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Ever After High: Kiss and Spell

Suzanne Selfors · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

What's a girl to do when she accidentally turns her crush into a frog? Ginger Breadhouse had a hard time growing up with the Candy Witch for a mom. It's not easy making friends if everyone believes your mom tried to cook Hansel and Gretel! But now that Ginger's attending Ever...
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Crush: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Love

Gary Paulsen · Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Kindle Edition

Readers met the comical Kevin in Liar, Liar and Flat Broke.  Kevin gets serious about Tina Zabinski, the Most Beautiful Girl in the World. Finally, finally, he's worked up his courage—he's going to ask her out. Or will his trademark scheming get in his way?
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Episode Guide

Jason Fry · DK CHILDREN; 5.4.2013 edition
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive guide, Star Wars®: The Clone Wars™ Episode Guide details every episode from the highly popular animated series, The Clone Wars, featuring plot points, key characters, and the spaceships, weapons, and gadgets. Each of the 108 episodes is showcased with a stunning...
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Ice Dogs

Terry Lynn Johnson · Harcourt Brace and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Victoria Secord, a fourteen-year-old Alaskan dogsled racer, loses her way on a routine outing with her dogs. With food gone and temperatures dropping, her survival and that of her dogs and the mysterious boy she meets in the woods is entirely up to her.
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The Secret of Zoom

Lynne Jonell · Henry Holt
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover

Christina lives in an old stone mansion on the edge of a forest surrounded by barbed wire and signs that read TRESPASSERSWILL BE BOILED. Deep within the forest is the laboratory where her father works--and where her mother was blown to bits years ago. Christina is not supposed to talk to the orphans...
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Michaelangelo

Brian And Walz Lynch · Spotlight
Format: Hardcover

"Michelangelo explores New York City and finds even more mysteries"--
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One False Note

Gordon Korman · Scholastic
Pages: 174
Format: Hardcover

The highly-anticipated Book 2 of the #1 bestselling The 39 Clues series.THIS JUST IN! Amy and Dan Cahill were spotted on a train, hot on the trail of one of 39 Clues hidden around the world. BUT WAIT! Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects ALSO sound suspiciously like...
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DK Eyewitness Books: Civil War

DK Publishing · DK Children
Format: Print book

Whether your child has a special interest in the Civil War, you want to encourage further learning about this important time in American history, or your child is studying the Civil War in the classroom and you want to add more learning to school curriculum, Eyewitness: Civil War is the ideal...
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Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts

Esta Spalding · Little
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Kim Fitzgerald-Trout took to driving with ease--as most children would if their parents would ever let them try. She had to. After all, she and her siblings live in a car. Meet the Fitzgerald-Trouts, a band of four loosely related children living together in a lush tropical island. They...
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The Caldera

JOHN FLANAGAN · Philomel Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The Herons take to the high seas to fend off pirates and rescue the heir to an empire in the newest adventure from John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice!Includes BONUS content--a brand-new Ranger's Apprentice short story featuring fan-favorites Will and Maddie!In...
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Spirit Animals: Book 1: Wild Born

Brandon Mull · Scholastic Press
Pages: 202
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Mull launches Scholastic's wildly popular multiplatform phenomenon.Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible...
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Emergency Ops

M. Zachary Sherman · Stone Arch Books
Format: Paperback

During the Vietnam War, Captain Anne Donovan's aid station is pinned down by a sniper near the front lines, and the doctor performing a life-threatening surgery is critically wounded. Donovan must take control of not only the operating room, but her emotions as well.
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Survivors #5: The Endless Lake

Erin Hunter · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From Erin Hunter, #1 nationally bestselling author of the Warriors and Seekers series, comes book five in the New York Times bestselling Survivors series, which Kirkus Reviews praised as "wild and wonderful adventure" in a starred review. This action-packed novel will thrill fans...
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Who Was Susan B. Anthony?

Pamela Pollack · Turtleback; Reprint edition

Susan B. Anthony may be an international icon but her campaign for women's rights had personal roots. Working as a school teacher in New York, Anthony refused to settle for less pay than her male colleagues which ignited her lifelong devotion to women's equality. Anthony toured...
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