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Towers Falling

Jewell Parker Rhodes · Little
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window,...
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Grover Cleveland, Again!: A Treasury of American Presidents

Ken Burns · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 89
Format: Print book

The instant New York Times bestseller!A gorgeous collection of American presidents filled with fun facts and sparkling with personality, from nonfiction master Ken Burns. This special treasury from America's beloved documentarian Ken Burns brings the presidents to life for our nation's...
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Atticus Claw Breaks the Law

Jennifer Gray · Faber and Faber Limited
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback

When Atticus receives a mysterious message asking him to a meeting in a sleepy coastal town, he packs his bags and sets off. The world's greatest cat burglar likes a good mystery and this time curiosity has got the better of him. The writer of the message, it turns out, is none other...
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The Monster War: A League of Seven Novel

Alan Gratz · Starscape
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The Monster War is the third book in the action-packed, steampunk League of Seven series by acclaimed author Alan Gratz. Having discovered the monstrous secret of his origins, Archie Dent is no longer certain that he is worthy to be a member of the League of Seven. But with new enemies...
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Click Here to Start

Denis Markell · Delacorte Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Young fans of Ernie Cline's Ready Player One will love this classic video game inspired mystery filled with elements of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. What if playing video games was prepping you to solve an incredible...
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National Geographic Readers: Ibn al-Haytham: The Man Who Discovered How We See

Libby Romero · National Geographic
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Celebrated in a film featuring Omar Sharif in his final role, meet the scientist known as the "Father of Optics," Ibn al-Haytham!During the golden age of science, knowledge, and invention in Muslim civilization -- also known as the "Dark Ages" in Western Europe -- this...
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Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume I: The Fearsome Foursome

Amicus Arcane · Disney Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press' spookiest chapter book series yet: "Tales from the Haunted Mansion" Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each new book tells the story of one of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts. With eerie illustrations throughout and a beautiful...
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Serafina and the Twisted Staff

Robert Beatty · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Serafina's defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the catamount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds:...
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The Inside Job:

Jackson Pearce · Bloomsbury Usa
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Hale, who turned double-agent against the corrupt spy organization he was raised in, knows his super-spy parents can't come home until the Sub Rosa Society is neutralized--and that he and his friends are all that's standing between SRS and their worldwide crimes. So Hale wants to hit the bad guys...
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The Wolves of Currumpaw

William Grill · Flying Eye Books
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

The Wolves of Currumpaw is a beautifully illustrated modern re-telling of Ernest Thompson Seton's epic wilderness drama Lobo, the King of Currumpaw, originally published in 1898. Set in the dying days of the old west, Seton's drama unfolds in the vast planes of New Mexico, at a time...
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