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First the egg מאת Laura Vaccaro Seeger

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Polo and Lily (The Adventures of Polo) מאת Regis Faller In comic-book-style panels, Polo's newest adventure unfolds. A flying cloud carrying a sleeping rabbit gets stuck in the branches of Polo's tree-home bringing an unexpected visit from a feisty, practical-joke-loving new friend. A light-hearted and sweet tale about making new friends and ke...

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Cat Among the Pigeons (A Cat Royal Adventure) מאת Julia Golding MYSTERY, DISGUISES, AND A FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. The second episode in the CAT ROYAL ADVENTURE series plunges readers into the underbelly of London in a mission for justice. Pedro’s old slave master wants him back, but his friends on Drury Lane won’t give him up without a fight. ...

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Lemons Are Not Red מאת Laura Vaccaro Seeger Lemons are not Red. Apples are red. Lemons are yellow. . . .Clever cutouts in the pages make a simple, original, and utterly beguiling introduction to color.Laura Vaccaro Seeger, whose The Hidden Alphabet dazzled critics and readers alike, introduces young children to color in...

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Dog and Bear (Neal Porter Books) (Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner-Best Picture Book) (Awards)) מאת Laura Vaccaro Seeger Laura Vaccaro Seeger's highly praised concept books have introduced children to colors, opposites, emotions, and the alphabet. Now she guides children on the first steps to reading with three sweet, funny stories about a stuffed bear and a frisky dachshund who happen to be best friends. Si...

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Clever Duck מאת Dick King-Smith FEATHERS FLY when one smart duck decides to teach the farmyard know-it-alls a lesson. Damaris is a duck. Not the ordinary, silly, jumping-inpuddles kind of duck—she’s a very clever duck. So when the farmyard pigs start picking on the other animals, Damaris and her shee...

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Den of Thieves (A Cat Royal Adventure) מאת Julia Golding TRAITORS, CAPTIVES, AND A PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION   The third volume of the CAT ROYAL ADVENTURE series takes readers to Paris on a covert mission. The Theater Royal is closed for renovations, so Mr. Sheridan commissions Cat to act as his spy in re...

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Black? White! Day? Night! - A Book of Opposites (Ala Notable Children's Books (Awards)) (Neal Porter Books) מאת Laura Vaccaro Seeger Having explored the alphabet (The Hidden Alphabet), colors (Lemons Are Not Red), and emotions (Walter Was Worried), Laura Vaccaro Seeger turns her extraordinary talents to opposites in this bright, colorful and imaginative book. Through a  series of ingenious die-cut ...

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Polo and the Dragon (The Adventures of Polo) מאת Regis Faller Polo's life is never boring. And POLO AND THE DRAGON is proof. A sea voyage under snowy skies leads Polo to open a magical door and find a new fire-breathing friend. Without a single word, Polo paints an imaginative picture that will captivate the youngest of readers. ...

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The Diamond of Drury Lane (A Cat Royal Adventure) מאת Julia Golding MYSTERY, TREASURE, AND A LIFE ON THE STAGE.  The first episode of the adventures of Cat Royal is a big, fat juicy read.   She’s Cat Royal – four foot four, with long red hair, green eyes and not a penny she can call her own. But she does know a secret – where a treas...

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The Train Jumper מאת Don Brown OUT OF WORK AND OUT OF LUCK.  Ed "Collie" Collier encounters hobos, misers, racists, and even some kindness while riding the rails during the Great Depression.   Collie leaves home in search of his older brother, who has run off.  Battling hunger, hostility, and...

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All Stations! Distress!: April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank מאת Don Brown THE "UNSINKABLE" MEETS THE UNTHINKABLE -- A gripping acount of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic.   It took 4,000 men to build it, 23 tons of animal grease to slide it into the ocean, 100,000 people to wave bon voyage, but only one wrong move to tear the Titanic ap...

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At Gleason's Gym מאת Ted Lewin A KNOCKOUT OF A BOOK about the world's most famous gym.   "At Gleason's Gym the world works out.  It's down on the Brooklyn waterfront just a left hook away from the Brooklyn Bridge."  This spectacular book puts you smack in the middle of the action.  But it's more than ...

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How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird מאת Jacques Prevert A GIFT FOR EVERYONE   A child wakes up, puts up an easel, picks up a brush and paints--paints a perch, a tree, the warmth of the sun and the sound of the summer breeze, and eventually a bird comes and sings.  This is both the most personal and the most universal of books f...

