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1) Wonder
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English
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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English
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While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for...
8) Franky
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Series
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Gecko Press USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sam has a lot of imagination. He loves robots and looks at the stars, imagining that robots live there. But Sam's parents are so busy doing mundane, ordinary things like vacuuming and gardening that they have lost all their imagination. Although Sam and his parents speak the same language, they don't understand each other. Sam wants to share his beliefs and the only one who can understand him is ... a robot. Thanks to his imagination, Sam builds Franky...
9) Waiting
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.
10) Doors in the air
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English
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A young boy tells about his love of doors, especially those in his imagination that lead him to wonderful places.
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Series
Treehouse series volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows in an active volcano, swim in the chocolate waterfall, pet baby dinosaurs, and go head-to-trunk with the Trunkinator, since Terry has created the greatest invention...
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Series
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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"A bear finds a piano in the woods, learns to play it, and travels to the big city to become rich and famous, but ultimately discovers that his old friends in the forest back home are still the best audience of all"--
13) Big friends
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Etho and Birt love going up Sudden Hill and sitting in simple cardboard boxes imagining they are kings, soldiers, astronauts, or pirates until Shu asks to join them, and their "two-by-two rhythm" is disturbed.
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English
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Andy and Terry live in a 78-story treehouse. (It used to be a 65-story treehouse, but they just keep building more levels!) It has a drive-thru car wash, a courtroom with a robot judge called Edward Gavelhead, a scribbletorium, a combining machine, an ALL-BALL sports stadium, a high-security potato chip storage facility, and an open-air movie theatre with a super-giant screen . . . which is a very useful thing to have now that Terry's going to be...
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce such basic concepts as adjectives, adverbs, daytime, and nighttime as they follow five elephants marching from dawn to dusk.
16) Salad pie
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Publisher
Ripple Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"There is nothing sweeter than arriving at the playground, seeing it empty, and knowing you have it all to yourself-the silent comfort of playing alone. Maggie is overjoyed to have that solitude to make her Salad Pie. But then Herbert saunters over and wants to play too. "I'm making salad. Salad Pie. And don't you touch it!" Herbert just wants to help, even though Maggie makes it clear she won't let him.Then her imaginary pie takes a spill, and she...
17) Puddle jumpers
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Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A little boy dreams about jumping in puddles and has an adventure in the process"--
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Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Pirates Blackbeard Johnson and his brothers, Eyepatch Sue, and others sail over to Peg Leg Jones' for a happily chaotic pirate jamboree--until the S.S. Clean Your Room (otherwise known as Mrs. Jones) arrives and playtime is definitely over.
19) I am yoga
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Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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As a young girl practices various standard yoga poses, she imagines herself as a tree touching the sky, a playful dog, a warrior, and more while relaxing and seeing how she fits into the world.
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