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|  | Adler, Emily SWEET 15
March 15, 2010 - Fourteen-year-old Destiny Lozada sees her world turning upside down when her parents force her to celebrate her 15th birthday with a lavish Puerto Rican–style quincea˜era party. Destiny does not want to disappoint her parents; she is proud of her
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| | Al Abdullah, Rania THE SANDWICH SWAP
March 15, 2010 - Like all best friends, Lily and Salma do everything together: They draw pictures, play on the swings, jump rope and eat lunch together. But Lily eats a peanut-butter–and-jelly sandwich while Salma eats a hummus-and-pita sandwich. Each girl thinks
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| | Alexander, R.C. UNFAMILIAR MAGIC
March 15, 2010 - Alexander's debut mixes a comical magical adventure with a light-hearted teen romance within a contemporary setting. Desi, a 12-year-old witch, is upset that her mother, Callida, refuses to teach her magic. Alone for a few days, Desi unearths
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| | Artell, Mike JACQUES AND DE BEANSTALK
March 15, 2010 - Artell and Harris (The Three Little Cajun Pigs, 2003, etc.) once again attempt a Cajun twist on a familiar folktale, beginning as usual with a glossary of Cajun words and their pronunciations along with guidelines for reading the story aloud. The
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| | Banks, Kate THE ERASERHEADS
March 15, 2010 - Banks imbues three pencil erasers—a pig, a crocodile and an owl—with earnest personalities and important jobs to do for an artistic boy, who is never named. The critters correct math errors, check vocabulary and interact within the boy's elaborately
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|  | Barton, Chris SHARK VS. TRAIN
March 15, 2010 - With two boys at a toy chest, one clutching a shark and the other a train, thus begins the most unlikeliest of competitions. Who will win—shark or train? Well, it does depend on the situation. If underwater, the shark will surely triumph. But at
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| | Bennett, Kelly YOUR DADDY WAS JUST LIKE YOU
March 15, 2010 - A grandmother regales her grandson with an account of his father's infant- and childhood, including achievements and frailties and always touching base with the refrain, "Just like you." The strength of Bennett's text is in its honest and loving
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| | Blexbolex SEASONS
March 15, 2010 - Paging through this long series of full-page or full-spread serigraphic seasonal scenes and iconic images quickly becomes immersive. As the artist goes for silhouettes and broad, sometimes layered patches of color rather than fine detail (though
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| | Broach, Elise GUMPTION!
March 15, 2010 - Peter's Uncle Nigel, explorer by trade, knows how to show his nephew a good time. When next he sets off to Africa to find the Zimbobo Mountain Gorilla, young Peter is right by his side. There are lots of dangers lurking in the wild, however, and
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| | Brodien-Jones, Christine THE OWL KEEPER
March 15, 2010 - Another cookie-cutter tale of a "Chosen One" informs this awkward mishmash of science fiction and fantasy. Max is a sickly, craven complainer just shy of his 12th birthday when he encounters the bossy and boastful Rose beneath the Owl Tree, where he
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| | Bruchac, Joseph MY FATHER IS TALLER THAN A TREE
March 15, 2010 - Rhyming couplets describe the many different ways fathers and sons enjoy each other and express their love, but unfortunately with this effort the master storyteller demonstrates that verse simply is not his mtier: "Mi Papá likes to hear me sing. /
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| | Burleigh, Robert GOOD-BYE, SHEEPIE
March 15, 2010 - The death of a boy's beloved sheepdog is the topic of Burleigh's latest. Sheepie is Owen's best friend, but he is getting older and cannot run and play like he used to. Then one day Owen finds Sheepie under the oak tree. Owen's dad tells him, "Poor
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| | Caletti, Deb THE SIX RULES OF MAYBE
March 15, 2010 - Analyzing other people's emotions and motivations is Scarlet Ellis's greatest talent. At school, she's close to few but a confidante to all. Her quiet home life consists mostly of taking pictures and involving herself in her neighbors' business.
