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Emeraldalicious (Pinkalicious)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Victoria Kann
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins (2013, Jan 29th).
Pages: 40
When Pinkalicious and Peter decide to visit their favorite park, they find that it's no longer their favorite place—the park is now filled with stinky trash! So, Pinkalicious decides to make an extra-special wand out of a stick and some flowers. Now whenever Pinkalicious makes a wish, adds a little love, and recites a pinkatastic rhyme, something amazing happens: It's pinkerrific magic!Join Pinkalicious as she turns an ordinary place into an Emeraldalicious world. more
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The Graveyard Book
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Neil Gaiman
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (2010, Sep 28th).
Pages: 336
It takes a graveyard to raise a child.Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family. more
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A Little Book of Sloth
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lucy Cooke
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (2013, Mar 5th).
Pages: 64
Cozy up with adorable baby sloths in this irresistible photographic picture book.Hang around just like a sloth and get to know the delightful residents of the Avarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, the world’s largest sloth orphanage. You’ll fall in love with bad-boy Mateo, ooh and ahh over baby Biscuit, and want to wrap your arms around champion cuddle buddy Ubu! From British filmmaker and sloth expert Lucy Cooke comes a hilarious, heart-melting photographic picture book starring the laziest—and one of the cutest—animals on the planet. more
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Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #1: The Sun Trail
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Erin Hunter
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins (2013, Mar 5th).
Pages: 352
Follow the trail of the rising sun . . .For many moons, a tribe of cats has lived peacefully near the top of a mountain. But prey is scarce and seasons are harsh—and their leader fears they will not survive. When a mysterious vision reveals a land filled with food and water, a group of brave young cats sets off in search of a better home.But great dangers await them. In this unfamiliar world, faced with loners and fierce rogues all vying for territory and power, the traveling cats must find a new way to live side by side—or risk tearing one another apart. more
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Tea Time with Sophia Grace and Rosie
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Shelagh Mcnicholas
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Orchard Books; Mti edition (2013, Feb 1st).
Pages: 40
The precocious cousins from the ELLEN show host a princess tea party!Following their breakout performance of Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" on the ELLEN show, Sophia Grace and Rosie became YouTube sensations. After appearing numerous times on ELLEN, the girls have resonated with large audiences by dressing up in pink tutus and living out young girls' princess fantasies! These precocious cousins have charmed Ellen, her studio audiences, and millions of YouTube viewers with their British accents, delightful banter, princess dresses, singing and dancing talents, tea parties, and more!In TEA TIME WITH SOPHIA GRACE AND ROSIE, the cousins plan a tea party with lots of pink, glitter, chocolate, and cotton candy. Each one is allowed to invite one guest--and they invite each other! Ultimately, the most fun part of the tea party is sitting around eating sweets and having girl talk. more
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Otis and the Puppy
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Loren Long
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Philomel (2013, Mar 12th).
Pages: 40
The New York Times Bestseller! Otis and his farm friends love to play hide-and-seek. Otis especially loves to be "It," finding his friends as they hide. Yet when the newest addition to the farm—a bounding puppy who can't sit still and has a habit of licking faces—tries to hide, he finds his attention wandering and is soon lost in the forest. Night falls and Otis, knowing his new friend is afraid of the dark, sets out to find him. There's just one problem: Otis is also afraid of the dark. His friend is alone and in need, though, so Otis takes a deep breath, counts to ten, and sets off on a different game of hide-and-seek. From the critically-acclaimed illustrator of The Little Engine that Could, Of Thee I Sing, and Otis, the 2013 Read for the Record selection. more
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Code: A Virals Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Kathy Reichs
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile; First Edition edition (2013, Mar 12th).
Pages: 416
The Virals are put to the ultimate test when they find a geocache containing an ornate puzzle box. Shelton decodes the cipher inside, only to find more tantalizing clues left by "The Gamemaster." A second, greater geocache is within reach--if the Virals are up to the challenge. But the hunt takes a dark turn when Tory locates the other box--a fake bomb, along with a sinister proposal from The Gamemaster. Now, the real game has begun: another bomb is out there--a real one--and the clock is ticking. more
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Can You See What I See?: Out of This World: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Walter Wick
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cartwheel Books (2013, Apr 1st).
Pages: 40
Walter Wick's new search-and-find adventure in the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series!OUT OF THIS WORLD, the ninth title in this search-and-find series, follows two characters from two separate, very different worlds--until their worlds collide! In the end, we learn that these two worlds really aren't that different at all. They both come from the same place: a child's playroom! Walter Wick's fantastic photographs bring the princess and the robot worlds together through a series of search-and-find activities.Amazing photographs accompany a terrific search-and-find game by Walter Wick, the creator of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Can You See What I See? series and the photographer of the internationally successful I Spy series. . more
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Clifford's Birthday Party (Clifford 8x8)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Norman Bridwell
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cartwheel Books; Reprint edition (2011, Jan 1st).
Pages: 32
Read all about Clifford's BIG ideas! Classic Clifford reissued!It only takes a little to BE BIG!Everyone wants to give their special friend Clifford a special birthday present. But the blow-up ball gets blown up, the pinata gets smashed, the sweater is too small, and the beauty parlor gift certificate just didn't seem exactly right. Finally, Clifford gets the best present of all--his family there to celebrate with him.The BE BIG campaign invites everyone, big and small, to take action and raise awareness for how CLIFFORD'S BIG IDEAS can make the world a better place. more
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Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Extra Credit
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Tommy Greenwald
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Square Fish (2013, Apr 2nd).
Pages: 288
Charlie Joe Jackson, the most reluctant reader ever born, made it his mission in the first book to get through middle school without reading a single book from cover to cover. Now he’s back—and trying desperately to get straight As in order to avoid going to academic camp for the summer. To do this, he will have to betray his friend, lose the girl of his dreams, and end up acting in a school play about the inventor of paper towels. Charlie Joe’s not exactly the “school play kind of guy,” but desperate times call for desperate measures. more
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