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National Basketball Association

David Rausch · Epic
Format: Hardcover

"Engaging images accompany information about the National Basketball Association. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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The Useful Book: 201 Life Skills They Used to Teach in Home Ec and Shop

David Bowers · Workman Publishing
Pages: 403
Format: Print book

A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ec teachers, if you'd had them.The Useful...
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Gabby Duran and the Unsittables

Elise Allen · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Case File: The First UnsittableSummary: The Association Linking Intergalatics and Earthlings (hereby known as A.L.I.E.N.) has a new member. After months of investigation, Gabby Duran, Associate 4118-25125A, has proven herself to be a babysitter extraordinaire. Her celebrity clients fly her around...
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Who Was Alfred Hitchcock?

Pamela D. Pollack · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

Known as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock's unique vision in movies like Psycho and The Birds sent shivers down our spines and shockwaves through the film industry. His innovative camera techniques have been studied for decades and his gift for storytelling...
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Loki's Wolves

K. L. Armstrong · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The runes have spoken. We have our champion...Matthew Thorsen.Matt hears the words, but he cant believe them. Hes Thors representative? Destined to fight trolls, monstrous wolves and giant serpents...or the world ends? Hes only thirteen.While Matt knew he was a modern-day descendent of Thor,...
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How to Catch a Bogle

Catherine Jinks · HMH Books for Young Readers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

If ever a chill entered her soul, or the hope suddenly drained from her heart, she knew a bogle was to blame. Birdie McAdam, a ten-year-old orphan, is tougher than she looks. Shes proud of her job as apprentice to Alfred the Bogler, a man who catches monsters for a living. Birdie lures...
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Snowboard Hero

Jake Maddox · Stone Arch Books
Format: Print book

Kaleb has always looked up to his older stepbrother and Army Reserve, Luke, both on the slopes and off. So when Luke is deployed overseas, Kaleb is proud of him but worried. When Luke is injured and sent home, Kaleb starts feeling reckless, and his decisions on the trails might be just...
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When Audrey Met Alice

Rebecca Behrens · Sourcebooks Inc
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover

Living in the White House is like being permanently grounded. Only with tighter security. "A fun look into the private life of an inspiring first daughter."--Marissa Moss, bestselling author of the Amelia's Notebook and Mira's Diary series When First Daughter Audrey Rhodes discovers...
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Treasure Hunters: Peril at the Top of the World

James Patterson · Jimmy Patterson
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Join the Kidds on their trek to exotic Russia and the dangerous Arctic as they outrun the bad guys in their search for stolen treasure.
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Standing in the shoes of a member of the House of Representatives

Carolyn E W Spath · Cavendish Square Publishing
Pages: 32
Format:  Print book : Juvenile audience : English

The House of Representatives is an important part of government! Find out what a member of the House of Representatives does and how you can become one too.
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Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled: How do we know what dinosaurs really looked like?

Catherine Thimmesh · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
Pages: 57
Format: Print book

No human being has ever seen a triceratops or velociraptor or even the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. They left behind only their impressive bones. So how can scientists know what color dinosaurs were? Or if their flesh was scaly or feathered? Could that fierce T.rex have been born with spots?...
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Super Gear: Nanotechnology and Sports Team Up

Jennifer Swanson · Charlesbridge
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Cutting-edge science; high-performance sports How are the sports played by Michael Phelps, Serena Williams, Michelle Wie, and Usain Bolt related? Nanotechnology! Take a close-up look at sports and nanotechnology, the cutting-edge science that manipulates objects at the atomic level....
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Warriors Super Edition: Bramblestar's Storm

Erin Hunter · HarperCollins
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

An epic stand-alone adventure in Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series! In this never-before-told story, return to ThunderClan after the events of the fourth Warriors series, Omen of the Stars.The Dark Forest has been defeated, and Bramblestar is now leader of ThunderClan....
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Amazo and the Planetary Reboot

Brandon T Snider · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 88
Format: Library Binding

Amazo arrives on Earth with a plan to solve all its problems -- by wiping out its entire population! All that stands in his way is Superman, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, and the rest of the Justice League. Can the world's greatest team of super heroes shut down the superpower duplicating...
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Playing with Gravity

Brooke Rowe · Cherry Lake Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Each book in the My Science Fun series includes a simple experiment for the earliest readers. This book features step-by-step instructions on playing with gravity while encouraging further exploration on the topic. Simple sentence structure and word usage help children develop word recognition...
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