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| | Carter, Scott William THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY OF THE WATER BALLOON BOYS
March 15, 2010 - Why does Charlie ask Leo's girlfriend, Tessa, to the prom when he knows Tessa is just going to tell Leo? Why does Jake, Charlie's ex–best friend, suddenly decide to rescue Charlie from Leo and his buddies? Why does Jake steal the principal's
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| | Caveney, Philip SEBASTIAN DARKE
March 15, 2010 - "Wherever we go we encounter horrible, creepy, nasty things that want to kill us," exclaims buffalope Max in this third fantasy featuring Max, elfling Sebastian and diminutive warrior Cornelius. Following hair-raising escapades in Sebastian Darke:
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| | Clements, Andrew BENJAMIN PRATT AND THE KEEPERS OF THE SCHOOL
March 15, 2010 - Sixth-grader Ben Pratt is thrust into a mystery-adventure when his school's janitor shoves a gold coin in his hand, passing on the responsibility to save Oakes School from developers. Captain Oakes gave the school to the community back in 1783; its
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| | Cushman, Karen ALCHEMY AND MEGGY SWANN
March 15, 2010 - Queen Elizabeth I is on the throne. London is a sprawling, chaotic city that teems with all manner of humanity. Meggy has come to London ostensibly to serve her alchemist father, a man she has never met. When he rejects her because she is not male
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| | Cusimano Love, Maryann YOU ARE MY WISH
March 15, 2010 - A grandmother teddy bear enjoys a day with her grandchild in this latest entry in the You Are My...series. Ichikawa's soft watercolors place her characters against a clean white background, providing just enough detail that readers will get a sense
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| | DeLaCroix, Alice THE BEST HORSE EVER
March 15, 2010 - For nine-year-old Abby, owning a horse—her OWN horse—is a certified dream come true.Griffin is steady and dependable, and Abby's ridden him in riding lessons many times.Still, taking care of him by herself proves to be a big step up from helping
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| | dePaola, Tomie MY MOTHER IS SO SMART
March 15, 2010 - This little boy's mother is so smart, "[s]he always knew when to change my diaper." She also dresses him in a snowsuit in the winter, makes "the best cookies" and, "when it's cold out...gives us breakfast that makes us warm." In most respects, this
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| | Friend, Natasha FOR KEEPS
March 15, 2010 - Having been deserted by her father before she was born, Josie fears abandonment and heartbreak. Her mother fuels this fear with her own reluctance to pursue relationships. Luckily Josie's best friend, Liv, encourages her to make connections with her
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| | Gephart, Donna HOW TO SURVIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL (WITHOUT GETTING YOUR HEAD FLUSHED,) AND DEAL WITH AN EX-BEST FRIEND,...UM, GIRLS, AND A HEARTBREAKING HAMSTER
March 15, 2010 - David Greenberg, would-be future anchor of The Daily Show, enters middle school with problems: Longtime best friend Elliott has abandoned him for new, nastier and bigger friends, David hasn't spoken with his runaway mother in months and he's
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| | Gleitzman, Morris ONCE
March 15, 2010 - When his Jewish parents place young Felix in an orphanage in war-torn Poland, they tell him that they must leave to fix their book business. Felix knows they will return. Curiously, one morning men in dark suits storm the orphanage and start burning
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| | Green, John WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON
March 15, 2010 - Will Grayson loves indie rock, plays the eye-rolling angry stepchild to his extraordinarily giant, lovable, gay best friend Tiny Cooper and doesn't realize that he yearns for his other indie-rock–loving friend Jane until it's too late. will grayson
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| | Greene, Rhonda Gowler MOMMY IS A SOFT, WARM KISS
March 15, 2010 - This rhyming celebration of mother-daughter love describes all the fun the two have together, consistently making the equation between Mommy and whatever she is doing for her daughter: "Mommy is a yummy smell of pumpkin pie, so sweet... // Mommy is
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| | Han, Jenny IT'S NOT SUMMER WITHOUT YOU
March 15, 2010 - Isabel (Belly) struggles to regain her equilibrium after the death of her mother's best friend Susannah in this sequel to The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009). It is becoming clear that nothing will ever be the same. The net of loss and grief thrown
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| | Healey, Karen GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD
March 15, 2010 - Ellie is in her final year at a New Zealand boarding school, living the typical teen's life: classes, friends, a black belt in tae kwon do and a crush on an adorable yet enigmatic boy named Mark. The big news locally revolves around the Eyeslasher
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| | Hole, Stian GARMANN'S STREET
March 15, 2010 - In another unusual and sensitive intergenerational story, a follow-up to the Batchelder Honor book Garmann's Summer (2008), the anxious, introspective Norwegian boy now frets about Roy, a bully from the fourth grade. While standing near the
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| | Ignatow, Amy THE POPULARITY PAPERS
March 15, 2010 - This piquant tale chronicles a duo's campaign to improve their social position prior to junior high. Lydia and Julie embark upon a reconnaissance mission to determine what makes a person popular in order to apply this knowledge to their own lives.
