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Series: Franklin and Friends Franklin and the Case of the New Friend Paperback Caitlin Drake Smith 9781771381222 $6.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2014

Franklin the turtle and his good friend Beaver are playing on the merry-go-round in the park when they discover a hand-drawn picture of a skunk girl with her skunk parents. But there aren't any skunk families living in Woodland, so who could have left this drawing? It's a real mystery. “A mystery!” they both shout. “That sounds like a job for the Super Cluepers!” Franklin, Beaver and five more of their friends --- in their Super Clueper personas, of course --- gather together to begin plotting their strategy. First they must find the skunk girl... + Read More
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Series: Franklin and Friends Franklin and the Radio Paperback Caitlin Drake Smith 9781771381239 $6.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2014

When Franklin sees (and hears) what a terrific job his friend Fox did fixing up the old, broken radio that Franklin had put in the junk box during the Turtle Family Clean-Up and Giveaway Day, he has second thoughts about having thrown it away. So his sympathetic friend Fox offers to give the now like-new radio back to him. Though this pleases Franklin at first, after a little while, he starts to feel uncomfortable about having taken the radio that Fox had worked so hard on. “Aren't you happy to have the radio back?” his friend Bear asks him. “I... + Read More
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Series: Bunny the Brave War Horse Based on a True Story Hardcover Elizabeth MacLeod 9781771380249 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 8 Aug 01, 2014

Award-winning nonfiction author Elizabeth MacLeod brings a slice of World War I history to life in this poignant picture book. It is based on the true story of a police horse named Bunny and his riders, brothers Bud and Thomas Dundas, sent to the European front as part of the 9th Battery Canadian Field Artillery. This quietly but powerfully told tale explores many of the actual on-the-ground hardships WWI soldiers endured, including a gas attack, wounded and killed comrades, exploding bombs and episodes of severe hunger. By focusing on the tend... + Read More
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Series: First Hockey Words Hardcover Per-Henrik Gürth 9781771381147 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Sep 01, 2014

Bestselling children's book author and illustrator Per-Henrik Gürth has created a colorful, lively tribute to hockey with this picture book for the youngest fans. The action-packed story follows a group of animals who take to the ice to play a rousing game of hockey. Highlighted on the pages in large type throughout the story are hockey vocabulary words and terms. The vocabulary ranges from the basics --- such as team, net, shot --- to more complex concepts --- face-off, line change, penalty --- and the author has cleverly used and defined each... + Read More
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Series: Piggy and Bunny Goodnight, You Hardcover Geneviève Côté 9781771380508 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Sep 01, 2014

In this heartwarming title from the Piggy and Bunny picture book series, the two friends explore what scares them as they prepare for their first campout together. When Bunny admits to being frightened of monsters, Piggy responds that “even if there WAS a monster, I wouldn't scream like you!” When Bunny asks, “What if the monster GROWLS at you?” Piggy answers, “PWAAT! I can be loud, too!” Then, one by one, all of Bunny's questions about what to do if a monster came near are countered confidently by Piggy. Soon Bunny begins to feel differently a... + Read More
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Series: Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin Hardcover Chieri Uegaki 9781894786331 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Aug 01, 2014

In this beautifully written picture book, Hana Hashimoto has signed up to play her violin at her school's talent show. The trouble is, she's only a beginner, and she's had only three lessons. Her brothers insist she isn't good enough. “It's a talent show, Hana,” they tell her. “You'll be a disaster!” Hana remembers how wonderfully her talented grandfather, or Ojiichan, played his violin when she was visiting him in Japan. So, just like Ojiichan, Hana practices every day. She is determined to play her best. When Hana's confidence wavers on the n... + Read More
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Series: If Kids Ruled the World Hardcover Linda Bailey 9781554535910 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Sep 01, 2014

This original, fun picture book delightfully describes, in hilarious detail, a small child's idea of utopia. Every two-page spread offers something new about this fantasy life, including, “If kids ruled the world, every day would be your birthday! Birthday cake would be good for you. Your doctor would say, 'Don't forget to eat your birthday cake so you'll grow up strong and healthy!'” And, “You could go to any kind of school you like ... Circus School. Fairy School. Inventing School. Lots of kids would go to Recess School.” The topics that best... + Read More
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Series: Loula Loula and the Sister Recipe Hardcover Anne Villeneuve 9781771381130 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2014

