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Meow Said the Cow
by Emma Dodd
ISBN 978-0-545-31861-7
40 Pages / Ages 3-6 / Picture Books
It's a noisy morning in the barnyard: roosters crowing, cows mooing, mice squeaking! And the farmer's cat has had enough. With a flick of his tail, the cat casts a spell and the barnyard is turned upside-down. The chickens are oinking, the sheep are barking, and the sheepdog can only let out a confused "Baa?" It's not long before the animals figure out who's to blame...
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Eddie Gets Ready for School
by David Milgrim
ISBN 978-0-545-27329-9
32 Pages / Ages 4-6 / Early Readers
Now that Eddie can get ready all by himself, his morning routine is anything but ordinary!
-wake up (with a megaphone)
-get dressed (up in a costume)
-pack a snack (a watermelon's perfect)
-find something for show-and-tell (No, not the TV!)
-run like mad to catch bus!
With understated humour and uproarious illustrations, David Milgrim's first checklist book gets you to school on time, and in a great mood.
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Detective Blue
by Steve Metzger, Illustrated by Tedd Arnold
ISBN 978-0-545-17286-8
32 Pages / Ages 5-8 / Picture Books
Miss Muffett is missing... and Detective Blue is on the case!
"Today was like any other day.
The dish ran away with the spoon."
Little Boy Blue is all grown up, and he's a detective working to find Miss Muffet. Join in the fun as Detective Blue tries to solve the mystery with the help of his nursery rhyme friends.
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Fly Guy #10: Fly Guy vs the Flyswatter
by Tedd Arnold
ISBN 978-0-545-31286-8
32 Pages / Ages 5-8 / Early Readers
When Fly Guy goes to school with Buzz, they learn that his class is taking a field trip to a flyswatter factory! Fly Guy tries to hide in Buzz's pocket, but when the tour guide starts insulting flies, Buzz cannot help but stick his head out. A robotic flyswatter named the Super Swatter detects Fly Guy, and Fly Guy causes a hilarious ruckus in his efforts to escape.
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Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers
by Dav Pilkey
ISBN 978-0-545-17532-6
192 Pages / Ages 5-8 / Graphic Fiction
George and Harold (the co-stars of the enormously popular Captain Underpants series) are back! Rip Van Tinkle started his career as an ordinary, everyday evil genius/inventor/bank robber. But when he awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a walking, talking puddle of pee-pee, he becomes determined to destroy every toilet in town. Will they terrifying Rip Van Tinkle and his smart-alecky cat Petey ruin restrooms for the rest of us? Or could this be a job for the amazing Super Diaper Baby?
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The Cat's Pyjamas
by Catherine Foreman
ISBN 978-1-4431-0756-3
32 Pages / Ages 5-7 / Picture Books
Meet Cat... and his colourful collection of seven pyjamas. One pair for each night of the week. When he wears his space pyjamas, he dreams of Saturn, Mars and shooting stars. When he wears his road pyjamas, he dreams of big red rigs and diggers that dig. But what will happen on Sunday when he wears his MONSTER pyjamas?
With fun rhyming text and vibrant illustrations, this new picture book by an emerging talent, will become a surefire bedtime favourite!
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Boy vs Beast: Battle of the Worlds #1: Aquatan
by Mac Park
ISBN 978-1-4431-0747-1
80 Pages / Ages 7-9 / First Chapter Book
Also Available: #2: Terradon 978-1-4431-0748-8
In this exciting, action-packed new series, a young boy must use various technological weapons at his disposal to defeat the Beasts of Beastium. With every battle that Kai wins, he unlocks more gear to help him defend Earth.
With simple sentence structure, illustrations of cool gadgets, and a fantastic spread depicting the final action sequences, this series is guaranteed to engage reluctant readers and keep them hooked until the end.
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Marty McGuire
by Kate Messner, Illustrated by Brian Floca
ISBN 978-0-545-14246-5
144 Pages / Ages 7-10 / First Chapter Book
Also available in Hardcover: 978-0-545-14244-1
Marty McGuire would rather spend recess catching frogs in the pond than playing dress-up with the other girls in third grade. So when her teacher casts Marty as the princess in the class play, Marty's absolutely, positively sure that there's been a huge mistake. But after a special lesson in the art of improvisation, Marty comes up with her OWN plan to IMPROVE the play: Why use stuffed-animal frog onstage when a live one would be so much better? In the end, Marty's one-of-a-kind performance makes for an unforgettable show.