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| | Ingold, Jeanette PAPER DAUGHTER
March 15, 2010 - Maggie Chen, 16, an intern at a Seattle newspaper who is grieving her journalist father's recent death, is shocked to discover that he fabricated his family history. A smart, ambitious journalist in the making, Maggie sets out to discover why he
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| | Jackson, Shelley MIMI'S DADA CATIFESTO
March 15, 2010 - This engaging picture book delivers a pleasurable story, dazzling artwork and a fascinating introduction to Dadaism. "For a cat with the soul of an artist, only an artist will do," states Mimi the cat. She meets her match when she smells an
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| | Jacobson, Jennifer Richard THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF WHY I HATE HER
March 15, 2010 - Nola has always stood by her younger sister, Song—through surgery, chemotherapy, remission and the recurrence of Song's cancer—but, craving adventure and normalcy, she takes a summer job as a waitress at Rocky Cove, a swanky Maine resort. On the
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| | Javaherbin, Mina GOAL!
March 15, 2010 - A group of friends enjoys a game of soccer in the street, fending off bullies and cleverly protecting their prized new regulation soccer ball. Kids who don't read the author's note won't know that this game takes place in South Africa, but they'll
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| | Jennings, Patrick GUINEA DOG
March 15, 2010 - A humorous story about an unusual pet. Rufus has but one wish—a dog. His stay-at-home Dad does not agree. His list of reasons not to get a dog extends over two pages. Rufus's sympathetic mom brings home a guinea pig, which Rufus has expressly said
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| | Judge, Lita BORN TO BE GIANTS
March 15, 2010 - Eye-catching illustrations and the combination of two perennially popular topics make this book a sure hit. The conversational tone of the text and the use of a variably sized and colored display type add appeal, though they may also lead readers to
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| | Kephart, Beth THE HEART IS NOT A SIZE
March 15, 2010 - A young woman fears losing her best friend to anorexia even as she convinces her to join a volunteer work trip to Juarez, Mexico, in this tender but uneven novel. Georgia, terrified by the panic attacks she has begun to experience, sells her
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| | Klise, Kate LITTLE RABBIT AND THE MEANEST MOTHER ON EARTH
March 15, 2010 - When the circus comes to town, a young rabbit will do anything to attend, up to and including turning his mother into the main attraction. Outraged by his mother's demands that he clean his playroom before he goes to the show, Little Rabbit concocts
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| | Konrad, Marla Stewart GRAND
March 15, 2010 - This celebration of the grandparent-grandchild relationship from the World Vision Easy Readers series shows kids playing, working and laughing with their older relatives. The photos from countries including the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan,
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| | Krasnesky, Thad THAT CAT CAN'T STAY
March 15, 2010 - There's nothing cats love more than someone who doesn't love them. That's just one of the truisms that show up in this predictable pet tale. There's also the father-as-fool, the manipulative mom and the clever kids who collude in her efforts to keep
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| | Krensky, Stephen NOAH'S BARK
March 15, 2010 - Krensky uses the basic elements of the Noah's Ark story for his own original pourquoi tale of how the animals came to have their own distinctive sounds. While Noah builds his ark in preparation for the imminent flood, he is surrounded by a wide
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| | Krieg, Jim GRIFF CARVER, HALLWAY PATROL
March 15, 2010 - Junior Philip Marlowes or Sam Spades—or readers fed up with schoolyard miscreants—will welcome the exploits of this hard-boiled, seen-it-all seventh-grade "hall cop." Punctuated by recorded interviews with a startled guidance counselor, incident
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| | Krull, Kathleen LINCOLN TELLS A JOKE
March 15, 2010 - Not many biographies of the 16th U.S. president begin "Poor Abraham Lincoln." This one does and goes on to list the reasons why the man's life was "hardly fun," but then it gets right to the titular theme: "But Lincoln had his own way of dealing
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| | Lee, Y J THE LITTLE MOON PRINCESS
March 15, 2010 - Long ago, there was a little princess who lived on a moon filled with sparkling jewels. Her moon shines brightly against the dark sky, because this is a time before there were stars. The princess likes her jewels very much, but the blackness that
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| | Leveen, Tom PARTY
March 15, 2010 - The lives of 11 high-school teens—the burnout, the weirdo, the bitch, the good girl, the goofball, the jock, the straight edge, etc.—intersect, intertwine and break apart as they prepare for the biggest party of the year, thrown by an unknown host
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| | Lewis, Rose ORANGE PEEL'S POCKET
March 15, 2010 - Like the title item, Lewis's latest is overstuffed and mildly mysterious. Orange Peel's nickname, although it's explained, seems unwieldy and unlikely. The overlong text is also awkward at times ("Their first stop was to Mr. Fan the tailor"). The
