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Series: Around the World Birthdays Around the World Hardcover Margriet Ruurs 9781771386241 $19.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Sep 05, 2017

Everyone in the world has a birthday. But birthdays are not celebrated in the same way everywhere. Meet Mercedes in Peru, who eats a cake and a purple pudding called mazamorra morada. Ieva in Latvia is raised in the birthday chair, one lift for each year. And rather than celebrating his own birthday, Phúc Khang in Vietnam joins in the festivities during Tet, when everyone in the country turns one year older. Based on interviews with real people, award-winning author Margriet Ruurs tells the unique stories of how seventeen children from all arou... + Read More
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Series: Head to Tail Bugs from Head to Tail Hardcover Stacey Roderick 9781771387293 $18.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 03, 2017

In the latest addition to the popular Head to Tail series, author Stacey Roderick focuses on bugs --- a kid favorite! --- and challenges readers to guess which bug each of eight different body parts belongs to. A full spread asks a question about a body part, “What bug has eyes like this?” with an illustrated close-up of that part. The following spread provides the answer to the question, “A grasshopper!” along with a full illustration of the creature in its habitat and a paragraph of text about the highlighted body part, in this case the grass... + Read More
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Series: Captain Monty Takes the Plunge Hardcover Jennifer Mook-Sang 9781771386265 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 03, 2017

Monty the Malodorous is a daring pirate. He is brave. He is bold. He is feared by all who sail the six or seven seas. But Monty has a secret: he can't swim. He never goes into the ocean --- and he never takes a bath. “Real pirates don't bathe. Yar-har-har!” he says. But things change when he meets a mermaid named Meg. “Monty's heart went ka-thunk. He tumbled head over boot heels in love.” And, one day, when Meg's life is put into peril, Monty realizes he's the only one who can jump into the ocean to save her. Monty is faced with a terrible dile... + Read More
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Series: CitizenKid Elephant Keeper, The Caring for Orphaned Elephants in Zambia Hardcover Margriet Ruurs 9781771385619 $19.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 03, 2017

When teenaged Aaron discovers a baby elephant nearly drowning in the swimming pool at the guest lodge where he works, he acts quickly and manages to save the animal just in time. The rescued baby is brought to an elephant orphanage for care, and given the name Zambezi. Though Aaron has been raised to think of elephants as dangerous to humans and their crops, on a visit to the orphanage, he learns that illegal poaching of these animals is threatening them with extinction, and the orphanage is trying to prevent that from happening. And when Aaron... + Read More
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Series: Engineered! Engineering Design at Work Hardcover Shannon Hunt 9781771385602 $18.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 05, 2017

How do you land a rover on Mars, resolve a perpetual traffic jam or save a herd of caribou from potential extinction? Ask an engineer! Author Shannon Hunt presents nine real-life problems for which engineers designed inventive (and even crazy!) solutions. Each was solved using a different field of engineering --- from aerospace and mechanical to the new field of geomatics. A helpful seven-step flowchart of the engineering design process is also featured: define the problem, investigate the requirements, develop solutions, design a prototype, te... + Read More
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Series: Goodnight, Hockey Fans Hardcover Andrew Larsen 9781771381055 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 03, 2017

A young boy doesn't want to go to bed. The hockey game is on! “What if I can't fall asleep?” the boy says. “Don't worry,” says his dad. “You will.” After his parents have tucked him in and turned out the light, he shines a flashlight on his prized hockey possessions around his room: the posters of his favorite players, the pennant for his favorite team, the puck. Then he decides to listen to the game on his bedside radio, which he places under his pillow. With the familiar drone of the announcer's voice for company, the boy drifts off to sleep.... + Read More
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Series: Inside Hudson Pickle Hardcover Yolanda Ridge 9781771386203 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 05, 2017

Cut from AAA hockey last season, seventh-grader Hudson Pickle needs to make the basketball team this year. But, after having an asthma attack at the first tryout, his chances aren't looking good. His former best friend, Trevor, is also trying out. But he won't even speak to Hudson since Hudson had all but ignored him while concentrating on hockey. And as if that wasn't bad enough, now his uncle Vic --- who's been staying with him and his mom since a suspicious fire at his house ---has been diagnosed with a genetic respiratory illness. Could thi... + Read More
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Series: Leap! Hardcover JonArno Lawson 9781771386784 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Sep 05, 2017

“A flea asleep / in the deep green moss / nettled by midges / wakes up cross, / starts to fidget / and turn and toss.” Then his “lever-legs twitch” and he LEAPS into the path of a grasshopper. Which so startles the grasshopper that, she, in turn, LEAPS onto a bunny. And so it goes, dog, fish, bullfrog, horse and dog again, each leaping and upsetting the next. Until the dog finds herself in that same deep green moss. The flea sees his chance and leaps onto the dog. And, at last, they both fall asleep! Award-winning JonArno Lawson's delightful c... + Read More
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Series: Me, Me, Me Hardcover Annika Dunklee 9781771386609 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 05, 2017

