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Author: Avi
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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A vicious captain, a mutinous crew – and a young girl caught in the middle
Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen [...]
Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: School Specialty Publishing
Publisher: American Education Publishing
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Offering an entire Preschool curriculum, this best-selling Comprehensive Curriculum workbook features educational activities and instruction. Containing 544 pages organized by [...]
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Author: Peter Howe
Publisher: HarperCollins
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He is nameless. He is homeless. He is friendless. He is lost.
Until he is found . . . by a team of mutts who shelter him and teach him how to survive the wilds of the city park.
And so he [...]
Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Jeremy Fink has been obsessed with the meaning of life ever since a box from his father arrived at his house five years after his father was killed in a car accident. Jeremy is determined to find the missing keys that [...]
Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Greg Tang
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps–in a blink of an eye? If children can open their minds to new ways of perceiving math, anything is possible! Greg Tang [...]
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Joseph Bharat Cornell
Publisher: Dawn Publications (CA)
Book Description
As Joseph Cornell’s classic book reached its 20th anniversary, Cornell drew upon a wealth of experience in nature education to significantly revise and expand his book. New nature games—favorites from the field - and Cornell’s typically insightful commentary makes the second edition [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
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The Story of the World CD audiobook is a collaboration between Jim Weiss, whose voice is “liquid gold” (CNN TV), and Susan Wise Bauer, whose writing has been described as “timeless and intelligent” (Publishers Weekly). These spirited readings of the first volume [...]
Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Puffin
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Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the familys escape from Cuba, Michaels only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If [...]
Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
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Artemis’s mother has contracted a deadly disease–and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in [...]
Rating: (152 reviews)
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Although her books have been enjoyed by generations of kids, Beverly Cleary herself didn’t enjoy reading as a child at least not at first. In first grade she was grouped with the slowest readers in her class.
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When, in second grade, Leigh writes to an [...]
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he’s the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians’ time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to [...]
Rating: (46 reviews)
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Vintage
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter, Dan Jolley
Publisher: TokyoPop
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When kittypet Tiny crosses paths with some wild forest cats defending their territory, he is left with scars—and a bitter, deep-seated grudge. As his reputation grows among the strays and loners that live in the dirty brick alleyways of Twolegplace, he changes [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Enter the world of Septimus Heap
With heart-stopping action, humor, and endearing characters, Septimus Heap is an internationally bestselling fantasy sesries