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| | Lichtenheld, Tom BRIDGET'S BERET
March 15, 2010 - Bridget thinks she gets her artistic abilities from the black beret she, along with all the Great Artists, always wears. So when she loses it, her career is over. Days later, her sister asks the stymied Bridget if she'll paint a sign for a lemonade
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| | Ljungkvist, Laura PEPI SINGS A NEW SONG
March 15, 2010 - On matte pages with backgrounds of blues, purples, greens and golds, Pepi the white parrot sings his "special space song" to Peter, a star-gazing lad in a backward-facing baseball cap and a Saturn T-shirt. Pepi decides to find other things to sing
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| | Lloyd, Alison YEAR OF THE TIGER
March 15, 2010 - Two 12-year-old boys from opposite backgrounds become unlikely allies in second-century China when barbarians threaten to breach the Great Wall and invade the Han Kingdom. Hu and his family are running a humble noodle stall in imaginary Beicheng
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| | Long, Ethan BIRD & BIRDIE IN A FINE DAY
March 15, 2010 - Over the course of three short chapters, blue Bird and yellow Birdie spend "a beautiful morning," "a wonderful afternoon" and "a marvelous night" getting to know each other. Brightly colored, cartoon-style Photoshop art, coupled with environmental
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| | Long, Sylvia SYVLIA LONG'S THUMBELINA
March 15, 2010 - Long hews very closely to the Hans Christian Andersen tale, in which a woman longing for a child finds a tiny one in a flower grown from an enchanted barley seed given to her by a fairy. Thumbelina, as she is called, is abducted by a toad but
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| | Lottridge, Celia Barker HOME IS BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS
March 15, 2010 - In 1918, when the Turkish army invades Persia, nine-year-old Samira and her Assyrian family must flee to the south, seeking protection from the British. Along the way, Samira's mother and sister die, her father disappears and is feared dead and only
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| | Love, Ann TALKING TAILS
March 15, 2010 - Amusing ink-and-watercolor illustrations from Slavin are integrated into the text of this entertaining look at the history of pet keeping. With information about keeping fish, birds, rodents, horses and ferrets, most of the space is dedicated to
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| | Lowry, Lois THE BIRTHDAY BALL
March 15, 2010 - A very bored princess opts for change in this droll take on the Cinderella story. Five days before her 16th Birthday Ball, at which she's expected to choose her future husband, Princess Patricia Priscilla borrows her chambermaid's homespun dress,
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| | MacHale, D.J. THE LIGHT
March 15, 2010 - A skeletal sketch he's drawn haunts 16-year-old Marshall (Marsh) Seaver, even as he searches for his missing best friend, Cooper Foley. As more people go missing—and turn up violently killed—Marsh is left to wonder whether he is responsible for
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| | Martin, Ann M. THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB
March 15, 2010 - The Baby-Sitters Club returns! Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia and Stacey take turns describing the summer after sixth grade, before their club began. Kristy's mother's dates with Watson become more frequent, Mary Anne chafes at father's rules, Claudia
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| | McGowan, Anthony THE KNIFE THAT KILLED ME
March 15, 2010 - Paul Varderman, a Year Nine student at his mediocre local school, is caught between the quiet acceptance of the outcast students and the harsh domination of the school bully, Roth. Attempting to divide himself between the two groups, Paul encounters
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| | McMullan, Margaret SOURCES OF LIGHT
March 15, 2010 - When 14-year-old Samantha Thomas moves to Jackson, Miss., in 1962, following her father's death in Vietnam, she learns about love and hate all in the same year. Her mother meets Perry Walker, a photographer who teaches Sam about taking photographs
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| | Middleton, Charlotte NIBBLES
March 15, 2010 - Like all the other guinea pigs in Dandeville, Nibbles loves dandelion leaves, eating them for every meal until they've nearly disappeared—there's only one left! Resourceful Nibbles goes to the library, finds a book and learns how to grow them to
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| | Milgrim, David HOW YOU GOT SO SMART
March 15, 2010 - David Milgrim's rhyming take on the journey of growing up and acquiring knowledge begins with a baby chewing on a book and exploring what happens when his breakfast is tossed on the floor. The same baby, now a preschooler, plays with the pots and
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| | Milway, Alex THE MOUSEHUNTER
March 15, 2010 - The pirate Mousebeard is determined to lift the curse that prevents him from setting foot on land. Joining his quest aboard the Silver Shark are his mostly loyal companions: Captain Drewshank, the inventor Algernon, mousekeepers Emiline and
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| | Mitton, Tony RUMBLE, ROAR, DINOSAUR!
