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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Magorium owns the most amazing store in the world, where all the toys literally come to life. When the boss decides to retire, the shop throws a tantrum, and all its wonders begin to cease. Now Mr. Magorium's reluctant manager, skeptical accountant, and most loyal customer must work together to save the emporium by finding a little magic within themselves.
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Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.
45) Cake
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Wilma Sue is wary of the eccentric sisters, Ruth and Naomi, at her new foster home, but wonders if she might have a true home with them, baking and delivering cakes and tending their chickens, until she is implicated in a series of neighborhood crimes.
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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For years twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille, a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. When Camille is killed by a truck, CeeCee's previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, whisks CeeCee away to Savannah, a world seemingly run entirely by women. These exotic women keep CeeCee enthralled for an entire summer.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In this final book in the series, the seventh graders of McQuarrie Middle School and their Star Wars-inspired Origami finger puppets go on a field trip to Washington, D.C., on what proves to be a very long trip full of shifting alliances, betrayals, carsickness, and sugar rushes.
51) Stargirl
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Language
English
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In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
52) Where I belong
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Brendan Doyle doesn't get along with his foster mother, he's failing fifth grade, and he's bullied mercilessly by a band of boys in his class. Then Brendan meets two potential friends--an eccentric old man and a girl from summer school--and he sees that there may be hope for him after all"--
53) City: 6
Author
Series
City (Manga series) volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nagumo is in a bit of a bind. She's a college student, and like many people in her situation, is struggling with money. She is in debt and her landlord is trying to shake her down for rent. Asking her friends no longer works! They know her deal and they do not have the cash to prop her up, even temporarily. So what is she supposed to do under these circumstances? Well maybe bullying would help. Maybe petty theft? Neither one is realistic. Maybe getting...
54) City: 13
Author
Series
City (Manga series) volume 13
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's the tail end of summer, but the whole city is set in motion as the heavy hitters join the mayoral race to stop Granny, who vows to turn the CITY into an elderly dictatorship, from becoming the next mayor. . . The story ends here. But the CITY and its people will live on forever!"--Back cover.
55) City: 12
Author
Series
City (Manga series) volume 12
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Some changes are coming to the CITY--with Ecchan departing for good and Nagumo finally ready to pay Granny back (if she'll accept the money), things won't be the same around the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Captain Obina agrees to a soccer shootout with the fate of Gongenyama hanging in the balance, an unexpected prize-winning photograph creates another unexpected celebrity, and even the mysterious creatures living in the sewers don't know what to make...
56) Bright futures
Author
Series
Lew Fonesca mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally killed. A recent graduate of a public high school for the gifted is arrested for the crime and turns to Lew for help. A semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs is being anonymously pushed to leave Sarasota, threatened with exposure as a sexual predator. It is up to Lew to uncover the blackmailer and determine whether there is any truth to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dark times have fallen on McQuarrie Middle School. Dwight is back--and not a moment too soon--as Kellen, Sara, and the gang face a new Menace: the FunTime Educational Program. FunTime is supposed to raise students' standardized test scores. Instead, it's driving everyone crazy. The students turn to Origami Yoda for help.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One month before the state standards test are to take place, the Origami Rebel Alliance has found powerful allies in unexpected places in their fight against the FunTime test preparation program, but Principal Rabbski has not yet declared her allegiance.
59) City: 7
Author
Series
City (Manga series) volume 7
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The City Three Crows try to make the best of summer in the face of overwhelming odds, while Ecchan and Matsuri inevitably waste their time by trying to make the most of it. Niikura reveals her shameful midnight snacking habits even as she tortures Nagumo with unwanted ghost stories, while on the plus side, Nagumo's rent problems may finally be solved when an Edo-period bandit comes to the rescue?! The soccer team's roster of stupendous characters...
60) Floating twigs
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1968 in the rural coastline town of Denton, Florida, and the only thing with a tougher life than twelve-year-old Jack Turner is a starving dog named Bones. When they meet while Jack is fishing, Jack knows that he and Bones are meant for each other, and he promises his oft-absent alcoholic parents that he'll somehow get a job to pay for his new dog's food and care. In the process of finding work, Jack meets Hank Pittman, a middle-aged man who...
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