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Natasha’s mother left the house eight years ago and has never returned. Since that time, her father spends most of his time in his workshop and leaves the raising of his girls to his wife’s sisters. Natasha lives in Willow Hill, a town filled with tradition and magic, and Natasha wants desperately to believe in the magic. Click here for more of the curledupkids.com book review of Lauren Myracle's Wishing Day.
 
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*Big Blue Forever: The Story of Canada's Largest Blue Whale Skeleton* by Anita Miettunen - click here for our middle grades book review
 
Lou Kuenzler's
Big Blue Forever: The Story of Canada's Largest Blue Whale Skeleton
*Princess Disgrace: A Royal Disaster* by Lou Kuenzler - click here for our middle grades book review
 
Lou Kuenzler's
Princess Disgrace: A Royal Disaster
*Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk* by Liesl Shurtliff - click here for our middle grades book review
 
Liesl Shurtliff's
Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk
*Nest* by Esther Ehrlich - click here for our middle grades book review
 
Esther Ehrlich's
Nest
*Case File 13 #2: Making the Team* by J. Scott Savage, illustrated by Doug Holgate - click here for our middle grades book review
 
J. Scott Savage and Doug Holgate's
Case File 13 #2: Making the Team
*Case File 13 #2: Evil Twins* by J. Scott Savage, illustrated by Doug Holgate - click here for our middle grades book review
 
J. Scott Savage and Doug Holgate's
Case File 13 #2: Evil Twins
*Until I Find Julian* by Patricia Reilly Giff - click here for our middle grades book review
 
Patricia Reilly Giff's
Until I Find Julian
*The Doldrums* by Max Brallier and Doug Holgate - click here for our middle grades book review
 
Nicholas Gannon's
The Doldrums
 
 
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3-D Atlas and World Tour - Marie Javins
15 Minutes - Steve Young
100 Cupboards - N.D. Wilson
100 Days and 99 Nights - Alan Madison

Abigail Iris: The Pet Project - Lisa Glatt, Suzanne Greenberg and Joy Allen
Adam Canfield of the Slash - Michael Winerip
Adam Canfield: Watch Your Back! - Michael Winerip
The Adventures of Odysseus (Chapter Book) - Hugh Lupton, Daniel Morden and Christina Balit
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Aesop's Fables - Lisbeth Zwerger
Aidan of Oren: The Journey Begins - Alan St. Jean
Akimbo & the Crocodile Man - Alexander McCall Smith
Akira to Zoltan: Twenty-Six Men Who Changed the World - Cynthia Chin-Lee
Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness) - Tamora Pierce
Aldwyn's Academy: A Companion Novel to A Practical Guide to Wizardry (Dungeons & Dragons) - Nathan Meyer
Alibi Junior High - Greg Logsted
All the Cats of Cairo - Inda Schaenen
Always October - Bruce Coville
Amber Ambrosia: The Serpent's Chain Book 2 - Rae Bridgman
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart - Candace Fleming
Amelia Rules, Vols. 1-3: The Whole World's Crazy, What Makes You Happy, & Superheroes - Jimmy Gownley
The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History - Jennifer Armstrong and Roger Roth
Animal Sanctuaries and Rescue Centers: Saving Lives and Changing Hearts - Rob Laidlaw
Animals Robert Scott Saw: An Adventure in Antarctica - Sandra Markle
The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen - Maria Tatar
The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer and Leonard S. Marcus
The Annotated Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett and Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Arabel and Mortimer - Joan Aiken
Arabel's Raven - Joan Aiken
Araminta Spookie 2: The Sword in the Grotto - Angie Sage
Astro Socks - Leigh M. LeCreux
At the Firefly Gate - Linda Newbery
Atherton #1: The House of Power - Patrick Carman

