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Amber Stewart. Rabbit Ears
Hopscotch the rabbit refuses to wash his ears until his older cousin comes to visit and he learns something about being grown up.
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Pat Hutchins. Bumpety Bump!
A boy helps his grandfather on the farm, showing the hen that follows them all that he can do.
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Marjorie Dennis Murray. Hippo Goes Bananas!
As animals tell one another about Hippo's strange behavior, each makes up something terrible to add to the story, until they are frightened that Hippo will destroy the Serengeti itself.
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Jerry Pinkney. The Little Red Hen
A newly illustrated edition of the classic fable of the hen who is forced to do all the work of baking bread and of the animals who learn a bitter lesson from it. |
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Gail Page. How to Be a Good Dog
Cat helps Bobo the dog show Mrs. Birdhead how good he is.
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Rhode Montijo. Cloud Boy
A lonely little cloud boy uses his imagination to overcome his loneliness.
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Sarah Weeks. Overboard!
From morning to night, a young child playfully grabs and throws items, including a bathtime rubber ducky and snacktime raisins.
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Damian Harvey. Just the Thing!
Big Gorilla tries everything to relieve the pesky itch in the middle of his back, from rubbing against a tree to rolling in the mud, until he finds the solution close at hand.
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Margie Palatini. Oink?
Frustrated because the pigs just lie around in the mud all day, the other animals on the farm try to make them improve themselves.
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Karen Gray Ruelle. Dear Tooth Fairy
When her tooth becomes loose, Emily excitedly writes to the Tooth Fairy and tries to help the tooth fall out.
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Michael Teitelbaum. The X-Men School
An account of the X-Men School, founded by Professor X, including how future X-Men are trained in its Danger Room.
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Richard Torrey. Beans Baker's Best Shot
Beans Baker cannot play in his championship soccer game because his foot is in a cast.
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Tennant Redbank. The Chase is On
Captain Jack Sparrow is once again up to his pirate high jinks. Joined by the dashing Will Turner and the daring Elizabeth Swann, Jack is plunged into an all-out adventure. But as usual, Jack has gotten into more trouble than he bargained for. And this time, there seems to be no way out!
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Elissa Haden Guest. Iris and Walter and the Birthday Party
At Walter's birthday party his guests are supposed to go for horseback rides, but his horse Rain has other plans on the day of the party.
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Jean Van Leeuwen. Oliver Pig and the Best Fort Ever
Oliver Pig decides to build a fort in the backyard and his friends become involved with the project as well.
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Barbara Dee. Just Another Day in My Insanely Real Life
With her father "out of the picture" and her mother working long hours, twelve-year-old Cassie unconsciously describes her anger and confusion in a fantasy novel she is writing for school.
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Cynthia Kadohata. Weedflower
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
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Suzy Kline. Herbie Jones and the Second Grade Slippers
Herbie, Ray, and their second-grade classmates learn more about treating each other with respect.
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Frances Hardinge. Fly by Night
A twelve-year-old orphan, Mosca Mye, and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man Eponymous Clent, driven by her love of language to find a better life.
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Michelle Paver. Spirit Walker
When a deadly illness begins to afflict the clans, twelve-year-old Torak, with help from Renn and Wolf, embarks on a journey to find a cure.
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Kevin Brockmeier. Grooves: a Kind of Mystery
After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen.
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New Children's Nonfiction
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Andrew C. Revkin. The North Pole Was Here
Discover the North Pole and the arctic ice that covers the ocean water there. Learn about historical expeditions, and the recent one the author joined and where these chapters were written.
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Claire Watts. Natural Disasters
Describes a wide range of natural disasters including earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, landslides, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and epidemics.
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Carrie Love. I Can Draw Dinosaurs
Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing dinosaurs.
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Diane Siebert. Tour America: a Journey Through Poems
and Art From New Hampshire's formidable Mount Washington to San Francisco's spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, the scenic treasures of the United States are brilliantly captured in this artistic tour de force, with inventive poems paired with compelling imagery.
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Janice Weaver & Frieda Wishinsky. It's Your Room: a
Decorating Guide for Real Kids Enough cute little bunnies dancing across your walls or toy trains and nursery rhymes plastered above your bed. That was the old you. It's time now to transform your space, to learn how to make it sparkle using more imagination than money.
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