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Karen's having her first sleepover ever! She and her friends are going to tell spooky stories, try on makeup, and raid the refrigerator. But Karen and Nancy get into a big fight. Karen doesn't want nancy to come to her party. A new girl comes instead, and she is no fun! What will Karen do now?
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Disney/Hyperion
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First edition.
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English
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"Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lucy tries sports volume 4
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Orca Book Publishers
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English
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In this picture book, Lucy and her friends learn introductory hockey skills as they try out a new sport.
7) Dark cloud
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Kids Can Press
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English
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Written with compassion and care, a thoughtful story about a little girl who visualizes her depression as a way of learning to cope. Abigail has a dark cloud. It follows her everywhere. It can be a ball of worries, a swirl of fog or a long shadow. But it's always with her, getting in the way of things. Her dark cloud makes the other children distant and messes with her grand jeté during ballet class. It even takes away her appetite for birthday cake....
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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First edition.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: The day the train fell in the lake, Cassie stopped believing in much of anything, despite growing up in a devout Catholic family. Then she set her mind to forgetting the strange boy named Elias who was with her when it happened. When Elias comes back to town after many years away, Cassie finds herself talked into sneaking out at night to follow him ghost-hunting-though she knows better than to believe they will find any spirits....
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"Sona hears music everywhere, even though it has been outlawed in the land of Devia. Sona is a descendant of Malechs, foreigners who took over governing of Devia centuries ago. Malechs put Devans to work mining gems and forbade music so Devans couldn't cast their magic. But Sona's world shifts after discovering an orphaned wolf pup. She believes the pup, with its golden ears, might be related to one of five sacred beasts of Devia, which a Malechian...
11) A duet for home
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Publisher Annotation: It's June's first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home weren't enough, she also can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and...
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Stella and Marigold volume 1
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English
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Generations of readers have fallen in love with Ivy + Bean, which has sold over 8 million copies and been adapted into a popular Netflix Original Film series. Now, bestselling author Annie Barrows and illustrator Sophie Blackall are back with the first book in a bright new series about a pair of sisters named Stella and Marigold.
Stella, who’s seven, is kind, a good storyteller, and ponders big questions like, what do animals think of people? Marigold,...
13) Breakout
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Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek--two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over the woods, and police patrol the school grounds. Worst of all, everyone is on edge, and fear brings out the worst in some people Nora has known her whole life....
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Plum (Matt Phelan) volume 1
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Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Every day at the Athensville Zoo the peacocks are allowed to wander freely among the visitors, delighting and guiding kids and grownups alike, and kind, curious Plum is the peacock most proud of their responsibility.
15) Control freaks
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"The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little... competitive. Okay. They're a LOT competitive. The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win. But it won't be easy. The competition doesn't just include science, technology, engineering and math. It also has arts and sports. Not Doug's best subjects... With only a week to go, Doug launches a quest...
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You are (not) small volume 4
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Two Lions
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Two fuzzy friends are having a fun playdate when a new pal hops in. As the day continues, each friend feels left out at times. It isn't so easy to figure out how to act when everything seems to change. With humor and heart, the beloved characters from Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner You Are (Not) Small navigate a friendship triangle as only they can.
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Questioneers volume 5
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
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English
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When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: From the critically acclaimed author of the ALA Notable and Charlotte Huck Honor Book Forever, or a Long, Long Time comes the story of Piper Franklin, the girl who is way too busy to grow up . . . until she has to.
19) What Remains
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Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD
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English
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In less than a second . . .
. . . two of the things Cal Ryan cares most about—a promising baseball career and Lizzie, one of his best friends—are gone forever.
In the hours that follow . . .
. . . Cal's damaged heart is replaced. But his life will never be the same.
Everyone expects him to pick up the pieces and move on. But Lizzie is gone, and all that remains for Cal is an overwhelming sense that her death was
...20) I am more than
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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First edition.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: You can be more than one thing-you can be anything! A follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed picture book I Promise, this second slam-dunk picture book from NBA champion and cultural icon LeBron James motivates readers to remember they can accomplish their goals when they believe in themselves! Written in fun rhyming verse and illustrated by award-winning and bestselling artist Niña Mata,...
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