Kids
Leaves! Leaves! Leaves!
During the four seasons of the year Buddy Bear and his mother go "leaf walking" and discover a lot of interesting things about leaves.
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Wonderstruck
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City,
and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Dear Hound
When Alfie, a timid deerhound puppy, gets lost in the woods, he will do almost anything--including befriending a pair of foxes--to find his way home to his beloved boy,
who refuses to believe Alfie is gone for good.
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Dragon Slayers' Academy: Class Trip to the Cave of Doom
#3 in the fun Dragon Slayers' Academy: Wiglaf joins the other students of Dragon Slayers' Academy in searching the Dark Forest for the Cave of Doom, which supposedly
contains the gold of the dead dragon Seetha.
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One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street
The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility
that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
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The Hallelujah Flight
In 1932, James Banning had a dream: to fly across the country and inspire people brought low by the Great Depression.
But for an African American pilot—even an ace like Banning—this was no easy feat!
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How to scratch a wombat : where to find it...what to feed it...why it sleeps all day
What's the best way to scratch a wombat? Well, if it's a wombat that's familiar with humans, says author Jackie French, you rub the bony ridge along its back or behind...
its ears. And the harder you scratch, the better the wombat likes it. For more than thirty years, Jackie French has lived in the Australian bush, coexisting with wild wombats. In this cross between memoir and natural history, Jackie shares her often hilarious adventures with her wombats neighbors and describes their physiology, history, and habits. Bruce Whatley adds pencil drawings in both comic and realistic styles. It's a book that's perfect for the budding naturalist. It's an easy read. It's full of funny stories. It's science with a heart.
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Trouble at the Treasury
Check out this installment of the Capital Mysteries where KC and Marshall take a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and when they discover that someone has
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Brains for Lunch: a Zombie Novel in Hiku?!
Middle School, Zombies and Haiku, what more do you need in a novel? At a middle school where zombies, blood-sucking chupacabras, and humans never mingle,
"lifer" Siobhan and Loeb, a zombie who likes to write haiku, share an attraction. Story written entirely in haiku.
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Wait No Paint!
The three little pigs are in their usual trouble with the big bad wolf, until a mysterious Voice gets involved and mixes things up.
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