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It's New Year's Day!

Richard Sebra · Lerner Publications
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

When is New Year's Day? What are resolutions? And how do people celebrate? Full-color photographs, diagrams, and carefully leveled text will engage readers while helping them understand this exciting holiday. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions help build nonfiction reading...
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Giant hunter : andrewsarchus

Alessandro Poluzzi · A
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

"Describes the life of the prehistoric animal Giant Hunter, within a graphic novel format"--
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The Mad Wolf's Daughter

Diane Magras · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A Scottish medieval adventure about the youngest in a war-band who must free her family from a castle prison after knights attack her home--with all the excitement of Ranger's Apprentice and perfect for fans of heroines like Alanna from The Song of the Lioness series.One dark night, Drest's...
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Boy Seeking Band

STEVE BREZENOFF · Capstone Young Readers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Great music and great friendships aren't always in harmony. Terence Kato is a prodigy bass player, but he's determined to finish middle school on a high note. Life has other plans. In eighth grade, he's forced to transfer from a private arts school to a public school, where...
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Fania's Heart

Anne Renaud · Second Story Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Ten-year-old Sorale discovers a tiny heart-shaped book among her mother's belongings. Its pages are shaped like four-petaled flowers, upon which are written words in languages Sorale does not understand. Who wrote these words? Where did the heart come from? Why has her mother never...
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Bubble

Stewart Foster · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Wonder meets Mark Haddon in the poignant and uplifting debut novel about superheroes, super-nurses, and the beauty you can find in hope.Eleven-year-old Joe has never had a life outside of the hospital, with its beeping machines and view of London's rooftops. His condition means he's not allowed...
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Underneath My Bed: List Poems

Brian P Cleary · Millbrook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

When is a list also a poem? When it's a list poem! List poems can be funny or serious, rhymed or unrhymed. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how these types of poems work - and shows some of the many ways they can be written. Underneath My Bed is packed with goofy poems...
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Surviving bullies and mean teens

Mary P Donahue · Enslow Publishing
Pages: 48

Your readers will tell you, dealing with mean people is the worst. Whether it is a very familiar, lifelong bully or someone new, there are some people who are just hard to handle. Add to that the different ways that a teen's life is changing and developing in high school, thanks to relationships,...
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Far Planets and Beyond

Mason Crest · Mason Crest Publishers
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

At the distant edges of the Solar System are planets Neptune and Uranus, dwarf planets such as Pluto, and other orbiting bodies. This book includes the latest discoveries about all these far-off objects, including the first close-up pictures taken of Pluto. What are these worlds like that...
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Stanley Hotel: A Chilling Interactive Adventure

Allison Lassieur · Capstone Press
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Experience the Stanley Hotel as you've never seen it before up close and personal! YOU CHOOSE the path you take through this haunted hotel. Follow the path of a modern-day visitor in this thrilling nonfiction title.
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Stories of Friendship

Jennifer Colby · Cherry Lake Pub
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Stories of Friendship in the Social Emotional Library series presents real life, historical, and modern stories that celebrate friendship as displayed in everyday life. Through the collection of five separate stories, thought-provoking issues and questions, as well as hands-on activities,...
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Gnome-a-geddon

K A Holt · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Buck discovers that his favorite book series might be less fictional than he thought in this delightful middle grade adventure.Harry Potter. Percy Jackson. Custard the Gnome. Buck is a super fan of the book series, The Triumphant Gnome Syndicate. He knows all the trivia. The properties...
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Where on Earth? Atlas

Dk. · DK Children
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Unlike any other you have ever seen before, this atlas brings our amazing world to life in 3-D. With its more than 60 specially commissioned 3-D maps and artworks, it takes kids on a continent-by-continent tour of the world and even includes an introductory visual explanation of Earth's...
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The Gross Cookbook: Awesome recipes for

SUSANNA TEE · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

Do you want to gross out your friends? Do you like making people laugh? Would you like to throw the best Halloween party? This book is for you!Inside you'll find all the best recipes for foods that LOOK disgusting but are actually DELICIOUS! Pretend you're eating straight from the litter...
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Pablo and Birdy

Alison McGhee · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A boy who drifted into the seaside town of Isla as a baby searches for answers about where he and his parrot came from in this charmer of a tale laced with magical realism from New York Times bestselling author Alison McGhee.The seaside town of Isla has many stories, the most notable being...
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