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Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
by Judi Barrett
Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse
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Odd boy out : young Albert Einstein
by Don Brown
Spare, precise text and humorous illustrations reveal Albert Einstein's strange childhood, including his mania for puzzles and problems, his love of Mozart's music, and how he grew into one of the most important thinkers in history.
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Mr. Gumpy's outing
by John Burningham
Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs
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More spaghetti, I say!
by Rita Golden Gelman
Minnie the monkey is too busy eating spaghetti--all day, in all ways--to play with her friend Freddie
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Snowflake Bentley
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations offers insight into one scientist's perseverance and a look at the wonders of nature.
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Pop! : the accidental invention of bubble gum
by Meghan McCarthy
Traces the 1928 invention of bubble gum by a hard-working accountant at a candy company, describing how in his spare time he experimented with different recipes and ingredients to eventually create the product known today as Double Bubble. By the author of Seabiscuit the Wonder Horse.
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Marvelous Mattie : how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor
by Emily Arnold McCully
Using a sketchbook and her father's tools, inventive and creative Mattie Knight came up with numerous creations that transformed the textile business and improved everyday products, thus being acknowledged by her peers for her ingenuity and rightfully earning her nickname as "The Lady Edison." Jr Lib Guild. 12,500 first printing.
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Me-- Jane
by Patrick McDonnell
Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist
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It's raining pigs & noodles : poems
by Jack Prelutsky
A collection of more than one hundred humorous poems includes such notables as "The Dancing Hippopotami," "You Can't Make Me Eat That," "My Father's Name is Sasquatch," and "Dear Wumbledeedumble." By the creators of The New Kid on the Block. 100,000 first printing.
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Skippyjon Jones-- lost in spice
by Judith Byron Schachner
Determined to prove that the planet Mars is covered in spicy red pepper, Skippy the kitty boy ventures on an adventure into space where he narrowly escapes falling into craters and meets aliens along the way, in an exciting bilingual picture book with Spanish phrases.
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Bartholomew and the oobleck;
by Seuss
The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom
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A boy and a bear in a boat
by Dave Shelton
A boy and a bear go to sea for a short trip, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and a ukulele, but soon their boat encounters "unforeseeable anomalies," strange storms, a terrifying sea monster and the rank remains of The Very Last Sandwich.
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I'm the biggest thing in the ocean
by Kevin Sherry
Taking a look around the sea world in which he lives, a self-centered squid realizes that he is bigger than all his fellow ocean-dwelling friends and soon lets everyone around him know it too in his own boisterous, prideful, egocentric way.
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The secret science project that almost ate the school
by Judy Sierra
Having ordered Professor Swami's Super Slime in order to win her third-grade science fair contest, things suddenly take a turn for the worst when the slime takes over and the class pet, family members, and Miss Fidget all go missing within its sprawling blob!
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Lester Fizz, bubble-gum artist : Bubble-Gum Artist
by Ruth Spiro
Everyone in the Fizz family is an artist except for Lester until the day that a mouthful of gum becomes a work of art on Lester's talented lips and his artful bubbles blow away the competition.
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Hop jump
by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Bored with just hopping and jumping, a frog discovers dancing
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Somewhere in the ocean
by Jennifer Ward
A counting book in rhyme presents various marine animals and their children, from a mother manatee and her little calf one to a mother octopus and her little babies ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration
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King Bidgood's in the bathtub
by Audrey Wood
Despite pleas from his court, a fun-loving king refuses to get out of his bathtub to rule his kingdom
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The Fran with four brains
by Jim Benton
With so much on her plate, like creating monsters out of meat by-products and dealing with overgrown babies, mad scientist Fran decides that the only way to get all her tasks done is to create Franbots, steel-plated duplicates of herself with minds of their own! Reprint.
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In plane sight
by Franklin W. Dixon
Frank and Joe Hardy investigate mysterious airborne happenings
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Making things change
by Gary Gibson
An examination of things that alter their color, shape, size, and structure features easy-to-understand, full-color experiments designed to help youngsters discover basic scientific principles.
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Babymouse : mad scientist
by Jennifer L. Holm
Babymouse discovers Squish, a new species of amoeba, while working on a school science fair project
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The boy who invented TV : the story of Philo Farnsworth
by Kathleen Krull
Provides the true story of the young genius who, while plowing his fields in Idaho, came up with the idea of television and carried it out by successfully transmitting the fist image over the airwaves; later battling with, and winning a lawsuit against RCA, who tried to take credit for his invention. Simultaneous.
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The elephant scientist
by Caitlin O'Connell
Describes the work and observations of American scientist Caitlin O'Connell during her studies of the African elephant in Etosha National Park in Nambia
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Viking ships at sunrise
by Mary Pope Osborne
Jack and Annie are whisked away on another exciting adventure in the fifteenth installment of the Magic Tree House series which includes short sentences and lots of dialogue for beginning readers. Simultaneous.
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Fizzing physics
by Steve Parker
"An overview of physics for kids covering topics such as simple machines, force and movement, gravity, magnetism, light and sound, and more"
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This is the way to the moon
by M. Sasek
Presents a history of Cape Canaveral and the American space program, discussing the space missions that were launched from there, the various types of rockets used, and the successful landing of two astronauts on the Moon in 1969
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The blob that ate everyone
by R. L. Stine
Would-be horror novelist Zackie Beauchamp finds a beat-up old typewriter in a burned-out antique store and takes it home to begin writing his opus about a giant, pink blob monster, only to discover that every word he writes is coming true
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