Babymouse: Our Hero - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Babymouse: Queen of the World - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Babymouse #6: Camp Babymouse - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Babymouse #7: Skater Girl - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Babymouse #8: Puppy Love - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Basher History: U.S. Presidents--Oval Office All-Stars - Simon Basher and Dan Green
Be Healthy! It's a Girl Thing: Food, Fitness, and Feeling Great - Mavis Jukes, Lilian Wai-Yin Cheung and Debra Ziss
Beacon Street Girls: Lucky Charm - Annie Bryant
Beacon Street Girls: Maeve on the Red Carpet - Annie Bryant
A Bear Called Paddington (50th Anniversary Edition) - Michael Bond
Because of Mr. Terupt - Rob Buyea
Befiddled - Pedro De Alcantara
Belle Prater's Boy - Ruth White
Bessica Lefter Bites Back - Kristen Tracy
Big Bang! The Tongue-Tickling Tale of a Speck That Became Spectacular - Carolyn Cinami Decristofano
The Big Book of Boy Stuff - Bart King
The Big Book of Girl Stuff - Bart King
Big Bugs - Seymour Simon
Big Rig Rustlers - Max Elliot Anderson
The Big Stink (Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie) - David Lubar
Billy Hooten: Owlboy - Thomas E. Sniegoski
Black Radishes - Susan Lynn Meyer
The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt - Walter Farley
The Black Stallion's Sulky Colt - Walter Farley
Blast to the Past #1: Lincoln's Legacy - Stacia Deutsch & Rhody Cohon
Blindspot - Kevin C. Pyle
Blue Schwartz & Nefertiti's Necklace: A Mystery with Recipes - Betty Jacobson Hechtman
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past - James M. Deem
The Book of Fairies - Michael Hague
Books to Check Out for Kids: A Journal - Chronicle Books
Boom! - Mark Haddon
Born to Fly - Michael Ferrari
A Boy and His Bot - Daniel H. Wilson
Brain Quest DVD Game: Ages 8-10 - Brighter Minds Media
Buggy Crenshaw and the Bungler's Paradox (In Search of the Nexus, Book 1) - R.M. Wilburn
Buggy Crenshaw and the Bungler's Paradox: In Search of the Nexus, Book 1 - R.M. Wilburn
Buggy Crenshaw and the Deadwood Principle: Evolution (In Search of the Nexus, Book 2) - R.M. Wilburn
Butterfingers - J.M. Trelleward

A Caldecott Celebration: Seven Authors and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal - Leonard S. Marcus
Call Me Aram (New Beginnings) - Marsha Skrypuch and Muriel Woods
Camel Rider - Prue Mason
Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus... - Kristen Tracy
The Century for Young People: 1901-1936: Becoming Modern America - Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
The Century for Young People: 1936-1961: Defining America - Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
The Century for Young People: 1961-1999: Changing America - Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
Century Quartet #1: Ring of Fire - Pierdomenico Baccalario and Leah D. Janeczko
Change-up: Mystery at the World Series - John Feinstein
Charlotte in Paris - Joan MacPhail Knight
Charlotte's Web (60th Anniversary Edition) - E.B. White, illustrated by Garth Williams
Charting the World: Geography and Maps from Cave Paintings to GPS with 21 Activities - Richard Panchyk
The Chestnut King: Book 3 of the 100 Cupboards - N.D. Wilson
Child of the Mountains - Marilyn Sue Shank
Children of the Dawnland - Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
Children's Miscellany - Matthew Morgan & Samantha Barnes
Christian the Lion - Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Cinderella (As If You Didn't Already Know the Story) - Barbara Ensor
Cinderella (As If You Didn't Already Know the Story) - Barbara Ensor
Cirque Du Freak #9: Killers of the Dawn - Darren Shan
Cirque Du Freak #11: Lord of the Shadows - Darren Shan
City of Fire (City Trilogy) - Lawrence Yep
Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now - Lauren Child
Classic Western Stories: The Most Beloved Stories - Cooper Edens
Classics Illustrated #4: The Raven & Other Poems (Classics Illustrated Graphic Novels) - Edgar Allan Poe and Gahan Wilson
Classics Illustrated Deluxe #11: The Sea-Wolf - Riff Reb's and Jack London
The Clique - Lisi Harrison
Clubhouse Mysteries: The Backyard Animal Show - Sharon M. Draper and Jesse Joshua Watson
Collectopia: A Friendship Scraptacular - Catherine Rondeau and Peggy Brown
Collectopia: Wacktivity - Catherine Rondeau and Peggy Brown
Collinsfort Village - Joe Ekaitis
The Coming of the Unicorn Scottish Folk Talkes for Children (Kelpies) - Duncan and Linda Williamson
Coraline (10th Anniversary Edition) - Neil Gaiman
Corydon & the Island of Monsters - Tobias Druitt
Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl - John Feinstein
A Crack in the Sky (Greenhouse Chronicles) - Mark Peter Hughes
Crazy Fish - Norma Fox Mazer
Creative Writing: The Plot Thickens (Basher Basics) - Simon Basher and Mary Budzik
Creepy Chicago: A Ghosthunter's Tales of the City's Scariest Sites - Ursula Bielski
The Criminal in the Caymans (Incredible Journey Books) - Connie Lee Berry
Crossing Cadogan Bay: The Secret of the Keepers - J.M. Mangano
Curiosity - Gerald Allen Wunsch
The Curse of the Raven Mocker - Lisi Harrison

Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards - Lemony Snicket
Daring Quests of Mystics - Shirley Cheng
The Dark Dreamweaver (The Remin Chronicles Book 1) - Nick Ruth
The Darkest Age II: The Book of the Sword - A.J. Lake
Date Him or Dump Him?: The Campfire Crush (A Choose Your Boyfriend Book) - Cylin Busby
Date Him or Dump Him?: The Dance Dilemma (A Choose Your Boyfriend Book) - Cylin Busby
The Day of the Pelican - Katherine Paterson
Deadly Perils: And How to Avoid Them - Tracey Turner, Richard Horne and Ben Hasler
The Death (and Further Adventures of) Silas Winterbottom: The Body Thief - Steven M. Giles
The Declaration - Gemma Malley
Deep and Dark and Dangerous - Mary Downing Hahn
Demonkeeper - Royce Buckingham
The Diamond of Darkhold: The Fourth Book of Ember - Jeanne Duprau
Diary of a Would-Be Princess - Jessica Green
Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom - Tim Byrd
Doctor Illuminatus: The Alchemist's Son Part 1 - Martin Booth
Do-Over - Christine Hurley Deriso
Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl - Rachel Renee Russell
Dragon Flight - Jessica Day George
Dragon Slippers - Jessica Day George
Dragon Spear (Dragon Slippers) - Jessica Day George
Dragon Tears - Ruth E. Glover
Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons - Dugald Steer
The Dreadful Revenge of Ernest Gallen - James Lincoln Collier

Eagle (The Five Ancestors, Book 5) - Jeff Stone
The Edge Chronicles 8: The Winter Knights - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
The Edge Chronicles 9: Clash of the Sky Galleons - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Eggs [unabridged audio CD] - Jerry Spinelli
Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel - Ruth Barshaw
Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in Town - Ruth Barshaw
Emily Windsnap & the Monster from the Deep - Liz Kessler
Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini - Sid Fleischman
Eulalia! (Redwall) - Brian Jacques
Everything You Need to Know about the Human Body - Patricia Macnair
The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 1: The Hero Revealed - William Boniface

The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School - Candace Fleming
The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood - Barb Bentler Ullman
The Fairy Godmother Academy #1: Birdie's Book - Jan Bozarth and Andrea Burden
Faith, Hope and Ivy June - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Faithgirlz Bible - Nancy N. Rue
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Grace Notes - Dandi Daley Mackall
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Grace Notes - Dandi Daley Mackall
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Just Jazz - Dandi Daley Mackall
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Love, Annie - Dandi Daley Mackall
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Storm Rising - Dandi Daley Mackall
A Family Haggadah II: A Seder Service for All Ages - Shoshona Silberman and Katherine Janus Kahn
A Faraway Island - Annika Thor and Linda Schenk
Far-Flung Adventures: Corby Flood - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Far-Flung Adventures: Fergus Crane - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Far-Flung Adventures: Hugo Pepper - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Fergus, the Soccer Playing Colt - Dan A. Peterson
Fig Pudding - Ralph Fletcher
Firecracker Jones Is on the Case - Christopher Klim
First Light - Rebecca Stead
First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet - Tamora Pierce
Fish and Sphinx (Middlegate Series) - Rae Bridgman
Flat Broke: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Greed - Gary Paulsen
Flipped - Wendelin Van Draanen
The Floating Circus - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Flora and Ulysses - Kate DiCamillo and K.G. Campbell
Fly by Night - Frances Hardinge
For a Speck of Gold - Donna Getzinger
Forest Secrets: A Fairy House Mystery (The Fairy House Series) - Tracy Kane and Kelly Sanders
Forrest Tales: The Secret of the Labyrinth - C.J. Lewis
Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman and Skottie Young
Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist: Frantastic Voyage - Jim Benton
Free to Be...You and Me (The 35th Anniversary Edition) - by Marlo Thomas and friends, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy - Leonard S. Marcus

Gaia Girls: Way of Water - Lee Welles
Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth - Lee Welles
Ganga: The River That Flows from Heaven to Earth - Vatsala Sperling, Harish Johari and Pieter Weltevrede
The Georges and the Jewels - Jane Smiley
Geronimo Stilton #1: The Discovery of America - Geronimo Stilton
Geronimo Stilton #2: The Secret of the Sphinx - Geronimo Stilton
The Ghost in Allie's Pool - Sari Bodi
Ghost Letters - Stephen Alter
The Ghosts of Lone Jack - Lance Lee Noel
Ghosts of Rockville: Search for the Dominion Glass - Justin Heimberg
The Giant-Slayer - Iain Lawrence
A Girl Called Boy - Belinda Hurmence
GirlForce: Shine - Nikki Goldstein
The Glory Wind - Valerie Sherrard
The Gods and Their Machines - Oisin McGann
The Golden Rat - Don Wulffson
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes - Pamela S. Turner
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum - Candace Fleming and Ray Fenwick
The Great Unexpected - Sharon Creech
Green - Laura Peyton Roberts
Grk Smells a Rat - Joshua Doder
Growing Up in the Cretaceous: Scipionyx (Dinosaurs) - Marco Signore and Matteo Bachin

