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Animal Ark: Labrador on the Lawn
Mandy and James are staying with her parents at a vacation house in the Lake District when they spot a mischievous Labrador on the lawn. James's dog, Blackie, is thrilled to have found a friend, but with no identification or collar, how will the Hopes find her owner? And why does she seem so at home in the cottage? |
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The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids: Super Special #7: Mrs. Jeppers’ Scariest Halloween Ever
Trick or treat! It's Halloween, and the monsters are out in Bailey City ? that's what Eddie, Liza, Howie, and Melody think, anyway. More and more Bailey School Kids are disappearing into Mrs. Jeepers' creepy old house, and they're not coming back out. Could Mrs. Jeepers be turning them into real monsters? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! |
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Geronimo Stilton Special Edition: A Christmas Tale
t was Christmastime on Mouse Island, and I couldn't wait to celebrate with my friends and family. But then I discovered that they were all traveling out of town for the holidays, and I'd be spending Christmas alone! I was starting to feel like a real grinch. Would this be my loneliest Christmas ever?
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Santa Paws Saves the Day
The Callahan family is on their way to Vermont for a fun-filled holiday on the ski slopes. Santa Paws and the new puppy are looking forward to a nice, relaxing week curled up next to the lodge fire. But up in the cold, snowy mountains, there's lots of people who need help. Fortunately, there's one dog who always comes to the rescue -- Santa Paws! But will his playful new sidekick accidentally get him *into* trouble instead of out of it? |
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Young Santa
Before the big belly, rosy cheeks, and long white beard, Santa Claus was a normal teenager -- living a not-so-normal life! Even as a kid, Santa was full of good cheer. But where did he get that suit? And those reindeer? And why did a boy from the North Pole start delivering presents to children all around the world? The answers are in this book -- and they aren't what you'd expect! |
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Kringle
Our tale begins in 500 A.D., when goblins kidnapped human children and set them to work in underground mines. Kringle is one such child.... until he discovers his mission - to free children from enslavement. His legend lives on today, as he travels the earth every Christmas Eve to quell the goblins once more. |
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Raven Hill Mysteries
When Liz and her friends begin helping out around the neighborhood, all they want to do is earn a little extra pocket change. Nobody said anything about risking their weekends--and their lives--on some of Raven Hill's most mysterious secrets. But trouble has a funny way of sneaking up on Liz, Tom, Sunny, Elmo, Richelle, and Nick. |
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The Girl With the Broken Wing
The twins are in bed when it happens. They hear a sound like a wet cabbage hitting the wall. Then a clattering on roof tiles. Followed by a tapping at the window. It's a girl. With a broken wing. And she's here to stay. |
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On the Run #4: The Stowaway Solution
iden and Meg Falconer are on the hunt for the one man who might be able to free their parents from jail. The hitch? There are plenty of other people on the hunt for THEM, including the FBI and an eerie, hairless killer. After one close call too many, the Falconers find themselves stowed away on a ship -- but the chase doesn't end there. Instead, it moves to close quarters, where every step, every breath, could get them caught.
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Goosebumps: The Haunted School
Tommy Frazer's dad just got married. Now Tommy's got a new mom. And he's going to a new school -- Bell Valley Middle School. |
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Goosebumps: Don’t Go to Sleep
Matt hates his tiny bedroom. It's so small it's practically a closet! Still, Matt's mom refuses to let him sleep in the guest room. After all, they might have guests. Some day. Or year.
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Vampire Plagues: Mexico, 1850
Camazotz and his band of vampires have left Paris, but they're one step ahead of Jack and his friends. The vampire god has managed to secure nearly all the pieces of a powerful amulet that will give him power beyond imagining. There's only one piece missing, and it's in Mexico - the seat of Camazotz's power. |
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Playing With Fire
Stevie, 13, has started at a new school and is desperate for acceptance. Like any teenager, he is self-conscious and embarrassed by his family. But he also hates himself for being cruelly bullied at his old school, and he will do anything to be accepted by bullies here rather than be their victim. Then he finds an odd fossil called a Devil's Toenail, which fills him with an almost evil sense of daring. The Devil's Toenail's tauntings and urgings to take revenge on the world are relentless, but in the end, Stevie discovers that believing in himself is what brings true power and happiness. |
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Portraits Book One: Dancing Through Fire
Welcome to 19th century Paris, and the world of Degas's dancers. 13-year-old Sylvie is one of the pupils at the Paris Opera Ballet, where tutus must always be starched and pointe shoes fresh. Sylvie dreams of being a prima ballerina, but her height is a problem: she is too little. When the Franco-Prussian war begins in 1870, Paris is soon under siege and Sylvie is thrown into turmoil and tragedy. Against the fiery backdrop of war, the beauty of the ballet sustains and strengthens Sylvie. Before long, her talent and drive allows her to achieve her goal--and she graces the stage as a star. |
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Portraits Book Two: Searching for the Past
The year is 1879. Beautiful and headstrong orphan Aurelia Sandborn has no family to call her own. Fleeing from her sinister guardian, Aurelia finds herself in a Massachusetts village, where the townsfolk seem all too curious about her mysterious background. When Aurelia meets a charming boy named Wayland, she would like to open her heart to him, but feels she cannot. Surprisingly she finds herself confiding the artist Winslow Homer, who is painting her portrait. And Homer himself may hold the key to the very truth about Aurelia's past...and future.
