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jacket/cover - click for larger view Amelia's guide to babysitting
by Marissa Moss.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Amelia and her friend start a babysitting business.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Amelia's science fair disaster
by Marissa Moss (except all experiments by Amelia).
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Amelia is assigned to a group science fair project.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Captain Nobody
Dean Pitchford.
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195 p. ; 22 cm.
When ten-year-old Newton dresses up as an unusual superhero for Halloween, he decides to keep wearing the costume after the holiday to help save townspeople and eventually his injured brother.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Clover Twig and the magical cottage
Kaye Umansky ; illustrated by Johanna Wright.
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297 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Capable and hardworking ten-year-old Clover Twig takes a job as housekeeper for a messy witch, Demelza, but while Demelza is away Clover and an accident-prone neighbor boy must defend the weird cottage from the witch's evil sister.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Cookie
Jacqueline Wilson ; illustrated by Nick Sharratt.
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320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Beauty Cookson and her mother run away from her father, whose temper was out of control, and find a new lease on life at a seaside resort where they learn to cook and start to become more self-confident.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Eating enchiladas
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ; illustrated by Marcy Ramsey.
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71 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
A sleepover inspires Sarah, who likes to do things differently, to chose Mexico for her "Countries of the World" presentation.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Fiendish deeds
P.J. Bracegirdle.
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215 p. ; 22 cm.
As eleven-year-old Joy Wells, proud resident of the nearly-abandoned town of Spooking, tries to stop construction of a water park in a bog she believes is home to a monster and the setting of her favorite horror story, a man with his own mysterious connection to Spooking will do anything to stop her.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Fireworks at the FBI
by Ron Roy ; illustrated by Timothy Bush.
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87 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
As they leave a Fourth of July celebration with the President of the United States, KC and Marshall see unauthorized fireworks at the FBI Building and decide to unmask the culprit and his plans for blackmail.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view The fourth apprentice
Erin Hunter.
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302, 29 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Jayfeather and Lionblaze are prophesied to be two of the three cats who hold the power of the stars in their paws. Now they must wait for a sign from StarClan to tell them which of their Clanmates will complete the prophesy. Soon a StarClan warrior will visit a new ThunderClan apprentice, and the lives of the three chosen cats will be forever linked.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Girls acting catty
Leslie Margolis.
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179 p. ; 21 cm.
Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Gully's travels
Tor Seidler ; pictures by Brock Cole.
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173 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Gulliver leads a life of luxury with his master. But when his master falls in love with a woman who is allergic to dogs, Gulliver is sent to a new home. He finds himself with a family of raucous human beings and three mutts. But just as Gulliver begins to make a grudging peace with his new reality, he gets swept up in a harrowing new adventure.
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jacket/cover - click for larger view Horrid Henry and the mega-mean time machine
Francesca Simon ; illustrated by Tony Ross.
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88 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
"Horrid Henry invents a time machine and promises to send his brother, Perfect Peter, to the future (as soon as Peter puts on one of Mom's dresses). But when Peter gets there, it isn't exactly what he had in mind. In fact, everything kind of looks the same"--P. [4] of cover.
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