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81) The memory wall
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There's a fine line between real life and video games in this engrossing novel that's part Kathryn Erskine's Mockingbird, part Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls. Severkin is an elf who slinks through the shadows of Wellhall's spiraling stone towers, plundering ancient ruins and slaying mystical monstrosities with ease. He's also a character in a video game--a character that twelve-year-old Nick Reeves plays when he needs a break from the real world....
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Pub. Date
2019.
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58 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"On a cold winter's eve, deep in the woods, a mother shrew frets about her sick young son. His head is cold and his feet are hot, and there is only one thing that can cure him: wild honey from the moon. Mother Shrew does not stop to wonder how she will make such an impossible journey. Instead, she grabs her trusty red umbrella, gives her darling son a kiss, and sets out into the unknown. Along the way, Mother Shrew encounters one obstacle after another,...
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2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Joseph misses sharing meals with lots of people like he did back in the refugee camp, so when the neighbors finally come over, it's a feast! A companion book to Joseph's Big Ride, described in Kirkus as "a joyful, upbeat tale." When Joseph and Mama lived in a refugee camp in East Africa, everyone cooked and ate together. And Joseph could always hear someone playing the awal. It's much too quiet and lonely in his new home. Though Whoosh, the girl...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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29 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Con la serie de cuentos: "No quiero", las rabietas de los ninos a la hora de tomar la sopa, darse un bano, ir a la escuela o ponerse a dormir desapareceran por completo. Gracias a la ayuda de unos amigos muy, muy especiales, los berrinches se olvidaran y solo habra momentos llenos de diversion y entusiasmo! En este album las autoras afrontan la negativa del protagonista a lavarse los dientes y nos permitiran explicarle a los mas pequenos porque es...
85) I'm Ok
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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279 pages ; 22 cm
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Ok Lee knows it's his responsibility to help pay the bills. With his father gone and his mother working three jobs and still barely making ends meet, there's really no other choice. If only he could win the cash prize at the school talent contest! But he can't sing or dance, and has no magic up his sleeves, so he tries the next best thing: a hair braiding business. It's too bad the girls at school can't pay him much, and he's being befriended against...
86) Concrete rose
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"On a normal morning, a boy named Thomas discovers his mother has been replaced by a fern ... a monstrous fern! What happened to his mom? Did the fern eat her? Where did this fern come from anyway? Outer space? Will eat his father too? Will it eat Thomas?"--
89) Oliver
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Pub. Date
c2012
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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Oliver likes finding things out, so when his mother cannot explain the gurgling in the bathtub he builds a submarine, goes down the drain, and meets a group of vacationing penguins.
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