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How Mirka Got Her Sword
Pub Date: Nov 1, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 14
Like all 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girls, ebullient Mirka must face a six-armed troll to avoid becoming his dinner and obtain a dragon-slaying sword—wait, what?
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Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
Age Range: 8 - 12
Children's literature has a long history of cruel parents, but Hope Scroggins's are so heartless, they kick their tiny girl Honey out of the car for laughing… and never turn back.
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
Age Range: 9 - 12
In 1347 at a country monastery, a wondrous mystery unfolds.
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 18
Anyone who has said that pirates are an overused motif in youth literature has not yet met Walker Bean.
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
Age Range: 8 - 11
School lunch bites—literally—in the third impossibly droll escapade featuring dragonling Danny Dragonbreath and his peace-loving iguana buddy, Wendell.
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Pub Date: Aug 1, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 18
In this debut novel, two seemingly unrelated stories merge into a poignant journey from anger to acceptance.
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