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Hunches in Bunches

Seuss, Dr. · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

Illus. in full color. "A little boy, trying to decide what to do, has all sorts of ideas presented to him by grinchy-looking hunches who give good, bad and silly ideas. The book has Dr. Seuss's bright, funny illustrations and rhymes."--School Library Journal.
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Class B.U.R.P.

Jenny Meyerhoff · Farrar
Pages: 282
Format: Book

When a video of ten-year-old Louie Burger is aired on famous comedian Lou Lafferman's TV show, Louie is sure that his days of being a class B. U. R. P. (Boy Used to Ridicule and Put-downs) are gone and that his popularity will skyrocket. But his fifteen minutes of fame are over before...
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Down in the jungle, 1,2,3 : a rain forest counting book

Tracey E Dils · Amicus
Format:  Print book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

"Introduces rain forest plants and animals, such as orchids, jaguars, and snakes, while teaching the concept of counting to ten"--
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The Magisterium

Holly Black · Scholastic Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

From Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes the third installment in the New York Times bestselling series that defies what you think you know about the worlds of good and evil.
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Snowbound mystery

Gertrude Chandler Warner · A. Whitman
Pages: 128
Format: Book

A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.
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The Sydney Opera House

Nicole Orr · Purple Toad Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

The story of how Australia's Sydney Opera House was built, and the people who made it happen. Learn how they did it and see what materials they used in this real life building journey that kids who love to build in Lego and Minecraft will be thrilled to read.
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The Mystery of the Traveling Tomatoes (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #117)

Gertrude Chandler Warner · Albert Whitman & Company
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

The Aldens are helping the owner of a local restaurant grow delicious food in a garden. They work hard to water and weed and take care of the fruits and vegetables that are growing. But soon the children notice the strangest thing--the plants are moving.
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Levers in My Makerspace

Tim Miller · Crabtree Pub Co
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Children will enjoy this fun book which uses the principles of Makerspace to introduce them to the lever. Simple text describes the structure and uses of levers, and clear, step-by-step instructions show children how to make one. Readers are then provided with stategies to start their own creative...
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Sloths

Melissa Gish · Creative Education
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Vivid photographs help take readers on a virtual field study to observe the life cycle and behaviors of each featured mammal, bird, or reptile. Each book also looks at past and present scientific research and includes a unique storytelling element in the form of an animal tale drawn from...
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Who Was Ben Franklin?

Dennis Brindell Fradin · Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Book

A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, publisher, inventor, scientist, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Full of Beans

Jennifer L Holm · Random House
Pages: 195
Format: Print book

Return to the wonderful world of Newbery Honor Book Turtle in Paradise through the eyes of Turtle's cousin Beans! Five Starred Reviews!A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016Grown-ups lie. That's one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile...
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The Great Detective Race

Gertrude Chandler Warner · Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

The local radio station is putting on the Great Detective Race where contestants must solve riddles and search all over Greenfield for clues leading to the grand prize The Aldens sign up and soon theyre following the riddles clues all over town
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Monster High: Freaky Fusion The Junior Novel

Perdita Finn · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

During the Bite-Centennial, the ghouls discover an old scientist's workshop and travel back 200 years to the beginning of Monster High. But when they try to get home, they go through a vortex that fuses some of the ghouls together! With the help of the Hybrids, the new monsters in school,...
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The Land of Forgotten Girls

Erin Entrada Kelly · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Erin Entrada Kelly, the author of the acclaimed Blackbird Fly, writes with grace, imagination, and deepest heart about family, sisters, and friendship, and about finding and holding on to hope in difficult times.Two sisters from the Philippines, abandoned by their father and living with...
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The Janitor's Boy

Andrew Clements · Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers; 1st edition
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Ordinarily, no one would have imagined that Jack Rankin would vandalize a desk. But this was not an ordinary school year for Jack.... When Jack Rankin learns that he is going to spend the fifth grade in the old high school -- the building where his father works as a janitor -- he dreads...
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