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21) Otto P. Nudd
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Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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While his corvid buddies spend their days cracking jokes at the dump, raven Otto P. Nudd invents things with his human neighbor Old Man Bartleby, but when one of Bartleby's contraptions puts him in danger, Otto must join forces with kids and critters to save the Old Man.
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"Set in and around Palo Alto amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its pages, [this novel examines] the way we live now. A young couple on the brink of marriage--the charming Veblen and her fiancé Paul, a brilliant neurologist--find their engagement in danger of collapse. Along the way they weather everything from each other's dysfunctional families, to the...
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Hamstersaurus Rex volume 3
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Sam Gibbs and his super-strong tiny buddy, Hamstersaurus Rex, keep encountering creepy abnormal objects at their school, like a floating sports jersey and a runaway go-kart. Sam doesn t believe in ghosts, but he has to admit that the hauntings are getting weirder . . . and more dangerous. Could bizarre mutant animals be the cause? At Horace Hotwater, they often are.
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Doggo and Pupper volume 2
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"Doggo likes routine: napping, eating, and more napping. Life is good. Life is good for Pupper, too, even though he worries a lot, about things like giant squirrels. If he were braver, he might even be a hero. Maybe even a hero who can fly! But heroes aren't afraid of giant squirrels... When Doggo and Pupper meet a baby bird who also has worries, they are determined to help. Doggo and Pupper may not know how to fly, but they are very good helpers....
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
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In 2156, when Jonah awakens on the Fantastic Flying Squirrel, he is informed that he is one of 200 children being trained as The Incredible Space Raiders, whose mission is to destroy the Entirely Evil Things of the Dark Zone, but there is more going on than any of the children could guess.
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Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Are You Gonna Eat That? is a collection of over 100 comics from the popular animal-themed series They Can Talk by Jimmy Craig. The comics feature cats, dogs, pigeons, squirrels, and other guests from the animal kingdom delivering a healthy serving of sharp wit, existential dread, and the occasional (but necessary) poop joke"--Back cover
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Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
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Bird and Squirrel volume 4
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
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"It's been a long, crazy trip around the world. Now the duo is back in their beloved forest, and Bird wants to throw a party! But Squirrel isn't in the mood to celebrate. His house needs a good cleaning, the river has been dammed up by a pesky beaver, and the forest animals are jittery about a growing menace. Will the dam dry out the forest? Will the mysterious new danger ruin the party? Will Bird finally convince Squirrel to let go and just have...
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NorthWord
Pub. Date
c1995
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Animal signs are everywhere in nature and this guide will help kids learn all about them. Kids will find out how to spot and identify common clues that 17 wildlife species leave behind in the woods, in fields and along ponds. This guide is a fun way to turn everyday walks into exciting mysteries and make any child a nature detective.
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"With humor and affection?and a healthy dose of attitude? Texas Curiosities brings the oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the state?s borders and in the chronicles of its history. From the world?s largest squirrel (property of Cedar Creek) to the world?s oldest washing machine (at the Washing Machine Museum in Mineral Wells), Texas Curiosities is a who's who of unusual and unsung heroes...
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Sassy and Waldo are good dogs in the spotlight when their class puts on a school play!
Sassy and Waldo have been cast in the school play and they couldn't be more excited. They love to play! Only this isn't that kind of play. Sassy and Waldo are good dogs. They will do anything for their boy, Stewart. That includes putting on a trench coat and pretending to be a new student named Salty in his class just to make sure he is happy. But this month Stewart's...
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It is field trip day to the city museum, and while Stewart expects a boring day of facts and learning, Waldo and Sassy are looking forward to lunch; then they find that the dinosaur room is full of tempting bones, the astronaut boots are good for chewing, and one of the dioramas features a squirrel on a sidewalk, but the highlight is the delicatessen--if only Waldo and Sassy's disguise can fool the guards who are searching for two dogs.
34) Finding Orion
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"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
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IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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"The strongest Avenger teams up with two up-and-coming heroes on an internet-breaking adventure! Can they pull the plug on evil? First, Captain Marvel joins Gwen Stacy, aka Ghost-Spider, for some web-based exploits! Things get APP-rehensive when a new craze-ClikClok-sweeps the city, and the Mad Thinker and the Awesome Android plan to use it for their own nefarious scheme! Then, just as Carol is recovering from one mission, she starts another-without...
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Night frights volume 4
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022
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"The last thing Dillon Ford should have done was throw a tennis ball at a squirrel. He didn't mean to hit it. And he certainly didn't mean for it to fall out of the tree. But now the squirrels are after him--BIG-TIME. They have the house surrounded. They're on the roof, they're at every window, and they're even coming down the chimney. Dillon is a boy under siege, and one thing is for sure: the squirrels are pretty nutty!"--
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2020
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Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson. Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret...
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Sassy and Waldo are good dogs, who keep their house safe (from squirrels, mostly), and worry about their boy, Stewart, who always comes home from school smelling of anxiety; so the two dogs come up with a plan to help him--they will dress up in a trench coat and attend school, posing as a new student, to find out just what is bothering Stewart.
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"On his regular walk one morning, Spike Carlsen realized there was an entire world outside his front door that he knew nothing about. How does that fire hydrant work, he wondered? Why are street lights shining more brightly than ever before? And, on a more personal level, why does an easy stroll around the neighborhood always leave him feeling more creative and spry, better able to take on the day? A simple walk around the block set Carlsen off on...
40) Sneaks
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"When Ben Harp sees his teacher's watch crawling across the hallway, he thinks he must be dreaming. But no, he's just seen his first Sneak--an interdimensional mischief-maker that can borrow the form of any ordinary object. He figured this school year would be bad--his best friend moved away, the class bully is circling, and he's stuck doing a group project with two similarly friendless girls, Charlotte and Akemi. Still, he wasn't expecting aliens!...
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