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R.L. Stine's books have sold more than 300 million copies, making him one of the most popular children's authors in history. Besides Goosebumps, R.L. Stine has written series including: Fear Street, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Dangerous Girls. R.L. Stine lives in New York with his wife, Jane,...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2Portly is trying to find his true self. He was born a hippopotamus, but is sick of wading in water and eating boring, old grass. Searching for new possibilities, he sets off on a quest where he encounters a herd of rhinoceros, a bat, an elephant, and a giraffe, and transforms himself into a hippo-gi...
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DEBBIE DADEY and MARCIA THORNTON JONES came up with the idea for The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids when they both worked at a school in Lexington, Kentucky. Today Debbie and her family live in Fort Collins, Colorado. Marcia and her husband still live in Kentucky.; Title: Dracula Doesn't Play Kickball (The Advent...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3 - These titles that celebrate African-American heritage are eye-catching and welcoming. A "Dear Family" letter at the beginning of each book offers tips for reading enjoyment for children and parents, and the back matter supplies ideas for expanding the experience. The colorful artwork reflects the...
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; Title: Just For You!: Lights Out
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Reviewed with Sonia W. Black's Jumping the Broom.Upbeat without being preachy or sentimental, these titles in the new Just for You! easy-reading series tell realistic stories of African American family life with excitement and grace. In Jumping the Broom, Erin's big sister is getting married. Everyone is happy except E...
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James Preller is the author of many books for young children, including the popular JIGSAW JONES series and his middle-grade novels, ALONG CAME SPIDER and JUSTIN FISHER DECLARES WAR! He lives in Delmar, New York, with his wife, Lisa; three children — Nicholas, Maggie, and Gavin; two cats; and a goldendoodle named ...
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Grade 6 Up–Through letters and recollections, Oppenheim relates the story of a group of young people who were interned during World War II. Breed had come to know many Japanese Americans through her work as the childrens librarian at the San Diego Public Library. When the young people were sent to camps in 1942, ...
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*Starred Review* Giblin's attractive, large-format book sets the record straight on Paul Revere's life and his role in the American Revolution. Beginning with his father's journey to America, this well-organized biography presents a lucid account of Revere's childhood, his limited education, his training in his father'...
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Author Joanna Cole and illustrator Bruce Degen make learning a spirited joyride, delighting young audiences with their fantastic journeys to the eye of a hurricane, the bottom of the ocean, and the center of the earth, to name just a few. Author and illustrator have said they were each inspired by an important teacher ...
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Grade 6-8The Crusadersoften icons of valor and derring-do in Robin Hood legendswere harbingers of terror and imminent death for medieval Jews. Elvina, granddaughter of the revered 11th-century French rabbi and commentator Rashi, takes center-stage in this novel in which readers experience the period through Jewish eyes...
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It would seem a riddle worthy of the sphinx: how do you give children a sense of jazz music without playing a note? Chris Raschka answers loudly and clearly with the illustrated, syncopated Charlie Parker Played Be Bop. This sparse, rhythmic, repetitive text (inspired by a recording of Parker's "A Night in Tunisia") em...
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Energetic Aussie author Sofie Laguna tells the story of an equally energetic (and very loud) young hippo in her second picture book--the first to be released in the U.S. and Canada.Little Lily Hippo just can't keep quiet, no matter how hard she tries: "'Lily Hippo, keep it down please--I can't hear myself think!' said ...
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Grade 7 UpHughes, the founder of Comfort Zone Camp for grieving kids, believes that sharing experiences about losing a parent begins the healing process. Her purpose in writing the book is to let teens know that they don't have to feel isolatedthere is help available for them. The book opens with the author's story of ...
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PreSchool-Grade 2Each night, the old Fisherwoman casts her rod into the moonlit waters near her home. The Moon looks on and notices that she usually comes up empty-handed. At the new moon, he pays her a visit, wearing sunglasses and hiking boots as a disguise. Each new moon thereafter, he makes additional visits, enjoy...
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Publishers Weekly(February 23, 2004; 0-439-57676-8)An irreverent lesson in colors, What Color Is Your Underwear? by Sam Lloyd encourages children to examine the fashionable undergarments of the animal kingdom. Youngsters lift flaps in the form of horse blankets, turtle shells and other obscurations to reveal Harry Hors...
