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|  | Agell, Charlotte SHIFT
August 01, 2008 - Adrian Havoc knows that the world is out of whack. His father is presumed dead on a mission to the moon, his mother's wrapped up in a hush-hush scientific project, his best friend has gone missing and his kid sister has visions that are scarily
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| | Allard, Harry STARLIGHT GOES TO TOWN
August 01, 2008 - Allard resurfaces after 17 years with a surreal tale of a chicken who dreams of becoming a high-fashion model but ends up taking what she can get. The other hens mock her pretensions, but when a fairy godmother offers to grant her wishes, Starlight
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| | Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta BALLOTS FOR BELVA
August 01, 2008 - In 1884 Belva Lockwood ran for president, although as women she and her female running mate could not vote. She actually received some history-making votes in the election that Grover Cleveland won (and, in fact, he may well have carried New York
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| | Barron, T.A. MERLIN'S DRAGON
August 01, 2008 - A new series opens in Barron's trite version of Avalon. Basil is a tiny, unique creature, batlike and lizardlike, ignorant of his purpose but destined for greatness. His name commemorates the day he hid in a patch of basil plants, which was the same
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| | Base, Graeme ENIGMA
August 01, 2008 - Bertie Badger undertakes a magical mystery tour to recover a cache of missing props. In his heyday, Grandpa Badger was a master magician, known as Gadzooks the Great. Now he lives at the Retirement Home for Elderly Magicians, surrounded by old
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| | Bateman, Teresa THE FROG WITH THE BIG MOUTH
August 01, 2008 - A young Argentine wide-mouthed frog can't help but brag when he eats the biggest fly in the whole world. When his brothers and sisters disregard his accomplishment, the frog travels the rainforest, boasting of his fly-catching skills to the toco
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| | Berger, Carin THE LITTLE YELLOW LEAF
August 01, 2008 - Beautifully designed and executed, this modest fable anthropomorphizes a leaf who hangs onto his oak branch far into the winter. When he discovers another late-lingering leaf on his tree, both agree to let go at once and dance away in the wind
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|  | Berger, Lou THE ELEPHANT WISH
August 01, 2008 - A young girl's extraordinary wish comes true until an old lady moves in to take her place. On her eighth birthday, Eliza Prattlebottom wishes an elephant would come and take her away from her busy parents. "Two days, six hours, thirty-seven minutes,
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| | Berkes, Marianne OVER IN THE ARCTIC
August 01, 2008 - Modeled after the traditional song "Over in the Meadow," this (for the most part) easily chanted rhyme introduces a variety of land and sea animals and birds found in the tundra. Standard number-recognition and counting concepts are augmented by
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| | Bouwman, H.M. THE REMARKABLE & VERY TRUE STORY OF LUCY & SNOWCAP
August 01, 2008 - An original, remarkable and very true debut. In 1775, three boats carrying English convicts bound for America wreck near an island called Tathenn, which is inhabited by natives known as Colay—who are quickly pushed onto outrider islands. Twelve
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| | Broach, Elise MASTERPIECE
August 01, 2008 - Eleven-year-old James Terik isn't particularly appreciated in the Pompaday household. Marvin, a beetle who lives happily with his "smothering, overinvolved relatives" behind the Pompadays' kitchen sink, has observed James closely and knows he's
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| | Buckingham, Royce GOBLINS!
August 01, 2008 - Young protagonist Sam thinks living in Sumas, Wash., is "…like growing up in a rural coma." He and bad boy PJ (son of Sumas's only cop) quickly learn how wrong he is when the boys accidentally run over an apelike creature sporting tusks, fur and a
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| | Calvert, Pam PRINCESS PEEPERS
August 01, 2008 - Calvert's tale of a bespectacled princess's rocky road to self-acceptance is rollicking good fun. Princess Peepers adores her plethora of eyewear, with what seems to be a pair of glasses for every occasion. However, when she attends the Royal
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| | Castellucci, Cecil JANES IN LOVE
August 01, 2008 - Jane Beckles and her crew of like-named conspirators return in this sequel to The Plain Janes (2007). This time around, they are plagued by all manner of heartache—and plenty of other woes, too. Their guerilla-art group, People Loving Art in
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| | Chen, Chih-Yuan ARTIE AND JULIE
August 01, 2008 - Chen follows up a celebration of unlikely siblings in Guji Guji (2004) with an equally captivating look at an unusual friendship. As related in parallel split-page narratives, Artie the lion gets extensive instruction from his father in hunting
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| | Chessa, Francesca HOLLY'S RED BOOTS
August 01, 2008 - Holly wants to make a snowman, but cannot find her red boots to keep her feet dry. "I promised my slippers I would show them the snow!" she explains to her mom as she gets ready to step out in her green bunny slippers. With broad strokes of the
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| | Copp, Jim JIM COPP, WILL YOU TELL ME A STORY?
