Marla Frazee
3) Little Brown
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"Little Brown is grumpy and lonely at the dog park, until he decides to take matters into his own hands."--
8) Clementine
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While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made children her passion and her cause. Her experience with children strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed is inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child. This book chronicles her quest to discover how we can make our society into the kind...
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Waylon is something of a kid genius, who comes up with ideas to make life awesome--like teleportation, gills for humans, and the ability to control gravity and, in the process, cupcakes. However, things at school are making it really hard to invent anything, with Arlo Brody dividing fourth grade into two groups, and his older sister, Neon, suddenly dressing in all black and not getting excited about anything anymore.
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Science wiz Waylon and his classmate Baxter, who seems more inclined to get in trouble than do school work, both love the stray dog called Dumpster Eddy. So when they learn he'll be sent to an animal shelter in ten days, the two boys must partner up to save Eddy. Their unlikely partnership is Eddy's only hope.
18) Mrs. Biddlebox
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With baking magic, Mrs. Biddlebox uses fog, dirt, sky, and other ingredients of a rotten day to transform it into a sweet cake.
19) Stars
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Explores the wonder of stars, whether they are in the night sky, on a plant as a promise of fruit to come, or in one's pocket for those days when one does not feel shiny.