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Babydoll Sheep

Alix Wood · Windmill Books
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Babydoll sheepalso known as Babydoll Southdown sheepmake great pets, help cut grass on farms, and are even brought to hospitals to visit patients. Readers discover many fun facts about these small sheep through accessible text and eye-catching fact boxes. As they learn about these adorable...
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Birnbaum's 2018 Walt Disney World: The Official Guide

BIRNBAUM GUIDES. · Disney Editions
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

As Walt Disney World continues to grow and evolve, trust Birnbaum as your guide! The 2018 edition delves into detailed descriptions of all attractions, resorts, and eateries; offers money-saving coupons and strategies to maximize your vacation budget; and includes a peek into what's new:-Happy...
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Manga: Learn to Draw Step by Step

Jeannie Lee · Walter Foster Library
Format: Book

Manga is the Japanese word for comics. From science fiction and fantasy to romantic dramas to crime stories, it describes any art drawn in the distinctive, fascinating Japanese style. To a novice, this unusual art might seem difficult to create…but with this unique kit, you’ll...
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Ghost In The Machine: Ryan's Journal

Patrick Carman · Scholastic Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The chilling conclusion in the innovative series from bestselling author Patrick Carman.Strange things are happening in Skeleton Creek...and Ryan and Sarah are trying to find out why. Ryan writes down everything in his journal, and Sarah records everything on her videocam. The two move...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

Jeff Kinney · Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

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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Missouri

John Hamilton · ABDO & Daughters
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Welcome to Missouri, the Show Me State! Students will explore the Ozarks, attend a Kansas City Chiefs game, tour the Gateway Arch, and more as they learn about Missouri's history, plants and animals, industries, sports, cities, famous people, and more in this fun, fact-filled title....
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If You Ever Want to Bring a Piano to the Beach, Don't!

Elise Parsley · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the New York Times bestselling series that began with If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't! is another uproarious cautionary tale about things that DON'T belong together!If your mom says to get ready to play at the beach, she means with a boat, or a Frisbee,...
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Molly Brown

Kirra Fedyszyn · Powerkids Pr
Format: Book

Margaret Brown earned her nickname as the Unsinkable Molly Brown after she survived the sinking of the Titanic. This illustrated, graphic retelling of the events of her life will enthrall readers. Aside from her part in the Titanic story, Margaret Brown was deeply involved in advocating...
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The Map to Everywhere

Carrie Ryan · Little, Brown & Company, 2014.
Pages: 433
Format: Print book

Wherever you need to go--the Map to Everywhere can take you there.To Master Thief Fin, an orphan from the murky pirate world of the Khaznot Quay, the Map is the key to finding his mother. To suburban schoolgirl Marrill, it's her only way home after getting stranded on the Pirate Stream,...
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R.E.A.D. Dogs

Meish Goldish · Bearport Publishing
Format: Print book

Provides information about dogs in the R.E.A.D. program, who are trained to allow children with difficulty reading to read aloud to them, and explains how they are selected and prepared for their duties.
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Jinx

Sage Blackwood · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The highly acclaimed first book of a fantasy adventure series set in a mysterious forest, starring a daring new hero."Readers will thrill to journey with Jinx" (SLJ, starred review), a wizard's apprentice, as he sets off on a quest through the dangerous Urwald, a magical forest...
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Revolution

Deborah Wiles · Scholastic Pr
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

*A 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST* It's 1964, and Sunny's town is being invaded. Or at least that's what the adults of Greenwood, Mississippi, are saying. All Sunny knows is that people from up north are coming to help people register to vote. They're calling it Freedom...
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Dragon Girl: The Secret Valley

Jeff Weigel · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback

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Number Magic

Jr. Canavan Thomas · Windmill Books
Format: Book

The real trick in this book is that it will improve your young magicians' arithmetic skills while teaching them fun feats of magic. The simple, step-by-step instructions are fully illustrated and are sure to captivate your reluctant readers. And the mathematical tricks themselves will delight...
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Tru and Nelle

Greg Neri · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Long before they became famous writers, Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama. This fictionalized account of their time together opens at the beginning of the Great Depression, when Tru is seven and Nelle...
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