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New Children's Books & Audio
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Jonathan Allen. "I'm Not Scared!"
When Baby Owl takes his stuffed Owly out for a walk in the moonlit woods, he insists that he is not afraid of the other animals that keep popping up and making them jump.
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Ivor Baddiel and Sophie Jubb. Cock-a-Doodle! Quack!
Quack! A baby rooster learns through trial and error what sounds he must crow in the morning to wake up the rest of the farm.
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Anthony Browne. My Brother
A child describes the many wonderful things about "my brother," who can fly, write amazing stories, and stand up to bullies.
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Robert O. Bruel. Bob and Otto
Otto the worm is shocked to discover that his best friend Bob is actually a caterpillar who emerges one day as a butterfly.
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Nancy Carleson. Loudmouth George Earns His
Allowance George tries to trick his brothers into doing his chores for him so that he can go to the movies with his friend, but things do not turn out exactly the way he wants them to.
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Mary Casanova. Some Dog!
A stray dog moves into George's formerly peaceful home, dazzling the man and woman of the house with lively tricks and antics that just leave George exhausted.
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Cornelia Funke. Princess Pigsty
Tired of being a princess, the youngest of three sisters throws her crown out the window and finds happiness working in the royal kitchen and pigsty.
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David McPhail. Big Brown Bear's Birthday Surprise
An excited Bear mistakenly believes that Rat has given him a boat for his birthday.
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Charlotte Zolotow. A Father Like That
A young boy shares with his mother his daydreams about the father who left before he was born.
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Jean Van Leeuwen. Amanda Pig, First Grader
Amanda is very excited about starting first grade, and although everything is not exactly as she expected, she soon begins learning to read and finding her way.
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Nancy Markham Alberts. Joselina Piggy Goes Out
Joselina wakes up eager to go outside, but Big Pig Papa has many reasons for waiting, beginning with the fact that it is still dark.
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Patricia Lakin. Max & Mo's First Day of School
When Max and Mo, two class hamsters, return to school and are placed in the Art Room, they use supplies found there to spell out their names for the students. Includes directions for making a nametag using household items.
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Sarah Weeks. Pip Squeak
Pip Squeak the mouse works hard to clean the house for his friend Max's visit, but then he has to clean up after Max too.
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Harriet Ziefert. Green Boots, Blue Hair, Polka-Dot
Underwear Easy-to-read text invites the reader to choose what to wear, from hats in assorted colors to different kinds of sleepwear.
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Peter Eastman. Fred and Ted Like to Fly
Friends Fred and Ted fly their planes to the beach and enjoy spending the day together, even though they do things very differently all along the way.
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Erica Silverman. Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: School Days
Cocoa, the horse, does not want Cowgirl Kate to go to school without him.
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Peggy Perry Anderson. Joe on the Go
Joe the frog wants to be on the go, but even at a family reunion he is out of luck, as everyone says they are too busy, or he is too fast, too slow, too big, or too small to go with them, until Grandma invites him to go with her on a special outing.
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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. The Lacemaker and the
Princess In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.
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Peggy Gifford. Moxy Maxwell Does Not Like Stuart
Little With summer coming to an end, about-to-be-fourth-grader Moxy Maxwell does a hundred different things to avoid reading her assigned summer reading book.
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Carolyn Keene. The Nancy Drew Sleuth Book
In solving a series of mysteries, Nancy Drew and her Detective Club study techniques of criminal investigation involving handwriting, fingerprints, codes, and moulages.
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R. L. LaFevers. Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
Twelve-year-old Theo uses arcane knowledge and her own special talent when she encounters two secret societies, one sworn to protect the world from ancient Egyptian magic and one planning to harness it to bring chaos to the world, both of which want a valuable artifact stolen from the London museum for which her parents work.
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Ann M. Martin. Welcome to Camden Falls
Following the death of their parents, Flora and Ruby move in with their grandmother Min, who runs a sewing store at the heart of Main Street in the small town of Camden Falls.
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Megan McDonald. Stink and the World's Worst Super-
Stinky Sneakers A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.
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Ann Whitehead Nagda. Tarantula Power!
Forced to work with the class bully on a project to design a new breakfast cereal, Richard also tries to stop him from picking on second-graders by using tarantula power.
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Dean Pitchford. The Big One-Oh
Determined not to be weird all his life like his neighbor, Charley Maplewood decides to throw himself a tenth birthday party, complete with a "house of horrors" theme, but first he will have to make some friends to invite.
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Nancy Springer. The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola, disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-year-old daughter in nineteenth-century London.
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New Children's Nonfiction
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Peter Chrisp. Ancient Rome
A fact-packed book plus links to safe, homework-helpful Web sites.
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Stephen Cole. Shrek: The Complete Guide
A guide to the characters and places which appear in the first three Shrek movies.
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John Farrell. Stargazer's Alphabet: Night-Sky Wonders
from A to Z An introduction to stars, planets, and other astronomical objects written into an alphabet book.
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Ted Hughes. Collected Poems for Children
A collection of fun poems for children.
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Loreen Leedy. It's Probably Penny
Lisa and her class learn about probability.
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Eileen Christelow. Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree
Five little monkeys sitting in a tree discover, one by one, that it is unwise to tease Mr. Crocodile. Read by Cheryl McMahon.
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John Vernon Lord and Janet Burroway. The Giant Jam
Sandwich When four million wasps fly into their village, the citizens of Itching Down devise a way of getting rid of them. Read by George Capaccio.
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James Marshall. George and Martha
Relates several episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses. Read by Jeff Loeb.
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John R. Erickson. The Case of the Booby-Trapped
Pickup Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, almost loses his job after two fiasco-filled rides in Slim's pickup truck. Read by the author.
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Derek Landy. Skulduggery Pleasant
When twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgely inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with ace detective Skulduggery Pleasant, a walking, talking, fire-throwing skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones. Read by Rupert Degas.
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