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Bad Baby מאת Ross MacDonald Jack was having another perfect day. In fact, you could say that his whole life was perfect, except that he wanted someone to share it with. That someone arrives in the form of a new baby sister who keeps growing...and growing...until she's about ten stories tall, wreaking havoc with ...

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Walter Was Worried (Neal Porter Books) מאת Laura Vaccaro Seeger Opposite the simple declarative sentence, "Walter was worried" is a portrait of a very worried Walter. But wait! The letters that spell out his feelings form his facial characteristics, as well as his expression. Gradually a simple story unfolds: the sky grows dark, the fog rolls in, light...

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A Book מאת Mordicai Gerstein A CHILD IN SEARCH OF HER STORY Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein looks at books from a whole new angle. Once upon a time there was a family who lived in a book. All but the youngest had stories they belonged to--fighting fires, exploring space, entertaining in the circus--...

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Dinosaur Trouble מאת Dick King-Smith SOMETIMES THE MOST UNLIKELY PAIRS MAKE THE BEST OF FRIENDS.  A hilarious prehistoric yarn for newly-independent readers from a master of children's animal stories. All pterodactyls know that flying dinosaurs are superior, and all apatosauruses know that any dinosaur with onl...

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Cat O'Nine Tails (A Cat Royal Adventure) מאת Julia Golding Cat is finally living a life of luxury--and so bored she's going out of her mind. But then she and her friends are kidnapped and forced to work on a ship bound for the New World. With a mystery to solve and survival at stake, Cat must use her wits to save herself and her friends. ...

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Cookie מאת Jacqueline Wilson Cookie is plain and shy, not the confident, popular girl her father wanted when he named her Beauty Cookson. Her mother helps her cook up a clever scheme to change her image--but, as usual, Dad doesn't approve, and this time his anger reaches frightening new heights. Will Cookie find the streng...

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Silent Music מאת James Rumford WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sould of war with a pen.   Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns t...

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Polo: The Runaway Book (The Adventures of Polo) מאת Regis Faller Here’s a new volume every bit as charming and as mesmerizing as its companion, The Adventures of Polo. When the resourceful dog sets aside his brand-new book and drifts off to sleep, a curious little creature makes off with it. Polo follows in hot pursuit, setting the stage for a ne...

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Bob and Otto מאת Robert O. Bruel Bob and Otto do best-friend kinds of things together--eating leaves, digging, playing--until the day Bob decides to climb a tree, simply because . . . he has to. When the two meet again, Otto is still the same dirt-loving earthworm, but Bob has done the unthinkable: grown wings. Friendshi...

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Good Morning China מאת Hu Yong Yi A DAY IN THE LIFE OF CHINA.  Playing, exercising, resting under a lotus tree: the things happening in an ordinary park on an ordinary morning.   Early morning, and a community is coming to life.  Children are playing, an artist is painting, people are exercis...

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I Am I (Neal Porter Books) מאת Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick Two small boys in warrior garb peer at each other across a deserted landscape. Each is suspicious of the other; each is proud and boastful. And so, an argument breaks out that grows bigger and bigger, until it threatens to consume them and everything around them.   In this unusual bo...

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Another Perfect Day מאת Ross MacDonald "Life is Rich," sighed Jack, as he settled back in his job as Chief Flavor Tester for the World's Best Ice Cream Company. "This is turning out to be my most perfect day yet!"But just when he thought things couldn't possibly get any better, they started to get a little . . . funny.

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Scaredy-Cat Catcher (Gym Shorts) מאת Betty Hicks The latest book in the Gym Shorts series is a grand slam with new readers. Rocky was the best catcher in the league until an out-of-control runner broke his arm. Now his arm is healed, but he's developed a reflex that keeps him from tagging out the runner. Young readers will ...

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Get Real מאת Betty Hicks Dez is unusually neat. Her mom and dad are unusually messy. They like Cheez Whiz and swamps. Dez likes elegant food and grand pianos. How can she even be related to them? And how can Dez help her best friend, Jil, who’s adopted and who will stop at nothing in order to meet her birth...

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The Cat's Tale: Why the Years Are Named for Animals מאת Doris Orgel WHY ARE THE YEARS IN THE CHINESE CALENDAR NAMED AFTER ANIMALS?  A young girl and her grandmother learn that being far apart in years doesn’t mean they have nothing in common. Mao the cat and her master, Willow, are less than thrilled when Willow’s grandmother, her Nai-Nai, ca...