August 01, 2008 - The late Copp (deceased in 1999) recorded a series of nine children's records. The three in this book—and on a CD featuring Copp telling the three stories and songs with musical accompaniment—were originally released in 1958. The stories remain
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| | Coville, Bruce ODDEST OF ALL
August 01, 2008 - To the short stories gathered in Odds Are Good: An Oddly Enough and Odder Than Ever Omnibus (2006) Coville adds nine more: six previously published but revised, and three newbies. Except for 13-year-old Murphy Murphy's hilarious experience on stage
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| | Dickinson, Emily MY LETTER TO THE WORLD
August 01, 2008 - This slender volume offers seven of Dickinson's haunting, ethereal and sometimes morbid poems, accompanied by Arsenault's appropriately delicate, intriguing mixed-media illustrations. The poems include some of Dickinson's best known, including
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| | Ellis, Deborah OFF TO WAR
August 01, 2008 - With 13,500 Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and one million American military personnel in Iraq, millions of children on the home front and in the war zones have been affected. As Ellis says, "In any war, it is always the children who are the
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| | Erdrich, Louise THE PORCUPINE YEAR
August 01, 2008 - This third entry in the Birchbark House series takes Omakayas and her family west from their home on the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker, away from land the U.S. government has claimed. Difficulties abound; the unknown landscape is fraught
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| | Feig, Paul IGNATIUS MACFARLAND
August 01, 2008 - Twelve-year-old Iggy MacFarland (Piggy MacFartland to his nemesis Frank Gutenkunitz) wants nothing more than to be kidnapped by aliens and whisked away from his boring, bully-filled life. He's so anxious to get to outer space, he builds his own
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| | Ferraiolo, Jack D. THE BIG SPLASH
August 01, 2008 - Welcome to Franklin Middle School, where a junior gang of petty thieves and mobsters shakes kids down and humiliates them with water guns. Seventh-grader Matt Stevens, the class detective, is hired by fellow middle-schooler Vinny Biggs (something of
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| | Frazier, Craig HANK FINDS INSPIRATION
August 01, 2008 - Stanley and his snake friend Hank return in this beautifully illustrated and eloquently told tale of discovery. Feeling a bit unfulfilled, Stanley drives to the city to find some "inspiration." But Hank, still at home, wants some too. The
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| | Frederick, Heather Vogel THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB
August 01, 2008 - The eclectic group returns for a year of discussion centered on Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series. In a structure similar to Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club, seventh-graders Cassidy, Megan, Jess and Emma's life
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| | Golding, Julia CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS
August 01, 2008 - Hang on for the wild ride of Cat Royal's second adventure, after The Diamond of Drury Lane (2008). The redheaded firebrand sees her friend Pedro scale the heights as Ariel in Mr. Sheridan's production of The Tempest, only to find that his evil
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| | Greene, Stephanie THE LUCKY ONES
August 01, 2008 - The prevailing sensibility in this relic of a novel hearkens back to a simpler time, perhaps mid-20th century, when young girls knew the difference between a magnum of champagne and a regular old bottle, Mom wore pearls, everyone on the island went
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| | Haas, Robert B. AFRICAN CRITTERS
August 01, 2008 - Striking photocollages, most in lush color, illustrate, sometimes problematically, this wildlife photographer's account of adventures in animal preserves in southern Africa. Short chapters describe exciting encounters with leopards, elephants, wild
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| | Haddix, Margaret Peterson PALACE OF MIRRORS
August 01, 2008 - In this semi-sequel to 1999's Just Ella, which imagined what happens after Cinderella moves to the Prince's palace, readers meet another Cinderella-like character, this one raised to believe that she is the true princess of the realm at war with
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| | Haig, Matt SAMUEL BLINK AND THE RUNAWAY TROLL
August 01, 2008 - When their new school starts, Samuel and Martha Blink have trouble keeping secret everything they learned about the Shadow Forest near their aunt and uncle's home (Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest, 2007). But things get worse when the Troll
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| | Hammill, Matt SIR REGINALD'S LOGBOOK
August 01, 2008 - A legend in his own mind, bushy-mustached Sir Reginald braves harrowing perils (not) in search of the fabled "Lost Tablet of Illusion." Is that a buzzing Carnivorous Elephant Beetle? A lethal Tiger-Stripe Viper? A Gargantuan Vampire Bat? Well,
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| | Harris, Robie H. THE DAY LEO SAID, "I HATE YOU!"
