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"A beautifully simple story about moving to a new home, exploring themes of change and permanence and told with warm illustrations from an award-winning illustrator. A young girl is moving to a new country, and there's so much that she wants to bring: an aquarium, a pear tree, her best friend, the ocean. As she moves through the list of the things she loves, she comes to understand that while we cannot always carry things with us physically--maybe...
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"Janie believes there's a best way to do everything. When she sticks to a schedule, she and her mom can tackle anything. But Janie's perfect schedule--and her life--are getting shaken up this year. Her new stepmom, Keisha, is moving in, along with her daughter, Makayla. Worst of all? Makayla brings a cat with her. And Janie hates cats. Even though it's hard, Janie tries to welcome Makayla to her new school. And honestly, she maybe does too good a...
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William awakes one morning to discover the tree outside his window has been transformed into an owl. Soon, each new morning brings more sculpted masterpieces. The elusive night gardener ends up changing not just the appearance of the trees; the lives of William and the town folk will never be the same.
Bienvenidos a Grimloch Lane, donde algo MÁGICO está a punto de cambiarlo todo ... y a todos.
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Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
45) Haven's legacy
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Powers (Melissa Benoist) volume 2
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After sisters Parker and Ellie McFadden's mysterious aunt Sadie shows up, they join an underground society called the Sentry, where they are given a chance to hone their newly realized abilities, but they soon learn of a smoky, tentacled being, and the twins must rely on their new friends and teachers to help them defeat the fearsome threat and uncover the truth behind Sadie's mysterious assignment.
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Diary of a Minecraft zombie volume Book 15
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Just when Zombie's life seems to be getting back to normal, it gets turned upside-down again. Adorable little gnomes are appearing on everyone's lawns, but nobody knows where they came from or why they're there. But they seem pretty cute, so Zombie doesn't mind. At the same time, people are mysteriously vanishing into thin air and no-one knows where they've gone. Can Zombie and his friends uncover where the gnomes are from? Will they find out where...
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"A bind-up of two popular novels by author Natasha Preston--The Twin and The Lake"--
"After sixteen-year-old Ivy's twin sister, Iris, moves in with her and their father, Ivy learns that Iris is trying to push her out of her own life--and may be responsible for their mother's death." --
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Diary of a Minecraft zombie volume 14
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Have you ever wondered what life is like for a Minecraft Zombie? Being a teenage Zombie is no easy feat, especially when you're going through some major changes. No-one told Zombie that mutating is a normal part of growing up. Now Zombie is doing everything crazy thing he can think of to get back to normal. But that isn't the only major change in Zombie's life - all of a sudden, a giant volcano has appeared and is threatening to blow Zombie's town...
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"En vísperas de un cambio de régimen en Cuba, Ana, Miguel, Zulema y Juan encuentran su lugar en un mundo que ha cambiado para siempre. Vemos los duraderos efectos de una revolución en La Habana, en el campo, en Miami y en Nueva York, en medio de un tórrido momento histórico. A través de estas historias cortas se nos recuerda que al margen de los tiempos que nos toquen vivir, todos estamos conectados para siempre en nuestra humanidad."--Publisher's...
50) Madam Hortensia
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When Madam Hortensia's alarm does not go off on time, her ordered life is thrown into chaos, revealing possibilities she had never imagined.
51) Peas in a pod
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Sophie is finally getting used to having just her dad around after her mother's death, but when Sarah and her dog Billy come along, everything changes.
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In this moving story on the importance of heartfelt decisions, readers get to meet Juan Silbador. He is a restless and sickly little boy who learns how to whistle, a skill that will prove to change his life. Prompted by his teacher to decide on an occupation for the rest of his life, Juan chooses what makes him truly happy. The book includes a guide to regional birds from the American continent.
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"Todo tiene un lado bueno y otro malo. No siempre la vida nos deja ver los dos. A veces de las cosas malas extraemos cosas buenas. Pero también sucede al revés, de las cosas buenas extraemas cosas malas. La vida puede ser tan críptica como una piedra. A veces tropezar con una puede salvarte la vida. Ese es el lenguaje secreto de las piedras."--page [4] of cover.
55) Doomed
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Time of death volume 2
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"Kyle Cash comes back to an alternate version of his life barely recognizable to him. If he can, his next trip through the tunnel may give Kyle another chance to fix the past, and even a glimpse into his own future"--P. [4] of cover.
56) Melt
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Yutu lives in a remote, Arctic village with his elderly grandmother. Their traditional way of life is threatened by the changing snow and ice, which melts faster every year. Bea is trying to adapt to yet another new school. Worse still, her father's new job takes up any spare time, and his behaviour has become odd and secretive. On a trip she hopes will fix things, their fates take a drastic turn and Bea's life becomes entwined with Yutu's in a way...
57) Lemon child
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"The lemons on the tree are finally ripe, and there is great excitement. Only one of the little lemons is still green. Little Tony has a mind of his own. The view from the lemon tree is enough for him. Who wants to go out into the big wild world? But soon Tony is the only lemon left hanging on the tree. Will he take a risk and jump?"--Back cover
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What if you were betrayed by the people who raised you? Exhausted and barely conscious, Allaire fights for her life beneath the rubble of a fallen building. As her time runs out, she replays the events from her past, including her time working with the Seres, descendants of an ancient tribe responsible for protecting the time tunnel, and the very fabric of time itself. Nearing her final breath, she wonders if Kyle is the world s last chance of survival....
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"It's 1944. The Pangs own the Hundred Choices Department Store, a thriving business in northern Korea that caters to wealthy Japanese. Thirteen-year-old Miyook Pang has spent two years serving in the war effort on behalf of Japan during the Japanese Occupation of her country. Miyook endures exhaustion and illness, but only when she is sent to work in the dreaded dye factory - a place deemed Hell's Chamber by her older brother, Hoon - does she experience...
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