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Cleansing the World: Flood Myths Around the World

B A Hoena · Capstone Press
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback

Gather round to hear of a devastating flood that washed across the lands -- told from ancient myths around the world! Cleansing the World gathers seven diverse flood stories in one book so readers can discover the unique differences and surprising similarities between these world myths...
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Philomena's New Glasses

BRENNA MALONEY · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of Ready Rabbit Gets Ready! comes a hilarious photo-story of sisterhood and one-upmanship.Philomena needs new glasses. Her sister Audrey wants them, too. And if Philomena and Audrey have them, shouldn't their sister Nora Jane also have them?In this utterly amusing tale...
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Earn It!

Cinders McLeod · Nancy Paulsen Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

In this delightful introduction to the simple concept of earning money, an exuberant little bunny learns that fame and fortune must be earned. Bun wants to be rich and famous. She loves to sing and knows she's meant for a career on stage. It should all be pretty easy - her mom can just...
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Magic For Sale

CARRIE CLICKARD · Holiday House
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

A deliciously spooky, spectacularly illustrated story of a boy's adventure in a magic shop that's perfect for Halloween . . . and beyond!On the corner of Hemlock and Blight, the magic shop of Miss Pustula Night is open for business. Enchantments fill the shelves, but it's the rumor...
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Truckeroo School

David Kirk · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Meet the little monsters of Truckeroo! The kids all have trucks that suit their personalities -- big trucks, small trucks, loud trucks, quiet trucks. Families help them build and care for their trucks. And they get to bring them to school! This joyful story will touch little monsters and their...
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The Wompananny Witches Make One Mean Pizza

Jennie Palmer · Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Anita and Winnifred Wompananny are kitchen witches who spend their days whipping up all kinds of delicious treats. Rarely do the Wompananny Witches venture outside, for they have a crippling fear of the wild children in their neighborhood. One day, a run-in with a few particularly rambunctious...
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Vanished!

James Ponti · Aladdin
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Florian Bates - the only kid on the FBI Director's speed dial and several international criminals' most wanted lists - must uncover the truth behind a series of middle school pranks that may or may not involve the daughter of the President of the United States in this hilarious...
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The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen

Catherine Lloyd Burns · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Cricket Cohen isn't a liar, but she doesn't always tell the exact truth. She loves thinking about geology and astronomy and performing tricky brain surgery on her stuffed animals. She also loves conspiring with Dodo, her feisty grandmother who lives in the apartment right next door....
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The Last Panther

Todd Mitchell · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

For animal lovers and fans of The One and Only Ivan and Hoot, this is the uplifting story of a girl who discovers a family of panthers that were thought to be extinct, and her journey to save the species. Eleven-year-old Kiri has a secret: wild things call to her. More than anyone else,...
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The Whole Sky

Heather Henson · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

When a devastating sickness spreads through a thoroughbred farm community, a young horse whisperer is determined to find out why all the foals are dying in this tightly woven, tender coming-of-age novel from award-winning author Heather Henson.Twelve-year-old Sky and her father are horse...
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