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Children's Book Week - MAY 12-18 |
A celebration of the written word, Children's Book Week introduces young people to new authors and ideas in schools, libraries, homes and bookstores. Children's Book Week encourages young people and their caregivers to discover the complexity of the world beyond their own experience through books.
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PREVIOUSLY
by Allan Ahlberg |
| A reverse cumulative tale featuring characters from nursery rhymes and fairy tales in an energetic book! |
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BOB AND OTTO
by Robert Bruel |
| Otto the worm is shocked to discover that his best friend Bob is actually a caterpillar who emerges one day as a butterfly. |
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DOGS AND CATS
by Steve Jenkins |
| Are you a cat lover? A dog person? Either way, this book is for you! Read about how your favorite companion came to be a pet and how its body works. |
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VELMA GRATCH & THE WAY COOL BUTTERFLY
by Alan Madison |
| Velma starts first grade in the shadow of her memorable older sisters, and while her newfound interest in butterflies helps her to stand out, it also leads to an interesting complication! |
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SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT
by Derek Landy |
| When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones. |
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THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY
by Trenton Lee Stewart |
| After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. |
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THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY
by Adam Rex |
| When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster. |
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THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET
by Brian Selznick |
| When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. Stunning illustrations! |
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EMMA-JEAN LAZARUS FELL OUT OF A TREE
by Lauren Tarshis |
| A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers. |
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WAY DOWN DEEP
by Ruth White |
| In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel. |
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THIRTEEN REASONS WHY
by Jay Asher |
| When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. |
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TAKEN
by Edward Bloor |
| In 2036, kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when thirteen-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon discovers that this particular kidnapping is not what it seems. |
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THE FALCONER'S KNOT
by Mary Hoffman |
| Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love. |
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EVIL GENIUS
by Catherine Jinks |
| Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy. |
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UNDERCOVER
by Beth Kephart |
| High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent's marital problems draw her out of herself. |
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EPIC
by Conor Kostick |
| On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families. |
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THE WHITE DARKNESS
by Geraldine McCaughrean |
| Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. |
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WHAT THEY FOUND: LOVE ON 145TH STREET
by Walter Dean Myers |
| Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry. |
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RED GLASS
by Laura Resau |
| Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain. |
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THE NEW POLICEMAN
by Kate Thompson |
| Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed. |
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