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Sew Zoey volume 3
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Zoey's school is having a dance and Zoey sews special dresses for her friends and herself. Everyone's excited. Then Zoey gets a phone call inviting her to be on her favourite reality television show, Fashion Showdown. The problem is, the show is taping on the same day as the dance.
82) The golden day
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"The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip. Who was the mysterious poet they had met in the Garden? What actually happened in the seaside cave that day? And most important--who can they tell about it?"--Dust jacket.
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Secret Zoo volume 5
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Noah, Megan, Richie, and Ella must navigate a maze of never-ending aquariums in the Secret Zoo to rescue their animal friends.
86) The hero two doors down: based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
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Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
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Nest for Celeste volume 2
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Celeste is hundreds of miles from home following an unexpected journey aboard a Mississippi steamboat. After mishaps and disasters, she finds herself on the frontier in southern Indiana. It's 1822, and Celeste meets a tall, lanky boy wielding an ax: a young Abraham Lincoln.
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Vanessa is the new girl in class, and Sara is torn between sympathy, because she knows what being teased is like, and a desire to stay with the "in" crowd led by Courtney, chief bully, and the reader is invited to choose between three possible choices for Sara to make.
91) The junkyard bot
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Robots rule! volume 1
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When George Gearing's personal robot Jackbot gets hit by a car, George rebuilds him into something amazing, only to have him disappear just as dark forces threaten the town, leaving George and his new friend Anne Droid to find out what happened.
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Catherine Madison left her small town in Nebraska after her husband deserted her. She's also left behind her most shameful secrets-of a family and a marriage that have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she's trying to become a new person. But running away from the past isn't as easy as she'd hoped. Her journey leads her to Las Vegas, where she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she'd sworn she'd keep hidden, and...
94) Last orders
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Winner of the Booker Prize. Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts. Braiding these men's voices, and that of Jack's widow, into a choir of sorrow and resentment, passion and regret, Swift...
96) Quicksand Pond
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Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose connection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present--and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.
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Boris (Andrew Joyner) volume 3
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School field day is coming up and Boris and his friends are practicing hard because they are determined not to let Eddie win again, but on race day Boris is forced to choose between winning and friendship.
100) Arcade catastrophe
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Candy shop war volume 2
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Nate and his friends think the new Arcadeland, where tickets can earn jets, tanks, subs, and racecars, is totally cool, until they learn that the arcade owner is hiding a secret.