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The Wooden Mile: Something Wickedly Weird, vol. 1 מאת Chris Mould   THE WOODEN MILE VOLUME 1:  PIRATES…WEREWOLVES…LOST TREASURE AND A SPOOKY HOUSE Something Wickedly Weird is most definitely here! Crampton Rock seems like a lovely seaside town…at least until dark. When eleven-year-old Stanley Buggles inherits a house from a ...

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The Gladiators from Capua (The Roman Mysteries) מאת Caroline Lawrence March, AD 80. In Rome the Emperor Titus has announced that there will be a hundred days of games to open the new Flavian amphitheatre (now known as the Colosseum). Suspecting that their friend Jonathan is not dead, as they had thought, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus organie an invitation to Rome...

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The Darkling Curse: Something Wickedly Weird, vol. 4 מאת Chris Mould Stanley's claim on Candlestick Hall (the old house that his Great Uncle Bart left to Stanley in his will) is being seriously questioned by a creepy family named the Darklings. They are obviously up to no good, and Stanley knows it, but how can he prove that Candlestick Hall is truly his? <...

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Kid Blink Beats the World מאת Don Brown "It was all for a penny.They left their cramped and crowded tenement apartments for a penny.They scurried beside the pushcart peddlers for a penny.They dodged street trolleys and horse drawn wagons for a penny.And in the summer of 1899, Kid Blink, Race Track Higgins, T...

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Hitler's Canary מאת Sandi Toksvig "My brother stood up so quickly he almost knocked Mama over. 'Why aren't you doing something? Do you know what the British are calling us? Hitler's canary! I've heard it on the radio, on the BBC. They say he has us in a cage and we just sit and sing any tune he wants.'"

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The Midnight Charter מאת David Whitley In a society based on trade, where everything can be bought and sold, the future rests on the secrets of a single document-and the lives of two children whose destiny it is to discover its secrets. In this spellbinding novel, newcomer David Whitley has imagined a nation at a crossroads: misshap...

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The Mouse Family Robinson מאת Dick King-Smith GET READY TO EMBARK ON A TINY ADVENTURE! “You mean you’re going to have a baby?” “Babies.” The Robinsons are expecting…trouble, that is. With six newborn mousekins and more to come, the whole family is terrified of the savage cat who stalks the hallways. After a...

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Boing! מאת Nick Bruel A baby kangaroo tries desperately to learn how to jump, but can't quite make the leap. . . Again and again she tries, with the hearty encouragement of a frog, a grasshopper, and a rabbit, not to mention his doting Mama. But instead of boinging he blomps, bloomps, and blomps. But then, a koa...

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Little Red Bird מאת Nick Bruel SOMETHING NEW AND UNEXPECTED – sweet and gentle– from the creator of Bad Kitty and Poor Puppy.   Sweetly enchanting paintings and a gently rhyming text tell the tale of the little red bird who is quite content in her cage, but curious… When the cage door is lef...

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Who Is Melvin Bubble? מאת Nick Bruel Who is this kid with the funny name? Well, that depends on who you ask. Everybody who knows Melvin—his mom, his dad, his best friend Jimmy, his dog—even Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the big ugly monster with three eyes who lives in his closet have a different opinion.  This ...

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Alien Feast (Chronicles of the First Invasion) מאת Michael Simmons THE WAR OF THE WORLDS MEETS DOUGLAS ADAMS as two kids and one old man prepare to save the world. Things are getting better with the alien invasion. Sure it’s still not too uncommon to come home and find your step-parents reduced to a pile of unsavory feet—but at least now with the ...

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ABC3D מאת Marion Bataille "Easily the most innovative alpabet book of the year, if not the decade... Beyond clever."—The Washington Post   Prepare to be amazed. From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands all the way to the Z, ABC3D is as much a w...

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The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina: The Roman Mysteries, Book VI מאת Caroline Lawrence A mysterious widow pursues Flavia's father and a lion terrorizes the streets of Ostia in the sixth "Roman Mysteries" adventure.December, A.D. 79. It is the month of the Saturnalia, a festival when people do as they please, and anything can happen. When a Roman widow, Cartilia Poplica, shows ...

