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Nate the Great and the Crunchy Christmas

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat - Perfection Learning
Format: Library Binding

Annie's dog is unhappy. When Fang is unhappy, everyone is unhappy. Especially Nate the Great. So Nate agrees to sniff out Fang's mysteriously missing Christmas mail. It's cold and snowy. But Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, will try to solve this holiday case in time for Fang...
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Biscuit Is Thankful

Alyssa Satin Capucilli - HarperFestival
Format: Board book

Biscuit is thankful for his bone, his biscuits, and lots more, too. Sweet puppy! Woof!
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Beast Keeper #1

Lucy Coats - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback

Beasts of Olympus is a series of 144-page illustrated chapter books set in a magical Ancient Greece where strange things still walk the Earth. Beast Keeper tells the story of Pandemonius (a.k.a. "Demon," the half-god son of Pan) who, on his tenth birthday, is called upon to look...
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The Complete Illustrated Children's Bible

J. Emmerson-Hicks - Harvest House Publishers; Ill edition
Format: Hardcover

Lead your child into a lifetime love of the Bible with this colorful storybook. With nearly 300 beautiful two-page illustrations to capture even the youngest child's imagination and heart, this vast collection of the Bible's most-loved stories is just right for sharing together...
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Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story

Ken Mochizuki - Lee & Low
Format: Paperback

A portrait of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940, explains how he used his powers--against the orders of his own government--to assist thousands of Jews escape the Holocaust, actions that resulted in the imprisonment and disgrace of his entire family."
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Wild Horse Annie: Friend of the Mustangs

Tracey Fern - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Wild Horse Annie was the nickname of Velma Bronn Johnston (1912-77) , loved mustangs all her life. When she saw mustangs being rounded up and killed to make room for ranchers' livestock, she knew she had to speak up. In 1950, she began writing letters to local newspapers and politicians,...
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What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet

Jess French - DK Children
Format: Hardcover

Everything you need to know about what we're doing to our environment, good and bad, from pollution and litter to renewable energy and plastic recycling.This environmental book will teach young ecologists about how our actions affect planet Earth. Discover shocking facts about the waste...
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Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 2: The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers

Dav Pilkey - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

George and Harold thought they were beyond boogers. Their new pet, Sulu the Bionic Hamster, had defeated the Bionic Booger Boy, and through the wonders of science, Melvin Sneedly had been brought back to normal (well, almost normal) . It looked...
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Career Day

Anne F Rockwell - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Michiko's mother writes books. Jessica's mother is a veterinarian. Pablo's father is a construction worker. What kinds of work do people you know do?On Career Day the children in Mrs. Madoff's class take turns introducing special visitors. Every visitor has something interesting...
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I am Martin Luther King, Jr.

Brad Meltzer - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

We can all be heroes. That's the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer. Even as a child, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shocked by the terrible and unfair way African-American people were treated. When...
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