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Mondays; 5 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (HALL)
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Hi! Trixie here. Did you know that the thing I've always wanted most in the world is a pony. It's my biggest wish and my dreamiest dream. And did you ever hear the words 'Be careful what you wish for, it might come true' No, I didn't understand it either. But I do now.
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Horrible Harry volume 3
Language
English
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Horrible Harry of classroom 2B cuts back on his mischievous pranks after falling for Song Lee.
7) Frindle
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English
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When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
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Series
His dark materials volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999, c1995]
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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Series
Hank Zipzer volume 1
Language
English
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Back to School Reads - JF
Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
If You Like Captain Underpants, Read These!
Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
If You Like Captain Underpants, Read These!
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Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock 'N Bowl when Hank's creative alternative to an English essay lands him in detention and grounded the week of the show.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
Description
When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery. He talked of visiting Heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born.
11) Hard times
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Series
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English
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'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else' Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism centres on Coketown, where Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success, feeds his pupils and his family with facts, banning fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa becomes trapped...
12) The Iliad
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Language
English
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Presents Homer's classical account of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans from Agamemnon's visit by the priest Chryses to the burial of Hektor.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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All Kinsey Millhone must do is keep Reba Lafferty out of trouble after she is released from prison for embezzlement. Her father, Nord Lafferty, is paying Kinsey a lot of money to see that Reba follows all the rules of her parole: no drugs, no booze, no gambling. It seems simple and easy enough, but nothing in life is simple or easy.
14) How the rhinoceros got his skin, and, How the camel got his hump, and How the leopard got his spots
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
16) Skeleton man
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Trials of Apollo volume 2
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English
Description
Zeus has punished his son Apollo--god of the sun, music, archery, poetry, and more--by casting him down to earth in the form of a gawky, acne-covered sixteen-year-old mortal named Lester. The only way Apollo can reclaim his rightful place on Mount Olympus is by restoring several Oracles that have gone dark. What is affecting the Oracles, and how can Apollo/Lester do anything about them without his powers? After experiencing a series of dangerous--and...
18) Cat & mouse
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Alex Cross novels volume 4
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English
Description
Alex Cross is back in a novel with a cast of characters more sinister and deadlier than ever. Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce--a brilliant and relentless detective who may even be better than Cross. As the bodies pile up, and Cross is nearly murdered in his own home, the game of cat and mouse leads to one final trap, and it's anyone's guess who...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
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English
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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