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Out of Order מאת Betty Hicks One million American children become part of blended family every year. What happens to stepsiblings when the oldest child suddenly becomes the middle child, and the youngest even younger? Out of Order delivers four electric points of view from stepsiblings, ages nine to fifteen, in a...

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Bad Kitty מאת Nick Bruel From the creator of The New York Times bestseller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk -- four times over an in alphabetical order each time. Kitty is not happy hen she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are Asparagus, Beets, Caul...

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Let It Begin Here!: April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began מאת Don Brown ONE DAY THAT CHANGED A NATION A nonfiction master brings the start of the American Revolution to life.   A 26-year-old King George II found himself in financial turmoil after crushing the French, Austrians, and Spanish in battle. Luckily money was no object since...

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Soccer Chick Rules מאת Dawn FitzGerald If the levy doesn?t pass, there will be no buses for away-games, no uniforms, no teams. Tess plans to follow her own rules for soccer chicks. Soccer Chick Rule Number 3?Always support your teammates! But when real life doesn?t offer a slam-dunk ending, Tess realizes there may be something ...

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One Boy מאת Laura Vaccaro Seeger A CLASSIC IN THE MAKING FROM THE 2008 CALDECOTT HONOR WINNER ONE BOY is a perfect example of why Kirkus Reviews calls Laura Vaccaro Seeger the “emerging master of the concept book”—a die-cut book exploring counting and words-withinwords, and the power of art an...

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My Father's Son מאת Terri Fields WHAT IF YOUR FATHER ISN’T WHO YOU THOUGHT HE WAS? “I turn up the volume as a woman at a news desk announces, ‘This just in…the alleged DB25 monster has been arrested.’ Good. The camera switches from the anchor to a mug shot…and it is my face—or at least my face as it...

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Old MacDonald Drives a Tractor מאת Don Carter Old Mac's tractor isn't just for getting around the farm. It also pulls a seeder, follows a combine, and even helps him get his animals to the country fair. Along with the bouncy, rhyming text, Don Carter's vivid dimensional art showcases each piece of equipment and includes all of kids' favori...

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Dog and Bear: Two's Company מאת Laura Vaccaro Seeger WHAT'S BETTER THAN ONE DOG AND BEAR BOOK?  TWO!   In three new stories, the two dearest of friends celebrate Bear's birthday, have their first falling out, and take care of each other when Dog is under the weather. ...

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Polo and the Magic Flute (The Adventures of Polo) מאת Regis Faller BY SEA, BY BUS, OR BY MAGIC CARPET Polo explores more of his magical world. A simple boat ride turns into a journey of fun and discovery with towering waves leading to a mysterious forest and a strange koala carrying a flute. When the Koala disappears with a *pop*, Polo sets ...

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There מאת Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick When will I get There? How will I know? A little girl ponders what the future holds, steadfast in her determination to find out for herself. Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick's gorgeous landscapes and the briefest of text speak to the power of imagination. Readers of all ages will fin...

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Holdup (Deborah Brodie Books) מאת Terri Fields Always caution, Joe has never even gotten so much as an after-school detention. So how is it that this Saturday night, he's at Burger Heaven, waving a loaded gun, yelling at the teen workers to get down on the floor NOW?   Dylan has always succeeded at his twisted plans--until thi...

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Mr. Wellington מאת David Rabe An acclaimed playwright's first work for children...A gentle and thoroughly original animal story Young Jonathan finds a small, frightened squirrel on the road and brings it home tucked inside his sneaker. But the squirrel named Mr. Wellington is weak and listless, and fearfu...

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Swimming with Sharks (Gym Shorts) מאת Betty Hicks DOES RITA HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO SWIM WITH THE SHARKS? Rita’s times aren’t good enough to swim with the Sharks—the team where all her friends compete. At first she’s determined to improve, but is Rita ready to attempt complicated flip turns? Or is there another way for Rita...

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Nighty Night, Sleepy Sleeps מאת Brian Anderson

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The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming: Book II of the Brotherhood of the Conch מאת Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Set in contemporary India as well as that of several hundred years in the past, The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming continues the adventures of Anand and his efforts to become a fully fledged member of The Brotherhood of the Conch. This time Anand's journey takes him back to Moghul times, as h...

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The Everything Machine מאת Matt Novak With the Everything Machine, life is so easy for the Quirkians that on most days they don't need to get out of bed. But on one fateful day, all of that changes -- when the maching stops working! Readers will discover through the Quirkians' story that though difficult at first, life is much more...