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Here Today
"In 1963, Ellie's mother, Doris Day Dingman, was crowned the Bosetti Beauty at Mr. Bosetti's supermarket, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the Dingmans began to fall apart." So begins 11-yr-old Eleanor Roosevelt Dingman's story. Ellie, who is about to start 6th grade in the small town of Spectacle, NY, is the oldest child in her off-center family. Her father works construction jobs, while her mother, Doris, has only one dream - to become a rich and famous actress. But when that dream leads to Doris's abandonment of the family, it is Ellie who is called upon to take charge.
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Becoming Naomi León
Naomi Soledad León Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. Then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram), her difficulty speaking up, & her status at school as "nobody special." But according to Gram's self-prophecies, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking. Luckily, Naomi also has her carving to strengthen her spirit. And life with Gram & her little brother, Owen, is happy & peaceful. That is, until their mother reappears after 7 years of being gone, stirring up all sorts of questions & challenging Naomi to discover who she really is.
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A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
Squirrel and her brother Bone begin their lives in a toolshed behind someone's summer house. Their mother nurtures them and teaches them the many skills they will need to survive as stray dogs. But when their mother is taken from them suddenly and too soon, the puppies are forced to make their own way in the world, facing humans both gentle and brutal, busy highways, other animals, and the changing seasons. When Bone and Squirrel become separated, Squirrel must fend for herself, and in the process, makes two friends who in very different ways define her fate.
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The Truth Cookie
Lulu Baker's dad is getting ready to marry his new girlfriend, world-famous model Varaminta le Bone. Everyone thinks Varaminta is fabulous. Everyone, that is, except Lulu. She knows that her stepmother-to-be, not to mention her awful son Torquil, is cruel, deceitful, and just using her father. But how can she make her dad see Varaminta and Torquil for who they really are?
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Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time
Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If *that* happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over. Then his parents are fighting, his grandmother Yin-Yin hates her new nursing home, he's being "tutored" by the world's biggest nerdball Millicent Min--and he's not sure his ballpoint "Emily" tattoo is ever going to wash off.
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Inkspell
Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.
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An Innocent Soldier
Adam is a farmhand conscripted by Napoleon's army, which is gathering strength for its campaign against Russia. Sergeant Krauter makes Adam the victim of his most sadistic urges. But when an aristocratic young lieutenant spots Adam and requisitions him as his personal valet, Adam's life seems to take a turn for the better.
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It’s Happy Bunny: What’s Your Sign?
Find out: What makes YOU special; what YOUR future holds; what kinds of people will tick YOU off; and how to use astrology to justify YOUR shortcomings! Are you cute but psycho? Then you're a Scorpio. Do you hate everything? You must be a Cancer. Or maybe you're a big Dorkwad? Take heart. It's not you. It's just your birth date!
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Perfect World
Lacie's best friend Jenna wants to grow up fast. She wants to be cool and be known and be with a boy all the way. Even though Lacie isn't so sure, she follows Jenna anyway. She tries to block out her sadness. Her questions. Her fears. At first it isn't that bad. She even meets a boy whose problems are compatible with hers. But then Jenna's friendship turns fierce . . . and the perfect world comes tumbling down.
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Duel Masters: Civilizations
Play your cards right . . . and history comes alive! This handbook contains everything Duel Masters duelists always wanted to know about the amazing chronicle of the civilizations linked with the game, including accounts of incredible battles, maps of the worlds, sagas of the civilizations' races, and the current uneasy alliances.
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Trollz: Best Friends for Life
In this chapter book based on Warner Home Video's first Trollz DVD, the five newly empowered Trollz tweens use their magic to accidentally unleash an evil prehistoric force. |
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