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It seems that kids are programmed to love dinosaurs. Is the appeal that these wild-looking reptiles seem imaginary, like dragons and unicorns, but they are (well, were) actually real? Whatever the source of the extinct creature's mysterious magnetism, this pop-up, touch-and-feel, lift-the-flap dino-centric version of S...
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Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 2"Racersstart your engines!!!" And the cars are off to a flying start in this variation of the perennially popular song "The Wheels on the Bus." Brightly colored vehicles driven by a menagerie of animals zoom around the track, stop for a quick tune-up ("zizz-zizz-zizz"), and fill up with...
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Grade 24Eighteen classic songs have been transformed here into versions that range from the silly to the slightly disgusting to the extremely gross. Such titles as "Take Me Out to the Graveyard," "Creepy, Creepy Little Jar," and "If You're Scary and You Know It, Clap Your Paws" are accompanied by watercolor and mixed-m...
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Gr 3-4-The creative intent behind these brief poems is to introduce animal facts and world geography, covering five continents: South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and combining Arctic and Antarctic regions. Sixty animals are briefly mentioned. Most of the verses and cartoon illustrations are broadly humorous if un...
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*Starred Review* Karas uses the haiku of the eighteenth-century Japanese poet Issa to limn a gentle, understated tale of one family over a year. The translations, from several different but fairly recent sources, do not always hew to the traditional syllabic format of haiku, but they are simply and clearly crafted. The...
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There's no denying that kids love Clifford. The Big Red Dog has been a favorite since Norman Bridwell created him over 40 years ago. "I was working as a commercial artist in New York City. There wasn't much work, so I made some sample pictures and took them to several publishers. They all rejected my work. But one edit...
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DEBBIE DADEY and MARCIA THORNTON JONES came up with the idea for The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids when they both worked at a school in Lexington, Kentucky. Today Debbie and her family live in Fort Collins, Colorado. Marcia and her husband still live in Kentucky.; Title: Frankenstein Doesn't Start Food Fights (T...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3 - These series entries are designed to provide beginning readers and their parents opportunities to share stories and activities. The tales have kid-friendly plots and all feature African-American protagonists. In the first book, a boy complains about being sick ("I'm coughing and sneezing/and hold...
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DAVID LAROCHELLE, a former elementary school teacher, is author and illustrator of numerous middle-grade readers and picture books, including The End, which received four starred reviews. David lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.; Title: Absolutely Positively Not
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Praise for Is Your Mama a Llama?"An enchanting animal guessing game." -School Library Journal; Title: Is Your Mama a Llama?
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Dietlof Reiche's middle-grade and young adult novels have garnered many awards in his native Germany, including the German Juvenile Literature Award and the Oldenburg's Children's Book Prize. Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1942, Reiche spent his early childhood in the village of Nrdlingen, the town where his first histor...
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PreSchool-Grade 1This book opens with endpapers showing 100 crayons arranged in 10 groups, each of a different color. In the text, kindergartner Petey wakes his family and starts a typical school day. Each page mentions numbers from 1 to 10 and shows the corresponding objects, such as 6 items in a lunch bag and 7 steps...
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PreSchool-Grade 2This rhythmic, storytime counting treat features a frightfully friendly cast of characters on their way to a monsters' bash. "Eleven witches," "Ten funny, floaty ghosts," "Nine skeletons," and so on make their way across a dark forest to a party in a castle, where they all slice into "One gigantic pump...
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PreSchool-KRhyming couplets describe a typical summer day in the life of a young dinosaur. The text, which is reminiscent of the classic action rhyme Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, guides the reptilian protagonist as he wakes up, eats breakfast, brushes his many teeth, gets dressed, plays outside all day, eats dinner, has a b...
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Grade 1-5Geras has elaborated upon Charles Perrault's classic tale, drawing out the story with the addition of descriptive details and dialogue, while changing the plot only slightly. Birmingham's full-page, romantic illustrations have the blurred, softly textured appearance of oil pastel and paint. Many pages are ador...
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Starred Review. Grade 5-9–Motivated by her naive, youthful acceptance of racial injustice as a white, privileged child in Birmingham, AL, McWhorter directs her compelling retrospective at readers who likewise may not realize that history swirls around them. After a prologue that describes the emergence and impact...
