Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Press
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After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle’s compound and recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way — a [...]
Rating: (18 reviews)
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Illustrated in full color. Children will be cheered just contemplating the outrageous array of troubles they’re lucky they don’t have.
Format: Hardcover, 47pp. ISBN: 0394827198 Publisher: Random House, Incorporated Pub. Date: October 1973 Recommend Age Range: 4 to 8
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“When I was quite [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Philomel
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For Hutch, shortstop has always been home. It’s where his father once played professionally, before injuries relegated him to watching games on TV instead of playing them. And it’s where Hutch himself has always played and starred. Until now. The arrival of Darryl “D-Will” Williams, [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Judy Blundell
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Former Jedi apprentice Ferus Olin must choose — the way of the Jedi… or the dark side? The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Kathi Appelt
Publisher: Atheneum
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There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the [...]
Rating: (61 reviews)
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Publisher: Square Fish
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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Nancy Yi Fan
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Wind-voice the half-dove, formerly enslaved, is now free, and Maldeor, the one-winged archaeopteryx, hungers for supreme power.
Can Wind-voice and his valiant companions—Ewingerale, the wood-pecker scribe; Stormac, the myna warrior; and Fleydur, the musician eagle—save the future of their world?
An [...]
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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MORGAN, THE MAGICAL librarian of Camelot, sends Jack and Annie to find lost stories in the ancient worlds of Roman Pompeii, imperial China, Dark Age Ireland, and classical Greece. Will the books help them in their darkest hours? This boxed set includes four [...]
Rating: (27 reviews)
Author: Sharon Lovejoy
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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Green thumbs and non-green thumbs alike will fall in love with Roots, Shoots, Buckets, & Boots, a remarkably fun and informative introduction to the wonderful world of gardening–and more specifically, gardening with children. Learn how to make everything from a pizza garden (pizza-pie-shaped, with [...]
Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Hobbs Ann Julia, Carla Fisher
Publisher: Rainbow Bridge Publishing (UT)
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NEW and Improved Summer Bridge Activities for 2006! This year the bestselling summer workbook features new covers, new activities, new reading lists, updated bonus sections, and a whole lot more to give kids a summer learning experience [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Alex Firth
Publisher: Usborne Books
Rating: (635 reviews)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Starscape
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Ender’s Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender’s Game. By “parallel,” Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Press
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When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery- including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while others in the village have [...]
Rating: (140 reviews)
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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In the classic tradition of E.L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, debut author Blue Balliett introduces readers to another pair of precocious kids on an artful quest full of patterns, puzzles, and the power of blue M&Ms. Eleven year [...]
Rating: (2649 reviews)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
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It’s hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the much anticipated sequel to the [...]
Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
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There’s trouble at the Castle, and it’s all because Merrin Meredith has returned with Darke plans for Septimus. More trouble awaits Septimus and Jenna in the form of Tertius Fume, the ghost of the very first Chief Hermetic Scribe, who is determined [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ted Bell
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
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In the grand tradition of epic novels like Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island comes a wondrous tale of time travel, adventure, and riches, in which twelve-year-old Nick McIver sets out to become “the hero of his own life.”
The setting is England, 1939, on [...]
Rating: (163 reviews)
Author: Judy Blume
Publisher: Puffin
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Passed on from babysitters to their young charges, from big sisters to little brothers, and from parents to children, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and its cousins (Superfudge, Fudge-a-mania, and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great) have entertained children since they first appeared in the [...]
Rating: (140 reviews)
Author: Warren Hanson
Publisher: Waldman House Press
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: School Specialty Publishing
Publisher: American Education Publishing
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Offering an entire grade 3 curriculum, this best-selling Comprehensive Curriculum workbook features educational activities and instruction. Containing 544 pages organized [...]
Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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Redesigned. Reformatted. Remastered. Resequenced. Ready for Re-release. And it was already great to begin with!
Before there was Philadelphia Chickens, the #1 New York Times and Publishers Weekly children’s bestseller with 319,000 copies in print, there was Rhinoceros Tap, the collection of seriously silly [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
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It’s raining outside, but all Max wants to do is play baseball. So his big sister Ruby struggles to get him into his rain gear: red boots, yellow slicker, and orange rain hat. But see what happens when Max is [...]