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As simple as it seemsEleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
Fly awayMarnie is forced into a leadership roll on her competitive cheerleading team, but it’s harder than she imagined to keep the Soar Starlings--and herself--aloft.
Out of the shadowsBadly injured, fourteen-year-old Blade must continue to use his exceptional "street smarts" and waning strength to outsmart dangerous thugs while he considers surrendering to the police to face the consequences of a past he has tried to forget.
SabotagedTime-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author’s note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
Elvis & Olive : super detectivesWhen best friends Natalie, age ten, and Annie, nine, form a detective agency to solve neighborhood mysteries, Natalie hopes it will help her win a school election, while Annie seeks the mother who abandoned her.
Skit-scat raggedy cat : Ella Fitzgerald
Project seahorse
Sir Charlie Chaplin : the funniest man in the worldA Newbery Medalist presents one of the most compelling rags-to-riches stories of modern times, in this biography of the legendary Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin. Includes archival prints and photos.
My Havana : memories of a Cuban boyhoodRelates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.
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The unfinished angelIn a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.
Charlie Bone and the beastWhen Asa Pike, a Bloor’s Academy student with the ability to change into a beast at dusk, goes missing, twelve-year-old Charlie Bone suspects a new classmate, the magically gifted Dagobert Endless, of foul play.
HeartbeatTwelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
Bugs and birds in origami
Inline skatingThe author, a world champion skater, introduces the sport of inline skating, from basic skills and safety to performing simple stunts and taking part in competitions.
The visual dictionary of physicsText and "exploded view" photographs explore the theories and experiments involved in all areas of physics, including energy, machines, waves, electricity, magnetism, nuclear reactions, and more.
Walk two moonsAfter her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother’s route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Drawing, the complete course
BearstoneA troubled Indian boy goes to live with an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man.
- Easy origami
Provides illustrated step-by-step instructions for creating a variety of origami objects including a boat that floats, a wiggling snake, tumbling acrobats, and many more.