When best friends Annie, Lillemor and Lilianne learn their school will be having a talent show, Annie says they should enter as an all-girl singing group. Her friends are all in --- until Annie tries to force everyone to go along with her choice of song, costumes, band name and lead singer. When Lillemor and Liliane tell Annie they've had enough of her “me, me, me” attitude, the band splits up, with Annie intent on performing solo. But it doesn't take long for her to realize it's just not the same without her friends. Can Annie find a way to ma... + Read More
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Series: Middle Bear Hardcover Susanna Isern 9781771388429 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 03, 2017

He was the second of three brothers. “He was not big, but he was not small, either. Neither strong nor weak, neither tall nor short, neither a lot nor a little ... He was the middle one.” Everything about life with his brothers was middle-sized. And when you're always in the middle, sometimes it's hard to feel special. But then, one day the cubs' parents fell ill, and their mother asked them to fetch some medicinal bark from a willow tree on the top of a mountain. When it turned out that this very important task could only be done by a cub of h... + Read More
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Series: Mr. Crum's Potato Predicament Hardcover Anne Renaud 9781771386197 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 05, 2017

When Filbert P. Horsefeathers walks into George Crum's restaurant, he tells the waitress, “I have a hankering for a heaping helping of potatoes.” Fine cook that he is, George prepares a serving of his most scrumptious, succulent and sublime potato wedges, only to have Filbert send them back. “Too thick,” he says. So, George makes thinner wedges. But his picky customer sends them back again. And again. Feeling a bit mischievous, George decides to use his sharpest knife to cut paper-thin potato slices, which he fries until they are crackling and ... + Read More
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Series: No Room for Baby! Hardcover Émile Jadoul 9781771388412 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Oct 03, 2017

Leon is worried. There's a new baby penguin in his home. And though Marcel is sleeping in his crib now, he can't stay there forever. But where can they put him? Mama's arms are way too big to cuddle a tiny baby penguin. It's definitely too scary high up on Daddy's shoulders for him. And as anyone can see, when Daddy is on one side and Mama on the other, with Leon in the middle, there's no room for anyone else. “We can't put a baby penguin anywhere ...” Leon says. Is there a place that's just right for a little brother penguin to go? In this en... + Read More
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Series: See What We Eat! A First Book of Healthy Eating Hardcover Scot Ritchie 9781771386180 $16.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 05, 2017

Yulee and her four friends --- Nick, Pedro, Sally and Martin --- are taking a trip to her aunt's farm to pick apples and make an apple crisp for a potluck harvest dinner. Yum! But first, Aunt Sara gives the friends a tour of the whole farm, where they learn what it means to eat balanced meals, why eating local food matters and all that goes into getting food from farm to table. Who knew there was so much to learn about what we eat? It makes everything taste better! Award-winning author and illustrator Scot Ritchie uses accessible and entertain... + Read More
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Series: Shelter Hardcover Céline Claire 9781771389273 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 03, 2017

As a big storm approaches, two strangers arrive in the forest. All the animal families, safe in their homes, are worried. They wonder, “What are they doing there? What do they want?” So, as the pair knocks at the door of one home after another asking for shelter, all the animals turn them away, leaving them to fend for themselves. But then an accident suddenly forces the fox family out into the snow and the wind, and the foxes find they must ask these outsiders for help. Will they find it in their hearts to give it? Céline Claire's heartwarmin... + Read More
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Series: Tiny Tale of Little Pea, The Hardcover Davide Cali 9781771388436 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Sep 05, 2017

?When he was born, Little Pea was tiny. Teeny-tiny.? His clothes were hand sewn by his mother and his shoes were hand-me-down doll shoes. As he grew older, Little Pea enjoyed climbing tomato plants, driving around in his wind-up car and riding on the backs of grasshoppers. But then Little Pea started school. And he suddenly realized just how small he was. Too small for his chair. Too small to play the flute. Too small for gym class. What would become of wee Little Pea? This picture book story by internationally renowned children's author David... + Read More
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Series: Way Downtown, The Adventures in Public Transit Hardcover Inna Gertsberg 9781771385527 $18.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 03, 2017

In this one-of-a-kind book, the complex and fascinating world of urban public transit is explored using five different characters' journeys through the imaginary city of Zoom. From the Zanies, a family of street performers; to Agent Theodore Rybka, a spy on a very secret mission; to Robbie, a seven-year-old boy visiting the city for the first time, the characters are quirky and full of personality. On this particular morning, they are all headed downtown from different locations, but they all end up in the same place at the same time. Keen read... + Read More