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582) Check, please!
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Frannie goes to dinner at a brand new French restaurant and tries her hand at being a food critic, even as she starts a campaign to warn other diners that there are insects on the menu.
586) Puppy power
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Boisterous third-grader Fran has trouble controlling herself, but learning how to train her gigantic Newfoundland puppy helps her gain enough self-control to win the part of princess in the class play. Includes instructions on puppy training.
588) Track star
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Determined to be a top runner at his school's annual Fun Run, Miles creates a health regimen to boost his endurance, but on the big day, he notices a friend struggling to keep going, forcing Miles to decide what winning really means to him.
590) Otto's rainy day
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After several failed attempts to get Otto to play quietly in the house, his mother finally gives in and goes outside to play in the rain with him.
593) No!
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Once Otto learns the word "no" he will not stop saying it, but after a very bad day at school, Daddy finds a way to remind him of another special word.
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Even though it is summer Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well.
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Third-grader Azaleah Lane has been chosen STEM lab monitor for the week, but on her first day Harry the lab guinea pig gets out of his cage and escapes, and Azaleah has to figure out a strategy to locate where in the room he is hiding and catch him; but she also has another problem--how to get Terrance to listen to Rose, Jamal, and herself and work with the group on their Rube Goldberg machine project.
597) Circus Carnivore
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In rhyming nonsense verse, a young girl explains how the creatures who live in her head affect her behavior.
600) Mission impawsible
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Kim is great with dogs. Her brother even calls her "the dog whisperer"! So she can't wait to start her seventh-grade volunteer project: working at the Roxbury Park Dog Shelter with her best friend, Sasha. But then Sasha invites her new friend, Taylor, to volunteer with them, and Kim's not sure their perfect duo will survive turning into a trio. Even worse, the dog shelter is running out of money and might have to shut down. Kim is determined to save...