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Junkyard

Mike Austin · Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Man the machines and help clean up the junkyard in this rousing robot story that encourages community building.The yard has junk! Stacks and heaps and piles of junk as far as the eye can see. But the Munching Machine robots are on the job - it's time to get cleaning! And after a whole...
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Little Red Hot

Eric A. Kimmel · Amazon Children's
Pages: 1
Format: Hardcover

Little Red Hot loves red hot chilli peppers. She eats them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When her grandmother catches a cold, Little Red makes her a hot pepper pie that will "knock those cold germs right out of her". But before Little Red shares her pie with Grandma, she meets...
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M is for Melody: A Music Alphabet

Katherine Larson · Sleeping Bear Press
Format: Book

From the oom pah pah of the brass section to the tickle and tease of the keyboard ivories, M is for Melody gives a music lesson in alphabet form. Instruments, composers, terms, and even musical styles are examined from A-Z in easy, read-aloud rhymes and expository, accompanied by colorful...
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A Poem in Your Pocket

Margaret McNamara · Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

Usher in National Poetry Month with Mr. Tiffin and his students, stars of the hugely popular How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? and The Apple Orchard Riddle. Once again, Margaret McNamara sets her playful, child-friendly story in the classroom, and this time, poetry - from metaphors to acrostics...
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I Didn't Do It!

Tony Ross · Andersen Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

When things start going wrong around the castle everyone blames the Little Princess. No matter how much she cries, "I didn't do it!", no one believes her. Upset, the Little Princess goes off to hide and finds out who really is to blame!
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Poor Doreen: A Fishy Tale

Sally Lloyd-Jones · Random House Childrens Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

An Ample Roundy Fish called Mrs. Doreen Randolph-Potts is on a mission: to visit her second cousin twice removed who's just welcomed 157 babies. But when she spies what she thinks is a yummy dragonfly - and is actually bait - poor Doreen is lifted out of the water on a fishing pole....
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Magic Tree House Super Edition #1: Danger in the Darkest Hour

Mary Pope Osborne · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Introducing the first Magic Tree House Super Edition—and Jack and Annies most dangerous mission ever! With a longer story and additional facts and photographs, this thrilling, first Super Edition in the Magic Tree House series is an adventure no reader will want to miss!   The magic...
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Dory Dory Black Sheep

Abigail Hanlon · Dial
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Dory the rascal turns learning to read into a hilarious adventure through the power of imagination Ever since Dory met Rosabelle, a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits match her own, school has been pretty good. But now the class is learning to read, and it's proving...
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How Things Work: Facts and fun, questions and answers, things to make and do

Sophie Dauvois · Thames & Hudson, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 63
Format: Print book

An interactive book that answers all the questions young children have about how things work, from the creators of the innovative art-and-science magazine and television showHow Things Work is designed to appeal to and encourage the curiosity that young children have about the objects around...
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The Thank You Book

Mo Willems · Hyperion Books for Children, 2016.
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.Gerald and Piggie are best friends.In The Thank You Book!, Piggie wants to thank EVERYONE. But Gerald is worried Piggie will forget someone . . . someone important.
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