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Bad Island
by Doug TenNapel
ISBN 978-0-545-31480-0
224 Pages / Ages 9-12 / Graphic Fiction
Also available in Hardcover: 978-0-545-31479-4
When a family takes a boating trip, the last thing they expect is to be shipwrecked on an island—especially an island with weird, otherworldly plants and animals. Now, what started out as a bad vacation turns into a terrible one as Lyle, Karen, and their two kids, Janie and Reese, must find a way off the island while they dodge its strange and dangerous inhabitants. Is the island alive? Is it from another world?
In this rousing, Swiss-Family-Robinson tale with a twist, the answers to these questions could save them... or spell their doom.
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Big Wig: A Little History of Hair
by Kathleen Krull
ISBN 978-0-439-67640-3
48 Pages / Ages 9-12 / Non-fiction
Did you know that kings AND queens wore fake beards in ancient Egypt? Or that hair was used in medicine at the height of the Incan Empire? Or that Queen Elizabeth I had more than eighty wigs in various shades of red? Kathleen Krull and Peter Malone start at the dawn of history and bring us up to contemporary times, using incredible bits and bobs of hair fact and lore to show us just how much things have changed (and how they haven't!).
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Every Day on Earth
by Steve Murrie and Matthew Murrie, Illustrated by Tom Bloom
ISBN 978-0-545-29706-6
224 Pages / Ages 9-12 / Non-fiction
You already know all of the incredible things that can happen in just one minute on Earth, so think of what could happen in a whole day! You taste bud cells are replaced at a rate of 50,000 a day. Almost 40,000 trees are cut down every day just to make paper bags. And a mayfly lives its entire life in a single day.
This book is full of more than two hundred fun facts about space, technology, pop culture, food, animals, sports, the human body, and more!
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Sidekicks
by Dan Santat
ISBN 978-0-439-29819-3
224 Pages / Ages 9-12 / Graphic Fiction
Also available in Hardcover: 978-0-439-29811-7
Captain Amazing, superhero and saviour of Metro City, is getting old. He's out all hours battling arch-villains, catching thieves, and helping little old ladies cross the street. He doesn't even have time for his house full of pets. He needs—a sidekick! Captain Amazing's pets agree. But each one of them thinks he should get the sidekick spot—and a chance for one-on-one time with the Captain. Get ready for sibling rivalry royale as pets with superpowers duke it out for the one thing they all want—a super family.
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Titanic Book One: Unsinkable
by Gordon Korman
ISBN 978-0-545-12331-0
160 Pages / Ages 9-12 / Fiction
Also Available: Book Two: Collision Course 978-0-545-12332-7
The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, there's plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers. Paddy is a stowaway, escaping a deadly past. Sophie's mother is delivered to the ship by police — after she and Sophie have been arrested. Juliana's father is an eccentric whose riches can barely hide his madness. And Alfie is hiding a secret that could get him kicked off the ship immediately. The lives of these four passengers will be forever linked with the fate of the Titanic. And the farther they get from shore, the more the danger looms...
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Abandon
by Meg Cabot
ISBN 978-0-545-28410-3
320 Pages / Ages 14 & up / Young Adult Fiction
When Pierce first sees him, she thinks he is a murderer. She's right about one thing—he does take lives. But not in the way she ever imagined. Pierce is drawn to the dark stranger even as she tries to uncover the mystery surrounding the tragic death of someone close to her. As she gets closer to the truth—and the stranger—unexpected secrets are revealed, even in her own heart.
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Beauty Queens
by Libba Bray
ISBN 978-0-439-89597-2
400 Pages / Ages 14 & up / Young Adult Fiction
Teen beauty queens. A desert island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to e-mail. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.
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Pretty Bad Things
by C. J. Skuse
ISBN 978-0-545-28973-3
256 Pages / Ages 14 & up / Young Adult Fiction
Paisley and Beau are making headlines again. Last time, they were the "Wonder Twins," two kids found alive in the woods three days after their mom's death—and their dad's disappearance. Flash-forward to now: Their so-called lives? Less than wonderful. Hating on their Botoxed, greedy grandma, they're still completely clueless about Dad. Till they discover a stash of letters. That's when they decide to hit the road. Holding up donut shops in Vegas might seem extreme, but if they can get on the news again, they just might wrap up this whole saga with a soap-opera-worthy reunion already!
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The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills
by Joanna Pearson
ISBN 978-0-545-19773-1
224 Pages / Ages 12 & up / Young Adult Fiction
The Japanese hold a Mogi ceremony for young women coming of age. Latina teenagers get quinceañeras. And Janice Wills of Melva, North Carolina... has to compete in the Miss Livermush pageant. Janice loves anthropology, the study of human culture, and her observations help her navigate a high school world of social groups and mating rites. But when hot Jimmy Denton takes an interest in her, her anthropological certainties are thrown into doubt—and she has to figure out for the first time where she really fits in. Funny, biting, and full of wisdom, this marks the debut of a writer to watch.
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