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When My Sister Started Kissing

Helen Frost · Farrar
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Claire and Abi have always loved their summers at the lake house, but this year, everything's different. Dad and Pam, their stepmom, are expecting a new baby, and they've cleared out all of Mom's belongings to make room. And last summer, Abi was looking at boys, but this summer,...
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The LEGO® Batman Movie: The Essential Guide

Inc Dorling Kindersley · DK Children
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

The perfect companion to LEGO Batman's first solo movie, The LEGO® Batman™ Movie: The Essential Guide showcases the full range of exciting LEGO Batman sets and minifigures that will be released to tie in with the film's release. Heroes, villains, vehicles, and locations are all explored...
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Alice-Miranda holds the key

Jacqueline Harvey · Random House Australia
Pages: 365

Alice-Miranda is home for the holidays! In a startling turn of events, Alice-Miranda unexpectedly finishes the school term earlier than planned. Holidays should be a time for fun and a chance to catch up with friends, but it seems all is not well at Highton Hall. There is trouble afoot...
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Who Was Lewis Carroll?

PAM POLLACK · Penguin Workshop
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

Meet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematician and church deacon, who taught at Oxford University. He was inspired to write his best known works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through...
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Can You Survive a Virus Outbreak?: An Interactive Doomsday Adventure

Matt Doeden · Capstone Press
Format: Print book

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about an outbreak of a new deadly virus""Blood Fever."" Any person you pass on the street could be a carrier. To make it through the outbreak, you'll have to make the right decisions. When YOU CHOOSE what to do next,...
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Earth satellites

Allan Morey · Bellwether Media

"Engaging images accompany information about Earth satellites. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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Poop's Many Uses

Ellen Lawrence · Bearport Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

How is elephant, panda, and sheep poop turned into paper? Can seabird droppings really be used to make explosives? And why are coffee beans that pass through the digestive system of a small furry animal the most expensive in the world? Poop might be considered a waste product, but many...
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The Benefits of Being an Octopus

Ann Braden · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"This is a compassionate look at poverty, hard choices, and defending one's right to be treated humanely. A very fine first novel, written with a deft hand." -- Karen Hesse, Newbery award winning author of Out of the Dust Some people can do their homework. Some people get to have...
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Amityville

John Perritano · Powerkids Pr
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Reccounts the events that occured in Amityville, New York, as experienced by the family who moved into the house on Ocean Avenue in 1975.
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Outfield Outcast

Jake Maddox · Jake Maddox
Format: Paperback

Baseball has always been Malcolm's best sport, and he's sure this season will be no different. After all, there's no real competition when you're the best. But when a former benchwarmer makes a play for his position, Malcolm realizes that earning his spot on the baseball...
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Lego

Sara Green · Pilot
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

"Engaging images accompany information about Lego. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Max Tilt: Fire the Depths

PETER LERANGIS · HarperCollins
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover

"A bold, big-hearted start to a groundbreaking new series." - Soman Chainani, author of The School for Good and EvilThe New York Times bestselling author of the Seven Wonders series and books in the 39 Clues series, Peter Lerangis, brings us the enthralling first installment...
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The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones

Wendelin Van Draanen Parsons · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Wendelin Van Draanen gives us a fresh and funny story about a boy learning to become the brave hero of his own life. Perfect for fans of Counting by 7s and The Fourteenth Goldfish. My secret life is filled with psychic vampires, wheelchair zombies, chain-rattlin'...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Rachel A Koestler-Grack · Blastoff! Readers
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Intended for students in Kindergarten through third grade."--
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The Buccaneers' Code

Caroline Carlson · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 301
Format: Print book

Humor, magic, and adventure abound in the third - and final - book of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series.Hilary Westfield is now a freelance pirate. After trying to prove herself to the VNHLP, she realized many members of the League weren't all that honorable - not even...
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