The Handy Astronomy Answer Book - Charles Liu
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Harry The Poisonous Centipede Goes to Sea - Lynne Reid Banks
Hatshepsut of Egypt (The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Real Princesses) - Shirin Yim Bridges, Amy Novesky and Albert Nguyen
Heat - Mike Lupica
Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (Circles of Heck) - Dale E. Basye and Bob Dob
Hey There, Stink Bug! - Leslie Bulion
The Hole in the Wall - Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Holes - Louis Sachar
Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
Horns and Wrinkles - Joseph Helgerson
Horses of Half Moon Ranch: Wild Horses - Jenny Oldfield
Hot Hand: Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids - Mike Lupica
Hot Issues, Cool Choices - Sandra McLeod Humphrey
How It Happened on Peach Hill - Marthe Jocelyn
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous - Georgia Bragg and Kevin O'Malley
How to Be a Genius: Your Brain and How to Train It - DK Publishing
How to Make a Golem and Terrify People - Alette J. Willis
How to Survive Middle School - Donna Gephart
Hummingbirds: Facts and Folklore from the Americas - Jeanette Larson and Adrienne Yorinks

I Heard It from Alice Zucchini: Poems About the Garden - Juanita Havill
I, Coriander - Sally Gardner
I, Galileo - Bonnie Christensen
I Love Words - Francoize Boucher
I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding During World War II - Marisabina Russo
The Ice Dragon - George R.R. Martin
Ice Island - Sherry Shahan
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period - Gennifer Chodenko
The Importance of Wings - Robin Friedman
In Search of Molly Pitcher - Linda Grant De Pauw
In the Pocket: Johnny Unitas and Me - Mike Leonetti
Ingo - Helen Dunmore
Into the Firestorm - Deborah Hopkinson
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air - Stewart Ross and Stephen Biesty
Into the Woods - Lyn Gardner
Invisible Inkling - Emily Jenkins and Harry Bliss
Isabel of the Whales - Hester Velmans
It's Not the Stork: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends - Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley

Jake - Audrey Couloumbis
Jennifer Murdley's Toad (A Magic Shop Book) - Bruce Coville
Jinx - Sage Blackwood
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (A Magic Shop Book) - Bruce Coville
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver - Chris Riddell
The Joshua Files: Invisible City - M.G. Harris
Judy Moody & Stink: The Holly Joliday - Megan McDonald Peter H. Reynolds
Jump: The Nick Guide to Jumping Rope - Nickelodeon
The Jungle Book (Looking Glass Library) - Rudyard Kipling
Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started (100% Official) - Justin Bieber

Kaleidoscope Eyes - Jen Bryant
Kids Cook 1-2-3: Recipes for Young Chefs Using Only Three Ingredients - Rozanne Gold
Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb - Kirsten Miller
The Kingfisher Atlas of World History - Simon Adams
The Kingfisher Dinosaur Encyclopedia: One Encyclopedia, a World of Prehistoric Knowledge - Dr. Michael Benton
The Kingfisher Encyclopedia of Everything - Sean Callery, Clive Gifford and Dr. Mike Goldsmith
Kingfisher Knowledge: Sharks - Miranda Smith
Kino No Tabi: Book One of the Beautiful World - Keiichi Shigusawa
Kino No Tabi: Book One of the Beautiful World - Keiichi Shigusawa
Kit Feeny: On the Move - Michael Townsend
Kit Feeny: The Ugly Necklace - Michael Townsend
Kyleah's Tree - Janet Muirhead Hill and Herb Leonhard
Kobzar's Children: A Century of Untold Stories by Ukrainians - Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

L Is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for a Clever Tongue - Chronicle Books
The Last Kids on Earth - Max Brallier and Doug Holgate
Laugh with the Moon - Shana Burg
The Lambkins - Eve Bunting
Lawn Boy - Gary Paulsen
Lawn Boy Returns - Gary Paulsen
Leap - Jane Breskin Zalben
Legend of the White Wolf - Max Elliot Anderson
The Legend of Witch Bane - Kevis Hendrickson
The Legend of Zoey - Candie Moonshower
Leo and the Lesser Lion - Sandra Forrester
Legends: Battles and Quests - Anthony Horowitz
Legends: Beasts and Monsters - Anthony Horowitz
Let's Go Yo-Yo! - Nickelodeon
Lexie - Audrey Couloumbis and Julia Denos
Libertad - Alma Fullerton
Lifting the Sky - Mackie D'Arge
The Lily Pond - Annika Thor and Linda Schenk
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary - Candace Fleming
Listen! - Stephanie S. Tolan
Little Eagle - Chen Jiang Hong
The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
Looking for Marco Polo - Alan Armstrong and Tim Jessell
Lost Worlds - John Howe
Love, Aubrey - Suzanne LaFleur
The Luck of the Buttons - Anne Ylvisaker
Lucy Rose: Busy Like You Can't Believe - Katy Kelly
Luke Carter and the Sword of Kings - A.J. Ensor
The Lunch Witch - Deb Lucke
Lyra's Oxford - Philip Pullman

Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles - Rupert Kingfisher and Sue Hellard
Madhattan Mystery - John J. Bonk
The Magic Half - Annie Barrows
Magic Tree House #34: Season of the Sandstorms - Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House #36: Blizzard of the Blue Moon - Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn - Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House #43: Leprechaun in Late Winter - Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House Research Guide: Polar Bears and the Arctic - Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce
Magic Tree House Research Guide: Tsunamis & Other Natural Disasters - Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce
The Magical Worlds of Philip Pullman - David Colbert
Magickeepers: The Eternal Hourglass - Erica Kirov and Eric Fortune
Make Your Own Castle (Pop-Up Castle Scene) - Clare Beaton
Mamba Point - Kurtis Scaletta
Manga Claus: The Blade of Kringle [graphic novel] - Nathaniel Marunas
Mao and Me - Chen Jiang Hong
Mars and the Search for Life - Elaine Scott
Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics - P.L. Travers
Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookery Book with a Story - P.L. Travers
Masterpieces Up Close: Western Painting from the 14th to 20th Centuries - Claire d'Harcourt
Masters of Disaster - Gary Paulsen
Matisse on the Loose - Georgia Bragg
Max & Maddy and the Bursting Balloons - Alexander McCall Smith
Max & Maddy and the Chocolate Money Mystery - Alexander McCall Smith
May B. - Caroline Starr Rose
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. (Landmark Books) - James T. Dekay
Melonhead - Kary Kelly and Gillian Johnson
Melusine - Halloween - Francois Gilson and Clarke
Micromania - Jordan D. Brown
Middle School: How to Deal - Sarah Miller, Alex Stikeleather and Sara Borden
The Mighty Miss Malone - Christopher Paul Curtis
Minerva Clark Gets a Clue - Karen Karbo
The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck - Stan Swanson
The Misadventures of Maude March: Or Trouble Rides a Fast Horse - Audrey Couloumbis
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster - Debra Frasier
Miss O & Friends: Room for One More - Devra Newberger Speregen
Miss O & Friends: Trouble with a Capital O - Devra Newberger Speregen
Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure - Georgia Byng
Monsterology: The Complete Book of Monstrous Beasts - Ernest Drake and Dugald Steer
The Moon of Gomrath: A Tale of Alderley - Alan Garner
Moon Over Manifest - Clare Vanderpool
Mountain Cabin Mystery - Max Elliot Anderson
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 - David Petersen
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano (But She Does Love Being in Recitals) - Peggy Gifford and Valorie Fisher
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little - Peggy Gifford
Mr. Terupt Falls Again - Rob Buyea
Ms. Rapscott's Girls - Elise Primavera
Muddle Earth - Paul Stewart
Mudshark - Gary Paulsen
The Museum of Mary Child - Cassandra Golds
Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein - Susan Goldman Rubin
My Body, My Self for Girls: A What's Happening to My Body? Quizbook & Journal, 2nd Ed. - Lynda & Area Madaras
My Feelings, My Self: A Growing-Up Journal for Girls, 2nd Ed. (What's Happening to My Body? Series) - Lynda & Area Madaras
My Last Best Friend - Julie Bowe
My Little French Friend (Pals Around the World, Volume 1) - Leslye Jacobs
My Missmatched Life: A Marvelous, Zany, Kooky, Fabulous Scrapbook - Chronicle Books
My Name is Mina - David Almond
My One Hundred Adventures - Polly Horvath
The Mystery of the Jubilee Diamond - Gary Wassner
The Mystery of the Third Lucretia (Kari + Lucas Mystery) - Susan Runholt

