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The End of the Wild
NICOLE HELGET · LITTLE
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A modern, beautifully written story set against the backdrop of the controversial issue of fracking that explores the timely themes of poverty, environmental protection, what makes a family, and finding your place in the world. Eleven-year-old Fern's rundown home borders a pristine... |
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The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales
David Lubar · Starscape
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A girl doesnt have a date for the school dance--until her dad makes one for her in his lab. Lily--meet Stitchy. A family enjoys a nice Thanksgiving dinner--until they are interrupted by a torrent of turkeys out for revenge. A princess meets a pea-brained suitor. And the battle of two red hot pepper... |
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Fluffy Strikes Back
Ashley Spires · Kids Can Press Ltd.
Pages: 72
Format: Print book
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Fluffy Vandermere, the cat sergeant in charge of P.U.R.S.T. (Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel) , works tirelessly to protect the world from alien (aka bug) domination. It's a big job. ?The whole planet is Fluffy's space station. All the people in the world are his humans.... |
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Stef Soto, Taco Queen
Jennifer Torres · Little
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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A heartwarming and charming debut novel about family, friends, and finding your voice all wrapped up in a warm tortilla. Estefania "Stef" Soto is itching to shake off the onion-and-cilantro embrace of Tia Perla, her family's taco truck. She wants nothing more than for Papi to get a normal... |
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Slacker
Gordon Korman · Scholastic Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours in his basement. It's not too hard for him to get away with it . . . until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down around him. Oops. It's... |
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Ever After High: Next Top Villain
Suzanne Selfors · Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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A brand-new series of school stories from the world of Ever After High! |
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The Day the Mustache Took Over
Alan Katz · Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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David and Nathan are twin brothers who just can't seem to keep a babysitter around for long-they've had 347 after all. Or is it 734? Either way . . . there's got to be someone who can handle these two. Enter: Martin Healey Discount, or "Murray Poopins" as the boys... |
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Towers Falling
Jewell Parker Rhodes · Little
Pages: 228
Format: Print book
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From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window,... |
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Loot How To Steal A Fortune
Jude Watson · Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2014.
Pages: 266
Format: Print book
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On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: "Find jewels." But March... |
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The Book of Lost Things
Cynthia Voigt · Knopf Books for Young Readers; 8.11.2013 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Newbery medalist Cynthia Voigt presents a rollicking mystery in three acts!Maxs parents are missing. They are actors, and thus unpredictable, but sailing away, leaving Max with only a cryptic note, is unusual even for them. Did they intend to leave him behind? Have they been kidnapped? Until... |
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The Land of the Elyon: Beyond the Valley of Thorns ; Book 2
Patrick Carman · Orchard Books
Format: Print book
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When thirteen-year-old Alexa embarks on a mysterious quest, she finds her old friends Yipes the little man, Murphy the squirrel, Odessa the wolf, and Squire the hawk have been designated to help her. |
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Sticks & Stones
Abby Cooper · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Ever since she was a baby, the words people use to describe Elyse have instantly appeared on her arms and legs. At first it was just "cute" and "adorable," but as she's gotten older and kids have gotten meaner, words like "loser" and "pathetic"... |
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The Secret Cookie Club
Martha Freeman · Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Friends make everything better - and so do cookies! - in this warm-hearted novel in the tradition of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, with a middle grade dash of sugar and spice.Recipe for friendship: mix four very different girls, one boy, and a camp counselor. Add cookies.When her four... |
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Hello, Universe
Erin Entrada Kelly · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Acclaimed and award-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly's Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships. Told from four intertwining points of view - two boys and two girls - the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and finding your inner bayani... |
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Curiosity
Gary Blackwood · Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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Intrigue, danger, chess, and a real-life hoax combine in this historical novel from the author of The Shakespeare StealerPhiladelphia, PA, 1835. Rufus, a twelve-year-old chess prodigy, is recruited by a shady showman named Maelzel to secretly operate a mechanical chess player called the Turk.... |
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