August 01, 2008 - The H-word gets the full attention of two of picture-book literature's finest emotional plumbers.When Leo's naughty behavior earns him "no" after "no" from his mother, the boy stalks off to his room, "where nobody can say no!"A quick (and
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| | Harrison, David L. PIRATES
August 01, 2008 - Methinks the introduction doth protest too much. From the start Harrison attempts to deglamorize the piratical life with cold hard facts and sentences like, "The life of a pirate was not fun."Says you!As Burr's deeply realistic and heavily
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| | Hoestlandt, Jo GRAN, YOU'VE GOT MAIL!
August 01, 2008 - A series of letters between 12-year-old Annabelle and her great-grandmother show Annabelle's increasing sympathy for the older woman, who becomes a friend and confidante. Typically self-centered at first, Annabelle complains about her family and the
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| | Hughes, Susan NO GIRLS ALLOWED
August 01, 2008 - This collective biography in graphic form depicts the lives of seven women from a range of eras and cultures who each reached the conclusion that they could only attain their goals by posing as men. Featuring both historical figures that may be
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| | Ibbotson, Eva THE DRAGONFLY POOL
August 01, 2008 - Ibbotson's multi-stranded story begins in England at the start of World War II and ends six years later. Twelve-year-old Tally, a thoughtful and outspoken child, deeply loved by her widowed father and two maiden aunts, receives a scholarship to
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| | Issa, Kai Jackson HOWARD THURMAN'S GREAT HOPE
August 01, 2008 - Though rigidly purposeful, this important profile introduces young readers to a Civil Rights Movement figure who should be better known. Pursuing a dream of becoming his family's first "college man," Thurman proved so apt a student that the
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| | Jenkins, Emily THE LITTLE BIT SCARY PEOPLE
August 01, 2008 - A little red-haired girl observes that many of the people in her neighborhood and school seem a "little bit scary." There's the big boy on the skateboard who plays loud music, the bus driver who demands exact change, the imposing school principal
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| | Kalch, Franziska LITTLE OLD LADIES
August 01, 2008 - Let's hear it for the little old ladies, who smell so nice and cook so well and spin their tales of long experience on planet Earth. Kalch gives them a 21-gun salute in a curiously impassive voice, but one that can get sly quickly: "they never miss
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| | Kimmel, Eric A. THE MYSTERIOUS GUESTS
August 01, 2008 - Wealth and kindness vie in this instructive autumn-holiday morality story illustrated with Krenina's dim, muted acrylics in harvest hues. Two brothers, one rich, pompous and undeserving, the other modest, charitable and selfless, live separately and
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| | Krensky, Stephen SPARK THE FIREFIGHTER
August 01, 2008 - In the town of Hardscrabble, volunteer firefighters aren't easy to come by. Luckily, Spark, a dragon who's afraid of fire (particularly fire-breathing of the dragon sort), decides to give it a go and overcome his fear. Because of his phobia, Spark
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| | Krull, Kathleen THE ROAD TO OZ
August 01, 2008 - With customary vivacity and a fine sense of irony, Krull portrays her subject as a genial family man who suffered reverse after reverse thanks to a bad combination of deep-seated optimism and zero business sense—but pulled through when his love of
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| | Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel THE ORIGAMI MASTER
August 01, 2008 - A serene lesson about the futility of cages. Shima the Origami Master lives alone in the mountains. A warbler, nesting nearby, watches him at his craft. While Shima sleeps, the warbler folds paper with its claws and beak, creating an elephant, a
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| | Limb, Sue ZOE & CHLOE ON THE PROWL
August 01, 2008 - On the prowl to snag hot dates to the quickly approaching Earthquake Ball, best friends Zoe and Chloe hatch what they think is a foolproof plan. However, in their quest for the perfect escorts, they find themselves caught in several zany and
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| | Lloyd, Sam DOCTOR MEOW'S BIG EMERGENCY
August 01, 2008 - Under the auspices of the Kiss-it-Better Hospital, the intrepid Dr. Meow turns catastrophe into a happy ending. Lloyd's sprightly tale peeks into the life of Dr. Meow as she attends to the various maladies of the residents of Whoops-a-Daisy World.