The Name Game Jr.: The Family Guessing Game - Steve Crystal
The Name of This Book Is Secret - Pseudonymous Bosch
Nancy and Plum - Betty MacDonald and Mary GrandPre
Nathan Quist and the Curious Affair of the Crescent Earrings - Adam Stuck, Marvin G. Baker and Beth Dellinger
National Geographic Kids Almanac 2010
National Geographic Kids Almanac 2011
Navigators: Planet Earth - Barbara Taylor
The Necklace of Stones - Philip Carraher
Never Say Die - Will Hobbs
The New Way Things Work: A Visual Guide to the World of Machines - David Macaulay
The Newspaper Caper - Max Elliot Anderson
The Nick Guide to Your Best-Ever School Year - Nickelodeon
The Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore
Nim's Island - Wendy Orr
The Nine Lives of Travis Keating - Jill MacLean
Ninth Ward - Jewell Parker Rhodes
Noah Barleywater Runs Away - John Boyne and Oliver Jeffers
No Castles Here - A.C.E. Bauer
North Woods Poachers - Max Elliot Anderson
Northward to the Moon - Northward to the Moon
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Nurse Matilda: The Collected Tales - Christianna Brand and Edward Ardizzone
The Nutcracker - Michael Hague

Odette's Secrets - Maryann Macdonald
Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen - Donna Gephart
On the Wings of Heroes - Richard Peck
One Direction: Behind the Scenes (100% Official) - One Direction
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy - Karen Foxlee
Ordinary Magic - Caitlen Rubino-Bradway
The Otherworldlies - Jennifer Anne Kogler
Otto Undercover #4: Toxic Taffy Takeover - Rhea Perlman
Out of the Woods - Lyn Gardner
Owlboy: The Girl with the Destructo Touch - Thomas E. Sniegoski

Paleo Bugs: Survival of the Creepiest - Timothy J. Bradley
Pandora Gets Jealous (Mythic Miss-Adventures) - Carolyn Hennesey
Pandora Gets Vain (Mythic Miss-Adventures) - Carolyn Hennesey
Pandora Gets Vain (Mythic Miss-Adventures) - Carolyn Hennesey
Papercutz Slices #1: Harry Potty and the Deathly Boring - Stefan Petrucha and Rick Parker
A Passion for Victory: The Story of the Olympics in Ancient and Early Modern Times - Benson Bobrick
The People Could Fly - Virginia Hamilton
The Periodic Table: Elements with Style! - Adrian Dingle and Simon Basher
The Phantom Isles - Stephen Alter
Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister - Liz Kessler
A Pickpocket's Tale - Karen Schwabach
The Picture Wagon: A Children's Historical Novel - Donna Getzinger
Planet Earth: What Planet Are You On? - Simon Basher and Dan Gilpin
Playing with Stuff: Outrageous Games with Ordinary Objects - Ferry Piekart & Lars Deltrap
The Pocket Guide to Mischief - Bart King and Brenda Brown
The Poisoned Crown (Sangreal Trilogy) - Amanda Hemingway
Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters - Patricia McKissack
Portia's Exclusive and Confidential Rules on True Friendship - Anna Hays
Portia's Ultra Mysterious Double Life - Anna Hays
The Postcard - Tony Abbott
A Practical Guide to Vampires - Lisa Trutkoff Trumbauer
Pretty Freekin Scary #1: You Smell Dead - Chris P. Flesh
Princess Academy: Palace of Stone - Shannon Hale
Prizefighter en Mi Casa - E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Project Mulberry - Linda Sue Park
The Prometheus Project: Captured - Douglas E. Richards
The Prophecy - Hilari Bell
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers - Gary Paulsen
Pure Dead Batty - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Brilliant - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Frozen - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Magic - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Trouble - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Wicked - Debi Gliori

Quincy, the Hobby Photographer - J. Otto Seibold

R My Name is Rachel - Patricia Reilly Giff
Racing the Moon - Alan Armstrong and Tim Jessell
The Railway Children - E. Nesbit
Rain of the Ghosts - Greg Weisman
The Random House Book of Bible Stories - Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce and Michael Welply
The Random House Dinosaur Travel Guide - Kelly Milner Halls
Rapunzel: A Bilingual Book - Francesc Bofill
Rascal: A Dog and His Boy - Ken Wells
Reaching for the Sun - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Real Samurai - Stephen Turnbull
The Red Blazer Girls: The Secret Cellar - Michael D. Beil
The Red Blazer Girls: The Vanishing Violin - Michael D. Beil
The Red Umbrella - Christina Gonzalez
The Reinvention of Bessica Lefter - Kristen Tracy
Rescuing Seneca Crane (Kari + Lucas Mystery) - Susan Runholt
The Resisters (The Resisters #1) - Eric Nylund
Return to Sender - Julia Alvarez
Rickshaw Girl - Mitali Perkins
The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic - Jennifer Trafton and Brett Helquist
Rivers of Fire (Atherton, Book 2) - Patrick Carman
The Road to Oz: Twists, Turns, Bumps, and Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum - Kathleen Krull and Kevin Hawkes
The Road to Revolution! (The Cartoon Chronicles of America) - Stan Mack and Susan Champlin
Road Trip - Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound: A Birder's Journal - Sallie Wolf
Robin: The Lovable Morgan Horse - Ellen F. Feld
Rocks and Minerals: A Gem of a Read - Dan Green and Simon Basher
Rotten School #6: The Heinie Prize - R.L. Stine
Rotten School #7: Dudes, the School is Haunted! - R.L. Stine
Rules to Rock By - Josh Farrar
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin - Cheryl Harness
Running with the Reservoir Pups (Eddie and the Gang with No Name) - Colin Bateman

