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David (David Shannon) volume 2
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English
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David's activities in school include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, "No, David!"
2) No, David!
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A young boy is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.
4) Zoo
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Zoo novels volume 1
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English
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As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Oz watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear....
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Anyone who has incurred the displeasure of a cat is well familiar with the differences between the intuitive feline and the average lumpish canine. In her latest animal expose Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has concentrated her studied eye on the varied family of cats. With respect for individuality and an anthropologist's eye for cultural patterns, she brings listeners an understanding of the feline personality to its basic element-the pursuit of prey....
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David (David Shannon) volume 3
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English
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When David gets in trouble, he has excuses right up until bedtime, when he realizes he really is sorry.
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My weirder school volume 7
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English
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"When Mr. Granite goes home sick, the wackiest substitute teacher in the history of the world comes to A.J.'s class and teaches math lessons using magic tricks"--
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Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 8
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English
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Both Nate Wright and school bully Randy Betancourt have crushes on the new girl Ruby, and altercations between the two boys result in peer counseling sessions that eventually lead to an unlikely friendship and their becoming teammates on the school's ultimate frisbee Mud Bowl team.
13) Prep: a novel
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In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the...
15) The butler
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"The moment the plane touched down at Ministro Pistorini Airport in Buenos Aires, Joachim von Hartmann knew in every fiber of his being that he was home. It was almost as if his heart and soul, and even his body, knew it. He had left as a boy of seventeen, twenty-five years before, when he moved to France with his mother, and new French stepfather. Eight years later, he went to England on a lark, which turned into a worthy career for the past seventeen...
16) Most wanted
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Christine Nilsson and her husband, Marcus, are desperate for a baby. Unable to conceive, they find themselves facing a difficult choice they had never anticipated. After many appointments with specialists, endless research, and countless conversations, they make the decision to use a donor. Two months pass and Christine is happily pregnant. but one day, she is shocked to see a young blond man on the TV news being arrested for a series of brutal murders-and...
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What's this? The Dinosaurs are going to school! These gigantic prehistoric pupils are in a class of their own. They have to be - there's no room for anyone else. Includes paperback read-along book. "[Yolen reads] her signature questions with clear enunciation and a leisurely pace that allow young listeners to pore over Mark Teague's humorous illustrations." -- AudioFile
19) Superfudge
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Fudge books volume 3
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English
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Twelve-year-old Peter relates his life with his troublesome little brother, Fudge.