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Kindergarten-Grade 4Wick continues the successful formula used in Can You See What I See?: Dream Machine (Scholastic, 2003), this time tackling fairy tales. Each of the 12 spreads depicts a dramatic moment from a particular tale, accompanied by a rhyming sidebar that tells children what to search for and gives a plot e...
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PreSchool-Grade 3Wick serves up yet another search-and-find delight about the toy boy. On the title page, Seymour is reading a book called The Seesaw Bunnies and leaves home in search of some new pals. Readers are asked to spot visual items (Can you see?) as they follow him on his adventures through various toy scenari...
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PreSIn this whimsical search-and-find story, readers join a little toy man as he gathers together an assortment of items, builds a boat out of a juice box, and sails away on a sea of blue. The clear, neatly composed photographs show colorful scenes packed with all sorts of interesting things, while the rhyming text pro...
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PreSchool-Grade 2The life cycle of a tree is introduced through deceptively simple text and art. DePalma's short, measured phrases turn facts about a tree's growth, her seasonal changes, and the home she provides to a variety of creatures into an ode to an often-overlooked part of the natural world. The fact that the t...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3The creator of Can You See What I See? Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve (2002) and Can You See What I See? Dream Machine (2003, both Scholastic) is back with another photographic adventure. This time, the focus is on collections, and the 12 picture puzzles feature intriguing assortments of button...
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Mark Teague is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator whose books include the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling How Do Dinosaurs... series, the LaRue series, FIREHOUSE!, FUNNY FARM, and many other humorous picture books. Mark lives in New York state with his wife and their two daughters.; Title: Pigsty (Schol...
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PreSchool-Grade 3 - As in Katie and the Sunflowers (2001) and Katie and the Mona Lisa (1999, both Scholastic), Mayhew continues his picture-book explorations of masterpieces with this foray into the world of the Pointillists. This time, his protagonist cools off on a hot day at the museum by climbing into Georges Seura...
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Grade 35The eclectic group of people featured here includes figures from the distant past (Jesus of Nazareth) as well as contemporary people (Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi). Some, like Martin Luther King, Jr. are famous, while others, such as Abdul Ghaffar Khan, are obscure. These diverse individuals are united thematically...
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K-Gr 2Based on the traditional English ballad, this picture book concentrates on the episode when the Sheriff of Nottingham tries to capture Robin Hood by luring him from the woods for an archery contest. The text is straightforward, making this book a good entry point into the legend for younger readers. The author ma...
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Grade 2-4A lengthy tale of two orphans who are adopted by a stern farmer. Matthew and Anna's gray lives are full of work and despair. They look forward to winter when they can attend school, but it fails to provide the joy they seek. As they begin to lose all hope, the children are saved by a red bird that leads them t...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3–A lackluster tale of a boy with a secret identity. Maleek loves comic books, and he also invents amazing gadgets. When he sees the newspaper headline that reads, CITY PARKS & PLAYGROUNDS VANISH OVERNIGHT, he springs into action. Wearing his superhero cape and goggles, he and his robot, Ma...
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In todays dog-eat-dog world of competitive parenting, where moms and dads flaunt their childrens developmental milestone accomplishments like Wall Street coups, little duckling Ruby simply wont play that game. She hatches late, is a picky eater, and refuses to swim, even while siblings Rufus, Rorie, Rosie, and Rebecca ...
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"Considered one of the most popular contemporary authors for readers in elementary school, (Dav Pilkey) is also regarded as a talented artist and inventive humorist as well as a subtle moralist. ...He underscores his works--even at their most outrageous--with a philosophy that emphasizes friendship, tolerance, and gene...
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PreSchool-K A little girl who is Fuchsia in both name and hue blows out her birthday candle, opens her present, and dons the dazzling pink hat inside. She wears it constantly, and one day decides to adorn it with a flower from a fuchsia tree. A voice instructs the child to close her eyes and say, THE FUCHSIA IS NOW, an...
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Award-winning author LISA MCCOURT has written over thirty books for children. She lives with her family in South Florida with a yard full of palm trees that get wrapped in colourful Christmas lights every winter.; Title: I Miss You, Stinky Face
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Spider-Man is sure to be this summer's movie event. The glorious, full-color How To Draw Spider-Man, his allies, and his archenemies, including Mary Jane, Black Cat, Daredevil, Venom, Dr. Octopus, Lizard, Mysterio, Vulture, and more.; Title: How To Draw Spider-man
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Starred Review. Stillwater, the giant panda who taught Zen parables to siblings Karl, Addy and Michael in Zen Shorts, continues to combine his slow-moving grace with genuine spiritual tranquility. This time, Michael faces a daunting spelling bee, and Stillwater, first seen wearing a necktie, introduces the three to Mis...
