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1) Sankofa
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Language
English
Description
A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie's abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange...
3) Superfudge
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Young Amelia Bedelia will do almost anything for a shiny new bicycle. Her parents say they'll split the cost with her, and that means Amelia Bedelia needs to put the pedal to the metal and earn some dough! With Amelia Bedelia anything can happen, and it usually does"--
Author
Series
Tales from the multiverse volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of six stories, each one featuring an explosion of some sort"--
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
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Description
Geraldo y Cerdita descubren el placer de que los lean. Pero ¡¿qué va a pasar cuando se acabe el libro?!
When Gerald the elephant and Piggie realize that they are in a book, they decide to have some fun with the reader.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creature emerges. Not a scary one, or an evil one, or anything of the sort. Instead, what comes alive is... BLURP! She'll have to carry on with her lesson, despite Blurp's many, messy distractions. But paint splotches and burps aren't all that disrupt Ms. Picklepop's decorous class. Perhaps through an unlikely friendship, Ms. Picklepop will learn a thing or two...
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Language
English
Description
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that: a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage....
10) The wide window
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 3
Language
English
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after being sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine, who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
Author
Series
My big fat zombie goldfish volume 6
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the first of two stories, zombie goldfish Frankie is good at saving the day, but the medieval day reenactment joust may be too much, and in the second story, Tom's evil brother clones a Jurassic carp, putting the school in danger.
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Language
English
Description
"After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean seven decades. In the name of marriage survival, they quickly...
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Series
Witches of Peculiar volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
In Peculiar, Pennsylvania, the supernatural kids, from ghosts to werewolves to witches, attend Yvette I. Koffin's Exceptional School for Supernatural Students (Y.I.K.E.S.S.S.), but while twins Bella and Donna have great powers they struggle at controlling their magic.
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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
c2022
Language
English
Description
Luna's dad is having a birthday, and Luna has a lot of surprises planned to help him celebrate, including a pancake breakfast, a trip to the pet store, a treasure hunt, and a princess tea party. She keeps Dad busy all day with a string of fun surprises. But Luna gets a surprise herself when dad falls asleep during a late night movie. Kids who love to stay up late and sleepy parents will laugh out loud as they find out who gets the final surprise.
El...
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Series
My weird school specials volume 1
Language
English
Description
"For A.J. and the gang from Ella Mentry School, a night of regular trick-or-treating turns into the weirdest Halloween in the history of the universe"--
Author
Series
Tater tales volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Two spud siblings face off in a series of epic challenges to prove who's "the greatest in the world""--
19) The coaster
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Language
English
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Description
Bob Patterson considers himself an Everyman--albeit an Everyman with a rich, beautiful wife, two good kids, and a mail-it-in job that ignores his law degree. Despite his good fortune, Bob is idling through life, bored at work and at home. In short, he is the proverbial Coaster. Bob's wife, Sarah, is the anointed heir to the empire built by her father, Sam, a kind of Kansas City, Missouri, Warren Buffet. Fine by Bob, the family soccer mom. But early...
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