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The White Witch מאת Janet Graber Accused of witchcraft, threatened by the Plague. The Great Plague has come to England, and no one is safe, least of all Gwendoline Riston. With fair skin and hair and a way with plants and animals, the villagers are calling her a witch and blaming her for the disease. A story...

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Cool Cat מאת Nonny Hogrogian Cool Cat's neighborhood isn't so cool. It's barren and brown, littered with rusty cans and broken bottles. No problem. With an old paint box, a troop of helpful animals, and lots of imagination, Cool Cat turns the world around him into a Rousseau-style masterpiece. An enchanting story of resour...

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Bone by Bone by Bone מאת Tony Johnston FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK in 1950s Tennessee.  Tony Johnston draws on her own childhood memories to limn a portrait of a sensitive and compassionate boy fighting for a friendship his father forbids.   David's daddy is determined that his son will grow up...

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Basketball Bats (Gym Shorts) מאת Betty Hicks UNBEATABLE TEAM--MAYBE.  UNBEATABLE READING--FOR SURE!  The first novel in Betty Hick's Gym Shorts series is a slam-dunk for newly-independent readers. Henry and his friends on Rockford Road are a basketball team unstoppable on their driveway court. But without team t-shirts or a...

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The Skywriter מאת Dennis Haseley A SOARING FLIGHT OF FANCY lands one boy at the realization that outgrowing your toys doesn’t necessarily mean outgrowing your imagination.Grown-up Charles dreams of a plane that forms letters in the air, taking him to “fabulous lands where warm breezes blew, and everything sh...

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Mack Made Movies מאת Don Brown Mack Sennett invented the Keystone Kops, filmed the first pie-in-the-face skit, and introduced Charlie Chaplin to the movies. Here Don Brown tells the story of this American movie genius, from his beginnings as a Vaudeville actor to his triumph as the "King of Comedy" ...

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Walter Was Worried (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) (Neal Porter Books) מאת Laura Vaccaro Seeger Opposite the simple declarative sentence, "Walter was worried" is a portrait of a very worried Walter. But wait! The letters that spell out his feelings form his facial characteristics, as well as his expression. Gradually a simple story unfolds: the sky grows dark, the fog rolls in, light...

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Starring Miss Darlene מאת Amy Schwartz A STAR IS BORN, HIPPO STYLE in this riotous tribute to life upon the stage.   Determined to be a star, Darlene signs up for theater class.  And she succeeds, though not in the way you might expect.  In Noah's Ark she's cast as the Flood, with cataclysmic results.  She ma...

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Goof-Off Goalie (Gym Shorts) מאת Betty Hicks SOCCER DREAMS AND PLENTY OF ACTION this second book in the Gym Shorts series scores high with new readers. There?s nothing Goose wants more than to play goalie for his soccer team. It looks like such fun ? and so easy! ? on TV. But to say Goose has a little trouble focusing is a...

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Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton מאת Catherine Brighton FAMOUS AT FOUR!   Four-year-old Buster Keaton became one of the best-known comedians of his age and inches when his father threw him across a vaudeville stage, shouting ?Keep your eye on the kid!? The crowd roared as he easily landed on his feet and instantly became a star....

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Twenty Heartbeats מאת Dennis Haseley A SIMPLE STORY LAYERED WITH MEANING; stunning layered artwork by an acknowledged master. A wealthy Chinese man dreamt of a painting of his favorite horse. He sought out a man named Homan, known as a great painter of horses and commissioned the portrait. Then he waited?and waited?an...

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The Icy Hand: Something Wickedly Weird, vol. 2 מאת Chris Mould THE ICY HAND VOLUME 2 :THE SECOND ADVENTURE IN STANLEY BUGGLE’S SAGA Even more wicked and weird than the first! Stanley is looking forward to a relaxing winter. After all, nothing could have been weirder than the werewolf curse and plotting pir...

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The Silver Casket (Something Wickedly Weird) מאת Chris Mould SOMETHING WICKEDLY WEIRD IS HERE   The only thing worse than pirates are undead pirates. He might have survived the first two books, but Stanley Buggles has hardly found a quiet life in his home of Cramdon Rock. Now there are two more dead pir...

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The Man Who Walked Between The Towers מאת Mordicai Gerstein In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyric...