The Saddle Club: Horse Power - Bonnie Bryant
Sammy Keyes and the Power of Justice Jack - Wendelin Van Draanen
Sammy Keyes and the Showdown in Sin City - Wendelin Van Draanen
Saving Lucas Biggs - Marisa de los Santos and David Teague
Scary School #2: Monsters on the March - Derek the Ghost and Scott M. Fischer
The Scary States of America: 50 Weird and Terrifying Stories Based on True Events - Michael Teitelbaum
Scat - Carl Hiaasen
The Scavengers - Michael Perry
Sea Stories: A Classic Illustrated Edition - Cooper Edens
Classics Illustrated Deluxe #11: The Sea-Wolf - Jack London and Riff Reb's
Seaglass Summer - Anjali Banerjee
The Search for Belle Prater - Ruth White
Second Fiddle - Rosanne Parry
The Secret Alliance and the Copycat Crook - Eleanor Davis
The Secret History of Mermaids and Creatures of the Deep - Ari Berk
Secret of Abbott's Cave - Max Elliot Anderson
The Secret Shelter - Sandi LeFaucher
The Secret World of Magic - Rosalind Kerven
Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 3: The Vampire's Curse - Dan Greenburg
Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 4: Fall of the House of Mandible - Dan Greenburg
Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 5: The Shluffmuffin Boy is History - Dan Greenburg
The Seems: The Split Second (Book 2) - John Hulme and Michael Wexler
Septimus Heap, Book 2: Flyte - Angie Sage
Septimus Heap, Book 1: Magyk - Angie Sage
Septimus Heap, Book 3: Physik - Angie Sage
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 2: The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3: The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4: The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5: The Austere Academy - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6: The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7: The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12: The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
The Serpent's Spell - Rae Bridgman
Seven Wonders, Book 1: The Colossus Rises - Peter Lerangis, Torstein Norstrand and Mike Reagan
Shadow of the Dragon: Kira - Kate O'Hearn
Shakespeare's Secret - Elise Broach
Shelby & the Shifting Rings - A.M. Veillon
Shredderman 1: Secret Identity - Wendelin Van Draanen
Shredderman 2: Attack of the Tagger - Wendelin Van Draanen
Sienna's Scrapbook: Our African American Heritage - Toni Trent Parker & Janell Genovese
Singing for Mrs. Pettigrew: Stories and Essays from a Writing Life - Michael Morpurgo and Peter Bailey
The Sisters Club: Cloudy with a Chance of Boys - Megan McDonald
The Six Crowns: The Ice Gate of Spyre - Allan Jones and Gary Chalk
The Sixty-Eight Rooms - Marianne Malone and Greg Call
The Skull of Truth: A Magic Shop Book - Bruce Coville
Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy and Tom Percival
Small as an Elephant - Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Small Steps - Louis Sachar
Snowbone - Cat Weatherill
Solomon Snow and the Silver Spoon - Kaye Umansky
Solomon Snow and the Stolen Jewel - Kaye Umansky
The Somebodies - N.E. Bode
Spellbound - Anna Dale
The Spindlers - Lauren Oliver and Iacopo Bruno
The Spoon in the Bathroom Wall - Tony Johnston
Spyology: The Complete Book of Spycraft - Spencer Blake and Dugald A. Steer
Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet - Tamora Pierce
Star in the Forest - Laura Resau
Stealing Magic: A Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventure - Marianne Malone and Greg Call
Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog - Tom Watson
The Storm Before Atlanta - Karen Schwabach
The Story of Britain: From the Norman Conquest to the European Union - Patrick Dillon and P.J. Lynch
Storyteller - Patricia Reilly Giff
Strike Three, You're Dead (Lenny and the Mikes) - Josh Berk
Suddenly Supernatural: School Spirit - Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Summer at Forsaken Lake - Michael D. Beil and Maggie Kneen
The Summer I Learned to Fly - Dana Reinhardt
The Summer of Moonlight Secrets - Danette Haworth
Summerhouse Time - Eileen Spinelli
Swords: An Artist's Devotion - Ben Boos
Sylvia and Aki - Winifred Conkling
Sylvie and the Songman - Tim Binding

Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A Classic Illustrated Edition - Cooper Edens
Tales from the Crypt #9: Wickeder - David Gerrold, Stefan Petrucha, et al.
Tall Story - Candy Gourlay
Tangerine - Edward Bloor
Tennyson - Lesley M.M. Blume
Terror at Wolf Lake - Max Elliot Anderson
Thank You, Lucky Stars - Beverly Donofrio
Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh - R.L. LaFevers and Yoko Tanaka
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos - R.L. LaFevers
Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris - R.L. LaFevers
There's an Alien in My Toilet, Vol. 1 - Samuel Vera
Thornspell - Helen Lowe
A Thousand Never Evers - Shana Burg
Through the Looking Glass (Classics Illustrated Graphic Novels #3) - Lewis Carroll and Kyle Baker
Thumbelina: Tiny Runaway Bride - Barbara Ensor
Tibetan Tales from the Top of the World - Naomi C. Rose
The Tilting House - Tom Llewellyn
The Time Pirate: A Nick McIver Time Adventure - Ted Bell
Timothy of the Cay - Theodore Taylor
Titanic: Disaster at Sea - Philip Wilkinson
To Come and Go Like Magic - Katie Pickard Fawcett
Toad Heaven - Morris Gleitzman
Toad Rage - Morris Gleitzman
Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself - Jerry and Eileen Spinelli
Tour America: A Journey Through Poems & Art - Diane Siebert
Traveling Trunk Adventures 1: Pirate Treasure - Benjamin Flinders
Traveling Trunk Adventures 2: The Lost City of Atlantis - Benjamin Flinders
Treasure in Tahiti (Incredible Journey Books) - Connie Lee Berry
Trees (Field Guides) - Maria Angeles Julivert
Trickster's Choice: Daughter of the Lioness, Book 1 - Tamora Pierce
Trickster's Queen: Daughter of the Lioness, Book 2 - Tamora Pierce
Trouble Under Oz - Sherwood Smith
True Talents - David Lubar
The Truth: I'm a Girl, I'm Smart and I Know Everything - Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
Tuesdays at the Castle - Jessica Day George
Twelve - Lauren Myracle
Two Hot Dogs with Everything - Paul Haven
Two-Minute Drill: Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids - Mike Lupica

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror - Chris Priestley
The Undrowned Child - Michelle Lovric
Unlucky Charms (The Cold Cereal Saga) - Adam Rex
Ursula's Maiden Army - Philip Griffith

Vampire Island - Adele Griffin
Versus: Warriors - Steve Stone
Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning - Danette Haworth
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle - Hugh Lofting

Warriors: Omen of the Stars Box Set (Volumes 1-3) - Erin Hunter
Warriors: The Ultimate Guide - Erin Hunter
The Water Horse - Dick King-Smith
Weird Planet #2: Lost in Las Vegas (A Stepping Stone Book) - Dan Greenburg
What Momma Left Me - Renee Watson
What the Parrot Told Alice - Dale Smith
When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead
Whittington - Alan Armstrong
The Whole Story of Half a Girl - Veera Hiranandani
The Wickit Chronicles #1: Ely Plot - Joan Lennon
Wild Girl - Patricia Reilly Giff
The Wild Kid - Harry Mazer and Deborah Lanino
The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 1: Wildwood - Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 2: Under Wildwood - Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
William Shakespeare: His Life and Times (Historical Notebooks) - Kristen McDermott and Ari Berk et al.
William Shakespeare's The Tempest - Marianna Mayer
The Wishcatchers (Kelpies) - Carol Christie
The Witch of Clatteringshaws (Wolves Chronicles) - Joan Aiken
L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz Graphic Novel - Michael Cavallaro
The Wizardology Handbook: A Course for Apprentices (Ologies) - Dugald A. Steer
Wonder - R.J. Palacio
The Wonder of Charlie Anne - Kimberly Newton Fusco
Write Before Your Eyes - Lisa Williams Kline
Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly - Gail Carson Levine

Xtreme Art Ultimate Book of Trace-and-Draw Manga - Christopher Hart

Ye Olde Weird but True: 300 Outrageous Facts from History - Cheryl Harness
The Year They Won: A Tale of the Boston Red Sox - Gerard Purciello
Yesterday's Magic - Pamela F. Service
Your Life, But Better... - Crystal Velasquez
Your Life, But Cooler... - Crystal Velasquez

Zahrah the Windseeker - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Zoe Sophia in New York: The Mystery of the Pink Phoenix Papers - Claudia Mauner & Elisa Smalley







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