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Emily Rodda's Deltora saga continues with a remarkable quest involving magic, dragons and courage.; Title: Dragons Of Deltora #1
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Award-winning author LISA MCCOURT has written over thirty books for children. She lives with her family in South Florida with a yard full of palm trees that get wrapped in colourful Christmas lights every winter.; Title: Good Night, Princess Pruney Toes
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Award-winning author LISA MCCOURT has written over thirty books for children. She lives with her family in South Florida with a yard full of palm trees that get wrapped in colourful Christmas lights every winter.; Title: Merry Christmas, Stinky Face
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PreSchool-Grade 2A young elephant is new to town and anxious about starting school. On her first day, she wears her grandmother's fancy "good luck hat," causing a bully named Belinda and her friends to dub her "Ella the Ella-gant." When Belinda slips on the safety wall that surrounds the schoolyard and protects the stu...
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A second collection of mazes for the amateur magician.; Title: Amazing Mazes
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Award-winning author LISA MCCOURT has written over thirty books for children. She lives with her family in South Florida with a yard full of palm trees that get wrapped in colourful Christmas lights every winter.; Title: I Love You, Stinky Face
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Gr 1-6It's Halloween, and the three siblings introduced in Muth's Zen Shorts (2005) and Zen Ties (2008, Scholastic) are working on their costumes when Stillwater appears at their door. The panda invites Addy, Michael, and Karl to meet him after trick-or-treating to hear a ghost story. The walk through the forest is fil...
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ELIZABETH KAY works as a teacher as well as a professional writer and illustrator. She has published radio plays, short stories, and poetry. The Divide was her first children's novel. She lives in Surrey, England.Elizabeth Kay works as a teacher as well as a professional writer and illustrator. She has published radio ...
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Montmorency on the Rocks, the second volume of Eleanor Updales popular Victorian spy drama, finds our title hero in a much darker place than the London sewers where his alter ego Scarper used to dwell. It has been five years since Montmorency teamed up with gentleman spy George Fox-Selwyn. They enjoyed much success inf...
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PreSchool-KFrom 10 to 1, this creative counting book features a school of colorful, Nemo-like fish as they gradually disappear from readers' view. Each spread contains a couplet with the final rhyming number word appearing after turning the page"Ten Little Fish, swimming in a line./One dives down, and now there are." T...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2In this easy chapter book, Buzzs pet fly attends school with him. When the lunch lady allows the insect to live in the lunchroom, she is fired. Fly Guy is subsequently banned from the room by her replacement, who is a terrible cook. Finally, Buzz comes up with a plan, Roz is reinstated, and Fly Guy ...
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PreSchool-Grade 1 - One night, Jessica awakens to find that an old cupboard has magically appeared in her room. Among the dusty playthings stored inside, she finds a teddy bear wrapped in brown paper and a red ribbon. The stuffed animal comes to life and takes her on a journey to meet his friends, several other old-fas...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2–A boy goes out searching for a smart animal to take to The Amazing Pet Show and bumps into a fly that is intelligent enough to say the childs name, Buzz. Although his parents and the judges feel at first that a fly is only a pest, not a pet, the insect puts on a performance that astounds them...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2 In this wordless story, bold, full-bleed cartoon illustrations are amiably cluttered, well-suited to the theme of a visit to the city. Cat is alternately puzzled, saddened, and delighted by all that he sees upon arriving in New York: noisy taxis, overflowing garbage, Central Park, and Coney Island....
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Grade 4-7–In what CNN called the trial of the new millennium, Aiden and Meg Falconer's parents were convicted of treason and sentenced to life in jail. Respected criminologists with PhDs, they were asked by CIA Agent Frank Lindenauer to develop profiles that would help U.S. operatives identify terrorist cells thr...