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The Curse of the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files: Saxby Smart, Private Detective: Book 1 מאת Simon Cheshire Solve It With Saxby, a new series aimed at unraveling the mystery of getting boys excited about reading. Saxby Smart is no ordinary ten-year-old. He's the best detective in the world, or at least the best one who also happens to be in elementary school. In this br...

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Nochecita (Spanish Edition) מאת Yuyi Morales As the long day comes to an end, Mother Sky fills a tub with falling stars and calls, "Bath time for Little Night!"   Little Night answers from afar, "Can't come. I am hiding and you have to find me, Mama. Find me now!"   Where could Little Ni...

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The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard מאת Gregory Rogers A comic romp through Shakespeare's London featuring an intrepid little boy, a friendly bear, and-in the role of dastardly villain-the Bard himself.What happens when a boy bursts through the curtain of a deserted theatre and onto the world's most famous stage? He lands on the Bard himsel...

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Four Sides, Eight Nights: A New Spin on Hanukkah מאת Rebecca Tova Ben-Zvi Four sides of a toy, eight nights of celebration, forty-four candles burning in honor of an ancient miracle, two-thousand-one-hundred-seventy-some years of Hanukkah -- everything you ever wanted to know about the Hanukkah holiday, centered of the children's game of dreidel (a spinning top...

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The Adventures of Polo מאת Regis Faller Equipped with a backpack full of supplies, Polo sets off on a little boat--and on a series of delightful adventures that take him across (and under) the ocean, to an island and a frozen iceberg, to space and home again, with a world of magical encounters along the way. Polo's journey is p...

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Under the Mishmash Trees מאת Dick King-Smith NONSENSE IS THE BEST SENSE!  A silly starter novel! “Thank you, madam, thank you from the bottom of my heart and the bottom of my stomach and the bottom of my bottom!” Wollycobble, a slobbadunk, has been a martyr to indigestion for as long as he can remember, so when Ut, a comp...

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The Girl Who Saw Lions מאת Berlie Doherty "BE STRONG MY ABELA."  Orphaned by AIDS in Africa, Abela has a long journey ahead. When Abela’s mother dies of Aids in their African village, she is left to face the lions of the world. Lions like her Uncle Thomas who has plans to sell her in Europe. Lions like his bitter ...

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Dog and Bear: Three to Get Ready מאת Laura Vaccaro Seeger Uh-oh. Bear's head is stuck in a bucket. Oh, my. Oh, no. Fortunately Bear's good friend Dog is there to rescue him. Dog pulls, and he pulls, and he pulls -- and still that bucket stays stuck. Things get sillier from there, as these two great friends get themselves into and out of tricky situati...

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Track Attack (Gym Shorts) מאת Betty Hicks Jazz loves being on the track team! And her dad is her biggest fan -- maybe too big a fan. He argues with the coach, yells at the ref, and screams his head off at every meet. Jazz loves her dad, but can she keep him from having a full blown track attack? The latest book in the GYM SHORTS ser...

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Penina Levine Is a Hard-boiled Egg מאת Rebecca O'Connell Penina Levine has a bossy best friend, a tattletale sister, crazy parents, and a big, fat zero on her school assignment. It was a stupid assignment, completely impossible, totally unfair. She?s never going to do it, not ever, and it?s no use telling her parents about it. They never listen ...

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Punk Rock Etiquette: The Ultimate How-to-Guide for DIY, Punk, Indie, and Underground Bands מאת Travis Nichols Looking to start an underground band? Don't make a move until you've read this book! So you KNOW you are destined to rock... well you're in luck -- all you need is this book! (Please note musical talent, bandmates, a car for touring, and an uncle who owns a record label might...

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The Notorious Izzy Fink מאת Don Brown Sam Glodsky lives among the rough-and-tumble gangs on the streets of New York's Lower East Side. When 13-year-old Sam falls in with fearsome gangster Monk Eastman, he joins an outrageous scheme to rescue Eastman's prize racing-pigeon from a cholera-ridden steamship quarantined in the harbo...

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Our Apple Tree מאת Gorel Kristina Naslund Here's a whimsical and very useful look at the life cycle of the apple tree. With two helpful tree sprites as guides, readers travel from spring, when the apple tree blossoms, through summer, when the fruit grows, to fall and the harvest. Along the way, you'll learn about the life of the tree...

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Captives מאת Tom Pow Martin and his family are enjoying a sun-filled vacation on a beautiful Caribbean island--until they are stopped at gunpoint, blindfolded, and bundled into a truck that heads for the dense forest of the island's interior. Pushed to their physical and emotional limits as they are forced deeper i...

