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TIME For Kids Explorers: Robots

Mark Shulman · Time For Kids
Format: Hardcover

Robots is the first book in an exciting, new series fro­­­m TIME For Kids. Aimed squarely at readers who want to know more, this book answers the questions that children ages 8-12 want to learn the answers to.Do you know what makes something a robot? Can you name the six types of robots?...
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Dear Dumb Diary Year Two #4: What I Don't Know Might Hurt Me

Jim Benton · Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Bestselling author Jim Benton is back, continuing a new spin on a favorite series! Dear Dumb Diary,   Just when I was pretty sure we could let the Student Awareness Committee quietly die a dignified death like some majestic old elephant or the Square Dancing Club, Angeline has to be aware...
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The Great Depression

Steven Otfinoski · Childrens Pr
Pages: 144
Format: Library Binding

When the stock market crashed in October 1929, the world's economy was thrown into disarray. For the next decade, the Great Depression left millions of Americans without jobs and forced countless businesses to close. Readers will discover how people struggled to make a living in a time...
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Welcome to Wonderland #1: Home Sweet Motel

Chris Grabenstein · Random House
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

From Chris Grabenstein, the bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and co-author with James Patterson of I Funny, House of Robots, and Treasure Hunters, comes a hilarious illustrated series about all the wacky things that happen when you live in a motel! Eleven-year-old...
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Trust No One: Cahills Vs Vespers

Linda Sue Park · Scholastic Inc.; Gmc Rei/Cr edition
Format: Hardcover

When seven members of their family were kidnapped, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, got ready for the fight of their lives. But their enemy, a terrifying group known as the Vespers, remained frustratingly elusive. They stay in the shadows, picking off Cahills one by one.And...
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Big Game

Stuart Gibbs · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover

Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle's resident zoo sleuth when a rhinoceros is at risk in Big Game, a companion to Belly Up and Poached - which Kirkus Reviews called a "thrill-ride of a mystery."When someone takes aim at Rhonda Rhino, FunJungle's pregnant (and endangered) Asian...
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The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery (American Girl Mysteries)

Sarah Masters Buckey
Format: Print book

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The Six Crowns: Full Circle

Allan Jones · Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

The sixth and final book in the animal fantasy series The Six Crowns, of which Booklist said, "Evokes elements of both Redwall and Lord of the Rings." The adventuring hedgehog Trundle Boldoak and energetic Princess Esmeralda must find the final legendary crown in their quest to save...
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Yours Truly

Heather Vogel Frederick · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

Another wild mystery needs to be solved and it's up to the Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes to solve it in this hilarious follow up to the heartwarming middle grade mystery, Absolutely Truly.Even Truly Lovejoy has to admit that teeny-tiny Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, has its charms - like the annual...
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Brave

Svetlana Chmakova · Yen Press
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover

In his daydreams, Jensen is the biggest hero that ever was, saving the world and his friends on a daily basis. But his middle school reality is VERY different--math is hard, getting along with friends is hard...Even finding a partner for the class project is a huge problem when you always...
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Serafina and the Splintered Heart

ROBERT BEATTY · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The storms are coming... Something has happened to Serafina. She has awoken into a darkness she does not understand, scarred from a terrible battle, only to find that life at Biltmore Estate has changed in unimaginable ways. Old friends do unthinkable things and enemies seem all around.
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The Tapper Twins Run for President

Geoff Rodkey · Little
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In their third uproarious oral history, the Tapper Twins take their sibling feud to the political stage as they race to become class president! Told as a series of interviews, screenshots, text messages, and social media bursts, The Tapper Twins Run For President tops the antics of the real...
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The Day the Mustache Came Back

Alan Katz · Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

When Martin "Murray Poopins" Healey left the Wolfhardt household, all the responsible habits that David and Nathan had developed under his less-than-watchful eye went out the window. So when Myron, who is the spitting image (including the spit) of Martin, arrives on the Wolfhardt...
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Honey Moon Shiver

Joyce Magnin · Rabbit Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Honey Moon is in a terrible pickle. She borrowed her mother's precious silver locket without permission and now the family heirloom has gone missing. Honey suspects it was taken by one of her best friends. She sets out to find the necklace before her mother notices it's gone. Along...
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Wings of Fire Book Six: Moon Rising

Tui T. Sutherland · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times-bestselling series soars to even greater heights with a new prophecy and five new dragonets ready to claim their destiny! Peace has come to Pyrrhia . . . for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting...
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