Loula's three brothers, the Rotten Pirate Triplets, don't want to play with her. “Brothers,” mutters Loula, “the worst invention in the world.” She decides what she really needs is a sister, one just like her. So naturally, she asks her parents to make one for her. Only, it's not that easy. Her father explains, “Making a sister is . . . well, it's like making a cake. You need the right ingredients.” To make a sister, they say, you need a papa and a mama, butterflies in the stomach, a full moon, a candlelit supper, kisses and hugs and chocolate.... + Read More
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Series: Sam's Pet Temper Hardcover Sangeeta Bhadra 9781771380256 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Sep 01, 2014

The hero of this picture book, Sam, has to wait for everything on the playground one day, and this makes him mad. “He got madder and madder until he was the maddest he had ever been in his whole life.” And then, suddenly, an unusual thing appears. It runs around, shoving and tripping and pinching and stomping, until all the other children have run away. “It was hanging upside down from the monkey bars, grinning at him. Sam had never seen anything like it before, but he knew what it was. It was a Temper.” At first, having a pet Temper is fun. Bu... + Read More
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Series: Stop, Thief! Hardcover Heather Tekavec 9781771380126 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2014

“Max,” said the farmer to his dog one day, “can you catch a thief?” Of course! He can catch anything! And Max eagerly sets off on a quest to find the culprit who has been stealing the farmer's fruits and vegetables. Within moments, the dog is confident he has spotted the thief --- a tiny blue bug, working on a carrot top. “Stop, thief!” Max cries as the bug flies away. Undaunted, Max chases after the bug, from the carrots to the berries to the beans and the cherries, until, eventually, Max watches in satisfaction as the bug flies away over the ... + Read More
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Series: Super Red Riding Hood Hardcover Claudia Dávila 9781771380201 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2014

Here's a picture book with a humorous new twist on what happens when red riding hood meets the hungry wolf in the woods. In this telling, our heroine Ruby loves red berries, her red boots and especially the red cloak her grandma made for her. “When Ruby puts on her red cloak, she becomes ... SUPER RED RIDING HOOD!” Sent by her mother to collect some raspberries from the clearing in the woods, Ruby reminds herself that she isn't frightened by the chill from the darkness, the loud tapping of the woodpecker or the snapping of a twig underfoot, bec... + Read More
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Series: Tickly Toes Board book Susan Hood 9781894786522 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 1 - 4 Aug 01, 2014

This sweet board book by bestselling children's book author Susan Hood uses playful, singsongy rhyme to capture a baby's joy in discovering her or his own toes. The voice is that of a loving adult speaking directly to Baby. “Those ten little piggies! Watch how they wiggle. We count them and kiss them and, oh, how you giggle!” Throughout the pages, we see that Baby doesn't want stuffed animals, or a rattle, or bath toys. All Baby wants is her or his own toes, and Baby even pulls off a booty to get at them! Finally, at the end of the book, Baby m... + Read More
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Series: If A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers Hardcover David J. Smith 9781894786348 $19.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Aug 01, 2014

“Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way.” So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities... + Read More
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Series: Around the World Families Around the World Hardcover Margriet Ruurs 9781894786577 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Sep 01, 2014

A successor to the popular Children Around the World written and illustrated by Donata Montanari, this book allows young readers to visit with fourteen children, each from a different country, to learn about their families. Based on real children, each one's story fills a two-page spread and is told in the first person, beginning with a greeting in the child's native language. From Ryan, who lives on a Texas cattle farm, to Nkoitoi, who tends the family goat in Kenya, to Baatar, who moves regularly with his nomadic family in Mongolia, there is ... + Read More
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Series: Our Flag The Story of Canada's Maple Leaf Hardcover Ann-Maureen Owens 9781771381116 $17.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Aug 01, 2014

