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Roll, Chickens, Roll! (Sesame Street Mecha Builders) (Step into Reading)

Lauren Clauss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: September 5

Mecha Elmo, Mecha Abby, and Mecha Cookie Monster help chickens speed across the finish line!. The chickens are ready to race in the Chicken Roll, but the race gets off to a slow start when the chickens don't roll. The Mechas realize that gravity will start the race so they build the perfect...
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Anna and Johanna: A Childrens Book Inspired by Jan Vermeer (Childrens Books Inspired by Famous Artworks)

Géraldine Elschner - Prestel Junior
Format: Hardcover

This delightful tale about two young friends in 17th-century Holland is inspired by Vermeers two masterpieces, The Milkmaid and The Lacemaker.Although one is the daughter of a wealthy Dutch family and the other a household servant, Anna and Johanna become friends. Born on the same day,...
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Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth

David A. Adler - Penguin Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

Cam Jansen's photographic memory is put to the test when Annie's tooth falls out? and disappears! Cam has a picture in her head of everything she sees. But does she have the picture she needs to solve the mystery of the lost tooth?
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Mystery Ranch

Gertrude Chandler Warner - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

The Alden children head to their aunt's ranch for the summer and make an amazing discovery! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic.
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My Weird School #15: Mr. Macky Is Wacky!

Dan Gutman - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback

Something weird is going on!It's Presidents' Day! And Mr. Macky, the reading specialist, actually expects A.J. and his friends to read stuff about the presidents! Not only that, but he lives in a log cabin and thinks he's Abraham Lincoln! Is he for real?
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Agatha Christie

Isabel Sanchez Vegara - Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
Format: Hardcover

In the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. The book follows Agatha Christie, who taught herself to read...
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Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman

Esme Raji Codell - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

His real name was John Chapman.He grew apples.But wait. So what?Why should we remember himand read about himand think about himand talk about him today,more than two hundred years after he was born?Why should we call him a hero? Esme Raji Codell and Lynne Rae Perkins show us, in eloquent...
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Maria the Matador

Anne Lambelet - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

Maria loves tea parties and dancing and wearing her hair in pigtails, but more than anything in the world ... Maria loves churros.She'll do anything to get her hands on more of them, even enter a bullfight. To win, she must outsmart the other matadors who don't think she's big enough,...
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No Boring Stories!

Julie Falatko - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A group of misfits takes a stand against sweet, cuddly, boring stories in this picture book by the critically acclaimed author of the Snappsy the Alligator series, Julie Falatko.The unpopular animals have had enough. They want to be in a picture book! Stories about mommy-loving kitties...
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The Secret Subway

Shana Corey - Schwartz & Wade Books
Format: Print book

From an acclaimed author and a New York Times Best Illustrated artist comes the fascinating, little-known - and true! - story of New York City's first subway. New York City in the 1860s was a mess: crowded, disgusting, filled with garbage. You see, way back in 1860, there were...
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