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59401) When You Wish upon a Rat
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With echoes of such classic wish-gone-wrong books as Freaky Friday, Half Magic, and Coraline, this terrific novel has the potential to become a middle-grade staple.
Eleven-year-old Ruth Craze is pretty sure she's stuck in the wrong life. With an absentminded inventor for a father and a flighty artist for a mother, it's always reliable Ruth who ends up doing the dishes, paying the bills, and finding lost socks. Her brothers are no help (they're too...
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"The story, both familiar and fresh, is a clever example of how fables can enlarge our world view." – A. Ashbrook, Librarian, Long Hill, NJ How will The Three Little Sun Bears escape from the ferocious Siberian tiger? Set in the tropical rainforest in Asia, readers of all ages will enjoy this clever retelling of The Three Little Pigs. This book is available in English-only and many bilingual editions and includes teacher resources and English audio....
59403) Dinnertime for Chickies
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Wash your wings, and take a seat. What will these tiny chickies eat? With the help of Cow, Pig, and Sheep, soon the chickies learn to cheep, "Pass the carrots. Pass the peas. Pass those yummy broccolis!" With engaging rhymes and endearing illustrations, this book is perfect for babies and toddlers to enjoy, especially those picky chickies.
59404) Ninja, Ninja, Never Stop!
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Follow this little ninja as he sneaks up on the family dog, swipes a cookie from his brother, and escapes from Granny's kiss . . . only to be out-ninja'd by his younger brother's sneak attack! Young readers will be drawn in by the fast-paced rhymes that parallel the little ninja's quick moves, and will chant the refrain with glee! This humorous ode to stalking, sneaking, spying, and scheming is sure to be read over and over again, inspiring imaginary...
59405) The Mouse's Apples
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Mouse is having a wonderful day: she's foraged four plump apples for her tea, the most she's ever found! But here comes Bear, and he's feeling especially greedy and mean. He wants every apple for himself. Mouse might have to think up a clever trick to teach Bear a lesson . . .
Learn how selfishness can be replaced by sharing with this glorious, rhyming picture book.
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This is a fun island-style story; told by the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-nephew of Reuben Silas, Sr. The story is alive! Interactive. From land to sea, the inhabitants; turtles, alligators, and iguanas, get-together and share the actual visit of Christopher Columbus to the Cayman Islands. This is our history.
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Geronimo's adventurous sister Thea narrates this fabulous adventure that's packed with action, mystery, and friendship!The Thea Sisters are boarding the famouse Orient Express for a journey from Paris to Istanbul! The train is on a special trip to return a precious wedding dress stolen years ago from an Istanbul museum. But there's a rumor that the mysterious Acrobat Thief will steal the dress from the moving train! The Thea Sisters are determined...
59408) This Is a Ball
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For the giggling masses who love Hervé Tullet's Press Here, BJ Novak's The Book With No Pictures, and Bill Cotter's Don't Push the Button comes an interactive new series!
The Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! series offers parents, teachers, and storytellers a hilarious script for fun reading time together. Book 2, This Is a Ball, is a boldly absurd spin-off of concept books, and an audaciously contrarian invitation for readers to practice deadpan delivery:...
59409) What Waits in the Woods
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Seeing things. You were just seeing things.
For city girl Callie Velasquez, nothing sounds more terrifying than a night out in the wilderness. But, wanting to bond with her popular new friends, Lissa and Penelope, she agrees to join them on a camping trip. At least Callie's sweet new boyfriend, Jeremy, will be coming too. But nothing goes as planned. The group loses half their food supply. Then they lose their way. And with strange sounds all around...
59410) Ariel to the Rescue
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Read along with Disney! When a baby dolphin is separated from his mother, Ariel calls on her ocean friends to help reunite them. Follow along with word-for-word narration as Ariel and her ocean friends bring the family back together.
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About The Lost Princess in Desert's Embrace:Annabeth needs to rescue her love, Ryan, from the evil Ice People in the North. But first she must travel south and enlist the help of the mysterious Desert Tribes. They will test her limits, mind, body, and soul, making her question everything she knows. Only by holding on to the true power of love can she make it through. But what if love's power has been scorched away?NOW AVAILABLE - Book THREE, The Lost...
59412) Pageant Perfect Crime
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Nancy goes undercover -- as a pageant contestant!
Ned's classmate Portia Leoni won last year's Miss Pretty Face River Heights Beauty Pageant. But after Portia was accused of shoplifting dresses from a local boutique, her crown was taken away from her. Portia claims that she's innocent, but why would someone want to frame her?
59413) Midnight Meeting
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Adventure waits for twelve-year-old Lillia Pameroy in Hannibal, a small river town famous for Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn characters created by Mark Twain. While touring the Mark Twain Cave, Lillia sees the ghosts of four frightened boys hiding something. She quickly finds herself caught up in a mystery story Hannibal has been living with for over one hundred years! Can she weave the clues together from notes, messages, articles, and letters to tell...
59414) The Secret Cat
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Meet animal lover, Tiger Days! A brand-new young fiction series about animals, friendship and adventure by bestselling author Sarah Lean. Beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout. When nine-year-old Tiger Days stays with her grandmother at Willowgate House she never knows what might happen... new friends to meet, animals to rescue and problems to solve! Tiger's grandmother looks after animals in need, and when Tiger comes to stay she quickly...
59415) Sadiq and the Desert Star
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When Sadiq's father leaves on a business trip, he worries he'll miss his baba too much. But Baba has a story for Sadiq: the story of the Desert Star. Learning about Baba's passion for the stars sparks Sadiq's interest in outer space. But can Sadiq find others who are willing to help him start the space club of his dreams?
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To find the evil Mr. Bones, Mike and Shannon will have to follow the fossils-even if it leads them to an ancient dinosaur graveyard in Antarctica! (Hint: it does.) Because of continental drift, the dinosaur fossils Mr. Bones thought were in Australia are actually in Antarctica. But make no bones about it-this villain still intends to cover every continent with reborn dino-slaves ... and take over the world! Each book in this action-packed series is...
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Act out this Spanish-translated story of a lazy grasshopper and some hard-working ants. The ants spend the summer gathering food to prepare for the winter. They warn the grasshopper to do the same, but he just laughs at them and plays music all summer long. When winter comes, the grasshopper has no food, but the ants are just fine! Will the grasshopper learn his lesson? This Spanish script includes roles written at various reading levels, allowing...
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Read along with Disney! The Avengers must defend Earth against the most powerful army in the universe -- the evil Skrulls, who can change the way they look! They team up with the Krees, another alien race, but when everyone they see could be a Skrull in disguise, how can they trust anyone...even their own friends? Read along with the word for word narration in this exciting adventure!
59419) Back Home
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Was it all his fault? Being thrown back in time? Did winning the artifact have something to do with the entire campsite traveling back in time with him? 13-year-old Logan and his best friend Corry are on a long weekend survival camp, with a bunch of others around his age, in rural New Zealand. But the advert about the survival weekend said nothing about going back in time. They, along with everyone else at the camp, were not only in the past but also...
59420) Chicken of Thor
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Cancel your dinner plans and dig in to Thundercluck! by Paul Tillery IV and Meg Wittwer. This is the first book in a hilarious new series stuffed with Norse mythology, black-and-white illustrations by the dozen, and a superhero chicken ready to ruffle some feathers.
When danger calls ... BAGAW! calls back!
An evil chef faces off against the god Thor, and a hen's egg is caught in the crossfire. It hatches into a powerful chick called Thundercluck,...
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