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Halfway to Happily Ever After

SARAH ARONSON · Scholastic Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Happily Ever After? Not so fast!With two levels of fairy godmother training behind her, Isabelle is actually looking forward to Level Three. But when half the trainees go on strike, regular training seems to go up in sparkles again. But Isabelle's too close to becoming a real fairy...
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In the French Kitchen with Kids: Easy, Everyday Dishes for the Whole Family to Make and Enjoy

MARDI MICHELS · Appetite by Random House
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

From the writer and recipe developer behind eat. live. travel. write comes a new cookbook for parents, children and Francophiles of all ages. Forget the fuss and bring simple, delicious French dishes to your home kitchen with Mardi Michels as your guide.Twice a week during the school year,...
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Warriors Super Edition: Tigerheart's Shadow

ERIN HUNTER · HarperCollins
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

An epic stand-alone adventure in Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series! Also includes an exclusive ten-page Warriors manga adventure!In this super edition, set during the events of A Vision of Shadows, one of ShadowClan's most loyal warriors must go on a perilous...
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Big Nate Goes Bananas!

LINCOLN PEIRCE · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Join Big Nate and his pals for another round of pranks, jokes, and wedgies! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR!The last days of school are always the hardest, even if your least favorite teacher is out for the rest of the year. Summer vacation can't come soon enough! No school, baseball,...
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Breathtaking Chasms

Christine Sullivan · World Book Inc. a Scott Fetzer Company
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback

"A volume covering three of Earth's major landforms: the Grand Canyon in the United States, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, and the Great African Rift in eastern Africa"--
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Big Nate Strikes Again

Lincoln Peirce · Harper
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

"Big Nate is funny, big time" - Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy KidFor fans of Jeff Kinney and Raina Telgemeier, here comes the second novel in the New York Times bestselling Big Nate series. BIG NATE will surpass all others!But it won't be easy. He's stuck with...
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A Festival of Ghosts

William Alexander · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award winner William Alexander conjures up a spooky adventure full of excitement in this entertaining sequel to A Properly Unhaunted Place.Rosa Ramona Diaz, the ghost appeasing assistant librarian, has unleashed all the ghosts who were previously shut out of the small town...
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The Battle of Junk Mountain

Lauren Abbey Greenberg · Running Press Kids
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Rebecca Stead and Jennifer L. Holm, this is the perfect middle grade summer beach read. Twelve-year-old Shayne Whittaker has always spent summers on the Maine coast, visiting her grandmother Bea and playing with her BFF Poppy. Both Shayne and Bea are collectors, in their own ways:...
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Elephant Secret

Eric Walters · Clarion Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

We Bought a Zoo meets Jurassic Park in a gripping story featuring the evergreen appeal of human-animal friendships and set in an elephant sanctuary, about a thirteen-year-old girl, a cast of elephants, and a surprising new arrival - a woolly mammoth. Sam was born and raised in an elephant...
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The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn · Clarion Books
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine-chilling yarn of a girl imprisoned for more than a century, the terrifying events that put her there, and a friendship that crosses the boundary between past and present. A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules's...
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