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61) Keeping score
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.
Author
Series
Larklight volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system.
Author
Series
Mouse and Mole (Wong Herbert Yee) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Mole is mad about magic until he takes his friend Mouse to a show that turns out to be all tricks, but then Mouse conjures up a special night program to show him the enchantment found in nature.
65) Emma's turtle
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Emma's box turtle digs his way out of his pen, he imagines that he is having adventures in Africa, India, and other faraway lands that Emma has described to him.
67) Show way
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
68) One-handed catch
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
Author
Series
Pain and the Great One volume 4
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
First-grader Jake "The Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "The Great One" have more adventures, including visiting their cousins in New York and celebrating their cat Fluzzy's birthday.
70) Super Amoeba
Author
Series
Squish volume 1
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Squish, a meek amoeba who loves the comic book exploits of his favorite hero, "Super Amoeba," tries to emulate him when his best friend is threatened by a bully.
72) After ever after
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
73) Dragon's egg
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Mella, a young girl trained as a dragon keeper, learns that the legends of old are true when she is entrusted with carrying a dragon's egg to the fabled Hatching Grounds, a dangerous journey on which she is assisted by a knight's squire.
74) Marco? Polo!
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 16
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Time Warp Trio find themselves in a desert in China, and in order to retrieve their magical book from the court of Kublai Khan, they must pose as astrologers and join the caravan of Marco Polo and his father.
77) In a blue room
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.
78) Heat
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Author
Series
Dodsworth volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Dodsworth sets out for adventure, including a stop in New York City before going to Paris, London, and beyond, he does not expect a crazy duck to stow away in his suitcase and lead him on a merry chase.
Author
Series
Olympians volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Terrified of being killed by one of his children, Kronos devours each of his offspring in turn. Only Zeus, the youngest, is saved. Though raised to enjoy a life of leisure, Zeus must fulfill his destiny and lead a new race of gods--and he must begin by destroying his own father.
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