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Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #8: Twisters and Other Terrible Storms: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #23: Twister on Tuesday

Will Osborne · Random House
Pages: 119
Format: Print book

Magic Tree House Research Guides are now Magic Tree House Fact Trackers! Track the facts with Jack and Annie! When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #23: Twister on Tueaday, they had lots of questions. How do tornadoes form? What kinds of tools can help...
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Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey, Young Reader's Edition

Tim Tebow · Zonderkidz; Har/Pstr edition
Format: Hardcover

Meet Tim Tebow: He grew up playing every sport imaginable, but football was his true passion. Even from an early age, Tim has always had the drive to be the best player and person that he could be. Through his hard work and determination, he established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks...
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Rise of the Jumbies

TRACEY BAPTISTE · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover

Deep beneath the waves, a great enemy awakens . . . Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her neighbors treat her with mistrust. When local...
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Counting to Perfect

Suzanne M LaFleur · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Eight Keys comes a loving story of sisters who are trying to find their way back to each other.Julia used to be the perfect big sister: she played great games and took good care of Cassie. Now life at home revolves around Julia and her daughter, Addie. No one pays much...
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Terminal City

Linda Fairstein · Dutton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

With her newest Alexandra Cooper novel, Terminal City, New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein delivers another breakneck thriller that captures the essence of New York City - its glamour, its possibilities, and its endless capacity for darkness.Linda Fairstein is well-known for illuminating...
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Texas Rose: Dilue Rose Harris

Rita Kerr · Eakin Press
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

Recounts the experiences of eight-year-old Dilue and her family who came to settle in Texas during its struggle to break from Mexico
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Ocean Ecosystems

Melissa Higgins · Core Library
Format: Hardcover

This title will introduce readers to ocean ecosystems, the plants and animals that thrive there, its climate, its food web, any threats to it, and conservation efforts. Readers will also learn about the most well known oceans and their characteristics.
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The Scottish Chiefs

Jane Porter · Scribners
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover

William Wallace encounters secret passageways, disguises, and a quintet of horrible villains as he fights for Scotland at the turn of the fourteenth century.
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Kids Do Magic!

Ruth Owen · Windmill Books
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Readers will wow their friends and family with mind-boggling magic tricks. This book holds all the tips and secrets behind amazing magic tricks from disappearing coins to floating ketchup. No special equipment is needed, only close reading of the instructions and lots of practice. The directions...
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When Grandfather's Parrot Inherited Kennington Court

Linda Allen · Joy st Books
Pages: 68
Format: Hardcover

Appalled that Grandfather left his inheritance to his parrot, the relatives seek to break the will; but young Miranda, who is caring for the parrot, makes a discovery that settles everything.
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Cody Harmon, King of Pets

Claudia Mills · Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Cody Harmon doesn't love reading, math, spelling, or really any of the subjects that Miss Molina teaches in her third-grade class. But he lives on a farm and he loves animals--he even has nine pets--so when the school holds a pet-show fund-raiser, it should be his time to shine....
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Once Upon a Crime

Michael Buckley · Harry N. Abrams; English Language edition
Format: Hardcover

In the long-awaited fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series, the Grimms take on New York City! Surprises abound for Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, fairy-tale detectives extraordinaire. When they venture into the big city, they stumble upon a murder, face betrayal by a friend, and discover...
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The Magisterium

Holly Black · Scholastic Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes the third installment in the New York Times bestselling series that defies what you think you know about the worlds of good and evil.
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North to Benjamin

Alan Cumyn · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Hatchet meets Maybe a Fox in this piercing novel about Edgar, a boy who has lost the ability to speak and can only bark, and his dog Benjamin as they travel through the freezing Yukon wilderness in order to stop Edgar's mother from making a huge mistake.Eleven-year-old Edgar knows whenever...
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