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A Properly Unhaunted Place
William Alexander · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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From National Book Award-winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two kids who try to save their town by bringing back its ghosts.Rosa Ramona DÃaz has just moved to the small, un-haunted town of Ingot - the only ghost-free town in the world. She doesn't want... |
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After the Ashes
Sara K Joiner · Holiday House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting coming-of-age survival story, a stubborn and intellectual teen must fight for her life when the mighty volcano Krakatau erupts and puts her hometown on the Javanese coast in mortal danger.In 1883, on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies, thirteen-year-old Katrien... |
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Sci-Fi Junior High
Scott Seegert · jimmy patterson
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this gleefully illustrated space adventure is a laugh on every page. That's a lot of laughs!Kelvin Klosmo isn't just the new kid at school - he's the new kid in the galaxy! Welcome to Sci-Fi Junior High: an inter-galactic space station... |
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Ghost Attack
DAVID LUBAR · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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When Alex and his cousin Sarah are visiting their grandparents, Alex gets terrible red, itchy hives. Yikes! He's allergic to a ghost! Even worse, the ghost won't leave him alone -- he wants Alex and Sarah's help. Can they solve the ghost's mystery and get rid of Alex's... |
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The Unicorn in the Barn
Jacqueline K Ogburn · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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For years people have claimed to see a mysterious white deer in the woods around Chinaberry Creek. It always gets away. One evening, Eric Harper thinks he spots it. But a deer doesn't have a coat that shimmers like a pearl. And a deer certainly isn't born with an ivory horn curling... |
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It All Comes Down to This
Karen English · Clarion Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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It's 1965, Los Angeles. All twelve-year-old Sophie wants to do is write her book, star in the community play, and hang out with her friend Jennifer. But she's the new black kid in a nearly all-white neighborhood; her beloved sister, Lily, is going away to college soon; and her parents'... |
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Olga and the Smelly Thing from Nowhere
Elise Gravel · HarperCollins
Pages: 167
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Olga, the amazing child scientist who LOVES animals (because they are super-cute) ! Brightly.com put this amusing don't-miss book on their "Ultimate Summer Reading List for 9- to 12-Year-Olds"Olga and the Smelly Thing from Nowhere is jam-packed with fun: vibrant illustrations,... |
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The Emperor's Ostrich
Julie Berry · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
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Magic and mayhem abound in this fantasy adventure from the author of The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place.Young dairymaid Begonia has lost her cow Alfalfa. So she has set off on a search across the countryside even though she has nothing but a magical map to guide her. Along the way she meets... |
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Wolfie and Fly
Cary Fagan · Tundra Books
Pages: 84
Format: Hardcover
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A classic story of imagination, friendship, adventure and speeding through the ocean in a cardboard box. For fans of Ivy & Bean, Judy Moody or Nate the Great.Wolfie and Fly is an early chapter book at its simplest and best. Our heroine, Renata Wolfman (Wolfie) does everything by herself.... |
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The Best Medicine
Christine Hamill · Annick Press
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
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Philip Wright is twelve years old and life is pretty good. He has a comfortable relationship with his mother and gets reasonably good grades - in spite of girl problems, teacher problems, bully problems and - well, poetry problems.Philip's happy-go-lucky life is disrupted when his mother... |
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Project Best Friend
Chrissie Perry · Aladdin
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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Penelope Kingston tries to convince the new girl in town to become her best friend in this charming start to the brand-new Penelope Perfect chapter book series.Penelope Kingston wants to be perfect. And most of the time she is good, sensible, and calm. But then sometimes Penelope is bossy,... |
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Dragon's Green
Scarlett Thomas · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The Neverending Story meets Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy in this first magical adventure in a new series from acclaimed novelist Scarlett Thomas.Effie Truelove believes in magic, as does her grandfather Griffin (although he refuses to do any magic, let alone teach Effie how to use it) . After... |
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