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The Last Knights of Wundagore: Part Two (Wolverine First Class Spotlight)

Fred Van Lente · Spotlight
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Wolverine has been "evolved" out of his berserker instincts... Kitty Pryde has been mutated into a half-cat, half-human creature... And they are all that stands between an unsuspecting Earth and the ravenous hordes of the rampaging Man-Beast. Spotlight editions are printed on high-quality...
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The Lost Heir

Tui Sutherland · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The WINGS OF FIRE saga continues with a thrilling underwater adventure -- and a mystery that will change everything!The lost heir to the SeaWing throne is going home at last...She can't believe it's finally happening. Tsunami and her fellow dragonets of destiny are journeying under...
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Samphire Song

Jill Hucklesby · Albert Whitman & Company; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

When fourteen-year-old Jodie buys a wild horse at auction, she has no idea what she is taking on. Something has drawn her to Samphire--theres an instant bond between them. She recognizes hes a damaged horse who needs time to mend. Jodie understands all about pain, having lost her dad two years...
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Flying the Dragon

Natalie Dias Lorenzi · Charlesbridge
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Flying the Dragon tells the story of two cousins in alternating chapters. American-born Skye is a good student and a star soccer player who never really gives any thought to the fact that her father is Japanese. Her cousin, Hiroshi, lives in Japan, and never really gives a thought to his uncle's...
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DK Adventures: LEGO Star Wars: Into Battle!

Adam Bray · DK Children
Format: Print book

Do you trust your friends and know your enemies? Learn all about the biggest and most important battles in LEGO® galactic history. Join the generals, soldiers, Jedi, and Rebels on their missions, and discover the traps, betrayals, and triumphs. Encounter the mysterious Sith, their droid...
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Lost Island

Steve Brezenoff · Stone Arch Books
Format: Paperback

Two boys wreck their boat on a creepy island and it seems to hold mysteries.
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Wings of Fire Book One: The Dragonet Prophecy

Tui Sutherland · Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling new series soars above the competition and redefines middle-grade fantasy fiction for a new generation!The seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations, locked in an endless battle over an ancient, lost treasure. A secret movement called the Talons of Peace is determined...
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Honey

Sarah Weeks · Scholastic Press
Pages: 160
Format: Audiobook

Melody has lived in Royal, Indiana, for as long as she can remember. It's been just her and her father, and she's been okay with that. But then she overhears him calling someone Honey -- and suddenly it feels like everyone in Royal has a secret. It's up to Melody and her best friend, Nick,...
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Who Was Louis Braille?

Margaret Frith · Penguin Workshop
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred...
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The BFG

Roald Dahl · Everyman's Library
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant) , who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
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The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 4:

Herg? · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Three classic graphic novels in one deluxe hardcover edition: Red Rackham's Treasure, The Seven Crystal Balls, and Prisoners of the Sun.
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Shell Shocker (Dc Super Heroes (Dc Super Villains))

Scott Sonneborn · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback

BARRY ALLEN has his hands full. While deactivating an explosive for the bomb squad, the police scientist receives a call, tipping him off about a robbery across town. Luckily, Barry is secretly the FASTEST MAN ALIVE. . . the FLASH! In an instant, he zooms out the door, stops the crime,...
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Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me

Nan Marino · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 154
Format: Print book

"Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year old......the problem is that no one knows it but me. In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I can see him for what he really is. A phony.It's the summer of 1969, and things are not only...
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Prince of the Elves

Kazu Kibuishi · GRAPHIX; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Kazu Kibuishis thrilling, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series continues!Emily survived the chaos of the Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone. With it, the Elf King forges new Amulets that will give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor. Emily and her friends...
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