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Making Friends with Billy Wong

Augusta Scattergood · Scholastic Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting the new sixth graders in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction. Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda...
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You Hold Me Up

Monique Gray Smith · Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

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Lulu and the Rabbit Next Door

Hilary McKay · Albert Whitman & Company
Pages: 91
Format: Hardcover

When Lulu's next-door neighbor doesn't seem to be looking after his rabbit properly, Lulu and her cousin Mellie devise a scheme to make him pay more attention to his pet.
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Ship of Dolls

Shirley Parenteau · Candlewick Press
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover

Can a ship carrying Friendship Dolls to Japan be Lexie's ticket to see her fun-loving mother again? A heartwarming historical novel inspired by a little-known true event.It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, Oregon, where...
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The Vietnam War

Tom Streissguth · Child's World
Format: Hardcover

Presents an overview of the Vietnam War, including history, important people and battles, and a timeline of events.-- Provided by publisher.
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Where, Oh Where, Is Baby Bear?

Ashley Wolff · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Baby Bear is back in this cozy, seek-and-find companion to the celebrated Baby Bear Sees Blue and Baby Bear Counts One.When Mama and Baby Bear go out to look for food one night, curious Baby Bear wants to wander and explore. Each time his Mama Bear calls for him, Baby Bear turns up in a different...
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition 2017

Scholastic. · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

This brand new, updated edition features all the craziest facts, newest discoveries, and weirdest wonders of the world!
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Appleblossom the Possum

Holly Goldberg Sloan · Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

Fans of E.B. White's CHARLOTTE'S WEB and Dick King-Smith's BABE will adore this heartwarming and funny animal adventure by the award-winning author of COUNTING BY 7s Mama has trained up her marsupial babies in the ways of their breed, and now it's time for all of the possums--even Appleblossom--to...
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Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons (Ologies)

Ernest Drake · Candlewick
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

For true believers only, a lavishly illustrated reproduction of a legendary volume by the world’s most distinguished dragonologist. Don’t let it fall into the wrong hands!Do you believe in dragons? Now, for the first time, the long-lost research of renowned nineteenth century...
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Malaria Parasites

Barbara J Ciletti · Black Rabbit Books/Bolt
Pages: 31
Format: Library Binding

Through dynamic infographics, charts, up-close photos and strong reading level control, this title explores the lives of malaria parasites, the creepy buggers that might be living near you.
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Here Comes the Shaggedy

R.L. Stine · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The most notorious, creepiest, ghouliest Goosebumps characters are on the loose and out to get you! No place is safe. You can't hide, you can't escape. You may not want them but the Most Wanted Goosebumps villains want YOU!
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Courage for Beginners

Karen Harrington · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fictional, she'd magically know how to deal with the fact that her best friend, Anibal Gomez, has abandoned her in favor of being a "hipster." She'd be able to take care of everyone when...
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Genius!: The most astonishing inventions of all time

Deborah Kespert · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Genius! tells the stories behind the amazing inventions that helped shape our modern world. Young readers are introduced to the technologies developed by thinkers and inventors such as Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, Gutenberg, James Watt, the Wright brothers, and Tim Berners-Lee, and the creativity...
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The Race to Sail Around the World

Kelly Wittmann · Gareth Stevens Pub
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

Historians are often divided into two camps when asked to name the first person to circumnavigate the world; there are those who say Ferdinand Magellan was, while others argue the victor was Francis Drake. Readers will learn the controversies surrounding these 16th-century captains and their...
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The Royal Rabbits of London

Santa Montefiore · Aladdin
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH meets Warriors in this charming novel that proves that even the smallest rabbit can be the biggest hero from publishing power couple Santa and Simon Sebag Montefiore.Life is an adventure. Anything in the world is possible - by will and by luck, with a moist...
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