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amphibians frogs science animals reference |
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Melvin & Gilda Berger |
How Do Frogs Swallow with Their Eyes? |
nonfiction |
Apples life cycle living fruit seeds buds tree seasons year |
Four Stars |
Great picture book. Very accurate Year in the life of an apple tree. |
Shelly Rotner |
Pick Me an Apple: From Seed to Tree |
nonfiction |
Picture book stars sand dollars sea stars ocean life |
Three Stars |
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Allan Fowler |
Stars of the Sea |
nonfiction |
Space Stars Black Holes Pulsars science reference mystery |
Three Stars |
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Steve Parker |
Space Busters Space Mysteries |
nonfiction |
Kangaroos Animal Life |
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Patricia Miller-Schroeder |
Kangaroos |
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Animal Life Animal/Human Interaction Animal Habitats life science concept book |
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Chris Mason |
Why Do People Harm Animals? |
anthology |
Oceania oceans Myths reference |
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Anita Dalal |
Myths of Oceania |
nonfiction |
Sea creatures ocean animals sea life |
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Clare Oliver |
Weird Wildlife Seas Creatures |
fantasy fiction |
supernatural adventure excitement |
Five Stars |
Coraline finds a door with a brick wall or door way into a parallel disturbing world of people with black button eyes. Let the games begin. Scarry movies, supernatural adventure, witch craft, romps through a dungeon, missing parents, mystery and suspense; masterfully written this story will enthrall all readers. |
Gaiman, Neil |
Coraline |
fantasy fiction |
Beast supernatural Amazon river ancient wonders fountain of youth Eldorado fantasy |
Four Stars |
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Allende, Isabella |
City of the Beasts |
fantasy fiction |
family conflict anger management first person |
Three Stars |
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Judy Blume |
Double Fudge |
science fiction fantasy |
cloning Mexico drug companies adventure |
Five Stars |
Action adventure, drug king El Patron and Matt a young adolescent has known as long as he can remember that he has a mysterious relationship to El Patron. Sometimes it is great and others it is worse than being an animal on the ranch. When Matt finally discovers El Patron s true intentions he acts to thwart his plans. However, circumstances put Matt s life in danger and he has no choice but to run. Where does one run and hide from a drug lord? Is it possible that Matt can escape with his life? And if he does how long can he live before be is discovered and returned to El Patron? |
Nancy Farmer |
The House of the Scorpion |
historical fiction |
Middle Ages Great Britain Edward III orphan theft murder fourteenth-century England |
Three Stars |
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Avi |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
fiction realistic |
Emotional problems cancer prejudice alcoholism homosexuality adventure mystery |
Five Stars |
Claire unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to hang with the crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother s alcoholism is helped by Lani Garver who risks his life to save her. |
Carol Plum- Ucci |
What Happened to Lani Garver |
fantasy fiction picture book |
mystery gameboard space adventure |
Three Stars |
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Chris Van Allsburg |
Zathura |
fiction poetry |
Black Americans identity high schoolsx |
Four Stars |
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Grimes, Nikki |
Bronx Masquerade |
realistic fiction |
Cerebal palsy physical handicapped drug abuse self-acceptance school video film making |
Five Stars |
A compelling story about Benjamin, a troubled youth with CP, who struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young women. This story has everything that reality TV on MTV and VH1 has, and maybe more detail.
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Ron Koertge |
Stoner and Spaz |
Fiction |
Family life pacific northwest Cartoons comics recluses libraries mystery detective stories |
Four Stars |
With a swimming medal, key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half rat as her only clues, a 12 year old girl seeks the true story of her father s mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest. |
Sara Nickerson |
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found |
fiction fantasy fairy tale |
fairy tale Princess Kings Queens family trolls humor |
Not yet |
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll that raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father. |
Jean Ferris |
Once Upon a Marigold |
fantasy fiction |
child prodigy adventure |
Four Stars |
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Colfer, Eoin |
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident |
fiction |
jungle animals sloth art slow peaceful |
Five Stars |
Picture book where Eric Carle celebrates the slowness and peacefulnees. |
Eric Carle |
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, said the Sloth |