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Family Road Trip Summer 2019 |
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The bad beginning [sound recording]
by Lemony Snicket
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune
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Brown girl dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library
by Chris Grabenstein
Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape
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From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L Konigsburg
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself
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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
by J. K Rowling
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches
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House of robots
by James Patterson
Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic "brother," to school with him to learn to become a student.
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How to eat fried worms [sound recording]
by Thomas Rockwell
Billy may have bitten off more than he can chew when he is challenged by his friend Alan to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days for fifty dollars, in a movie-tie edition that includes eight full-color pages of photos from the new film. Read by Jay O. Sanders.
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Just so stories [sound recording]
by Rudyard Kipling
A collection of classic animal tales provides creative and imaginative answers to unanswered questions, such as how the leopard got his spots and where the camel got its hump. Read by Boris Karloff.
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Katt vs. Dogg
by James Patterson
A rambunctious Dogg Scout and an ambitiously clever katt, raised to believe that they are supposed to despise one another, are forced to overcome their differences when they become lost in the woods and must rely on each other to get home.
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The land of stories [sound recording] : the wishing spell
by Chris Colfer
Through the powers of a book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about
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Mary Poppins [sound recording]
by P. L. Travers
An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences. Read by Sophie Thompson.
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Mr. Popper's penguins [sound recording]
by Richard Atwater
The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the polar regions.
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No talking [sound recording]
by Andrew Clements
With the boys and girls of Laketon Elementary at definite odds, Dave's single insult to Lynsey is the final straw that leads to a competition of silence between the two groups, causing a quiet chaos within the school and a confused principal who has no idea how to get things back to normal.
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The one and only Ivan [sound recording]
by Katherine Applegate
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
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Pax
by Sara Pennypacker
When his father enlists in the military and makes him return his beloved pet fox to the wild, Peter, who has been sent to live with his grandfather hundreds of miles away, embarks on a journey filled with astonishing discoveries in order to be reunited with his fox.
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The Serpent's Secret
by Sayantani Dasgupta
When a rakkhosh demon attacks her family on the morning of her 12th birthday, Kiranmala discovers that her parents' fantastical stories about their ties to royalty are true and is whisked away by two crush-worthy princes to a parallel dimension filled with magic, winged horses, moving maps and talking birds.
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Theodore Boone [sound recording] : kid lawyer
by John Grisham
13-year old Theodore Boone dreams of being a great trial lawyer someday, but little did he know he would be dragged suddenly into the middle of a sensational murder trial in which a cold-blooded killer is about to go free--only Theo knows the truth and won’t stop until justice is served, in a first novel of a new series brimming with intrigue and suspense by a #1 international bestselling author.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 : Library Edition
by Christopher Paul Curtis
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
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We're not from here : Library Edition
by Geoff Rodkey
The award-winning author of the Chronicles of Egg series finds the narrator, a Mars colonist, relocating in the aftermath of Earth's mysterious demise to the planet Choom, where the mosquito-like inhabitants dislike human singing, jokes and emotions so much that they are outlawed.
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Wonder [sound recording]
by R. J. Palacio
Born with a facial deformity that initially prevented his attendance at public school, Auggie Pullman enters the fifth grade at Beecher Prep and struggles with the dynamics of being both new and different, in a sparsely written tale about acceptance and self-esteem.
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A wrinkle in time [sound recording]
by Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government, in a re-release of the classic story. Read by the author.
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