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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Alamo All-Stars

Nathan Hale · Amulet Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

From Nathan Hale, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List maker, comes the definitive graphic novel about the Alamo. Hale relays the facts, politics, military actions, and prominent personalities that defined the Texas Revolution in factual yet humorous...
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The Magic Mirror: Concerning a Lonely Princess, a Foundling Girl, a Scheming King and a Pickpocket Squirrel

Susan Hill · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The twisty-turny journey of a girl searching for her heart's desire - glimpsed in a magic mirror. Perfect for fans of Rump or Catherine, Called Birdy A foundling girl with a crooked leg and a crutch doesn't expect life to be easy. Indeed, Maggie's dearest wish is to simply...
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LEGO Ninjago: Dark Island Trilogy Part 3

Greg Farshtey · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

The Ninjago world is about to be changed forever. As Wu and the ninja race to halt the coming darkness, they must band together and prepare to stop the unstoppable. Will their Spinjitzu and mastery over the elements be enough to stop the end of the world? Will the united power of the ninja...
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Pluto: A Space Discovery Guide

James Roland · Lerner Publications
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Did you know that Pluto has mountains, glaciers, and even blue skies? In July 2015 a spacecraft called New Horizons finally reached Plutoalmost ten years after it had launched! The spacecraft flew by Pluto to take the first close-up photos of the dwarf planet. When it began sending those...
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I Even Funnier: A Middle School Story

James Patterson · jimmy patterson
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

In this follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller I Funny, middle schooler Jamie Grimm has big dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world--and he won't let the fact that he's wheelchair-bound stand in his way. After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest...
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What Was the Wild West?

Janet B Pascal · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Saddle up and get ready for a ride back into the wild and wooly past of the American West.The west was at its wildest from 1865 to 1895, when territories west of the Mississippi River remained untamed and lawless. Famous for cowboys, American Indians, lawmen, gunslingers, pioneers, and prospectors,...
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Swing Sideways

Nanci Turner Steveson · Harpercollins
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of Bridge to Terabithia and Walk Two Moons, this debut middle grade novel is the story of two girls and the unforgettable summer in which they learn about true friendship and loss. Annie has been promised a summer of freedom...
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Oedipus: Trapped by Destiny: A TOON Graphic

Yvan Pommaux · TOON Books
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Oedipus is born to a terrible fate. Can he escape it to save himself and his family? An oracle makes a ghastly prediction: the young prince will kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, King Laius decides to kill his infant son before he can ever grow up to fulfill that prophecy....
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Renewable Energy: Discover the Fuel of the Future With 20 Projects

Joshua Sneideman · Nomad Press (VT)
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

How do we heat our homes, light our rooms, and power our cars? With energy! In 2014, the United States relied on fossil fuels for about 67 percent of its power. But as the fossil fuel supply dwindles and climate change becomes an increasingly urgent issue, individuals, businesses, and governments...
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The Parker Inheritance

Varian Johnson · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"A clever puzzle, a hidden treasure, and a couple of kids you'll wish were your friends...Dive in!" - Sara Pennypacker, author of PaxThe letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It's waiting for Candice Miller. When Candice finds...
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More Monsters, More Problems

Tracey West · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

The fourth chapter book based on the newest LEGO(R) toy theme!
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Polar Climates

Cath Senker · Capstone Press
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

The climate in a region affects all aspects of life. This book looks at polar climates. It explores the characteristics of the land and weather in regions with polar climates, and how plants, animals, and people have adapted to life in polar regions. The effects of climate change and other...
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Jake the Fake Keeps it Real

Craig Robinson · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 135
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the first book in a side-splitting illustrated series from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight. Jake can barely play...
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Ancient China Inside Out

KELLY SPENCE · CRABTREE PUB CO
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

This fascinating book explores the culture and achievements of ancient China through the examination of artifacts that have survived through the centuries. Each primary-source artifact offers the reader significant clues to the civilization's technologies, cultural traditions, foods,...
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Wandmaker's Apprentice

ED MASESSA · Scholastic Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Henry Leach the Eighth and his sister, Brianna, have survived a faulty spell, defeated a wicked spellcaster, and saved the world . . . but their greatest accomplishment might be convincing Grand Wand Master Coralis to take them on as official apprentices.For the first time in centuries,...
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