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My Froggy Valentine מאת Matt Novak FOUR FROGS, FOUR KISSES, ONE TRU LOVE.  Valentine's Day with a twist in this clever novelty.   When Princess Polly wishes for the perfect Valentine's Day prince, four frogs rise to the challenge.  Will any of them prove the frog of her dreams?  As each hops up for a smoo...

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Isabelle's Boyfriend מאת Caroline Hickey WHAT DO YOU DO IF THE GUY OF YOUR DREAMS IS SOMEBODY ELSE’S BOYFRIEND? Taryn has found the perfect guy. Epp is tall, athletic, handsome, and best of all, she is sure he likes her, too. There’s only one problem: He’s dating someone else. But when Taryn becomes friends with Ep...

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Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me מאת Nan Marino "Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year old......the problem is that no one knows it but me. In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I can see him for what he really is. A phony.   It's the summer of 1969, and ...

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What If You Met a Knight? מאת Jan Adkins Forget jousts and quests and dragons—a real knight had real work to do, lots of mouths to feed, and trouble could ride over the hill at any moment. Castles were dark, armor was uncomfortable, and jousts and tournaments (not to mention real battles) were dangerous—and expensive. As in t...

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How to Catch a Fish מאת John Frank A FISHING TRIP AROUND THE WORLD   Thirteen linked verses and handsome, mood-drenched paintings show how we catch fish--from New England to the Arctic, to Japan and Namibia and beyond.  This lovely picture book--about fishing, geography, people and customs, and the bond be...

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Head Case מאת Sarah Aronson ONE MISTAKE.  ONE BAD NIGHT.  ONE TOO MANY DRINKS.  A powerful and heartbreaking debut novel about a guy who had it all...until he drank that fifth beer and got into the car.   Frank Marder is a head, paralyzed from the neck down, and it's his fault.  He was drinking.  He was...

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The Secret Circus מאת Johanna Wright THE GREATEST little show ON EARTH The secrets of Paris revealed from the ground up. Beneath the sparkling lights of Paris is a circus so secret that only the mice know how to find it. Floating by balloon across a Parisian cityscape they travel to the grand performance,...

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The Story Goes On מאת Aileen Fisher In this exquisitely illustrated picture book, one of America's foremost poets for young people describes the ongoing cycle of life. A seed sprouts and is quickly devoured by a bug. Then a bright green frog appears and makes a meal of the bug. And the story goes on...from bug to snake to hawk...

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Cassie Was Here מאת Caroline Hickey Bree's mom is busy with work. Her brother Reid is mad at her about his broken arm. Cassie is two years older, smokes (or says she does), and has a tattoo. The only person Bree can depend on is her old friend and playmate, Joey, who's trustworthy--but completely imaginary.   Cassie...

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The Human Alphabet מאת Pilobolus The company+s dancers join limbs, twist, and grip to form twenty-six letters-an alphabet made of the human body, captured in glorious color photographs. Alongside each letter, they+ve also composed a picture: ants for A; butterfly for B; circus for C-and so on through Z, a human zipper. Can you gues...

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Shadowland: Book III of the Brotherhood of the Conch מאת Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The hero of the Brotherhood of the Conch series, now fifteen, is settling back into his life as an apprentice in the lush Silver Valley, nestled high in the Himalayas. There he continues to learn the secret arts of the Brotherhood. But suddenly his adopted home is reduced to a barre...

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Tiny and Hercules מאת Amy Schwartz Another gem from Amy Schwartz just as "charming and hilariously understated*" as ever. (*New York Times) Five fast and funny chapters of the lives of two rather unusual friends: Tiny, an elephant with a fear of ice skating and a newfound love of knitting, and Hercules, a mous...

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Creamed Tuna Fish and Peas on Toast מאת Philip Christian Stead Wild Man Jack isn't easy to please. Especially when Mama Jane serves him the one dish that he detests. Each day his children ask what he'll do if it arrives at the table, and each day he comes up with an even more colorful response. Not until Friday do things get really out of hand. ...

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Little Night מאת Yuyi Morales As the long day comes to an end, Mother Sky fills a tub with falling stars and calls, "Bath time for Little Night!"   Little Night answers from afar, "Can't come. I am hiding and you have to find me, Mama. Find me now!"   Where could Little Night be? Do...