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Long Road to Freedom

Kate Messner · Scholastic Inc., 2016.
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Ranger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to a Maryland plantation during the days of American slavery, where he meets a young girl named Sarah. When she learns that the owner has plans to sell her little brother, Jesse, to a plantation...
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The Last Straw

Jeff Kinney · Amulet Books
Pages: 217
Format: eBook

Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
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Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #2: Thunder Rising

Erin Hunter · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Discover the origins of the warrior Clans in the second book of this thrilling prequel arc from mega-bestselling author Erin Hunter. The Dawn of the Clans series takes readers back to the earliest days of the Clans, when the cats first settled in the forest and began to forge the Warrior...
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Race to the South Pole

Kate Messner · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 138
Format: Print book

Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, joins an early twentieth-century expedition journeying from New Zealand to Antarctica. He befriends Jack Nin, the stowaway turned cabin boy of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship. They're racing against a rival...
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Cool Structures: Creative Activities That Make Math & Science Fun for Kids!

Anders Hanson · Checkerboard Library

Book by Hanson, Anders,
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: Vol. 5

Eric Shanower · Spotlight (MN)
Pages: 1
Format: Hardcover

The great 1906 San Francisco earthquake swallows Dorothy alive-no kidding! It also swallows Dorothy's kitten Eureka, Dorothy's cousin Zeb, and his horse Jim. They're trapped underground in a strange land of glass where everyone can walk on air. Time for the Wizard of Oz to come...
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Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, No. 6)

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Pages: 277
Format: Mass Market Paperback

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Super Hero School: #3

Landry Q Walker · Stone Arch Books

As if being an 8th grader wasnt hard enough, a meteor strikes and makes all of the students at Stanhope Boarding School really super. And why is Belinda Zee suddenly being so nice?,
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This Is Wolverine

Thomas Macri , · Abdo Publishing Company

Details the life of Wolverine, including his super powers and his battles alongside the X-Men.
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