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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Language
English
Description
Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"--Bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.
7) The BFG
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Language
English
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Description
Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
8) Dinosaur Boy
Author
Series
Dinosaur boy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Sprouting a tail and spikes over the summer before fifth grade, Sawyer, a boy with the dinosaur gene, is bullied in school, but when his tormentors begin to disappear, it is up to Sawyer, his best friend Elliot, and a mysterious new girl to rescue them from a galactically horrible fate.
10) Scaredy squirrel
Author
Series
Scaredy Squirrel volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Meet Scaredy Squirrel, a squirrel who never leaves his nut tree because he's afraid of the unknown "out there." But then, something unexpected happens that may just change his outlook.
11) Hoot
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Language
English
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10 to Try for Kids-Page to Screen
Books for Reluctant Readers (Intermediate/Middle School)
Middle Zone Mysteries
Books for Reluctant Readers (Intermediate/Middle School)
Middle Zone Mysteries
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
13) Neville
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Language
English
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Description
When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
15) Always, Abigail
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Sixth grader Abigail, assigned a different homeroom than her two best friends and made only the alternate on the pom-pom squad, learns a lot about popularity and true friendship when paired with unpopular Gabby for a year-long "Friendly Letter Assignment."
16) Ramona forever
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 7
Language
English
Description
Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich Uncle Hobart, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Language
English
Description
When she confronts a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost, animal control officer Francine Poulet questions her abilities.
18) Alice the fairy
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Language
English
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Description
Alice, who claims to be a Temporary Fairy, still has a lot to learn, such as how to make her clothes put themselves away in the closet.
19) Magyk
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Series
Septimus Heap volume 1
Language
English
Description
After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.
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Series
Riot brothers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Orville and Wilbur Riot are ready for action in these three hilarious stories. Their secret to life is: Make something exciting happen every day. And they do. They make up games like Snarf Attack and Underfoodle. They give annoying lessons, since they're the experts. They teach ten important things to do with your face. And that's just the beginning. . . .
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