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This modern edition of "Twas the night before Christmas," features four different homes and families, each on Christmas Eve, that reflect the diverse world we live in, lush landscapes and charming scenes capture the wonder and magic of Christmas. What do these four homes share? The excitement and anticipation of the most splendid night of the year. In this tale, the illustrator reminds us that no matter where we live, all children share the same wish...
2) Babu's song
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Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2003.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
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In Tanzania, Bernardi's mute grandfather makes him a wonderful music box and then helps him realize his dream of owning a soccer ball and going to school.
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"Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid--he loves cats and any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyoneon the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 15
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On their a cross-country camping trip, Greg Heffley and his family find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise and when the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation--or if they're already in too deep.
6) Coraline
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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 36
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The magic tree house is back with a message from Morgan le Fay telling Jack and Annie to seek out "The Gray Ghost" and listen to her story, and immediately they are whisked away to Nepal where they meet Tenzin, a climber who has recently lost his family, and who takes them up the mountain to meet a snow leopard and renew himself.
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"The true story of science teacher Soichi Sakamoto, who formed a champion swim club consisting of the Hawaiian and Japanese children of impoverished sugarcane workers in the 1930s. Without a proper pool to swim in, Sakamoto trained his team in irrigation ditches and coached the kids to swim against the natural current, building up the swimmers' strength and endurance. The team overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles and surged onto the national...
9) Telephone
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In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results.
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Captain Underpants volume 1
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When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
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Frank Einstein volume 2
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"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
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Scary stories for young foxes volume 2
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Cozy and her littermates are driven from their suburban den because something is killing the foxes in their area, and so they travel to a strange new world, the City, to confront a new set of dangers, where they meet 0-370, an injured fox who has escapedfrom a fur farm and who gives them a new mission--return to the farm, defeat the humans, and free the caged foxes.
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 4
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In 1900, the shapeshifting guardian of North Carolina's Biltmore estate faces deceptively dark and terrifying forces that make her question her own senses and whom she can trust.
15) Not dead enough
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Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
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405 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages ; 22 cm
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"Charlotte survived the car crash that killed her boyfriend Jerry, but that night, everything changed. Charlotte wants desperately to get back to 'normal,' –whatever that means now– and start reconnecting with friends she hasn't spoken to in months. And she's trying to work through her PTSD with the help of her therapist, only she can't tell the truth about Jerry or what really happened the night he died. Just when Charlotte thinks she...
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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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293 pages ; 22 cm
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Eleven-year-old Chester and his classmate Skye, tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission, discover the key to their spy assignment is to stop a heist, but cracking the code could mean finding out things are not always what they seem.
18) Hidden truths
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Dani and Eric have been best friends since Dani moved next door in second grade--until one summer when everything changes.
19) My Jasper June
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Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
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291 pages ; 22 cm
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The school year is over, and it is summer in Atlanta. The sky is blue, the sun is blazing, and the days brim with possibility. But Leah feels lost. She has been this way since one terrible afternoon a year ago when everything changed. Since that day, her parents have become distant, her friends have fallen away, and Leah's been adrift and alone. Then she meets Jasper, a girl unlike anyone she has ever known. There's something mysterious about Jasper,...
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"Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author's boyhood spent in his sister's hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the enduring and complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed, but fiercely protective older brother. It features a cast...
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