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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
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Orphan, clock keeper, thief: Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. Combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film, Caldecott Honor artist Selznick breaks open the novel... ( read more)
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
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Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and... ( read more)
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
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The winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal, this novel is the story of a young Indian girl who is left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California for 18 years. She is not only surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance... ( read more)
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Skinnybones
by Barbara Park
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For the smallest kid on the baseball team, Alex “Skinnybones” Frankovitch has a major-league big mouth! But when he brags his way into a pitching contest, this might be one mess that not even Alex can talk his way out of.... ( read more)
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Yearling Newbery)
by Elizabeth Ge Speare
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Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself... ( read more)
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Holes
by Louis Sachar
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Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar Monday, October 20th, 7: 00 p.m. Anderson's Bookshop, Naperville, IL Tuesday, October 21st, 7: 00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, IL Wednesday, October 22nd, 7: 00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WI... ( read more)
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The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Emily Windsnap)
by Liz Kessler and Sarah Gibb
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For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily... ( read more)
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The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman
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In a world as convincing as Narnia, Earthsea, and Redwall, a half-wild, half-civilized girl named Lyra Belacqua lives a carefree life among the scholars of Jordan College until her life is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors.... ( read more)
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Number the Stars (Yearling Newbery)
by Lois Lowry
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In 1943 Copenhagen, the Germans begin their campaign to "relocate" the Jews of Denmark. So Annemarie Johansen's parents take in her best friend Ellen Rosen and pretend that she is a part of their family.... ( read more)
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Half Magic (Edward Eager's Tales of Magic)
by Edward Eager
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The four children of Half Magic have been reading E. Nesbit's magical story The Enchanted Castle, when they find something magical of their own — at least, partly magical. The ensuing misadventures are highly entertaining. Half Magic was a childhood... ( read more)
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
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This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy. Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: Meg Murray, her little brother Charles... ( read more)
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A Hole Is to Dig
by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak
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< P> What is a hole?< BR> A hole is when you step in it< BR> you go down< /P> < P> A hole is< BR> for a mouse< BR> to live in.< /P> < P> And, of course, a hole is to dig.< /P> < P> This is... ( read more)
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #03)
by Philip Pullman
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The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy. Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel,... ( read more)
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The Subtle Knife
by Philip Pullman
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"The intricacy of the plot is staggering...There is no doubt that the work is stunningly ambitious, original, and fascinating."-The Horn Book (starred review)... ( read more)
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Dragon Keeper
by Carole Wilkinson
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In the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, the last remaining dragon is in danger of being killed by the cruel Emperor. A nameless orphan with no past and an uncertain future becomes his unlikely ally. The young orphan soon discovers that it is her... ( read more)
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Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
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Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends... ( read more)
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Utterly Me Clarice Bean
by Lauren Child
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The acclaimed Child brings her trademark wacky wit and eccentric visual energy to this first full-length, fast paced, Clarice Bean episode.... ( read more)
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Ralph S. Mouse (Avon Camelot Books)
by Beverly Cleary and Paul O. Zelinsky
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In the final book of the Ralph trilogy, Ralph persuades his young pal Ryan to take him to school, evades an exterminator, and graduates from motorcycle to Laser XL7 sports car.... ( read more)
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The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
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Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring the rest of the family to their new settlement. When he befriends Attean, an Indian chief’s grandson, he is invited to join the Beaver tribe and move... ( read more)
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The Road of the Dead (Push Fiction)
by Kevin Brooks
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Blood runs thick when two brothers leave their London home on a journey to the ghostly moors of Devon to hunt down the truth about their sister's savage death.... ( read more)
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