This popular one-stop reference to the national flag of Canada has been updated and revised. Ann-Maureen Owens and Jane Yealland start with basic background on all the different flags that have flown over Canadian land, and why they flew there. They then turn to the fascinating play-by-play of how today's beloved maple leaf flag design came to be --- including how some government leaders took a personal interest in the design, as well as how ordinary Canadians were given the opportunity to weigh in with their own ideas. The authors further roun... + Read More
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Series: Our Flag The Story of Canada's Maple Leaf Paperback Ann-Maureen Owens 9781771381123 $9.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Aug 01, 2014

This popular one-stop reference to the national flag of Canada has been updated and revised. Ann-Maureen Owens and Jane Yealland start with basic background on all the different flags that have flown over Canadian land, and why they flew there. They then turn to the fascinating play-by-play of how today's beloved maple leaf flag design came to be --- including how some government leaders took a personal interest in the design, as well as how ordinary Canadians were given the opportunity to weigh in with their own ideas. The authors further roun... + Read More
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Series: The Ghost and Max Monroe Ghost and Max Monroe, Case #1, The The Magic Box Paperback L.M. Falcone 9781771380171 $6.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Sep 01, 2014

In this first title in the detective fiction series by L. M. Falcone, ten-year-old Max Monroe is intrigued to discover that the carriage house behind his grandpa's home was once the office of the Monroe Detective Agency. Then he learns the agency had belonged to his grandpa's dead brother, Larry. But Max didn't know he had a great-uncle. “Well, he's dead,” says Grandpa Harry, “but his ghost still haunts the detective agency.” It seems Uncle Larry died of a broken heart because he “never solved one measly case.” However, a surprise phone call fr... + Read More
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Series: The Ghost and Max Monroe Ghost and Max Monroe, Case #1, The The Magic Box Hardcover L.M. Falcone 9781771381536 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Sep 01, 2014

In this first title in the detective fiction series by L. M. Falcone, ten-year-old Max Monroe is intrigued to discover that the carriage house behind his grandpa's home was once the office of the Monroe Detective Agency. Then he learns the agency had belonged to his grandpa's dead brother, Larry. But Max didn't know he had a great-uncle. “Well, he's dead,” says Grandpa Harry, “but his ghost still haunts the detective agency.” It seems Uncle Larry died of a broken heart because he “never solved one measly case.” However, a surprise phone call fr... + Read More
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Series: Three Thieves Pirates of the Silver Coast Hardcover Scott Chantler 9781894786539 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 2014

In this fifth book in the Three Thieves series of graphic novels, Dessa convinces the smuggler Quinn to transport her, Topper and Fisk to the mysterious Island of Astaroth. Dessa is convinced her twin brother, Jared, who was abducted years earlier by the Queen's chamberlain, is being held on the island. However, soon after setting sail, they are overtaken by a pirate ship commanded by the King of Pirates, whom they discover is interested in only one treasure on board: Dessa's map to the location of Astaroth! Will Dessa's plan for finding her br... + Read More
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Series: Three Thieves Pirates of the Silver Coast Paperback Scott Chantler 9781894786546 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 2014

In this fifth book in the Three Thieves series of graphic novels, Dessa convinces the smuggler Quinn to transport her, Topper and Fisk to the mysterious Island of Astaroth. Dessa is convinced her twin brother, Jared, who was abducted years earlier by the Queen's chamberlain, is being held on the island. However, soon after setting sail, they are overtaken by a pirate ship commanded by the King of Pirates, whom they discover is interested in only one treasure on board: Dessa's map to the location of Astaroth! Will Dessa's plan for finding her br... + Read More
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Series: Bigfoot Boy Sound of Thunder, The Hardcover J. Torres 9781894786584 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Sep 01, 2014

This conclusion to the Bigfoot Boy graphic novel trilogy adds a backdrop of Pacific Northwest mythology to the popular story about an ordinary boy who becomes a hero through the power of magic. As the book begins, Rufus, Penny and their squirrel friend, Sidney, are eager to recapture the magic totem they lost to the ravens in the previous book. But how? With Rufus no longer in possession of his powers, the trio seems destined to fail. Their luck turns, however, when they learn the local legend of Thunderbird. It seems the mighty bird had create... + Read More
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Series: Bigfoot Boy Sound of Thunder, The Paperback J. Torres 9781894786591 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Sep 01, 2014

