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If you really like adventure you will love The Spiderwick Chronicles!! 3 kids, Mallory, Jared and Simon move to a creepy house in the country. They find a book on mystical creatures written by their late Uncle Arthur Spiderwick. The book leads them to meet some unbelievable creatures and on many dangerous adventures. There are 5 books in this series, book 1 is called The Field Guide.
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The Tale of Custard the Dragon By Ogden Nash Paging through this latest edition of Nash’s classic nonsense poem for children is like meeting an old friend. Nash’s work still feels comfortable and right. It still gives pleasure. Custard will always be a coward, but this does not stop him from saving his friends with gustatory from a villainous pirate. Munsinger’s watercolors are appropriately humorous and de-scarifying. My children loved this book so much when they were little everyone in our family can recite it by heart!! |
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Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! By David McPhail David McPail writes a fun story about his house being invaded by pigs. The story reads smoothly with rhyming verses of pigs from England and France and some in “just their underpants.” The pigs wreak havoc on his house while playing their games, until he calls an end to their shenanigans. |
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Owen & Mzee The Language of Friendship By Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu, P. Kahumbu Owen and Mzee are perhaps nature’s most endearing odd couple. Owen is an orphaned baby hippo; his real-life best friend Mzee, is a 130-year-old giant turtle. Having made their debut in 2006’s hit photo-essay Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship, the pair return in a cute follow-up that shows how their unlikely friendship flourished during the subsequent year. |
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An Tango Makes Three By Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell In this true, straightforwardly delivered tale, two male chinstrap penguins at New York City’s Central Park Zoo bond, build a nest and—thanks to a helping hand from an observant zookeeper– hatch and raise a penguin chick. This was number one on the ALA’s Most Banned Book list from 2006, and it is a GREAT book!! The best part about this story is that you can visit Roy, Silo and Tango at the zoo as they are still living there today.
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The Fairy Tale Detectives (Sisters Grimm Series #1) By Michael Buckley Sisters, Sabrina and Daphne are sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm. The sisters learn they are descendants of the Brothers Grim, whose famous book of fairy tales is actually a collection of case files. The girls are the latest in a long line of fairy-tale detectives, and their new hometown is filled with Everafters (as magical folks like to be called)-some good and some very, very, bad. When a mysterious Everafter sets a giant loose on the town, it’s up to the Sisters Grimm to save the day. |
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Al Capone Does My Shirts By Gennifer Choldenko Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It’s 1935 and twelve year old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that’s home to criminals like notorious escapee Roy Gardner, Machine Gun Kelly, and of course, Al Capone. Now Moose ahs to try to fit in at his new school, avoid getting caught up in one of the warden’s daughter’s countless plots, and keep an eye on his sister Natalie, who’s not like other kids. All Moose wants to do is protect Natalie, live up to his parents’ expectations, and stay out of trouble. But on Alcatraz, trouble is never very far away. |
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The Westing Game By Ellen Raskin This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing Game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. |
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