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All About Everything

DK Publishing · DK Children
Format: Paperback

All About Everything is the ultimate almanac that will keep children busy and engaged for hours. Containing a diverse mix of topics, from dinosaurs and animals to history and space, this highly illustrated collection of information is presented in a colorful, kid-friendly style with lively,...
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Bill Gates:: Microsoft Founder and Philanthropist

Marylou Morano Kjelle · Core Library
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

From School Library Journal Gr 4-7 - These enlightening and clearly written volumes cover the lives and careers of newsworthy individuals, flaws and all. Each slim title is textbooklike yet engaging, impressively meeting Common Core standards with comprehensible graphs...
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Hulk Volume 2: Omega Hulk Book 1

Gerry Duggan · Marvel
Format: Print book

Writer Gerry Duggan (DEADPOOL) kicks off a shocking new direction for the Hulk! Iron Man saved Bruce Banner's life, but at a strange price. Who or what is Doc Green, aka the Omega Hulk? And why is he targeting - and "curing" - the Hulk's Gamma-powered extended family?...
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Everyday Angel #2: Second Chances

Victoria Schwab · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 200
Format: Book

Meet a guardian angel like no other, from a writer like no other. Bold, rising star Victoria Schwab returns with the second book in this whimsical, inspiring, and clever middle-grade series.There's more to Aria than meets the eye. She's a guardian angel. And to earn her wings, she'll have...
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The Quest for Z: The True Story of Explorer Percy Fawcett and a Lost City in the Amazon

GREG PIZZOLI · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning author comes a picture book biography that feels like Indiana Jones for kids!British explorer Percy Fawcett believed that hidden deep within the Amazon rainforest was an ancient city, lost for the ages. Most people didn't even believe this city existed. But if Fawcett...
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Weather Infographics

Chris Oxlade · Read Me!
Format: Paperback

Infographics are simple and creative graphic representations of different numerical facts.  This title features a variety of engaging infographics that teach readers all about the weather. Look through the pages to discover fascinating statistics about extreme weather, measuring the weather,...
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Timepocalypse #1

Paul Tobin · Spotlight - (Graphic Novels)
Pages: 28
Format: Library Binding

This item is Non-Returnable.
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Common Core Language Arts and Math, Grade 5

Spectrum · Spectrum; Csm edition
Format: Print book

Help fifth grade students master Common Core skills such as making inferences, using verb tenses, rounding decimal numbers, and more with Common Core Language Arts and Math for grade 5. Take the mystery out of the Common Core with these unique and timely Spectrum 128-page books. These information-packed...
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Vincent Van Gogh

Iain Zaczek · Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: Print book

From School Library Journal Gr 3-5-These books organize biographical material around the artists' works. They offer practical tips in the "How to Paint Like..." chapters. The writing is clear but will not necessarily grab readers. For example, Zaczek writes...
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Turquoise

Christine Petersen · ABDO Publishing Company
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Introduces turquoise, discussing what it is, where it is found, and works of art and jewelry people in different cultures have made from it.
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Bollywood Burglary

Geronimo Stilton · Scholastic
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

My detective friend Hercule Poirat and I were headed to India. A Bollywood star we're friends with had received a valuable ruby and wanted us to help her protect it... which meant that I ended up acting in the movie she was filming! Rancid ricotta -- I'm a terrible actor! Even worse, just...
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Go West with Settlers and Farmers

Rachel Stuckey · Crabtree Publishing Company
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Heed the government's urging and "Go West" with the many people who accepted the challenge. Motivated by the ideal of Manifest Destinythe right of the United States to expand across the continentthe U.S. government created laws that encouraged settlers to move west by offering...
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Patterns in the Jungle

Joyce Markovics · Bearport Publishing
Format: Print book

Deep in a jungle, a colorful, striped snake slithers on the ground. The stripes on its skin make an alternating pattern: black, yellow, red, black, yellow, red. Black dots on a tree frogs legs form a pattern of circles. A snails shell goes round and round, making a spiral pattern. There...
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The Summer We Saved the Bees

Robin Stevenson · Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book

Wolf's mother is obsessed with saving the world's honeybees, so it's not too surprising when she announces that she's taking her Save the Bees show on the road - with the whole family. Wolf thinks it's a terrible plan, and not just because he'll have to wear a bee costume...
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