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| | Lorey, Dean MONSTER MADNESS
August 01, 2008 - The comic mayhem continues in this first sequel to 2007's fluffy-but-fun Nightmare Academy, a sort of Men in Black for kids. Three friends, all misfits, strive to pass their first major examination by battling some weak monsters, but find themselves
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| | Loy, Jessica WHEN I GROW UP
August 01, 2008 - Fourteen unusual, if not alternative, careers are highlighted in this colorful photo-essay filled with inspiring and intriguing facts behind the people and their vocations. From Jerry the entomologist and the Meade/Gilman alpaca farmers to Jamie the
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| | Lynch, Jay MO AND JO
August 01, 2008 - The newest addition to the Toon Book early-reader series presents brother and sister Joey and Mona, who are always fighting. The only thing they agree on is their favorite superhero, the Mighty Mojo. The kids are astonished to learn that the mailman
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| | Mackel, Kathy BOOST
August 01, 2008 - Against the odds, 13-year-old, 6'2" Savvy, the psychologically tough heroine of Mackel's engrossing story, makes it onto a competitive basketball team for older girls. To boost her level of proficiency so that she can battle the more experienced
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| | Marchetta, Melina JELLICOE ROAD
August 01, 2008 - Just when Taylor's only guardian, Hannah, disappears from the Jellicoe School campus, she must lead her classmates insecret war games against neighboring locals (Townies) and a camp of military kids (Cadets). While the gripping boundary battles
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| | Margolis, Leslie BOYS ARE DOGS
August 01, 2008 - Sixth-grader Annabelle is starting the year at a new school because her mother has moved in with her boyfriend, Ted Weeble, a man Annabelle unkindly thinks of as "Dweeble." Having previously attended an all-girls school, she has no idea how to deal
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| | Martin, C.K. Kelly I KNOW IT'S OVER
August 01, 2008 - One relationship ends, another begins. Shortly before he leaves to spend Christmas with his father, Nick's ex appears on his lawn to announce she's pregnant. While Sasha ponders her options, 16-year-old Nick relives the rocky course of their
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| | Mason, Margaret H. INSIDE ALL
August 01, 2008 - Mason and Welch present a story that folds in on itself and then out. Swirling colors and abstract spirals telescope from the universe, to the galaxy, to a valley and a village, to a home, a child's bedroom, the child snuggled beneath a quilt, to
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| | McClafferty, Carla Killough IN DEFIANCE OF HITLER
August 01, 2008 - At the behest of the Emergency Rescue Committee, a non-governmental organization, journalist Varian Fry traveled to Marseilles, France, in the summer of 1940. His two-week mission was to find and rescue from the Nazis as many artists, authors and
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| | McClintock, Barbara ADÈLE & SIMON IN AMERICA
August 01, 2008 - Still channeling Kate Greenaway in the art, though adding her own vein of sly humor, McClintock recycles the plot of her award-winning Ad'le and Simon (2006) across a much larger stage. To the vast annoyance of big sister Ad'le, absent-minded young
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| | McDonnell, Margot TORN TO PIECES
August 01, 2008 - When her mother doesn't return from a business trip, Anneis handed aletter that shatters her world, as it reveals both thatshe's adopted and that her mom's work revolves around shady, illegaldealings.McDonnell doles out the revelatory letter in
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| | McDonnell, Patrick SOUTH
August 01, 2008 - A flock of small, yellow birds sitting in a tree takes flight. The last leaf falls and startles a sleeping bird on the ground below, who looks up to see his flock is gone. Mutts comic-strip character and occasional picture-book star Mooch the cat
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| | Meyer, L.A. MY BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN
August 01, 2008 - The sixth in the adventures of the spirited heroine, who turns 16 during the course of the novel. At breakneck pace, she's taken from America back to England and pressed into service as a spy, finds herself first a dancer and then a member of the
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| | Misako Rocks! DETECTIVE JERMAIN
August 01, 2008 - After losing her father at a very young age, Jermain decided that she wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a detective. Now in her last year of high school, Jermain's ambitions are a constant source of worry for her mother. She doesn't have
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| | Mora, Pat HERE, KITTY, KITTY!/VEN, GATITA, VEN!