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Award-winning author LISA MCCOURT has written over thirty books for children. She lives with her family in South Florida with a yard full of palm trees that get wrapped in colourful Christmas lights every winter.; Title: The Most Thankful Thing
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Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 4Inspired by the pluck and tradition of Helen Bannerman's The Story of Little Black Sambo and infused with the flavor of an American tall tale, this story tells of Toby, who bounces from the back of her parents' buckboard and into the depths of the New England woods, where she must surre...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2The star of Ella the Elegant Elephant (Scholastic, 2004) returns for another adventure. Here, she wants to help in the bakery, but her mother thinks she is too little to do anything but sweep. Finally she is allowed to deliver a cake in her wooden wagon. She meets with many obstacles on her way, inc...
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LAUREN BROOKE lives outside London in an old English farmhouse. She divides her time between writing and mucking out the stalls of her two horses. In addition to writing the twenty-four Heartland books, Lauren is the author of the Chestnut Hill series.; Title: Heartland #17 A Season Of Hope
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Jane Yolen is the beloved author of more than four hundred books for children and adults, including award-winning picture books, fiction, and poetry. Her How Do Dinosaurs books have sold millions of copies and are international bestsellers. She regularly travels the globe speaking and teaching. Jane lives in Western Ma...
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LAUREN BROOKE lives outside London in an old English farmhouse. She divides her time between writing and mucking out the stalls of her two horses. In addition to writing the twenty-four Heartland books, Lauren is the author of the Chestnut Hill series.; Title: Heartland #18: New Beginnings
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Grade 3-6This is a notable but flawed attempt at combining text and comics. Max, a young black belt, is invited to join the Black Belt Club, a secret team of young karate students. He lacks confidence in his abilities, particularly when compared to the other three members of the team. Despite his insecurity, he joins t...
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PreSchool-Grade 2A favorite Hanukkah song is given new life in this charmingly illustrated variation. Following the traditional first verse (I have a little dreidel; I made it out of clay), the rhyming text depicts a convivial family gathering to make latkes, light the menorah, and play a joyful game of dreidel, with e...
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LAUREN BROOKE lives outside London in an old English farmhouse. She divides her time between writing and mucking out the stalls of her two horses. In addition to writing the twenty-four Heartland books, Lauren is the author of the Chestnut Hill series.; Title: Heartland #19: From This Day On
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Award-winning author LISA MCCOURT has written over thirty books for children. She lives with her family in South Florida with a yard full of palm trees that get wrapped in colourful Christmas lights every winter.; Title: It's Time For School, Stinky Face
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PreSchool-Grade 2Chicken and Cat return in this wordless graphic picture book that continues to explore their friendship and adventures. Cat longs for a pet but has no money to buy one, so Chicken invites him to be part of his housekeeping business. The problem is that his pal has no skills and, after a series of clean...
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PreSchool-Grade 1Wanda, a young witch, is nervous about her first day of school. When she enters her classroom, she notices that all of the other girls have wands and are wearing colorful dresses; Wanda has a broomstick and is wearing black. She soon realizes that she is the only witch in a school of fairies. She asks ...
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Starred Review. McKissack (Porch Lies) reaches into her own childhood to shape this immediate and affecting novel narrated by strong and smart Rosemary. She enters sixth grade in 1954, just after her Missouri town acts upon the Supreme Court school desegregation decision and closes the "colored school" the girl has att...
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Starred Review. Grade 1-5–Kennedy's introduction to the political process is clear, informative, and loaded with child appeal, in part due to the choice of narrator: his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash. This canine bundle of friendly, panting fun takes readers on a tour of monuments and then describes a typical day:...
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Gr. 4-6. Thirteen-year-old Maia and her brother live with their aunt and their uncle, a temple priest, in ancient Thebes during the reign of Hatshepsut. Maia, whose brother is secretly teaching her to read and write, is inspired by the voices that only she can hear to ask a question in the temple implying her uncle has...
[ 5699 ]
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17,579
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Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 2–Lear's verse explored the outer limits of the English language in 1871. Now MacDonald uses her acute sense of design and whimsy to introduce another generation to Lear's work. Children will delight in the zany lyrics that, for full effect, should be read aloud and repeated by a y...
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As a child, Dav Pilkey was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hall every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories, so he spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books.In the second grade, Dav Pilkey created a comic ...
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Harry Potter coloring book w/ collectible cards attached inside!; Title: Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire: Coloring and Activities Book
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Kindergarten-Grade 4This story recounts a child's visit to Mali, where she loses her tooth. After she hides it under a calabash, she waits for the African Tooth Fairy to replace it with a chicken. When her patience runs out and she returns to the gourd to retrieve her tooth, a chicken and a rooster emerge. She is delig...
