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Garbage in Space: A Space Discovery Guide

Margaret J. Goldstein - Lerner Publications
Format: Library Binding

Did you know that companies and governments send more than one hundred satellites into space every year? And that most of those satellites continue to orbit Earth - even after they have stopped working? More than 500,000 old satellites, pieces of metal, and other bits of junk currently...
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Legacy

Shannon Messenger - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Illusions shatter - and Sophie and her friends face impossible choices - in this astonishing eighth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Sophie Foster wants answers. But after a lifetime of lies, sometimes the truth is the most...
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A Week without Tuesday

Angelica Banks - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A charming adventure full of magic and mystery, set in the land where stories come from.Something is broken in the land of story. Real and imaginary worlds are colliding -- putting everything and everyone in grave peril. Tuesday and Baxterr, at the request of the Librarian, and with the help...
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Steven Universe Original Graphic Novel: Camp Pining Play

Nicole Mannino - KaBOOM!
Format: Paperback

Peridot--along with Steven, Lars, and Lapis--puts on a play based on Camp Pining Hearts, a cult classic television series in the Steven Universe world.IT'S SHOWTIME! When Peridot and Lapis discover Camp Pining Play fanfiction, they fall in love with Lars' secret story and decide to put on a live...
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Children of the Lamp #1: The Akhenaten Adventure

P B Kerr - Orchard Books
Format: Book

From acclaimed thriller writer Philip Kerr comes an exceptional, imaginative adventure trilogy about a twin boy and girl with magical powers.Meet John and Philippa Gaunt, twelve-year-old twins who one day discover themselves to be descended from a long line of djinn. All of a sudden, they...
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The Adventurers Guild

Zack Loran Clark - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Few ever asked to join the Adventurers Guild. . . . Their members often died young.In one of the last cities standing after the world fell to monsters, best friends Zed Kagari and Brock Dunderfel have high hopes for the future. Zed desperately wishes to join the ranks of the Mages Guild,...
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Beavers

Rachel Poliquin - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Beavers, the first book in the new middle-grade nonfiction Superhero Field Guide series by Rachel Poliquin and award-winning illustrator Nicholas John Frith, is a delightfully informative, laugh-out-loud full-color look at the most unsuspecting of animal heroes, perfect for readers...
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The Streak: How Joe DiMaggio Became America's Hero

Barb Rosenstock - Boyds Mills Pr
Format: Hardcover

In the summer of 1941, Yankee center fielder Joe DiMaggio and his favorite bat, Betsy Ann, begin the longest hitting streak in baseball history. But when Betsy Ann goes missing, will DiMaggio keep hitting? Set on the brink of World War II, this is a spellbinding account of a sports story...
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The Forgotten Girl

India Hill Brown - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

"This ghost story gave me chill after chill. It will haunt you." -- R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps"Do you know what it feels like to be forgotten"On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend, Daniel, sneak into a clearing in the woods to play in the freshly...
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Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia

Dk Publishing. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

Over three million copies and 25 years later, Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia is revised and updated with the latest facts, figures, and technologies.Covering more than 380 topics from dinosaurs to digital technology, this highly visual guide engages young readers with photographic...
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