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Determined to earn some money, ten-year-old Sarah Ida gets a job at a shoe shine stand and learns a great many things besides shining shoes.

"Doggo, an older dog, learns how to welcome and accept a young puppy into the household"--OCLC.

When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chameleon, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to 'the warm place' that is home.

When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.

Follows the school activities of second-graders, Harry and Doug, as they participate in a secret mission to celebrate "Charlotte's Web," learn how to make green slime, and put on a skit warning about the dangers of smoking.

"Reverberates with the drumbeat of why we make art." Will Musgrove, author of Asphalt Dreaming For Paul, stealing is easy. When he's hungry, he strolls into a bodega and steals lunch. When rent's due, he steals records and flips them for cash. As a lonely kid growing up in Ohio's Rust Belt, stealing was the only way he could score the hip hop records and production equipment that fueled his musical dreams. Now he's in NYC fighting to keep his once-ascendant...

"Sparkleton has a plan to get his unicorn magic before the town's big talent show! But something goes terrible wrong. Poom! He shrinks himself and his best friends! Now he may have to do the worst thing ever to get them all back to normal--ask Twinkle for help"--Provided by publisher.

"We Belong Here tells a touching story of friendship between a Japanese boy and Jewish girl that takes place in Canada, soon after the end of World War II. While the setting is historical, the themes are perennial and, sadly, feel more timely than ever. This story takes place in the 1950s, a few years after the end of World War II. As we know, that war was fought on two fronts. One front was against the Nazis in Europe. The other against Japan after...

It's been years since the members of the Sisterhood first banded together, with the help of their mentor Charles Martin, to exact their own form of justice on those whose crimes had gone unpunished by the legal system. Now, back in the United States after an enforced exile, and ensconced in a new home on Big Pine Mountain in North Carolina, Myra, Kathryn, Annie, Alexis, Isabelle, Yoko, and Nikki are breathing easy at last--but not for long. One dark...

"The Go-Away bird sat up in her nest, with her fine grey wings and her fine grey crest. The other birds are keen to talk and play with her, but the Go-Away bird just wants to be left alone. When she finds herself in trouble, however, she soon realizes that everyone needs a friend or two."--Back cover.