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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
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English
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Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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Nancy is utterly enchanted by Mrs. DeVine's fancy movie star memorabilia (that means things from the past). So enchanted, that Nancy decides to adapt the movie star lifestyle at home-and everybody knows that movie stars don't go to be early! Will Nancy's lack of beauty sleep get in the way of Mrs. DeVine's surprise the next day?
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 31
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English
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Dawn and Mary Anne are good friends, but when they become stepsisters, their relationship undergoes some changes.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England.
When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious...
5) Just Harriet
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English
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"There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer: She just finished third grade. She has a perfect cat named Matzo Ball. She doesn’t always tell the truth. She is very happy to be spending summer vacation away from home and her mom and dad and all the wonderful things she had been planning all year. Okay, maybe that last one isn’t entirely the truth. Of course, there’s nothing Harriet doesn't like about Marble Island,...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 18
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English
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"Stacey's invited her friends from the Baby-sitters Club down to New York City for a long weekend. But what a mistake! The Baby-sitters are way out of place in the big city. Mary Anne sounds like a walking guide book; Dawn's afraid of everything; Kristy can't keep her mouth shut; and Claudia's jealous of Stacey's friends. Does this mean Stacey can't be the Baby-sitters' friend anymore? Will the Baby-sitters Club fall apart?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Davalyn Hart was born with spina bifida, but she is determined not to let that define her, and, being a daredevil, she has taken up the sport of wheelchair motocross; now that she has a brand new, specially designed, wheelchair she is ready to fly--until a bad fall while trying to impress another player shakes her confidence.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
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English
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"Claudia's not worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy Sobak, is a great practical joker. After all, how much harm can one little girl do? Plenty. Claudia breaks her leg as a result of one of Betsy's mean jokes... and now she's talking about quitting the club. Baby-sitting, she says, is just too dangerous. Kristy thinks Betsy needs to be taught a lesson. She also thinks the Baby-sitters are just the ones to do it. Watch out,...
9) Matilda
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English
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Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress, Miss Trunchbull? Well, she's the worst of all. She is a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded chokey. As for Matilda, she's an extraordinary little girl with a magical mind - and now she's had enough. So all these grown-ups had better watch out, because Matilda is going to teach...
10) Condor Mountain
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Pony Club/Stabenfeldt
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Elena must trust a stranger if she hopes to save her father.
11) Disney Moana
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Series
Publisher
Phoenix International Publications, inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Look and Find book based on the Disney motion picture Moana. "Look and Find books feature 8 extra busy scenes, and lists of more challenges at the end of each book." -- A,mazon.
Set sail with Moana on an adventure that leads her beyond the reef and beyond her wildest dreams! 8 extra busy scenes. Bonus challenges at the end of the book.
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Dora the explorer volume 15
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English
Description
Halloween is here, and it's time for Dora's Halloween party! Dora's friends are all putting finishing touches on their costumes, but Boots can't decide what he wants to be. Luckily, seeing everyone's costume preparations inspires Boots with a great idea! Includes seventeen Spanish words. It's almost time for Dora's Halloween costume party, and everyone is getting ready. But Boots has a problem -- he can't decide what to be. Come to the party to help...
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Publisher
Pony Club/Stabenfeldt
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Ricki's life is sometimes difficult, with her father's nagging her about grades and her mother's preoccupation with work, but the teenager's main concern is Diablo, a horse who is being seriously mistreated by his owner.
14) The gardener
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Language
English
Description
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
In a place where color ran wild, there lived a girl who was wilder still. Her name was Swatch, and color was her passion. From brave green to in-between gray to rumble-tumble pink . . . Swatch wanted to collect them all. But colors don t always like to be tamed.