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Angleberger, Tom
Horton Halfpott or The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor or The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset
Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.
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206 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Aronson, Marc
Trapped : How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2 000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert
A middle grade nonfiction title about thirty-three miners trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile and how experts from around the world, from drillers, to astronauts, to submarine specialists, came together to make their remarkable rescue possible.
134 p., [8] p. of plates 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Bragg, Georgia
How They Croaked : the Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
A look at the deaths of several famous people throughout history and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.
184 p. 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Burleigh, Robert
The Adventures of Mark Twain By Huckleberry Finn
Presents a biography of Mark Twain told from the perspective of one of his most famous characters, Huckleberry Finn.
1v.(unpaged) 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Cronin, Doreen
The Trouble with Chickens : a J.J. Tully Mystery
A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.
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119 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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DiTerlizzi, Tony
The Search for WondLa
Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her, in a story that features "augmented reality" pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.
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477 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Gibbs, Stuart
Belly Up
Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.
294 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Gibbs, Stuart
The Last Musketeer
In Paris with his parents to sell family heirlooms, fourteen-year-old Greg Rich suddenly finds himself four hundred years in the past, and is aided by boys who will one day be known as "The Three Musketeers."
244 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Gidwitz, Adam
A Tale Dark & Grimm
Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering witches, devils, warlocks, kindly strangers, and other helpful folk as they take charge of their own happily ever after.
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256 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Hatke, Ben
Zita the Spacegirl. Book One Far from Home
When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as new experiences go, but Zita is even more surprised to find herself taking on the role of intergalactic hero.
182 p. 2010
Children's Graphic Novel
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Hobbs, Will.
Take Me to the River
When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.
184 p. 2011
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Meloy, Colin
Wildwood
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
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541 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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O'Connor, Barbara.
The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester
After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.
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168 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Oliver, Lauren
Liesl & Po
A mix-up involving the greatest magic in the world has tremendous consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic, Will, an alchemist's runaway apprentice, and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an important journey.
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307 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Paterson, Katherine
The Flint Heart : a Fairy Story
A magical amulet brings power and despair to those who touch it.
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288 p. 2011
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Say, Allen
Drawing from Memory
Presents in graphic novel format, a complex look at the real-life relationship between a mentor and his student as the artist chronicles his journey as an apprentice to Japan's premier cartoonist to becoming the renowned artist he is today.
63 p. 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Selznick, Brian
Wonderstruck : a Novel in Words and Pictures
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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637 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Ursu, Anne
Breadcrumbs
Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life.
312 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Valente, Catherynne M.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making
Twelve-year-old September's ordinary life in Omaha turns to adventure when a Green Wind takes her to Fairyland to retrieve a talisman the new and fickle Marquess wants from the enchanted woods.
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247 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Warren, Andrea
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change - to save his country's children.
2011
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