March 15, 2010 - The team of Mitton and Chapman present dinosaur lovers with another collection of poems (Gnash, Gnaw, Dinosaur!, 2009). This one features a new cast of seven species and mixes a few facts about each with some outright fun. Deinosuchus, a giant
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| | Mlynowski, Sarah GIMME A CALL
March 15, 2010 - In the waning weeks of her senior year of high school, Devi is wishing for a four-year do-over. Longtime love Bryan has broken up with her to attend college in Montreal, and because Devi's been so wrapped up in her relationship with Bryan, her
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| | Modarressi, Mitra TAKING CARE OF MAMA
March 15, 2010 - When Mama takes sick, the doctor orders bedrest. "But there's work to do," she protests. "You rest, Mama, WE'LL take care of YOU!" This well-meaning raccoon dad and three kits proceed to make breakfast, lunch, dinner—and (predictably) a terrible
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| | Murray, Kirsty VULTURE'S WAKE
March 15, 2010 - Across a barren post-apocalyptic landscape, Callum is running for his life. Kidnapped by outlaws and forced to perform in a traveling circus, he escapes in an effort to get back home. But there's virtually nowhere to hide when he can't run far or
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| | O'Brien, Caragh M. BIRTHMARKED
March 15, 2010 - A gated community on the banks of a dried-up Great Lake. A disfigured teen midwife. A baby quota. And, in grand dystopic tradition, the story of the moment the idyllic dream shatters and the ugly truth is revealed. Within the walls life is easy, but
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| | Olander, Johan A FIELD GUIDE TO ALIENS
March 15, 2010 - Concluding after years of reports and direct observations that approximately 45 percent of the world's monsters are actually aliens, Olander, author of A Field Guide to Monsters (2007), offers illustrated notes on 28 types of interstellar
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| | Paschen, Elise POETRY SPEAKS WHO I AM
March 15, 2010 - From the creators of the popular anthologies Poetry Speaks and Poetry Speaks to Children (2001, 2005) comes another volume, this one aimed at the 12-14 set. Paschen casts a wide net for material, including pieces by William Shakespeare, Emily
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| | Patt, Beverly BEST FRIENDS FOREVER
March 15, 2010 - On April 24, 1942, when Dottie Masouka's Japanese-American family lose their rights as American citizens and are removed to an internment camp in Puyallup, Wash., her best friend Louise Krueger starts working on a scrapbook to share with Dottie.