August 01, 2008 - This entry in Mora's highly successful bilingual series My Family/Mi Familia introduces a family's energetic new kitty/gatita, whose mischievous antics inside and outside the house are all forgiven with warm affection. Suárez's full-page
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| | Moses, Will RAINING CATS & DOGS
August 01, 2008 - "Operating on a shoestring," opening up "a can of worms" and having a "wolf at the door" are just some of the sticky situations defined and illustrated in this entertaining and informative collection of idioms. Moses treats readers to his playful,
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| | Neff, Henry H. THE SECOND SIEGE
August 01, 2008 - A series about an American academy of magic takes a dark turn in this sequel to The Hound of Rowan (2007). Max McDaniels is the chosen guardian of his magically powerful but physically weak roommate David Menlo. Their nemesis, the recently freed
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| | Orgel, Doris THE CAT'S TALE
August 01, 2008 - In this feline retelling of a Chinese tale about how the years were named for 12 different animals, a little girl's cat provides personal perspective. Willow's grandma, Nai Nai, tries to tell her the story of when the Jade Emperor invited his
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| | Plourde, Lynn THE DUMP MAN'S TREASURES
August 01, 2008 - Bill Pottle doesn't mind being called the dump man, because that's his job and he loves it. He finds treasures all the time: a rocking chair, a globe, a weather vane and, most of all, books. The town's children understand—they don't want to throw
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| | Poydar, Nancy ZIP, ZIP...HOMEWORK
August 01, 2008 - Violet has chosen a bright pink backpack on wheels with so many openings with zippers and snaps that she doesn't really know what to do with them all, and—uh-oh. Where is the homework assignment that she thought she had zipped into the backpack? The
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| | Preller, James ALONG CAME SPIDER
August 01, 2008 - Spider Stevens and Trey Cooper have lived next door to each other their entire lives and have been best friends throughout their years at Spiro Agnew Elementary School. Trey has a type of autism that seems to accentuate the worst traits of ADHD and
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| | Rabin, Staton MR. LINCOLN'S BOYS
August 01, 2008 - Not much is heard about President Lincoln's children, so Rabin fills a gap with this brief snapshot into the lives of two of them, Tad and Willie, which Ibatoulline illustrates with a softly drenched light that suggests yesteryear and a hint of
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| | Rees, Celia SOVAY
August 01, 2008 - It's best not to mess with Sovay Middleton. When this fearless 17-year-old living in 1794 England finds out her fianc cheated on her, she disguises herself as a rough-and-tumble highwayman and gallops off, determined to humiliate the "lecherous,
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| | Rinck, Maranke I FEEL A FOOT!
August 01, 2008 - In this retelling of the familiar Sufi tale, a group of small animals meets a big new friend, one body part at a time. Turtle, Bat, Octopus, Bird and Goat are all lazing together in their hammock when an unusual sound rouses them. Turtle intrepidly
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| | Rowe, John A. SMILE
August 01, 2008 - Grumpy Land isn't a fun place to be. As one might expect from the name, no one smiles; indeed, everyone, from the royal family on down, has forgotten how. Then one day, along comes Prince Grumpy the Sixth, who wears an odd look on his face. Doctors
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| | Ruzzier, Sergio AMANDINA
August 01, 2008 - Amandina Goldeneyes can "dance, and sing, and act beautifully, and perform the most daring acrobatics," but she is so shy no one realizes what a wonderful little dog she is. One evening Amandina decides to cure her shyness by giving a performance
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| | Sandburg, Carl NEVER KICK A SLIPPER AT THE MOON
August 01, 2008 - Sandburg's "Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon," which originally appeared in his Rootabaga Stories (1922), is given new life in a picture-book edition. Unfortunately, taken out of its familiar context, the story fizzles; it lacks a sense of logical
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| | Schumacher, Julie BLACK BOX
August 01, 2008 - Sisters Dora and Elena had been as close as "right and left hands laced tight together," but temperamentally they were completely different; Dora was the "storm on the horizon," while Elena was "the needle that always pointed to steady." When Dora
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| | Scieszka, Jon WALT DISNEY'S ALICE IN WONDERLAND
