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Sam Wu Is Not Afraid of Ghosts

Katie Tsang - Sterling Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Don't call him scaredy-cat Sam, because Sam Wu IS NOT AFRAID of ghosts! Except . . . he totally is. Can he conquer his fear by facing the ghost that lives in the walls of his house? After an unfortunate (and very embarrassing) incident in the Space Museum, Sam goes on a mission...
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Maze of Shadows

Greg Farshtey - Scholastic
Format: Paperback

A new quest will test the Toa Metru in ways they can't anticipate.Share in the legend with books based on LEGO's BIONICLE action figures.The Toa Metru begin their long, dangerous journey back to the city of Metru Nui to save the Matoran from their endless sleep. But savage enemies...
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Case Closed #3: Haunting at the Hotel

Lauren Magaziner - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Pick-your-own-path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the third book in Lauren Magaziner's hilarious and interactive middle grade series in which the reader must help Carlos and his friends hunt ghosts at a haunted hotel. In this wildly entertaining adventure, YOU pick which suspects...
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Who Was Charlie Chaplin?

Patricia Demuth - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback

Who was the real Charlie Chaplin? Kids will learn all about the comic genius who created "The Little Tramp"!Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way out of a life of hardship and poverty....
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The End of Olympus

Kate O'Hearn - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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Barbarians!

Steven Kroll - Dutton Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

The ancient Romans used the word barbarian to describe people who were coarse, rude, or even just foreign. Over time the word has also come to connote bloodthirsty cruelty. But were the Goths, the Huns, the Vikings, and the Mongols as barbaric as we?ve been led to believe? In dynamic, detailed...
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Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse

Susan Vaught - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover

"An absorbing mystery about friendship, growth, and heroics." - Kirkus Reviews Jesse is on the case when money goes missing from the library and her dad is looking like the #1 suspect in Edgar Award-winning author Susan Vaught's latest middle grade mystery.I could see the big inside...
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Modern Art Explorer: Discover the Stories Behind Famous Artworks

Alice Harman - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

Featuring a diverse range of modern artists and their works, Modern Art Explorer takes young readers on an undercover adventure to discover the stories behind famous works.Witty and brilliantly illustrated, Modern Art Explorer is an approachable introduction to modern art for children....
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The Greatest Football Teams of All Time

The Editors of Sports Illustrated Kids - Sports Illustrated Kids
Format: Hardcover

Covering individual teams (Hello, 1972 Miami Dolphins!) but also the best eras in famous teams' history, such as the Patriots of the '00s and the Steelers of the late 1970s, the editors at Sports Illustrated Kids dissect the best of the gridiron to show the whys and hows of team building,...
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Lock and Key: The Downward Spiral

RIDLEY PEARSON - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

"Will leave you dying to know more." - Rick Riordan, author of the #1 bestselling Percy Jackson seriesThe New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatcher and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the second riveting tale in the Lock and Key trilogy.This...
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