Moore Christina
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Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
63) Cam Jansen
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Contains six stories featuring the character Cam Jansen, a young detective who uses her photographic memory to solve crimes.
64) The Gap Year
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From the widely praised author of The Yokota Officers Club and The Flamenco Academy, a novel as hilarious as it is heartbreaking about a single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learning how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest.
In The Gap Year, told with perfect pitch from both points of view, we meet Cam Lightsey, lactation consultant extraordinaire, a divorcée still
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Classic stories and dazzling illustrations of gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters come to life in a stunning tableau of Norse myths, including those of the thunder god Thor, the one-eyed god and Allfather Odin, and the trickster god Loki. The lyrical storytelling of award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli dramatizes the timeless tales of ancient Scandinavia.
67) The pinballs
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Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.
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Eva Brown, who coined the acronym 'ACMI' (Adult Children of the Mentally Ill), wrote this book as a supportive and encouraging guide for dealing with the challenging legacy of growing up with a mentally ill parent. Richly peppered with quotes from interviews with ACMIs, My Parent's Keeper covers issues ranging from being a 'parentified child' to dealing with unstable aging parents.
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Kaya is an adventurous Nez Perce girl growing up before America became a country. When her courage is tested, Kaya draws strength from the traditions and legends her elders share. Kaya listens closely, because she dreams of one day becoming a leader for her people just like Swan Circling, the bold warrior woman who is her hero.
74) Pray for rain
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Young New York journalist Emma Gardner returns to the idyllic Central California farming community where she was raised, only to find it has been ravaged by drought and has become a place ruled by gangs, violent threats, and greed. She is forced to investigate the suspicious circumstances of her father's death even though it puts her in great danger.
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Books to Celebrate Spring!
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city.
76) Stellaluna
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After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
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"This updated edition vetted by an expert introduces young readers to everything they would want to know about the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, alligators and crocodiles. With kid-friendly text and diagrams, Gibbons compares the two reptiles--their physical differences, what they eat, where they are found, how fast they swim, how they raise their young, and more. Kids will want to read this book again and again to learn all about these crocodilians...
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Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was ... nothing. But then ... BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. The author takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while illustrations capture the void before the Big...
79) Practical magic
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*25th Anniversary Edition*—with an Introduction by the Author!
The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons, and The Book of Magic.
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have...
The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons, and The Book of Magic.
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have...
80) Frogs
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An introduction to frogs, discussing their tadpole beginnings, noises they make, their hibernation, body parts, and how they differ from toads.