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Lifting the sky
Mackie D'Arge.
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310 p. ; 21cm.
Twelve-year-old Blue, always on the move with her ranch-hand mother, yearns for a real home where her father can find them, and on a remote ranch on a Wyoming reservation she finds that and more, including a mystical ability to heal injuries.
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The lightning key
Jon Berkeley ; illustrated by Brandon Dorman.
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399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Orphaned, twelve-year-old Miles Wednesday discovers some surprising things about his past when he sets out with his angel companion Little and the blind explorer Baltinglass on a quest to recover the powerful tiger's egg stolen by the evil Cortado.
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Magickeepers : the eternal hourglass
by Erica Kirov.
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231 p. ; 20 cm.
Living in Las Vegas with his unsuccessful father, Nick Rostov learns on his thirteenth birthday that he is descended from a powerful line of Russian Magickeepers on his dead mother's side, and that the equally powerful but evil Shadowkeepers will stop at nothing to get an ancient relic that his grandfather gave him.
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Melonhead
by Katy Kelly ; illustrated by Gillian Johnson.
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209 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
In the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Capitol Hill, Lucy Rose's friend Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older invention into a new invention.
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My new best friend
Julie Bowe.
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181 p. ; 21 cm.
Fourth-grader Ida May and her new best friend, Stacey Merriweather, discover a mermaid nightlight that they believe can grant wishes.
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Neil Armstrong Is my uncle and other lies Muscle Man Mcginty told me
Nan Marino.
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154 p. ; 21 cm.
"Muscle Man McGinty is anbsp;squirrelly runt,nbsp;a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year old......the problem is that no one knows it but me. In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I can see him for what he really is. A phony.nbsp;It's the summer of 1969, and things are not only changing in Tamara's little Long Island town, but in the world. Perhaps Tamara could stand to take one small step toward a bit of compassion and understanding? A terrific debut novel with truly vivid characters and a wonderful voice.
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News for dogs
by Lois Duncan.
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217 p. ; 22 cm.
From the author of "Hotel for Dogs," now a major motion picture, comes a brand-new canine adventure. Andi no longer runs a hotel for dogs. She starts a newspaper for dogs, which soon attracts the attention of some mysterious dognappers.
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Night at the museum : a junior novelization
written by Leslie Goldman ; screen story and screenplay by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant.
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139 p., [4] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Here is a novelized version of the new hit comedy film released by Foxtudios in December '06. It's an expanded version of Milan Trenc's picturetorybook for children, "The Night at the Museum", which was first publishedy Barron's several seasons ago. On his very first night at work, the nightuard at New York's Museum of Natural History begins to see the museum'sxhibits come to life. He tells his son about the many strange things he seesach night. At first reluctant to believe his father's fanciful tales, theon begins to see Dad in a new light when he, too, spends a night at theuseum. He discovers that his father's amazing world is real. The film'snusual and entertaining story, starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickeyooney, and Dick Van Dyke, is faithfully recreated in this funny and fancifulovelization for young readers.
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Officer Spence makes no sense!
Dan Gutman ; pictures by Jim Paillot.
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100 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Ella Mentry School's security guard proves overzealous in his pursuit of a peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich thief.
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Operation Redwood
by S. Terrell French.
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In northern California, Julian Carter-Li and his friends old and new fight to save a grove of redwoods from an investment company that plans to cut them down.
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Pandora gets jealous
Carolyn Hennesy.
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264 p. ; 20 cm.
Thirteen-year-old Pandy is hauled before Zeus and given six months to gather all of the evils that were released when the box she brought to school as her annual project was accidentally opened.
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Prilla and the butterfly lie
written by Kitty Richards ; illustrated by Denise Shimabukuro & the Disney Storybook Artists.
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113 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
After lying to spare a friend's feelings, Prilla, a mainland-visiting, clapping-talent fairy, finds herself spending a day as a butterfly herder, while strange things keep happening to her.
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