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Zoology : the secret world of animals
by Inc. Dorling Kindersley
Explore the everyday miracle of the animal kingdom. With spectacular photography and clear explanations, Zoology reveals the incredible anatomy, behavior, and beauty of every type of creature, from hair to scale, whisker to tail.
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The boy who grew dragons
by Andy Shepherd
Discovering a strange old tree at the bottom of his grandfather’s garden, young Tomas is astonished when a baby dragon hatches from one of the tree’s fruits, challenging him to manage the responsibilities of caring for all the tiny, fire-breathing pets that hatch from the dragon fruit tree.
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A girl, a raccoon, and the midnight moon
by Karen Romano Young
Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilized branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighborhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts off the head of the library's statue of Edna St. Vincent Millay she realizes that the library is under attack, and it is up to her to save it
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Show me a sign
by Ann Clare LeZotte
The Deaf librarian and author of T4 draws on the true history of a thriving 19th-century Deaf community on Martha’s Vineyard in the story of a girl whose proud lineage is threatened by land disputes with the Wampanoag and a ruthlessly ambitious scientist.
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We are power : how nonviolent activism changes the world
by Todd Hasak-Lowy
An inspiring introduction to nonviolent activism and how it works traces the examples of history-shaping international movements as well as such practitioners as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez to reveal how nonviolent demonstrations have repeatedly succeeded.
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Twilight Hauntings
by Angie Sage
A debut installment in a planned duology finds a secret practitioner of forbidden magic and her little brother forced to flee in the wake of a betrayal before finding themselves targeted by mysterious magical predators.
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Stone River crossing
by Tim Tingle
When Martha Tom crosses the Bok Chitto River into the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory she meets Lil Mo, an enslaved boy whose mother is about to be sold, so Martha convinces Lil Mo's family to cross the river and be free
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Ghost Squad
by Claribel A. Ortega
Casting a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits that wreak havoc throughout St. Augustine, Lucely and Syd team up with the latter’s grandmother and tabby cat to break the curse and save Lucely’s firefly spirits.
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Bouncing back
by Scott Ostler
Struggling to adapt to life in a wheelchair, a 13-year-old former basketball champion joins a wheelchair league that challenges him to embrace new friends and skills in order to save the gym from being closed. A first novel.
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Deforestation and habitat loss
by Jaime Simmons
Looks at the effects of deforestation and habitat loss around the world, especially in rain forest areas, and some of the efforts being made to limit the problem and deal with the situations it leaves
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