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Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
Description
There are famous pirates, and then there are the rest of the pirates. All were a bunch of misfits, thugs, and ne'er-do-wells who spent most of their time bored, waiting for a few moments of excitement and rich booty that could very well get them wounded or killed, or captured and executed. But to most of those who swore the oath of the Brotherhood, it was just a job. Still, a pirate's life was chosen by many, and this collection describes and depicts...
3) 11 birthdays
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Series
Willow Falls series volume 1
Language
English
Description
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, who have not been speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
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THE "UNSINKABLE" MEETS THE UNTHINKABLE -- A gripping account of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic.
It took 4,000 men to build it, 23 tons of animal grease to slide it into the ocean, 100,000 people to wave bon voyage, but only one wrong move to tear the Titanic apart, sinking it into the pages of history. On a cold moonless night in April of 1912, 2,000 passengers--both the uber-rich enjoying a luxury cruise and the dirt-poor hoping to find...
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Series
Maynard Moose tales volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Storytime @ Home: Tails and Tales Summer Reading Challenge
Storytime @ Home: Tails and Tales Summer Reading Challenge
Description
Resets Hans Christian Andersen's tale The ugly duckling in the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a baby moose is raised by a family of ducks who try to teach him to waddle, quack, and fly, but can't see his true beauty.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Description
Nine-year-old Calvin catches the attention of the school bully on the day before he starts fourth grade, while at home, the unfriendly, fifteen-year-old daughter of his mother's best friend has taken over his room.
14) Mudshark
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
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Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
16) Sparrow girl
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
When China's leader declares war on sparrows in 1958, everyone makes loud noise in hopes of chasing the hungry birds from their land except for Ming-Li, a young girl whose compassion and foresight prevent a disaster.
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English
Description
In June of 2002, a mere nine months since the September 11 attacks, a very unusual ceremony begins in a far-flung village in western Kenya. An American diplomat is surrounded by hundreds of Maasai people. A gift is about to be bestowed upon the American men, women, and children, and he is there to accept it. The gift is as unexpected as it is extraordinary. Hearts are raw as these legendary Maasai warriors offer their gift to a grieving people half...
Author
Series
Jake Ransom volume 1
Language
English
Description
Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
19) Squirrel's world
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Description
Squirrel's well-meaning attempts to help his forest friends do not always turn out as planned.
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Series
Kronos chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.
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