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What Was the Gold Rush?
Joan Holub - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Hardcover
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In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget... |
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About Parrots: A Guide for Children
Cathryn Sill - Peachtree Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In this appealing addition to the acclaimed About ... series, educator and author Cathryn Sill uses simple, easy-to-understand language to teach children what parrots are, how they look, how they move, what they eat, and where they live. Illustrator John Sill introduces readers to a variety... |
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Just Jake: Dog Eat Dog #2
Jake Marcionette - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Hardcover
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Sixth grader Jake Ali Mathews is slowly climbing his way back up the ladder of popularity. Increasingly settled in his new school and with a great new best friend, Michael, everything seems to be going okay for Jake. Until Jake's beloved teacher, Mrs. Pilsner, has a baby and the students... |
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Guys Read: True Stories
Jon Scieszka - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover
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Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable - and 100% true. A star-studded group... |
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My Own Best Frenemy: #2
Landry Q Walker - DC Comics
Format: Hardcover
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Super strength, the ability to fly and extra-speedy reflexes should make a girl's life easier, but they only seem to complicate things for Supergirl. Life gets a lot crazier, though, when a new enemy named Belinda Zee shows up. And with girls like Belinda around, facing down Super-Villains... |
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Joker's Wild!
Bill Matheny - DC Comics
Format: Book
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In this adventure starring The Joker, criminals are getting caught, then disappearing--but where? When The Joker plays police officer, its Outlaw and Disorder for Gotham City and Batman!, |
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Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #6: Path of Stars
Erin Hunter - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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Discover the origins of the warrior Clans in the conclusion to this thrilling prequel arc in Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series. The Dawn of the Clans takes readers back to the earliest days of the Clans, when the cats first settled in the forest and began to forge... |
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How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel
Jennifer Brown - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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Luke Abbott's school is the losing-est school in the history of losing. And that's just fine for him. He'd rather be at home playing video games and avoiding his older brother Rob and the Greatest Betrayal of All Time. But now he's being forced to join the robotics team, where surely... |
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Phase One: Captain America: The First Avenger
Alex Irvine - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Steve Rogers was once just a scrawny kid. But after a top-secret government experiment, he became Captain America. Join the action when this Super Hero protects the free world against the Red Skull and Hydra in this complete origin story as told in Captain America: The First Avenger.... |
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I Survived The Great Chicago Fire, 1871
Lauren Tarshis - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Print book
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In a national contest, readers voted and decided that the next I SURVIVED topic will be the Great Chicago Fire, 1871!In the next book of the I SURVIVED series, one boy will struggle to stay alive as the great city of Chicago burns. |
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