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So, You Want to Work in Sports?: The Ultimate Guide to Exploring the Sports Industry

Joanne Mattern · Aladdin/Beyond Words
Format: Paperback

Love sports Make your passion your profession with this guide that can help you score a career in the sports industryThe sports industry is wide and vast and there are countless ways to get involved and make sports your job From the popular careers of professional athlete coach sports broadcaster...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J K Rowling · Thorndike Press
Pages: 1232
Format: Large Print Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller It's the darkest year yet for Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling's hero in the Harry Potter series. In Rowling's fifth book Harry finds himself and Dumbdelore under scrutiny by the Ministry of Magic which refuses to alert the community and acknowledge the terrifying...
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DK Eyewitness Books: Insect (Library Edition)

Dorling Kindersley, Inc. · DK Children
Pages: 72
Format: Hardcover

A visual and informative guide to the numerous crawly creatures on Earth, now revised and updated in the relaunched DK Eyewitness Books format.Get up close and personal and be an eyewitness to some of the most successful, adaptable, and numerous crawly creatures on the planet with DK Eyewitness...
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You Can Read

Helaine Becker · Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

In this fun and funny celebration of literacy, kids of all ages will discover that the act of reading is a daring adventure that can take you anywhere! You can read at the playground, under the sea, at the opera and even in outer space! It turns out you can read everywhere! And when you do, you open...
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Come Together!

Dave Tanguay · Stone Arch Books
Format: Print book

It's the fight of the century! In this corner, wearing a red jumpsuit with gold trim, is Captain Marvel! And in the other corner, wearing trunks made of metal, is Dr. Sivana's evil robot!
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Zendaya: Star Performer

PEGGY CARAVANTES · Childs World
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Bring readers along to witness star performer Zendaya's rise to fame. Zendaya is a singer, dancer, Disney Channel actress, and author. Additional features include a Fast Facts spread, critical thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary,...
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The Journey of Little Charlie

Christopher Paul Curtis · Scholastic Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the share crops are dry, and Cap'n Buck -- the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina -- has come to collect a debt. Fearing for his life, Charlie strikes a deal with Cap'n Buck and agrees to track down some folks...
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Bob

Wendy Mass · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

It's been five years since Livy and her family have visited Livy's grandmother in Australia. Now that she's back, Livy has the feeling she's forgotten something really, really important about Gran's house.It turns out she's right.Bob, a short, greenish creature dressed in a chicken suit,...
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Jennifer Lee: Writer and Director of Disney's Frozen

Rebecca Felix · Checkerboard Library 2016.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

This title examines the remarkable life of Jennifer Lee. Readers will learn about her family background, childhood, and education, her career as a movie producer and director, and her famous works. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include...
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Seelie king's war

Jane Yolen · Viking Children'S Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The exciting conclusion to the Seelie Wars trilogy. Full of magic, battles, and page-turning excitement, this series is a perfect introduction to classic fantasy.The war that Prince Aspen and midwife's apprentice Snail started - purely by accident - is at hand. The Unseelie Army, the evil...
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Journey through Ash and Smoke

Kate Messner · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Ranger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to Viking age Iceland, which proves to be tough terrain for Ranger to navigate. Usually it's Ranger's job to save the day before he can return to his family, but he meets a girl...
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How to Be an Elephant

Katherine Roy · David Macaulay Studio
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

The savanna is not an easy place to live, even for African elephants, the largest land animals on earth. If it's a challenge for these 7,000-pound giants, what's it like for their newborn babies?An infant elephant has precious little time to learn the incredible array of skills that are necessary...
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The Epic Adventures of Odysseus: An Interactive Mythological Adventure

B A Hoena · Capstone Press
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

You are the mighty Greek hero Odysseus. The Trojan War has made you a hero. But now you must return home to your island of Ithaca. The journey back will not be easy. Deadly sea monsters, cunning witches, and giant Cyclopes stand in your way. Do you have what it takes to survive and make...
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A Skyscraper Reaches Up

Kylie Burns · Crabtree Publishing Company
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Engineers design skyscrapers to help solve the challenge of making room for a large number of people on a small piece of land. Young readers will learn about the steps in the engineering design process and see what shapes and materials are used in construction to make tall buildings stable....
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Thornhill

PAM SMY · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Parallel stories set in different times, one told in prose and one in pictures, converge as a girl unravels the mystery of the abandoned Thornhill Institute next door. 1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors....
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