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Dive below the waves to where the real adventure begins.
Hector lives with his family at the Marina in an Italian coastal town where they organize tourist expeditions to explore the many wonders of the sea. Hector's dream is to become a deep-sea diver, just like his father. Then, one day, an unscrupulous entrepreneur opens a much newer center next door, forcing them to close their business. This man has a single purpose, to find the legendary Pearl...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's midwest without warning. Within hours, America's prairie would be buried under ten feet of snow. Hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified and lost and freezing.
John never wanted to move to the wide-open prairie....
2383) Poppy and Ereth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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After Poppy's husband dies from pneumonia and she is accidentally carried away by a bat, Ereth, a porcupine, starts planning her funeral service, but Spruce--Poppy's grandson--does not believe Poppy to be dead, and goes off to search for her.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"The African Penguin population is critically low, due to various factors including climate change. Scientists and volunteers with a South African organization are helping to rescue these endangered birds by rearing abandoned chicks."--
2385) The hidden kingdom
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Wings of fire volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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The five dragonets of the prophecy are hoping to hide in safety in the RainWing kingdom, and Glory is hoping to learn more about her own identity, but when tribe members start disappearing and the old queen does nothing, it is up to Glory and her friends to uncover the lurking evil.
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When a boy brings his pterodactyl to school for show-and-tell, hilarious havoc ensues. The dinosaur's delightfully demented antics, the kids' expressions as they try to avoid the hungry pterodactyl, and the out-of-control imagination of the boy yield a wild and wacky romp. Pterodactyl Show and Tell taps into every child's impossible wish to bring a dinosaur to school, allowing readers to safely enjoy the laugh-out-loud logical conclusion: classroom...
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"Longlisted for the Young Adult Science Book Award, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books" Nick Haddad is a professor and senior terrestrial ecologist in the Department of Integrative Biology and the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Twitter @nickmhaddad
A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them...
2388) Spark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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When a shy girl and her dragon-like companion discover their country's idyllic weather comes at a steep-and secret-cost, they recruit fellow students to defy authority and attempt to spread the truth.
Storm beasts and their guardians create perfect weather every day, and Mina longs for a storm beast of her own. But when the gentle girl bonds with a lightning beast-a creature of fire and chaos-everyone's certain it's a mistake. Everyone but Mina and...
2389) Giant Clams
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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At over 4-feet-long, giant clams certainly live up to their name! In this title, readers will better understand these massive mollusks through leveled text and bright, colorful photos. Special features throughout the book will help readers learn about the diet, foods, and range of these cool, colossal clams.
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Sara will have to find her courage if she wants to protect her friends from poachers!
A cry for help wakes Sara, a young girl living in a small town in the countryside. The continuing calls compel Sara to slip out of her home to find the source. She doesn't realize it was not a call she heard with her ears, but with her mind-a mother tiger is calling out for help to save her cubs!
But to save them, Sara must first find the cubs, and then hide...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Pete gets a case of the hiccups, and he doesn't know what to do! He decides to ask his wisest friends for help, like Grumpy Toad, Callie, and Bob. But Pete is still stuck with the hiccups! Will Pete the Kitty ever get rid of his terrible hiccups?''--Publisher's description.
2392) Love from Paddington
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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A brand-new novel from Michael Bond, celebrating Paddington's many adventures! Told through Paddington's letters to his aunt Lucy back in Peru, this new novel offers Paddington's own special view on some of his most famous tales. Filled with Paddington's signature charm and with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this paper-over-board keepsake is a celebration of this beloved character.
2393) Ugly Cat & Pablo
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Ugly Cat and Pablo volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Ugly Cat and Pablo couldn't be more different, but when these two mejor amigos come together, there are loads of laughs, slithery misunderstandings, and tasty treats. Ugly Cat is dying for a paleta (ice pop) and his friend Pablo is determined to help him get one by scaring a little girl who is enjoying a coconut paleta in the park. Things go horribly wrong when, instead of being scared, the little girl picks Pablo up and declares that he would make...
2394) The storm crow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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After their mother's death when the Illucian empire invaded, Princess Anthia and her sister Princess Caliza start a rebellion to bring back the magical elemental crows that were taken from her people.
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When aspiring entrepreneur Kelsie takes her cupcakes to the Watermelon Festival, she finds herself right in the middle of a shocking murder.
Elizabeth Bryan, the town's biggest socialite, has been found dead between the pig races and the pie eating contest–and her new friend Nell is the prime suspect. With no time to lose, Kelsie hires the dead woman's assistant in order to clear her friend's name and get back to business.
Then one of their beloved...
2396) How to Catch a Unicorn
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The #1 New York Times bestseller! Try to catch one of the world's most elusive mythical creatures-the unicorn-in this enchanting picture book for kids, the perfect Easter basket stuffer!
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes a dazzling new adventure! Filled with zany traps, STEAM concepts, silly rhymes, and lots of rainbow unicorn fun, parents, educators, and young readers alike will delight in this colorful...
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In this Inuit tale, the actions of a hare and a fox change the Arctic forever by creating day and night. In very early times, there was no night or day and words spoken by chance could become real. When a hare and a fox meet and express their longing for light and darkness, their words are too powerful to be denied. Passed orally from storyteller to storyteller for hundreds of years, this beautifully illustrated story weaves together elements of an...
2398) Unstoppable Me
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Unstoppable Me, written by New York Times bestselling author and champion surfer Bethany Hamilton with husband, Adam Dirks, tells the story of Makana the lion, who loves to surf but loses her nerve when she wipes out. When her friend encourages her to go back out again, Makana summons up the courage and discovers the success that comes from believing in yourself and never giving up.As seen in the feature film Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, this playful...
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Two girls divided by time, united by their love for some very special horses - an epic Caribbean adventure! On a remote tropical island, twelve year-old Beatriz is about to embark on an epic journey, through hurricanes and across the high seas and back to the time of Christopher Columbus... When Beatriz stumbles across a wild mare with strange markings in the jungle she can't believe it is real. Yet from that moment on the strongest connection grows...
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Judy Moody is in a mood. A sleuthing, Nancy Drew kind of mood. So what's a WBMS (world's best mystery solver) to do? Go find a mystery, that's what! And she doesn't have to snoop for long: when Mr. Chips, a beloved crime-dog-in-training, goes missing, Judy Drewdy and her chums, agents Dills Pickle (Frank), Spuds Houdini (Rocky), and James Madagascar (Stink) find themselves smack-dab in the middle of a real-life, scare-your-pants-off whodunit. Was...
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