This conclusion to the Bigfoot Boy graphic novel trilogy adds a backdrop of Pacific Northwest mythology to the popular story about an ordinary boy who becomes a hero through the power of magic. As the book begins, Rufus, Penny and their squirrel friend, Sidney, are eager to recapture the magic totem they lost to the ravens in the previous book. But how? With Rufus no longer in possession of his powers, the trio seems destined to fail. Their luck turns, however, when they learn the local legend of Thunderbird. It seems the mighty bird had create... + Read More
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Series: Life in the Wild Big Bear Hug Paperback Nicholas Oldland 9781771381512 $8.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2014

A huge bear is wandering through the forest - but wait a minute! Who's that he's hugging? A beaver? And a moose? And a bird? And a tree? Welcome to the world of Big Bear Hug, a contemporary fable about a bear who has an appetite for hugging everything in sight - even creatures that bears have been known to eat. One day, the benevolent bear meets up with a human. This human proceeds to do something the bear cannot understand: he raises his axe and begins to cut down a tree. Suddenly the bear doesn't feel like hugging anymore and must make a dif... + Read More
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Series: Larf Paperback Ashley Spires 9781554539024 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2014

No one believes Larf exists, and he likes it that way. Larf, you see, is a sasquatch, the only sasquatch in the world (or so it seems). He has a very pleasant, and very private, life in the woods, where on any given day he might be found jogging, gardening or walking Eric, his pet bunny. But everything changes one morning when Larf discovers that another sasquatch is scheduled to make an appearance in the nearby city of Hunderfitz. What?! That must mean he's not the only sasquatch in the world! Excited by the prospect of having a friend to s... + Read More
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Series: Let's Count to 100! Paperback Masayuki Sebe 9781554538133 $8.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 01, 2014

Let's Count to 100! comprises 11 bright panoramas, each featuring a delightful assortment of 100 different objects. Readers are invited to count the items and are also challenged to find specific details, such as a mouse with a red bow or a lone rabbit amid a giant flock of sheep. This book is packed with appealing images of children, fish, cats, moles and other cute critters --- no two of which are alike --- and readers will enjoy the many different moods and expressions on display. Each spread is also full of hidden dramas youngsters will lov... + Read More
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Series: Don't Touch That Toad and Other Strange Things Adults Tell You Paperback Catherine Rondina 9781554534555 $9.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Sep 01, 2014

True or false: “Eating too much sugar will make you hyper.” How about, “If you go outside with wet hair, you'll catch a cold.” Or, “A mother bird will reject her babies if they have been touched by humans.” Each of these “facts” that we've all heard before are actually false, and the real story behind each one is clearly told here in this intriguing and unique book. Poking mild fun at grown-ups throughout, author Catherine Rondina covers a range of warnings, advice and truisms children will be familiar with, and bases all of her judgments on ha... + Read More
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Series: Jasper John Dooley Jasper John Dooley: Left Behind Paperback Caroline Adderson 9781771381505 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Sep 01, 2014

Every Wednesday, Jasper John Dooley plays Go Fish for jujubes with Nan at her apartment. They ride up and down in the elevator as many times as he wants. And they use a trunk of old clothes for games of Dress Up Nan. So how can she go away on a cruise to Alaska for a week and leave him behind? Thinking about it makes Jasper feel funny. It's like all the air is seeping out through a hole in his belly. “It just feels pththth.” After Jasper accidentally staples his belly at school and gets two more holes, one Band-Aid alone isn't enough to keep th... + Read More
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Series: Visions in Poetry Raven, The Paperback Edgar Allan Poe 9781554534593 $11.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Sep 01, 2014

Visions in Poetry is an exciting and unique series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. The fifth book in the series, Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven,” delves into the hidden horrors of the human psyche. Originally published in 1845, the poem is narrated by a melancholy scholar brooding over Lenore, a woman he loved who is now lost to him. One bleak December at midnight, a raven with fiery eyes visits the scholar and perches above his chamber door. Struggling to understand the meaning of... + Read More