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341) Mommy's new friend
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Even though it was not easy at first, Lily learns to how to embrace Mommy's new friend Carl as a member of her family.
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Soon after the sun rises, a young girl and her mother set out on the bus, riding knee to knee to visit their mulberry tree in the English countryside. With buckets and tubs in hand for collecting berries, the two spend the day together picnicking, waiting out a summer shower under their tree, and searching high and low for the best mulberries, the ones that are tucked away from the world. When the sun starts to set, they head home to bake a delicious...
343) How do you know?
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When Polly and her mother take a walk on the farm on a foggy morning, Polly learns that things are still there even though the fog hides them.
346) The wrong way home
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When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
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Hilda and her mom have settled into their new home in the city of Trolberg. Pining for her magical friends and the wonder-filled wilderness, Hilda is finding it hard to fit in, especially at school. But when Hilda makes a new friend she soon begins to uncover some surprising secrets... Perhaps this concrete labyrinth is a place where wonderful and magical things can happen too?
348) Thora
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Ten-year-old Thora, daughter of a mermaid mother and a human father, has many adventures at sea until she must return to the English seaside town of Grimli and save her mother who has been captured by the greedy real estate developer, Frooty de Mare.
352) Cabello como el mío
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Cabello como el mio is un libro fácil y divertido de leer que sigue a una niña pequeña a la que no le gusta que su cabello rizado natural se ve distinto a el de otros niños y niñas a su alrededor. En su búsqueda a encontrara alguien con cabello como el suyo, se da cuenta que todos somos únicos y especiales en nuestra propia manera.
Hair Like Mine is a fun and easy read following a little girl who doesn't like that her naturally curly hair...
353) Yasmin la escritora
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Yasmin struggles with Ms. Alex's assignment to write an essay about her hero until she realizes that her hero is someone very close to her.
"La Srta. Alex ha asignado a la clase de Yasmin la tarea de escribir sobre sus héroes y heroínas. A Yasmin le encanta escribir, pero no sabe qué persona elegir. Después de descartar muchas ideas, ¿podría ser que el héroe o heroína de Yasmin hubiera estado junto a ella todo el tiempo"--
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Ever since she could remember, Violet and her mother have been locked away in a tower by the evil Queen Bogdana, who has the kingdom under her spell. The queen has all she wants except one thing-beauty. Violet possesses this beauty. When Violet is summoned by Bogdana to start training to become a real princess, it seems like her life might be taking a turn for the better. But hope quickly fades when Violet's mother is expelled from the castle and...
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"Mi madre es una bruja buena y yo soy su inseparable gatita. Al fin y al cabo, toda bruja necesita un gato negro. En este precioso libro, madre e hija son un dúo perfecto ya sea para mezclar pociones, cultivar plantas mágicas o soñar con fantásticos paseos en escoba a la luz de la luna llena. Las singulares ilustraciones de este libro fueron elaboradas por Harriet Muncaster utilizando telas, acuarelas, pluma y tinta, y materiales variados...
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"Oh, let's do it!" say Kitty and Katy and Mom when a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle mysteriously arrives in the mail. "I have time on my hands," agrees Dad. Starting in winter with the edges, by autumn they're almost done, only to discover that one piece is missing. Mom is sure that it must have accidentally gone out with the trash, so the Kellys pile into the car to comb through the local dump ("shouldn't take long"). There they uncover forgotten letters,...
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"Annie Lumsden has hair that drifts like seaweed, eyes that shine like rock pools, and thoughts that dart and dance like minnows. She lives with her artist mother by the sea, where she feels utterly at home, and has long felt apart from the other girls at school. Words and numbers on the page don't make sense to her, and strange maladies have been springing up that the doctors can't explain. Annie's mother says that all things can be turned into tales,...
358) Just for clicks
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Twin sisters Claire and Poppy are accidental social media stars thanks to Mom going viral when they were babies. Now teens, they're expected to contribute by building their own brand. Attending a NY fashion week they find themselves fending off internet trolls and would-be kidnappers. Poppy embraces their life; Claire hates it. When Claire reads Mom's old journals, the handwritten entries definitely don't sound like Mom's perfect blog persona. Worse,...
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"In her fourth hilarious adventure, good-hearted Lola can't help getting into trouble. Her friends are all traveling for the Thanksgiving holidays, so she offers to dog-sit--but fails to mention this to Mom, who is desperately trying to finish a batch of Lola dresses for a new client. Now Lola is juggling her dog-sitting responsibilities with her worries. Will her parents discover the growing knot in her hair and cause her excruciating pain brushing...
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"When Artemis Sparke has had it with humans, she heads to the nearby salt marsh to hang out with the birds, plants and mollusks who don't make a big deal of her stutter. The shoreline sanctuary is predictable, unlike her family and friends, and the data in her science journal proves it. But one day that data goes haywire, and her bird friend RT confirms it: the salt marsh is dying. Artemis discovers that the historic hotel where she lives with her...