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Tom Brady Vs. Joe Montana

BARRY WILNER · Sportszone
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

This title compares classic star Joe Montana and contemporary champion Tom Brady. From leadership and accuracy to arm strength and running, chapters explore and compare each player's skills on the field. The title also features end-of-chapter fact boxes for side-by-side player comparison,...
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Tiger Woods vs. Jack Nicklaus

TOM GLAVE · Sportszone
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

This title compares classic star Jack Nicklaus and contemporary champion Tiger Woods. From tee shots and iron choice to short game and poise under pressure, chapters explore and compare each player's skills on the green. The title also features end-of-chapter fact boxes for side-by-side...
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I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888

Lauren Tarshis · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Children's Blizzard or the Great Blizzard of 1888, caught people completely by surprise and resulted in 235 fatalities, including several children in one-room schoolhouses. What made the storm so deadly was the timing, the suddenness, and the brief...
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Lucy Castor Finds Her Sparkle

Natasha Lowe · Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Try though she might, ten-year-old Lucy Castor can't seem to stop the world around her from changing in this charming and funny novel by Natasha Lowe in the tradition of the Penderwicks series. Lucy's life is perfect and she doesn't want to change a thing. With everyone growing...
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Sticky Notes

Dianne Touchell · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Counting by 7s and Fish in a Tree, a touching story about the power of love and family in the face of a parent's early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Foster Sumner is ten years old. He likes toy soldiers, tadpole hunting, going to school, and the beach. Best of all, he likes...
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Sci-Fi Junior High: Crash Landing

Scott Seegert · jimmy patterson
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Middle school in space! An alien dog! A mad scientist! Hundreds of illustrations! Sci-Fi Junior High is galactically good! James Patterson presents a hilarious space adventure featuring an average human kid getting into a universe of trouble.Kelvin is the new kid at Sci-Fi Junior High--a...
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Niagara Falls

Lisa M Bolt Simons · Focus Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Explore the past, present, and future of Niagara Falls. Beautiful photos, fact-filled text, and engaging infographics help readers learn all about this natural wonder and how to protect it long into the future.
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The Princess and the Frog: The Story of Tiana

Disney Book Group · Disney Press
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

When Tiana kisses Prince Naveen, who has been enchanted into a frog, she turns into a frog too! As they explore the bayou, they find good friends and maybe even love. But will they find a way to become human again, so Tiana can open the restaurant she's always dreamed of? This collectible...
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Legends of the Lost Causes

BRAD MCLELLAND · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A band of orphan avengers. A cursed stone. A horde of zombie outlaws.This is Keech Blackwood's new life after Bad Whiskey Nelson descends upon the Home for Lost Causes and burns it to the ground.With his home destroyed and his family lost, Keech will have to use the lessons he learned...
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Dark Wyng

Chris D'Lacey · Scholastic Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The dragon Wearle is in turmoil: A human boy named Ren has bonded with a pair of baby dragons, and their connection has given him shocking and extraordinary new powers. Though some of the dragons suspect he is plotting against the Wearle, his dragon allies will do anything to save him....
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