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| | Patterson, James MED HEAD
March 15, 2010 - From five to 18, Cory Friedman was prescribed over 30 different medications to control obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette's syndrome. He battled addiction, learning difficulties and tics before embarking on a wilderness retreat and an
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| | Pfeffer, Susan Beth THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN
March 15, 2010 - Palpable despair is dappled with tiny flares of hope in this third entry in Pfeffer's enthralling series about the aftereffects of a meteor strike on the Moon that has altered the earth's gravitational pull. Set a year after the cataclysmic event,
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| | Quick, Barbara A GOLDEN WEB
March 15, 2010 - Alessandra Giliani, a brilliant young woman who studied anatomy in 14th-century Bologna with Mondino, the university's renowned doctor, may or may not have actually existed. Quick has made a page-turner of a story out of this scrap of history or
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| | Ray, Deborah Kogan DINOSAUR MOUNTAIN
March 15, 2010 - In Ray's latest and most deceptively understated biography yet, she profiles Earl Douglass, a fossil hunter who made spectacularly good on his patron Andrew Carnegie's instruction to find "something big." Indeed he did: Exploring a remote area in
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| | Reed, Lynn Rowe BASIL'S BIRDS
March 15, 2010 - Little does Perch Elementary's janitor know that a spring day of chasing the birds away from the school's nesting spots will end with one of those birds finding the best spot of all—his bald head. Loath to disturb the bird and her beautiful nest,
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| | Rees, Douglas UNCLE PIRATE TO THE RESCUE
March 15, 2010 - Wilson's life is ship-shape now that his Uncle Pirate is the commander of Jolly Roger Elementary. But in this sequel to Uncle Pirate (2009), when a note arrives in a bottle for "Captin Desprit Evel Wiked Bob" from his former mutinous and now
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| | Richards, Jame THREE RIVERS RISING
March 15, 2010 - Told in free verse with multiple voices, this novel dramatically recreates the impact of the historic tragedy of the Johnstown, Pa., flood on the lives of six people from 1888 to 1889. At the heart of the story is Celestia's love for Peter, an
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| | Rodriguez, Batrice THE CHICKEN THIEF
March 15, 2010 - All is not what it seems in this sweet, funny wordless picture book about a fox who steals a chicken. When morning breaks, a little multispecies family sits down for breakfast al fresco. A fox leaps from the shrubbery, grabs a white chicken and
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| | Root, Phyllis CREAK! SAID THE BED
March 15, 2010 - One dark night when Momma and Poppa are snoozing in bed, little Evie, Ivy and Mo, in turn, squeeze into bed with them, and each time the bed says, "CREAK," louder. When thunder booms, their dog Fred leaps in too, and the bed says, "CRACK"—and
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| | Ross, Sylvia BLUE JAY GIRL
March 15, 2010 - Because her friends' parents think her dangerous, nine-year-old Blue Jay Girl tries to change her nature to that of a careful quail, but the tribal healer and her husband help her adopt careful ways without sacrificing her boldness. In a leisurely,
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| | Rutkoski, Marie THE CELESTIAL GLOBE
March 15, 2010 - There's some serious swashbuckling underway in this follow-up to the high-spirited The Cabinet of Wonders (2008). When readers last saw Petra and her father, she had foiled the Prince of Bohemia's evil plans and was back at home. This brief peace is
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| | Ryan, Pam Mu˜oz THE DREAMER
March 15, 2010 - Ryan's fictional evocation of the boy who would become Pablo Neruda is rich, resonant and enchanting. Simple adventures reveal young Neftal"'s painful shyness and spirited determination, his stepmother's love and his siblings' affection and his
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| | Schwartz, John SHORT
March 15, 2010 - Randy Newman famously sang, "short people got no reason to live," but Schwartz presents himself as living proof that being short is no obstacle to happiness or success. Functioning as both a memoir and an advice book, the narrative shares the
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| | Scott, Elizabeth THE UNWRITTEN RULE
March 15, 2010 - The unwritten rule is that you don't like your best friend's boyfriend—in a romantic sense, anyway. Sarah and Brianna have been best friends since kindergarten. Sarah, sensitive and mousy, has always played sidekick to outgoing, beautiful Brianna.
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| | Scrimger, Richard ME & DEATH
March 15, 2010 - An uninspired send-up of A Christmas Carol. A car hits neighborhood thug Jim, and while his body lies in a coma, his soul has a brief stay in a ramshackle Purgatory hotel. There he is shown visions of his former delinquency by three types of ghosts:
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| | Sedgwick, Marcus REVOLVER
March 15, 2010 - "Even the dead tell stories," begins Sedgwick's slim yet taut and complex thriller about a family barely surviving in 1910 along the Swedish-Finnish border, 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Sig pieces together the story his father, Einar
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| | Seeger, Laura Vaccaro WHAT IF?
March 15, 2010 - What if two seals are playing with a beach ball and it rolls up on shore? What if one seal lumbers out of the water to retrieve the ball and finds another seal on land to play with? Seeger, who loves to play with perspective, presents three
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| | Shannon, George CHICKEN SCRATCHES
March 15, 2010 - Sixteen verses, bouncy and "fowl." True to its subtitle, this little green book offers a nice variety of nifty poems with cheeky pen illustrations, digitally colored. "Ballet Ol" is a limerick ("A chicken named Millicent Smites, / loved to twirl
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| | Shea, Bob OH, DADDY!
