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The Split History of World War I: A Perspectives Flip Book

Michael Burgan · Compass Point Books
Format: Book

Tensions have been brewing in Europe for years. Finally the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary sets off four bloody years of war that eventually involved the entire world, including the United States. It will be called the war to end all wars.""...
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Lost in the Sun

Lisa Graff · Puffin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the author of A Tangle of Knots and Absolutely Almost, a touching story about a boy who won't let one tragic accident define him. Everyone says that middle school is awful, but Trent knows nothing could be worse than the year he had in fifth grade, when a freak accident on Cedar...
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Saving Baby Doe

Danette Vigilante · Putnam Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

Lionel and Anisa are the best of friends and have seen each other through some pretty tough times--Anisas dad died and Lionels dad  left, which is like a death for Lionel. They stick together no matter what. So when Lionel suggests a detour through a local construction site on their way home,...
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Beastly Bones: A Jackaby Novel

William Ritter · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"I've found very little about private detective R. F. Jackaby to be standard in the time I've known him. Working as his assistant tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality . . ." In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they...
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Curiosity's Mission on Mars: Exploring the Red Planet

Ron Miller · Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Pages: 64
Format: Library Binding

"Could life have previously flourished on Mars? Will humans be able to travel there one day? Can humans one day colonize the red planet? NASA scientists have been interested in answering questions like these for a long time. In November 2011, NASA sent the rover Curiosity to Earth's...
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Ghosts of the Alamo and Other Hauntings of the South

Matt Chandler · Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint,
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Are ghosts real? Take a trip through the Southern United States and decide for yourself! Explore the Bell Witch Cave, wander through Waverly Hills Sanatorium, and take a trip to the Alamo. A spooky adventure awaits!
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Dream Boy

Madelyn Rosenberg · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Perfect and REAL. The boy of her dreams. And when he brushes past her, he whispers her name.Annabelle Manning spends her nights with a blue-eyed boy who consumes her dreams - then vanishes each morning as she wakes. He's everything she's every wanted, but even she never expected...
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Homecoming

Diane Dakers · Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book

Fionas dad comes home after sixteen months and eight days in jail. Along with her mother and family friends, she awkwardly welcomes him home. Uncle David is there, because he picked Dad up at jail. Dads best friend Simon, his wife May and neighbor Elisabeth are also at the house to greet...
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Misty Copeland: Power and Grace

Richard Corman · Michael Friedman Group
Format: Hardcover

Power and grace define Misty Copeland -- an influential ballet dancer who has broken through difficult barriers to become the first female African-American to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. Misty has proven adversity can be conquered by reaching higher and working...
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Russ Roberts · Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Format: Book

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