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Goosebumps Most Wanted Special Edition #2: The 12 Screams of Christmas

R.L. Stine - Scholastic Paperbacks

The infamous, Most Wanted Goosebumps characters are out on the loose and after you. For the first time ever, it's a Goosebumps Christmas!Kate Welles doesn't want to be special. She just wants to play the lead in her school's Christmas play. Her annoying "friend" Courtney...
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Portrait of an Artist: Claude Monet

Lucy Brownridge
Format: Hardcover


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Bluecrowne: A Greenglass House Story

Kate Milford - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Return to the world of the bestselling Greenglass House, where smugglers, magic, and pyrotechnics mix, in a new adventure from a New York Times best-selling, National Book Award-nominated, and Edgar Award-winning author.Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother...
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Did You Know? Earth: Amazing Answers to more than 200 Awesome Questions

Devin Dennie - DK Children
Format: Hardcover

This Earth encyclopedia answers all the probing questions children ask about our planet, in a fun question and answer format.Can you freeze in a desert? How do living things become fossils? What is a biome? Why? Earth explains volcanoes, earthquakes, oceans, space, and much more! It focuses...
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Llamas and the Andes: A nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #34: Late Lunch with Llamas

Mary Pope Osborne - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

Track the facts about llamas and other animals of the Andes in this nonfiction companion to the bestselling Magic Tree House series!When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #34: Late Lunch with Llamas, they had lots of questions. Why do people raise llamas?...
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DK findout! Space Travel

DK - DK Children
Format: Hardcover

This children's book on space travel is packed with inspiring stories and facts about space exploration, astronauts, and the first moon landing.DK findout! Space Travel is ideal for school projects and for children who love to learn about adventures in space. From the first astronaut...
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A Conspiracy of Kings

Megan Whalen Turner - Greenwillow Books
Format: Paperback

Discover the world of the Queen's ThiefNew York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner's entrancing and award-winning Queen's Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief....
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50 States: Our America

The Editors of Time for Kids - Time For Kids
Format: Hardcover

Ready for a road trip? Get the scoop on the nifty fifty from North to South and coast to coast. Through the pages of this book you can travel to all 50 states, from Alabama to Wyoming, to discover the history, geography, and culture that make each one great. With more than 100 kid-friendly...
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The Day the Universe Exploded My Head: Poems to Take You into Space and Back Again

Allan Wolf - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Hang on tight for a raucous bounce through the solar system and back - propelled by funny, fanciful, factually sound poems and exuberant illustrations.The universe poured into me. My brain was overloaded. It smoked and glowed red-hot. And then it actually...
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Battle for the Z-Ring (Pokémon Alola: Chapter Book)

Jeanette Lane - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

Gotta catch this action-packed adventure about Ash and Pikachu! This illustrated chapter book features the cool Alola Pokémon from Nintendos hit games for Nintendo DS, Pokémon Sun & Moon.Ash has learned a lot since he began attending Alolas Pokémon School. Now he cant wait to complete...
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