March 15, 2010 - Thank goodness this hippo dad has his smart son to help him out! "[W]hen we're late to Grandma's, he asks... // 'Is this how you get in the car?' / 'Come on, daddy!' // 'This is how you get in the car.' See? Easy peasy, mac and cheesy!" Shea's
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| | Shefelman, Janice ANNA MARIA'S GIFT
March 15, 2010 - Shortly after her father's death, Anna Maria is sent to study violin at the Pietà, an orphanage and music school for girls in Venice. She is welcomed by a new friend, Silvia, but victimized by a talented but jealous fellow violinist, Paolina. The
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| | Sidman, Joyce UBIQUITOUS
March 15, 2010 - Sidman delights with another gorgeous collection of poems celebrating the natural world, this time focusing on species remarkable for their ability to adapt and thrive in an often-harsh world. Arranging her "survivors" in chronological order of time
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| | Simner, Janni Lee THIEF EYES
March 15, 2010 - When 16-year-old Haley accompanies her geologist father to Iceland, she's determined to discover exactly what happened the previous year when her mother disappeared. She finds that out, as well as discovering that she, too, is in danger from a
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| | Skurzynski, Gloria THIS IS ROCKET SCIENCE
March 15, 2010 - This brief but engaging chronicle of how rocketry made space travel possible begins 1,000 years ago in China with the invention of "fire arrows." Skurzynski breezes through the astronomical discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler and the
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| | Spinner, Stephanie PADDYWACK
March 15, 2010 - This Step into Reading Level 3 entry tells the story of a young girl named Jane and her pony, Paddywack. What makes this stand out from other pony titles is that it is told by Paddywack: "When I first got Jane, she did not know how to ride." Jane's
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| | Tomlinson, Heather TOADS AND DIAMONDS
March 15, 2010 - Charles Perrault published the tale in 1695, and Robert D. San Souci and Jerry Pinkney brought it to the American South in The Talking Eggs (1988). Now here is a fleshed-out version of this folk motif that tells the story of two stepsisters and
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| | Underwood, Deborah THE QUIET BOOK
March 15, 2010 - This gallery of quietude works for bedtime or calming down while also acknowledging that some quiet moods are less than happy. Each page shows one type of quietness, from classics such as, "Sleeping sister quiet," to the creative locale of "Swimming
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| | Walker, Anna I LOVE MY MOM
March 15, 2010 - Ollie B., a gray-and-white striped creature with long ears and floppy legs, tells readers just how he and his mom spend time together. "We look / and talk, / we giggle / and walk. // We see a duck and a dragonfly. // We see orange fish swimming by."
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| | Weatherford, Carole Boston OBAMA
March 15, 2010 - This lyrical tribute to the 44th U.S. President describes Barack Obama's diverse childhood experiences and his various mentors and concludes with his successful presidential election. Struggling for self-acceptance, Obama's search for racial
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| | Wilson, Diane Lee RAVEN SPEAK
March 15, 2010 - Asa Coppermane's Viking chieftain father and all the other able-bodied men are away searching for food, her feverish mother is near death and her older brothers are already dead and stacked in one of the barns, awaiting spring thaw for burial.
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| | Wilson, Jacqueline KISS
March 15, 2010 - Small for her age, bright 14-year-old Sylvie is only just experiencing the first longings of puberty. Sylvie hopes her lifelong friendship with Carl will blossom into something more like what her bold new friend, alpha girl Miranda, means when she
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| | Wittlinger, Ellen THIS MEANS WAR!
March 15, 2010 - It's the fall of 1962.With Soviet missiles in Cuba, a war with Russia seems imminent. Amid community-wide fears of annihilation, Juliet Klostermeyer is experiencing her own personal problem.Her longtime best friend Lowell has decided it is uncool
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| The Arabian Nights: A New Edition
March 01, 2010 - The most famous tales in The Arabian Nights have flown far beyond the confines of the night-shrouded bedroom in which Scheherazade spins stories to the vengeful king who will kill her come morning (unless she makes sure he just has to know what happens next). "There is no such thing as a canonical text of the Nights with a fixed number of stories," writes Middle East scholar Robert Irwin in his introduction to Volume 2 of Penguin Classics' new three-volume edition. So should we care that Cambridge University scholars Malcolm and Ursula Lyons, for the first time since Sir Richard Burton in the 1880s, have based this English translation on the 1839-42 Arabic edition that contains more stories than any other, usually in fuller versions? We should
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