen Calonita · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Sometimes it's good to be bad...Charmed is the exciting sequel to the wildly popular Flunked -- second in the brand new Fairy Tale Reform School series where the teachers are (former) villains. "Charming fairy-tale fun." -- Sarah Mlynowski, author of the New York Times bestselling...
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The Girl in the Well Is Me

Karen Rivers · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious and heartwrenching story about a bullied girl whose search for a new beginning takes a dire wrong turn. Newcomer Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into a club whose members have no intention of letting her join. Now Kammie's trapped...
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