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"Before C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, he was a young boy named Jack who spent his days dreaming up stories of other worlds filled with knights, castles, and talking animals. His brother, Warnie, spent his days imagining worlds filled with trains, boats, and technology. One rainy day, they found a wardrobe in a little room next to the attic, and they wondered, What if the wardrobe had no end? Years later, Jack began to think about what...
282) Passager
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A foundling rediscovers his identity through the help of the falconer who adopts him.
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"Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly...
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"A lushly illustrated picture-book biography of two young Pakistani heroes, Malala Yousafzai and Iqbal Masih, from acclaimed nonfiction author/illustrator Jeanette Winter"--
"Two stories of bravery in one beautiful book! Meet two brave young heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the right to freedom and education in this inspirational nonfiction picture book from acclaimed author-illustrator Jeanette Winter. One country: Pakistan. Two children: Iqbal...
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"Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
287) Furies of Calderon
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The land of Alera is under outside threat from barbarians, and internal strife abounds because the aging, sickly lord does not have an heir. Fortunately, Alera can use the defenses of the elementals of water, earth, air, fire and metal to protect the kingdom. Furthermore, the lord enlists Amara, a young female spy, to lurk outside the kingdom and seek out possible enemies. It is under these circumstance that Amara and the sheepherder Tavi meet, and...
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It's the first day of a new school year, and while Mary Anne doesn't know what to expect from the eighth grade, she's looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. One thing she definitely doesn't expect is to meet Logan Bruno, who just moved to Stoneybrook! Logan has a dreamy southern accent, he's awfully cute... and he might be interested in joining the BSC. But the baby-sitters aren't sure if Logan would make a good club member, so...
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"Dating? Me and Sasaki-senpai...? We're not like that! At least, those were Miyano's thoughts until Sasaki gifted him chocolates on Valentine's Day. Faced with the reality that Sasaki might like like him--in a BL kind of way--and the jarring realization that the senior's graduation is fast approaching, it's time for Miyano to confront his true feelings..."--page [4] of cover.
290) John's turn
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"It's John's big day at school today--a performance for Sharing Gifts time. His bag is carefully packed and prepared, his classmates are ready, and the curtain is waiting to open. John is nervous, looking out at all the other children staring back at him. But he takes a big breath and begins. Mac Barnett's compassionate text and Kate Berube's understated and expressive art tell the story of a kid who finds the courage to show others his talent for...
291) Ground Zero
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Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
292) The marksman
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Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border, but his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel. When the boy's mother asks him to take her son to her family in Chicago, the two hit the road with the cartel's assassins in pursuit.
293) Back to the future
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It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
294) Screaming at the Ump
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Twelve-year-old Casey Snowden knows everything about being an umpire. His dad and grandfather run a New Jersey umpire school, Behind the Plate, and Casey lives and breathes baseball. Casey's dream, however, is to be a reporter—objective, impartial, and fair, just like an ump. But when he stumbles upon a sensational story involving a former major league player in exile, he finds that the ethics of publishing it are cloudy at best. This emotionally
...295) Super Spaghetti
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He's a boy. He's a superhero. He's ... spaghetti? Fred loves spaghetti. So when Fred's inventor mom creates a machine that can turn anything into spaghetti (fast!), he thinks it'll be nothing but noodles from here on out. Little does Fred know just how right he is. After a misstep with the spaghetti machine, Fred finds himself transformed--into Super Spaghetti! But is this spaghetti-hungry boy-turned superhero made of the right stuff to save his town?--...
296) The talk
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"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
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Invincible's journey is more harrowing than ever as he's betrayed by his allies, put face to face with his greatest enemies, and welcomes a new member to his family. He'll have to be stronger than ever before if he's going to save the universe...but not everyone will survive. Every single story for the past fifteen years has been leading up to this stunning conclusinon, and when it's over... Mark Grayson's story is over.
298) The ghoul next door
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"Eleven-year-old Grey lives in the legend-haunted New England town of Ander's Landing, and he can't help but feel like a pair of eyes is watching his every move. He discovers odd, gruesome bits and pieces from the graveyard that are left for him as gifts like art carved from bones or jewelry made from (hopefully not human) remains. Soon Grey is caught up in something bigger than he could ever have imagined. He finds himself drawn into a strange mystery...
299) Hike
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A father and child head out on a hike, keeping a cherished family tradition alive.
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