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What Do You Find in a Coral Reef?

Megan Kopp · Crabtree Publishing Company
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

"Vibrant photographs and descriptive text guide readers on an underwater journey through coastal waters to explore coral reefs. Home to more than one million kinds of plants, fish, and other ocean life, readers will discover how living things meet their needs for shelter, food, and more...
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Take a Closer Look at Your Bones

Ann Malaspina · Child's World
Format: Book

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Factory Robots

Elizabeth Noll · Bellwether Media
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

General Motors brought the first factory robot to life in 1961. The 4,000-pound assembly-line robot was named Unimate. It proved it could build cars twice as fast as humans could! In this childrens tech title, the behind-the-scenes robots that make factory work fly get much-deserved attention.
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Stick Dog Dreams of Ice Cream

Tom Watson · HarperCollins
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The Stick Dog series continues in author-illustrator Tom Watson's hilarious Stick Dog Dreams of Ice Cream. In the follow-up to Stick Dog, Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog, and Stick Dog Chases a Pizza, Stick Dog and his pals are back, but this time the temperature is rising and they're...
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Sudan

Patricia Levy · Cavendish Square Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Library Binding

Sudan is a country with a varied history. This book delves into the details of the country and explores aspects such as festivals, traditions, government, and its people today. Full of photographs and up-to-date information, this comprehensive overview is sure to engage and inform young...
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The Secret of the Tragic Theater

Michael Teitelbaum · Bearport Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Nina's dreams of a singing career
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Lost in Bermooda

Mike Litwin · Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Bermooda is a tropical island that is undiscovered by the outside world and is primarily populated by walking, talking cows of human intelligence. The cows came to the island hundreds of years ago by a ship carrying livestock that wrecked upon the shoals around the southern tip of the island....
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Morocco

Ettagale Blauer · C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Pages: 144
Format: Library Binding

In each title of this enchanting series, readers are transported to distant lands with the fascinating text and attention-grabbing photos. Each country's culture, history, and geography are explored in detail, allowing readers a chance to see how people live in faraway nations.
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We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler

Russell Freedman · Clarion Books
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

In his signature eloquent prose, backed up by thorough research, Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students, the Scholls and a few friends formed...
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Eliza Bing Is

Carmella Van Vleet · Holiday House
Pages: 165
Format: Hardcover

In this uplifting novel about determination and the rewards of hard work, a preteen girl struggling with ADHD must stick with a summer taekwondo class to prove that she s dedicated enough to pursue her true passion: cake decorating.
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Last to Know: A Novel

Elizabeth Adler · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Evening Lake: an idyllic, peaceful, western Massachusetts getaway with a close-knit community of families. Detective Harry Jordan sees his lake home as a respite from solving crimes on the streets of Boston...until crime comes to Evening Lake. Harry Jordan is out for a walk when the night...
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You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Boogers!

Professor Alex Woolf · Franklin Watts
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

What if we didnt have mucus? The insides of our bodies would be very dry, and we would find it hard to digest our food. We would also quickly become sick, because mucus protects us from dirt in the air that we breathe. But what exactly is this sticky, slimy stuff we call mucus? Whats it made...
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Dirt or Soil: What's the Difference?

Ellen Lawrence · Bearport Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Soil can be brown, black, crumbly, dry, wetbut so can dirt. So whats the difference? People often use the words soil and dirt to mean the same thing, but in science they are not the same at all. Soil is a material that plants can grow in, while dirt is the muddy footprints you leave on the floor...
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The Accelerati Trilogy Book One Tesla's Attic

Neal Shusterman · Hyperion Books for Children
Pages: 246
Format: Book

After their home burns down, fourteen-year-old Nick, his younger brother, and their father move into a ramshackle Victorian house they've inherited. When Nick opens the door to his attic room, he's hit in the head by a toaster. That's just the beginning of his weird experiences with the old junk...
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