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Just in time for the holidays! The 3nd annual collection of the grossest, strangest, and most unbelievable facts, acts, and oddities ever recorded--it's Ripley's Believe It or Not!It Can't Be . . . Can It?Within these pages, you'll find hundreds of outrageous BRAND-NEW oddities from the fascinating files of Robert Ripl...
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As a child, Dav Pilkey was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hall every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories, so he spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books.In the second grade, Dav Pilkey created a comic ...
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Book; Title: How To Draw Graphic Novels
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Kindergarten-Grade 1–Brilliant color photos of Madagascar panther chameleons highlight this slender story of a male who runs into a defensive female while changing territories in his search for food. Fortunately, she recognizes his peaceful demeanor and accepts his intrusion (no mention of mating). Back matter in...
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book about dianasaurs; Title: Can I Have a Stegosaurus, Mom? Can I? Please!?
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Grade 48This third installment in the series finds 12-year-old djinn twins Philippa and John embarking on a harrowing journey to Northern India and Nepal in search of the long-lost and powerful talisman, the Cobra King of Kathmandu. The twins believe that it holds the answers to certain mysterious deaths and hope to fi...
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You can tell from the very first page that P. B. Kerr had great fun writing his novel, The Akhenaten Adventure. The way the author introduces his cleverly named characters, the atmospheric setting, the fun tone of his narration--all indicate that a hugely entertaining story is in store. The first installment of his Chi...
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Tony Abbott has written more than seventy novels for young readers, including Kringle, The Postcard, and Firegirl, which won SCBWI's 2006 Golden Kite Award. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two daughters.; Title: Secrets Of Droon Special Edition #3: Voyagers Of The Silver Sand
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GERONIMO STILTON is the publisher of The Rodent's Gazette, Mouse Island's most famouse newspaper. In his spare time, Mr. Stilton enjoys collecting antique cheese rinds, playing golf, and telling stories to his nephew Benjamin. He lives in New Mouse City, Mouse Island. Visit Geronimo online at www.scholastic.com/geronim...
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Tony Abbott has written more than seventy novels for young readers, including Kringle, The Postcard, and Firegirl, which won SCBWI's 2006 Golden Kite Award. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two daughters.; Title: Sorcerer (Secrets of Droon Special Edition, No. 4)
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MARGERY CUYLER is the author of many children's books, including the first Little Nell story, The Biggest, Best Snowman; Please Say Please!: Penguin's Guide to Manners; and 100th Day Worries. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.; Title: The Biggest, Best Snowman (Bookshelf)
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R.L. STINE is the creator of the monstrously successful Goosebumps series, which has sold more than 300 million copies worldwide in 32 languages!; Title: Go Eat Worms! (Goosebumps)
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TONY ABBOTT is the author of more than fifty novels for young readers, including more than thirty books in The Secrets of Droon series and two hardcover novels, Kringle and Firegirl. He was born in Ohio and now lives in Connecticut with his wife and two daughters.; Title: The Chariot of Queen Zara (Secrets of Droon #27...
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Grade 7 Up–This book expands on the dragon lore created in The Fire Within (Scholastic, 2005). College student David Rain's new professor, Dr. Bergstrom, a polar research scientist, introduces him to legends from the Arctic and invites him to write an essay about dragons to qualify for a research trip. A successi...
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LAUREN BROOKE lives outside London in an old English farmhouse. She divides her time between writing and mucking out the stalls of her two horses. In addition to writing the twenty-four Heartland books, Lauren is the author of the Chestnut Hill series.; Title: Heartland Super Special: A Holiday Memory
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PreSchool-Grade 2Princess Penelope, an only child who likes to wear a crown, has everything she wants except a younger sibling. When her parents tell her they are expecting a baby, she is convinced that she will finally have a sister. Then Dexter arrives, and she refuses to have anything to do with him. Fortunately, he...
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Chris d'Lacey is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Last Dragon Chronicles: THE FIRE WITHIN, ICEFIRE, FIRE STAR, THE FIRE ETERNAL, DARK FIRE, FIRE WORLD, and THE FIRE ASCENDING. Additionally, he is the author of the middle-grade series The Dragons of Wayward Crescent,...
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