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The newest picture book from the creators of Iggy Peck, Architect; Rosie Revere, Engineer; and Ada Twist, Scientist stars Sofia Valdez, a community leader who stands up for what she believes in! Every morning, Abuelo walks Sofia to school ... until one day, when Abuelo hurts his ankle at a local landfill and he can no longer do so. Sofia (aka Sofi) misses her Abuelo and wonders what she can do about the dangerous Mount Trashmore. Then she gets an...
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2011
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Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon...
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Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
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111 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm
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English
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"Kids can discover the beauty and diversity of America's great outdoors in this tour of its most iconic national parks. Packed with maps and fascinating facts about the flora and fauna unique to each park, this fully illustrated coast-to-coast journey documents the nation's most magnificent and sacred places."--Provided by publisher.
12) I got the rhythm
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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On a trip to the park with her mother, a young girl hears a rhythm coming from the world around her and begins to move to the beat, finally beginning an impromptu dance in which other childen join her.
14) ABCers
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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On a warm summer's day, children in a park find fun things to do from A to Z.
15) Hide: a novel
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Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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240 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Fourteen contestants, including Mack, a homeless shelter resident who lost everything, embark on a seven-day competition and the chance to win $50,000 if they can successfully play hide-and-seek in an abandoned amusement park without being found and eliminated.
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English
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After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return. Includes author's note about immigration from Mexico to the United States, and Nahuatl and Spanish glossaries.
17) The perfect ride
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Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1995
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48 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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While visiting Play Land one Saturday, Mommy and Daddy Dog and their two children discover the perfect ride.
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"The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the sometimes gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of a classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000 in which the Park Service was sued for negligence"--
"Covering the sometimes gruesome but...
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English
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Take a little Horror home with you!
In HorrorLand's eerie gift shop Andy finds a hound's-tooth necklace. The big tooth is yellow, has two sharp points, and, according to the shopkeeper, is said to grant wishes. But Jonathan Chiller knows something else about the tooth. It's said to be haunted by the ghost of a huge hound. A ghost that's got a mouthful of sharp teeth--but wants this one back.
20) Duck
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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English
Description
Duck happily raises a duckling that has wandered into the amusement park where she is a carousel animal, but finds that she cannot teach what she herself has always longed to do--fly--and sets out to find real ducks to instruct him.
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