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The Curse of Snake Island #1 (Paperback)

By Brian James, Jennifer Zivoin
$3.99
ISBN-13: 9780448445748
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Published: Grosset & Dunlap, 5/2007
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Recommended for primary readers...............This is one of y all-time favorite kids series! Pete and his pint sized pirate friends set sail on their ship, The Sea Rat, in an attempt to beat their grown-up counterparts in discovering a hidden treasure. One problem: the treasure is guarded by a snake who can cast curse.... - Ross

Bad Kitty (Book & CD Set) (Hardcover)

By Nick Bruel, Vanessa Williams
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9781596430693
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Published: Macmillan Young Listeners, 10/2005
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Recommended for primary readers...............If you even mention "Bad Kitty" in my house, a fit of giggles ensues. This book is so funny and a great way to practice the alphabet as well. It's one of my all time favorites! - Shelly

The Flint Heart (Hardcover)

By John Paterson, John Rocco, Katherine Paterson
$19.99
ISBN-13: 9780763647124
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Published: Candlewick, 9/2011
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Recommended for primary readers .................Can you say Brock - oh - tock - oh - tick? If so, then you can read aloud this beautifully illustrated tale of Faerie. My favorite read aloud for a 2nd grader, tested by my son. -Laura

The Wikkeling (Hardcover)

By Steven Arntson
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780762439034
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Published: Running Press Kids, 5/2011
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Recommended for middle readers................Well written and richly illustrated, The Wikkeling is a story of mystery. Are the children in the town of Addition really as safe as the adults say? If so,they why do they have chronic headaches, and why is there a long- fingered creature lurking in the attic? - Jen

Icefall (Hardcover)

By Matthew J. Kirby
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780545274241
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Published: Scholastic Press, 10/2011
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Recommended for middle readers.................Utah author, Matthew Kirby, brings a suspensful tale set in the Viking North. The royal family has taken refuge in a remore fjord, but a traitor has followed them. Solveig must discover the traitor before its too late.

- Laura

 

Museum of Thieves (Paperback)

By Lian Tanner
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780375859786
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Published: Yearling, 5/2011
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Recommended for middle readers..............Goldie is a run-away in a city without run-aways. When she discovers (is led to) the Museum of Dunt, everything changes. With the help of the Keepers and a boy named Toadspit, she must find her courage to save the museum. - Jaime

The Dreamer (Hardcover)

By Pam Munoz Ryan, Peter Sis
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780439269704
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Published: Scholastic Press, 4/2010
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Recommended for middle readers...............The story of Pablo Neruda's childhood brought a new sensitivity to me about the power of words and their weight in poetry. Find out about the childhood of one of the world's greatest poets. - Laura

The True Meaning of Smekday (Paperback)

By Adam Rex, Adam Rex
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780786849017
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Published: Hyperion, 5/2009
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Recommended for middle readers................Tip Tucci writes about the true meaning of Smekday, the day that Captain Smek, of the Boovish alien invasion, renames Christmas for the Boov Empire. After the invasion, Tip, along with an alien, J.Lo, go across the country to find her mom after she's abducted. - Whitney

The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery (Paperback)

By Nancy Springer
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780142409336
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Published: Puffin, 11/2007
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Recommended for middle readers.................Girl power meets Sherlock Holmes. This was an amazing story with a clever heroine you can't help but root for as she dashes from he British countryside to the slums of London. - Wally

The Aviary (Hardcover)

By Kathleen O'Dell
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780375856051
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 9/2011
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Recommended for middle readers....................Clara lives in the house of a famous magician with her mother and the magician's wife. When the magician's wife dies, the birds int he aviary in the backyard begin to speak to Clara, revealing the secrets about the children who once lived there! - Whitney

The Emerald Atlas (Hardcover)

By John Stephens
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780375868702
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 4/2011
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Recommended for middle readers.................Take equal parts of A Wrinkle In Time and Mysterious Benedict Society. Add in a dash of mythical creatures and betrayal. Mix well. Yield: One great adventure. - Laura

Graceling (Paperback)

By Kristin Cashore
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780547258300
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Published: Graphia, 9/2009
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Recommended for teens..............Set in a world where some are born with mismatched eyes and special talents called "graces", this book is filled with action, humor, love, and characters that you simply have to like. This was a fun read and it kept me up and guessing until the end. - Wally

Finnikin of the Rock (Paperback)

By Melina Marchetta
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780763652920
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Published: Candlewick, 8/2011
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Recommended for teens.................Finnikin has traveled the world searching for his exiled countrymen. Prophecy has paired him with Evanjalin and even though he can't stand her, together they must find a way home for their people. - Laura

Airborn (Mass Market Paperback)

By Kenneth Oppel
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9780060531829
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Published: HarperCollins, 6/2005
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Recommended for teens............Matt Cruse loves life on an airship, but when he rescues a doomed hot air balloon, discovers a new species, falls for a girl, AND gets shipwrecked by pirates, he doesn't know if he will ever fly again. -Ty

City of Bones (Paperback)

By Cassandra Clare
$10.99
ISBN-13: 9781416955078
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 3/2008
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Recommended for teens.................Clary discovers (the hard way) that her parents aren't who she thought. They are demon hunters. Now she is confronted by a terrifying world filed with fey, vampires, werewolves, demons, hijinks, hormones, and secrets. A fast paced, fun read. - Wally

Wicked Lovely (Paperback)

By Melissa Marr
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9780061214677
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Published: HarperCollins, 5/2008
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Recommended for teens................Aislinn just wants to be normal, but when the Summer King of the Faeries decides to make her queen nothing will be the same. She's torn between the mortal and the faery worlds. Will she have to lose her mortal love? Or is there a different dance she can step? - Laura

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Hardcover)

By Ransom Riggs
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9781594744761
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Published: Quirk Books, 6/2011
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Recommended for teens.................The author mixes vintage, found photographs of "peculiar" children with monsters who have tentacles coming out of their mouths. Are the monsters real? Metaphors for the Nazis? A sign of Grandpas dementia? I stayed up until midnight to find out. - Barb

Because I Am Furniture (Paperback)

By Thalia Chaltas
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9780142415108
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Published: Speak, 3/2010
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Recommended for teens................This is a haunting story of abuse and love told through poems. The subtle emotions of anger, neglect, worry, longing and insularity are balanced by a young girls growth into womanhood. The whole this is handled with grace and honesty. - Wally

Fat Kid Rules the World (Paperback)

By K. L. Going
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780142402085
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Published: Speak, 11/2004
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Recommended for teens................This is the story of Troy, a 300 pound 17 year old struggling with his weight as much as with what kind of like he wants to lead, when he is confronted by local guitar hero Curt McCrae, and is thrown into a world he never expected to be in, let alone belong to. - Whitney
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