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My Weird School Special: Bunny Double, We're in Trouble!

Dan Gutman · HarperCollins
Format: Paperback

A.J. and the gang from My Weird School star in this series of after-school, holiday-themed chapter books featuring all-new hilarious stories and thirty-two pages of games, puzzles, and more. Hip hop hooray! It's Easter! And this year, Mayor Hubble is hosting an Easter egg roll and a special...
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Hope Springs

Eric Walters · Tundra Books
Format: Hardcover

A drought has settled in the area around the orphanage where Boniface lives. There are long line-ups at the tiny spring where all the local people get their water, and suddenly the orphans are pushed to the back of the line, unwelcome. Boniface's houseparent, Henry, tells him that the people...
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Eva and the New Owl: A Branches Book

Rebecca Elliott · Branches/Scholastic Inc., 2016.
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

There's a new owl in Eva's class. Will Eva make a new friend? In book #4, a new owl named Hailey starts in Eva's class at school. Eva is always happy to meet new people, and she's excited to make a new friend! But the new owl befriends Lucy instead of her. So Eva gets jealous....
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Revenge of the Roach!

Todd H. Doodler · Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Just when you thought the streets of Stinkopolis were safe from evil . . . think again. Crazy Cockroach is back for revenge. He's bigger, smellier, and madder than ever. And he wants Super Fly and his sidekick Fantastic Flea squashed for good this time.To prove it, he's enlisted two dung...
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Cece Loves Science

Kimberly Derting · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Cece, a budding and inquisitive scientist, and her equally curious best friend, Isaac, conduct experiments to see whether Cece's dog, Einstein, will eat his vegetables.
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Concrete Mixers

Kathryn Clay · Capstone Press
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Rumble, rumble! Here comes the concrete mixer. Large, colorful photographs and easy-to-read text gives young learners an up-close look at their favorite construction vehicles.
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A Perfect Christmas

Christy Webster · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Girls ages 4 to 6 will love joining Barbie and her sisters as they celebrate the perfect Christmas! This Step 2 reader is based on Barbie's direct-to-DVD holiday movie, Barbie: The Perfect Christmas.
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Flip & Fin: We Rule the School!

Timothy Gill · Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

It's Joke Day at school for Flip and Fin, the sand shark twins! What sits on the bottom of the sea and shakes? A nervous wreck! What do sea monsters eat? Fish and ships! Laugh-out-loud funny, Flip & Fin: We Rule the School! is a perfectly silly - and perfectly lovable - deep-sea...
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Shoe Dog

Megan McDonald · Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Shoe Dog loves to chew ... well, shoes! But when his choice of chewables leads to trouble, a feline friend has a purr-fect solution.Shoe Dog likes to chew. And chew and chew. But he doesn't chew a boring old bone. Not a squeaky old toy. Not a smelly old sock. Nope. Shoe Dogs chews ... well,...
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Abraham Lincoln

Jennifer Strand · Abdo Zoom
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

As the sixteenth US president, Abraham Lincoln led the country through the American Civil War. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into the life of the man who worked to keep the US together. Zoom in even deeper with quick stats, a timeline, and bolded glossary terms.
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And the Robot Went . . .

Michelle Robinson · Clarion Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Starting with a box of parts, the Nosy Fox, the Bear in a Blazer, the Blue Gnu, and other remarkable builders assemble the Robot, step by step. Each stage of the process has its own sound effect, and the growing list of sounds is repeated in every spread. Young children will happily Click,...
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Curious George's Dream

Margret Rey · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

After a long day at the fair George is frustrated. It seems he is always too small! But when George falls asleep and wakes up BIG, he discovers being too large can be difficult, too, and maybe he's the right size after all. The adventures of Curious George continue in an all-new series...
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Rotten Ralph's Rotten Family

Jack Gantos · Farrar
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Rotten Ralph's owner, Sarah, is fed up with her red rascal's behavior. Ralph is tired of Sarah trying to change him. He misses his cat family, which never made him alter a thing about himself. But in this gag- and guffaw-filled adventure for newly independent readers, the world's favorite...
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Big Foot and Little Foot

ELLEN POTTER · Amulet Books
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Hugo is a young Sasquatch who longs for adventure. Boone is young boy who longs to see a Sasquatch. When their worlds collide, they become the unlikeliest pair of best friends. At the Academy for Curious Squidges, Hugo learns all manner of Sneaking - after all, the most important part...
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Cooking With the Cat (The Cat in the Hat: Step Into Reading, Step 1)

Bonnie Worth · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Look! Look! The Cat wants to cook!Told with simple rhymes and rhythms, this jaunty illustrated tale gives very young readers a taste of the Cat in the Hat’s flamboyant cooking skills as he slaps on a Chef’s hat and whips up purple cupcakes using some truly odd ingredients!...
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