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Whiz kid

Kelly Starling Lyons - Penguin Workshop
Format: Print book

When Miles teams up with his friends to enter a citywide science competition, his cousin Cam, who made it to regionals the year before, offers to help, but while everyone else is rocking the project, Miles feels like the weak link.
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Raindrops Roll

April Pulley Sayre - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Discover the wonder of water in this refreshingly fun and fascinating exploration of rain, raindrops, and the water cycle from the creator of Rah, Rah, Radishes! and Go, Go Grapes!Raindrops drop. They plop. They patter. They spatter. And in the process, they make the whole...
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In the Red Canoe

Leslie Davidson - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book

Fish and herons, turtles and dragonflies, beaver lodges and lily pads - a multitude of wonders enchant the child-narrator, her loving grandpa and any other nature lovers along for the ride in this tender, beautifully illustrated picture book. Baby ducklings ride their mama's back; an osprey...
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Off & Away

Cale Atkinson - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

How would you get mail if you lived in the middle of the sea? It's Jo's dad's job to deliver it, taking bottles wherever they need to go. He always comes home with exciting stories to tell-but Jo is far too afraid to go out on the ocean herself. Until Dad gets a bad sea cold, that is. With...
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Lena's Shoes Are Nervous: A First-Day-of-School Dilemma

Keith Calabrese - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of School's First Day of School, debut author Keith Calabrese and Pura Belpr Award winner Juana Medina share a sweet, universal story about a clever little girl whose shoes are nervous about the first day of school.Today is a big day! Today, Lena starts kindergarten....
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Moth

Isabel Thomas - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Powerful and visually spectacular, Moth is the remarkable evolution story that captures the struggle of animal survival against the background of an evolving human world in a unique and atmospheric introduction to Darwin's theory of Natural Selection."This is a story of light...
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Why Do I Burp?

Molly Kolpin - Capstone Press
Format: Print book

Burps can be loud and sometimes even stinky. Everyone burpsfrom babies, adults, and even some animals. Take a journey into the body, following air down the esophagus to the stomach and back up again. Simple, informative text and full-page photos and diagrams help early readers understand...
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Blue vs. Yellow

Tom Sullivan - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

From Tom Sullivan, author-illustrator of I Used to Be a Fish, comes a high-concept picture book about a battle between primary colors, for fans of The Day the Crayons Quit, Red: A Crayons Story, and Mix It Up!Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the Clash of the Colors!BLUE...
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Ancient Armadillos

Jeni Wittrock - Capstone Press
Format: Print book

Tiny, long toothed arctic squirrels roamed the earth during the ice age. Awesome illustrations accompany carefully leveled text about food, habitat, behavior, and extinction, bringing sabertooth squirrels to life like never before.
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