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The One and Only Ivan
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant who has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. With illustrations by Patricia Castelao.
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Lunch Lady #1
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute
The school lunch lady — who is a secret crime fighter — uncovers an evil plot to replace all the popular teachers with robots.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin man and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help her return home to Kansas. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow.
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The Red Pyramid
Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey to save him.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Greg records his sixth-grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
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Seedfolks
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed. Illustrated by Judy Pedersen.
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
As the only four children to pass the series of tests provided, Reynie, Kate, Sticky and Constance are asked to go on a secret mission as undercover agents at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and quickly realize they will have to use their collective wit to get their important task complete.
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The Hundred Dresses
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson, in a story which includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.
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Shooting Kabul
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
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Breadcrumbs
Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life. Illustrated by Erin Mcguire.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Milo travels to The Lands Beyond when he drives his small electric car through a mysterious, miniature tollbooth gate.
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The Graveyard Book
Reared by ghosts, werewolves and other residents of the hillside cemetery he calls home, an orphan named Nobody Owens wonders how he will manage to survive among the living having learned all his lessons from the dead.Literary Award Winner
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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
In a thought-provoking, coming-of-age novel, teenager Charlie struggles to cope with the complex world of high school. He deals with the confusions of sex and love, the temptations of drugs and the pain of losing a close friend and favorite aunt.NPR Bestseller
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Drama
Designing sets for her middle school's play, Callie tries to overcome limited carpentry skills, low ticket sales and squabbling crew members only to find her efforts further complicated by the arrival of two cute brothers.
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Poems to Learn by Heart
Features one hundred readily memorizable poems that convey a wide range of feelings, meanings, and wisdom, in a volume complemented by watercolor illustrations.
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Thunderstorm
Arthur Geisert presents a meticulously illustrated, minute-by-minute account of a storm that moves through a Midwestern farming region over the course of several hours.
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Faces for Baby
Presents simple works of art featuring the human face from prominent contemporary artists, intended to visually stimulate babies and very young children.
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Take Me Out to the Yakyu
A little boy's grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, teach him about baseball and its rich, varying cultural traditions.
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You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
A visual profile of the record-setting baseball star, listed by The Sporting News as the best player after Babe Ruth, traces his Birmingham childhood, achievements in the Negro Leagues and fame as a center fielder for the Giants. Features a lenticular cover. By the author of You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
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A Little Book of Sloth
Presents a photo-essay that combines images of the photogenic mammals with information about sloths in general.
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Road Trip
A father and son embark on a road trip to a distant animal shelter to save a homeless border collie puppy. By the author of Crush; Paintings from the Cave; Flat Broke; Liar, Liar; Masters of Disaster; Lawn Boy Returns; Woods Runner; Notes from the Dog; Mudshark; and Lawn Boy.
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Navigating Early
Abruptly placed in a boy's boarding school in Maine after his mother's death at the end of World War II, Kansas youth Jack Baker befriends Early Auden, an unusual boy with whom Jack embarks on a quest along the Appalachian Trail in search of a legendary great black bear. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of Moon Over Manifest.
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House of Secrets
Cordelia, Brendan and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
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The Flint Heart
A Fairy Story
A magical amulet brings power and despair to those who touch it.
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The Day My Mother Left
When his mother leaves to live with another man, nine-year-old Jeremy faces his own pain and loss, his father's depression and sister's distance, the pity of friends and strangers, and his father's remarriage two years later, finding solace in fishing and his artwork.
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Kevin Keller
Welcome to Riverdale
Recently elected as class president and struggling with the challenges of a first summer job, a first date, and an upcoming prom, gay teen Kevin Keller asks for advice from romantically challenged friends Archie and Jughead while outmaneuvering the schemes of Cheryl Blossom.
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Extra Yarn
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
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Baby Bear Sees Blue
Leaving the den as the weather warms, Baby Bear discovers blue birds, red strawberries, orange butterflies and other colorful things in nature.
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Unspoken
A Story From the Underground Railroad
A young girl's courage is tested when she discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn.
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Chloe And The Lion
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And Then It's Spring
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A Home For Bird
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Boot & Shoe
Boot and Shoe are dogs that live in the same house, eat from the same bowl and sleep in the same bed, but spend their days on separate porches until a squirrel mixes things up.
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Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers
Our heroes, George and Harold, have been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated planet for all eternity, after Tippy Tinkletrousers the time-traveling trickster prevented them from ever creating Captain Underpants in the first place. The course of history has been changed — can they change it back, and save Captain Underpants?