August 01, 2008 - As with 2007's Walt Disney's Cinderella, written by Cynthia Rylant, this volume showcases the color sketches of Blair, who was a production designer for many of Disney's classic animated films. Never intended as illustrations, her pictures
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| | Service, Pamela F. MY COUSIN, THE ALIEN
August 01, 2008 - Fledgling chapter-book readers turned off by the grosser parts of the Andrew Lost tales may enjoy the more conventional escapades in this kickoff. Readers meet Ethan, a flaxen-haired lad with a mysterious amulet and a lifelong conviction that he's
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| | Shannon, David TOO MANY TOYS
August 01, 2008 - Spencer owns a multitude of toys: old toys and new ones, big toys and small ones, bath toys, wooden toys, board games, computer games, miniature cars and trucks, musical instruments, stuffed animals and action figures. They are everywhere, including
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| | Smith, Andrew GHOST MEDICINE
August 01, 2008 - To escape the ghosts lurking between him and his father after his mother's death, 16-year-old Troy Stotts takes a job working for his crush Luz's father and spends his free time with his optimistic best friend, Tommy Buller, fixing up town recluse
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| | Smith, D. James IT WAS SEPTEMBER WHEN WE RAN AWAY THE FIRST TIME
August 01, 2008 - Sixth-grader Paolo describes what happens when his ten-year-old cousin Billy falls in love with Veronica, a Chinese-American girl, against community mores in central California in 1951. Third in a series that began with The Boys of San Joaquin
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| | Snow, Carol SWITCH
August 01, 2008 - It usually happens to 15-year-old Claire when there's a thunderstorm, and only with someone born under the same moon. Switching bodies, that is. The bulky swimmer can't explain why on a clear night she finds herself in the knockout body of Larissa,
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| | Strauss, Linda Leopold THE PRINCESS GOWN
August 01, 2008 - No princess-loving reader could resist this lovely confection. But beyond the pretty dresses to gaze upon, a well-crafted and thoughtful story keeps the pages turning as well. Hanna's father, a tailor who aspires to be "Embroiderer to the Princess,"
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| | Swain, Ruth Freeman UNDERWEAR
August 01, 2008 - Swain doesn't really delve into her topic, but does provide a snappy general overview that is animated by O'Brien's big, tongue-in-cheek cartoon illustrations. Opening with the rhetorical question "What is so funny about underwear?" she covers the
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| | Sydor, Colleen MY MOTHER IS A FRENCH FRY AND FURTHER PROOF OF MY FUZZED-UP LIFE
August 01, 2008 - While most teenagers are embarrassed by their parents, 15-year-old Eli has reason: Her extroverted mother works as the French-fry mascot at a local burger joint, and her idea of a mother-daughter outing is to spend the day in burkas to better
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| | Thach, James Otis THE TICKLE MONSTER IS COMING!
August 01, 2008 - Readers/listeners get fair warning inside and on the back cover of this giggle-inducing rhyming bedtime story to be ever-vigilant for the dreaded Tickle Monster who sees and knows all. Beware: It can sneak up on unprotected, unsuspecting victims at
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| | Thomas, Jan THE DOGHOUSE
August 01, 2008 - The third time continues the charm for Thomas's latest offering featuring her familiar animal buddies (A Birthday for Cow, 2008). When Cow's energetic kick sends the ball out of reach of Pig, Duck and Mouse, the toy lands in unknown terrority: the
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| | Tomlinson, Heather AURELIE
August 01, 2008 - Princess Aurelie and her two closest friends, Garin and Netta, grew up playing with Loic, a river drac, and have the gift of being able to see the Fae, on the condition that no one should ever know. Netta's inadvertent slip has resulted in their
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| | Wales, Dirk JACK LONDON'S DOG
August 01, 2008 - Based on an episode from writer Jack London's life, this is a tale of a Yukon dog named Jack, which London may have known during his brief participation in the Alaskan gold rush. As the story begins, London meets the big dog and they spend the short
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| | Wasserman, Robin SKINNED
August 01, 2008 - Beautiful, talented, wealthy and above all headstrong, 17-year-old Lia Kahn knows who she is and what she wants, until she is severely injured in a car accident that destroys her body but spares her mind. Though she's a candidate for a highly
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| | Werlin, Nancy IMPOSSIBLE
August 01, 2008 - In this modern-day fairy tale, 17-year-old Lucy and her loved ones apply 21st-century rationality to their quest to escape an ancient curse. Lucy lives with the beloved foster parents who have cared for her since her teenage mother went crazy after
