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1) Artemis fowl
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English
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When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
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Last apprentice volume 6
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English
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Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from the dark forces, and a momentous decision must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever.
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Chester Raccoon volume 1
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English
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When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.
5) Little Bear
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English
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Short stories about little bear, who wears new clothes, makes birthday soup, pretends to go to the moon, and can't sleep because he's busy making wishes.
8) The batboy
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Philomel Books
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English
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Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 53
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English
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Drover C. Dog--faithful sidekick to Hank the Cowdog--tells the story of his life, from being the runt of the litter with dreams of being a handsome prince, to how he came to Loper and Sally May's ranch.
11) No fixed address
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Wendy Lamb Books
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First edition.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Budding screenwriter Nate, sixteen, finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush, Oliver James Hernandez, moves back to town.
Film buff and aspiring screenwriter Nathan Bird doesn't believe in happy endings since his father died and his mom began to unravel. His best-friend-turned-girlfriend-turned-best-friend-again, Florence, is set on making sure Nate finds someone else....
15) Free Baseball
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English
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Angry with his mother for having too little time for him, eleven-year-old Felix takes advantage of an opportunity to become bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder. Includes glossaries of baseball terms and Spanish words and phrases.
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Scholastic Press
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Leo's grandfather died a year ago, and ever since Leo has been tasked with tracking his grandmother down whenever she wanders away from their home in Allentown, Pennsylvania--but when she abruptly decides to take the trip to Utah that her husband was planning, Leo finds himself on the way to visit dinosaurs, in an old Buick with his grandmother, his seventeen-year-old cousin Abby, and Abby's old, smelly Golden retriever, Kermit, without telling his...
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Random House/Listening Library
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Library edition.
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English
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Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self.
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Altea/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Edition
Primera edición.
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Español
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"Llama Llama y sus amigos van de campamento. Llama no puede decidir qu? ser? m?s emocionante: dormir afuera en la tienda ¡o asar bombones sobre el fuego! De hecho, el pobre Euclid no est? seguro de que pueda sobrevivir una noche sin sus gadgets. ¿Podr?n Llama y su Mam? convencer a Euclid de que ir de campamento es una experiencia natural? ¡No se necesita ning?n gadget!"--Amazon.com.
Llama Llama goes camping for the very first time and learns...
20) The light jar
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Scholastic Press
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English
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Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.
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