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Sea Change: A TOON Graphic

Frank Viva · TOON Graphics
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover

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Killer Smog: London, England

Joyce L Markovics · Bearport Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

In December 1952, a thick layer of black smog blanketed London. The filthy air blinded people on the streets and brought traffic to a screeching halt. Worst of all, the pollution was deadly. It sickened 100,000 people and took the lives of 4,000. Killer Smog: London, England traces the devastating...
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Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive!

AMMI-JOAN PAQUETTE · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Two Truths and a Lie is the first book in a fascinating new series that presents some of the most crazy-but-true stories about the living world as well as a handful of stories that are too crazy to be true - and asks readers to separate facts from the fakes! Did you know that there is a fungus...
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Understanding Coding With Scratch

Patricia Harris · PowerKids Press
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Discusses why to code with Scratch, what the rules are, and how to begin coding.
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The Real McCoys

Matthew Swanson · Imprint
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Her name's Moxie. Moxie McCoy.Bold, opinionated, and haplessly self-confident, the world's greatest fourth-grade detective faces her biggest challenge! When someone kidnaps beloved school mascot Eddie the Owl, Moxie is on the case -- but she's forced to fly solo now that her best friend...
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Sport Illustrated Kids Hockey Jokes!

Blake Hoena · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 56
Format: Library Binding

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS presents an all-star collection of HOCKEY jokes, riddles, and memes! With big-shot one-liners like "Why was the zombie thrown out of the hockey game? There was a face off in the corner!" these colorful, illustrated joke books will have HOCKEY fans rolling...
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Botanicum

Katherine Willis · Big Picture Press
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Discover more than 160 exhibits in this virtual museum, open all hours.The 2017 offering from Big Picture Press's Welcome to the Museum series, Botanicum, is a brilliantly curated guide to plant life. With artwork from Katie Scott of Animalium fame, Botanicum gives readers the experience...
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Summerlost

Ally Condie · Dutton Children's Books
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

A tender and compelling contemporary novel for young readers about facing loss and finding friendship, from Ally Condie, international bestselling author of the Matched series. "Kids are awesome. And they are diverse. There are children with different abilities and backgrounds and experiences,...
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Orphan Island

LAUREL SNYDER · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover

"A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." - Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the MoonFor readers who loved Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about...
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Battling Wildlife Poachers: The Fight to Save Elephants, Rhinos, Lions, Tigers, and More

Diane Bailey · Mason Crest
Pages: 64
Format: Library Binding

PROTECTING THE EARTH S ANIMALS8 titles64 pages eachFrom whales to chimps, from cats and dogs to sharks and coral, the animals of the world are under threat. Human influence on their habitats and on world climate, along with direct attacks by poachers, are creating crisis after crisis. This...
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Who Is Hillary Clinton?

Heather Alexander · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Who Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our New York Times best-selling series can find out now!At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an application to NASA. The reply was a flat out rejection: the space program didn't take women....
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DK Eyewitness Books: Weather

Brian Cosgrove · Dk Publishing
Pages: 72
Format: Print book

From whirling tornadoes to freezing blizzards, weather is a constantly changing force that affects everything around us. Explore the history and elements that make up the environment around us in DK Eyewitness Books: Weather.Superb color photographs of the sky in all kinds of weather conditions,...
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The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs

Cylin Busby · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 263
Format: Print book

For fans of Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan comes the swashbuckling story of a little cat's adventures on the high seas Captain Natick does not want to take a kitten on board his ship when it sets sail in 1837, but his daughter convinces him that the scrawny yellow cat will...
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Sherlock Sam and the Ghostly Moans in Fort Canning

A J Low
Format: Print book

Meet Sherlock Sam, Singapore's greatest kid detective. With his trusty robot Watson, Sherlock Sam will stop at nothing to solve the case, no matter how big or small!Introducing the Sherlock Sam series by A.J. Low - a fresh, cross-cultural twist on the classic Sherlock Holmes stories, tailored...
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Dump Trucks

Mari C Schuh · Amicus Readers
Pages: 16
Format: Library Binding

-This search-and-find book invites emergent readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a dump truck's structure, parts, and jobs they do---
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