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| | Weston, Mark HONDA
August 01, 2008 - Soichiro Honda was, in his own way, the Henry Ford of Japan. He became fascinated by automobiles from his very first sight of a Model T. Determined to learn everything possible about cars, he began as a cleaner in a garage and eventually became an
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| | White, Ruth LITTLE AUDREY
August 01, 2008 - White speaks through her older sister Audrey's voice in this mostly autographical account of life in a Virginia coal camp in 1948. Eleven-year-old Audrey, bookish, smart and still frail from a long winter's illness, takes care to notice everything
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| | Whitehead, Kathy ART FROM HER HEART
August 01, 2008 - Hunter started painting on scraps and gourds at age 50, using paints left by artists who frequented the Louisiana plantation where she worked. She depicted what she saw around her, cementing her legacy as a chronicler of soon-to-disappear plantation
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| | Whitehouse, Howard THE ISLAND OF MAD SCIENTISTS
August 01, 2008 - Rollicking, raucous, madcap, crazy fun best describes this conclusion of the Mad Adventures of Emmaline and Rubberbones. Once again, 14-year-old wannabe aeronaut Emmaline Cayley, her buddy Rubberbones and the escaped Princess Purnah of Chiligrit are
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| | Wilce, Ysabeau S. FLORA'S DARE
August 01, 2008 - Fourteen-year-old Flora Nemain Fyrdraaca ov Fyrdraaca thought everything would get better when her father's sanity returned after her adventures in Flora Segunda (2007). Instead, he's turned into a slave driver, making Flora wash dishes, dust her
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| | Wormell, Chris GEORGE, THE DRAGON AND THE PRINCESS
August 01, 2008 - The mouse in the mountain has a very special skill. George the mouse actually lives in the wall of a castle that sits atop one majestic peak. As George struggles to open his tiny deckchair and light a fire to make tea, the reader can see in the
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| | Wyatt, Valerie WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?
August 01, 2008 - Designed to appeal to middle-grade readers, this overview of the many theories and archeological discoveries relating to human presence in the Americas goes backward in time, from Columbus in 1492 to the possible footprints in Toluquilla Quarry near
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| | Yep, Laurence DRAGON ROAD
August 01, 2008 - Yep adds to his ongoing Golden Mountain Chronicles with this absorbing tale of a basketball team that leaves San Francisco's Chinatown to barnstorm across California and the West in 1939. Lured by the chance to show off his basketball skills and
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| | Yolen, Jane JOHNNY APPLESEED
August 01, 2008 - Yolen wants it both ways: Johnny Appleseed the legend and John Chapman the somewhat fruity ("There is no doubt Johnny is strange") Swedenborgian apple-tree merchant. So she tells two tales here in a call-and-response fashion: a slice of legend
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| | Yoo, David STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE
August 01, 2008 - In 1995, Korean-American high-school junior Albert Kim has decided to be an intentional loser, figuring that no social obligations means no need for social skills. Then he's paired with Mia Stone, formerly half of the school's erstwhile power
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| | Young, E.L. STORM
August 01, 2008 - The techno-kids from STORM are back, picking up only a few short months after their first caper (STORM: The Infinity Code, 2007). Andrew, the computer whiz, is contacted by Christina, who wants to join the team. But first she needs help to retrieve
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| | Ziefert, Harriet ABC DENTIST
August 01, 2008 - In alphabetical order, this cheery offering provides a succinct overview of a visit to the dentist. Though the details occasionally read like a dictionary, Ziefert should be praised for her ability to match every letter of the alphabet with parts of
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| The Changing Face of Film Bios
July 15, 2008 - Donald Spoto was a prep-school lad in 1958 when he saw Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. Spoto walked home entranced, murmured "hello" to his parents, went upstairs and stayed in bed for several days. Spoto was not ill. The film touched him...How much more illuminating and insightful current film biographies would be if their authors were similarly inspired by their subjects. Alas, these days, more prosaic motives drive biographers and publishers, who seem intent on rehashing existing sources, concentrating on hot sex and pushing books on Oprah.
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