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Where, Oh Where, Is Baby Bear?

Ashley Wolff · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Baby Bear is back in this cozy, seek-and-find companion to the celebrated Baby Bear Sees Blue and Baby Bear Counts One.

When Mama and Baby Bear go out to look for food one night, curious Baby Bear wants to wander and explore. Each time his Mama Bear calls for him, Baby...
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Trash Vortex: How Plastic Pollution Is Choking the World's Oceans

Danielle Smith-Llera · Compass Point Books
Pages: 64
Format: Library Binding

Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor...
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Kate Middleton

Katie Lajiness · ABDO Publishing Company
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Meet real-life princess Kate Middleton! In this engaging title, readers will learn about Middletons childhood in Bucklebury, England and her meeting of Prince William at Scotlands University of Saint Andrews. William and Kates royal wedding is covered, as is the birth of their children...
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Florida

Tamra B. Orr · C. Press/F. Watts Trade; Revised edition
Format: Book

America the Beautiful, Third Series is bursting with fascinating facts, up-to-date statistics, glorious full-color photographs, and unusual lists guaranteed to elicit at least one WOW! with the turn of every page. America the Beautifuls new dynamic design and editorial approach to the geography,...
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Meet the San Diego Chargers

Zack Burgess · Norwood House Press
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

"An introduction to the San Diego Chargers professional football team. Includes information about the team's history, stadium, star players, and uniforms. Features include: a true/false quiz, photos, vintage trading cards reproductions, maps, and records. Table of Contents, glossary,...
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Avalanche!

Terry Lynn Johnson · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are skiing with their parents in Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains where there is a ground-shaking rumble. Unstable snow rushes downhill and buries them in icy white....
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Phantom Flames

Rich Wallace · Magic Wagon
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Stu and Dan hike into the forest to camp overnight. They get caught in the rain and decide to spend the night in an unlocked hunting cabin. They smell smoke late at night and escape the cabin as it bursts into flames. The next morning, they return to the cabin to see if Stu's shoes...
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Stick Dog Craves Candy

Tom Watson · HarperCollins
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and the previous Stick Dog books, Tom Watson's hilarious series continues with Stick Dog Craves Candy - a fun Halloween adventure!

Stick Dog and the gang are on their usual hunt for food, but there is something unusual going on. Little...

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Dog Diaries #7: Stubby

Kate Klimo · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A scrappy stray becomes one of the greatest dogs in military history! Stubby the war dog narrates the story of his life--from his days as a stray to his time on the battlefields of France! Adopted by Private John Robert Conroy in 1917 when the dog wandered into training camp, Stubby soon...
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Well, That Was Awkward

Rachel Vail · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Gracie has never felt like this before. One day, she suddenly can't breathe, can't walk, can't anything - and the reason is standing right there in front of her, all tall and weirdly good-looking: A.J.

But it turns out A.J. likes not Gracie but Gracie's beautiful best friend,...
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