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P.S. be eleven.
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"Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with
worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-
conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first
school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta
are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different.
And her Pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in
Oakland, California, for advice. But why does her mother tell her to 'be eleven'
when Delphine is now twelve?" --From publisher's web site.
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Giant dance party.
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Six-year-old Lexy Tanz loves dancing so much that she wants to share
her skills with others, and when she is becoming discouraged because no one
wants lessons from a girl so small, a herd of hairy giants arrives to test her
teaching ability.
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Toys in space.
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A group of toys, left out at night for the first time, begins to be
afraid but the WonderDoll distracts them by weaving a story of lost toys, space
travel, and a strange alien.
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Tiptoe Joe.
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A bear invites all of the animals to follow him through the trees,
on tiptoe, to see a special surprise.
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Peppa Pig and the muddy puddles.
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There's so much rain! When Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig tuck them
into bed, Peppa and her little brother, George, dream of all the puddles there
will be to jump in the next day. Little do they know that the rain is turning
their house into an island surrounded by water making for a different
kind of adventure for everyone!
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Goodnight baseball.
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In rhyming text a little boy, home from a game, bids goodnight to
all the sights and sounds of a baseball game.
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It's a firefly night.
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On a warm summer night, a young girl and her daddy catch fireflies,
put them in a jar to admire for a brief time, and then release them back into
the moonlight. Includes facts about fireflies.
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Another night at the museum.
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When the night guard arrives at the Ocean room at the Museum of
Natural History, he wonders if he left the bathtub faucet on at home.
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Mustache baby.
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"A picture book about baby Billy, who is born with a mustache, and
his parents, who must figure our if it's a Good-Guy mustache, or a Bad-Guy
mustache"--Provided by publisher.
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Bramble and Maggie : give and take.
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"Bramble the horse is starting life with her new person, Maggie.
When Maggie wants to go for a ride, Bramble is hesitant because she feels that
neither she nor Maggie should be boss all the time. There should be some give-
and-take. Maggie agrees, and a carrot seals the deal" --Dust jacket.
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Cookie, the walker.
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A dog who gains fame and fabulous treats by walking on her hind legs
soon misses her old life.
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Bink & Gollie : best friends forever.
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Bink and Gollie's friendship remains strong, even in the face of
Gollie's "royal blood," Bink's Stretch-O-Matic machine, and the pursuit of a
world record.
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Poco Loco.
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"Meet Poco Loco. He's a very unusual rat{226}on. He likes to invent
wacky things. When Poco Loco's Waffle Iron-Weather Forecaster predicts mal
tiempo, Poco Loco runs to tell his barnyard friends. But it's still sunny out,
and the other animals don't believe him. Then a roar of wind whips through their
picnic, and Poco Loco and his friends fly up, up, and away. But never fear! Poco
Loco will use his wits (and one crazy invention) to save the day!"--P. [4] of
cover.
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The frog who croaked.
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Detectives Zengo and O'Malley have to set aside their differences to
solve a crime at the docks involving a missing schoolteacher and the possibility
of illegal fish trade.
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My homework ate my homework.
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"When Zaritza is assigned to care for her class ferret Bandito over
winter break, he escapes and eats her other assignments, leaving her with an
unbelievable excuse!"-- Provided by publisher.
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This journal belongs to Ratchet.
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Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-
old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park,
remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
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The super secret mystery.
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"A trip to the zoo has Cinderella Smith and her friends excited to
start their endangered species reports--until all of the books on Cinderella's
chosen animal go missing from the school library, leaving the Group in Cahoots
to solve the mystery" -- Provided by publisher.
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Mouse bird snake wolf.
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Using sticks, leaves, and clay, Little Ben makes a mouse, Sue, a
bird, and Harry, a snake, but when they create a terrifying wolf that turns on
them, Little Ben must summon the courage to save them.
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The sasquatch escape.
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Spending the summer in his grandfather's rundown town, ten-year-old
Ben meets an adventurous local girl and together they learn that the town's
veterinarian runs a secret hospital for imaginary creatures.
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Better to wish.
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In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine,
but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking
care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to
college and becoming a writer on hold.
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