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Escape from the Great Earthquake

Kate Messner - Scholastic Press
Format: Library Binding

Ranger travels to San Francisco and meets Lily Chen. She was sent from China to America to work as a young servant, but she dreams of studying to be a doctor. When the Great Earthquake hits, Ranger arrives in time to rescue Lily from falling beams in the mission house where she lives. Together...
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Willa and the Whale

Chad Morris - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover

When her marine biologist mother dies, thirteen-year-old Willa turns to an unlikely source of comfort - a humpback whale who communicates with her.
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You Wouldn't Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party!: Wharf Water Tea You'd Rather Not Drink

Peter Cook - Franklin Watts; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

This best-selling series engages readers of all levels by making them part of the story. Readers will become the main character and can revel in the gory and dark sides of life throughout important moments in history. Perfect resource for reluctant readers with: humor and history tied...
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Baseball: Who Does What?

Ryan Nagelhout - Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: Library Binding

Nine is the magic number in baseball. Its the number of innings in a standard game and the number of players each team fields when on defense. But every player on the field is different, and this book studies each unique position to explore those differences and the skills needed to play...
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Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey

Akiko Higashimura - Seven Seas
Format: Paperback

The award-winning autobiographical manga by Akiko Higashimura, the creator of Princess Jellyfish, about her high school dream to become a comic book creator!High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing...
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One Trick Pony

Nathan Hale - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

The aliens have arrived. And they're hungry for electricity. In the Earth of the future, humans are on the run from an alien force - giant blobs who suck up electrical devices wherever they can find them. Strata and her family are part of a caravan of digital rescuers, hoping to keep the memory...
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Girl with a Camera: Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer: A Novel

Carolyn Meyer - Calkins Creek
Format: Hardcover

In this historical novel, noted writer Carolyn Meyer deftly captures the daring and passionate life of photographer Margaret Bourke-White. Growing up, young Peggy White was interested in snakes and caterpillars and other unfeminine things. She intended to become a herpetologist, but while...
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Mr.Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game

Chris Grabenstein - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

Mr. Lemoncello is going live with a brand-new televised BREAKOUT game! Discover what James Patterson calls "the coolest library in the world" in the fourth puzzle-packed adventure in Chris Grabenstein's New York Times bestselling MR. LEMONCELLO series!Greetings, boys and girls,...
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Stitched #1: The First Day of the Rest of Her Life

MARIAH HUEHNER - Charmz
Format: Hardcover

Crimson Volania Mulch has a problem; she just woke up in a crypt and, besides her name, has no idea of who, where, or what she is. Welcome to the Cemetery of Assumptions, a vast landscape of stones, mausoleums, and secrets. Home to monsters and mayhem, it may also hold the answers to her unknown...
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Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder?

Patricia Brennan Demuth - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are still beloved classics almost a century after she began writing them. Now young readers will see just how similar Laura's true-life story was to her books. Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods"...
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