Contemporary Fiction
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Title
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Author
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The Strange Case of Origami
Yoda (series)
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Alvarez
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Because of Mr. Terupt
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Buyea
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Room One: A Mystery or Two
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Clements
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Hate that Cat: A Novel
(series)
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Creech
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The Lemonade War (series)
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Davies
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The Magician’s Elephant
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DiCamillo
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
(series)
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DiTerlizzi
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Brendan Buckley’s Universe
and Everything in It
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Frazier
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
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Gantos
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The Road to Paris
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Grimes
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The Homework Machine
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Gutman
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When Mules Flew on Magnolia
Street
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Johnson
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
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Kinney
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Inside Out and Back Again
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Lai
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Alvin Ho (series)
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Look
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Ruby Lu (series)
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Look
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Julia Gillian (And the Art of
Knowing)
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McGee
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Junebug (series)
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Mead
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Shiloh
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Naylor
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The Small Adventure of Popeye
and Elvis
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O’Connor
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Wonder
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Palacio
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Big Nate (series)
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Peirce
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39 Clues (series)
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Scholastic (many authors)
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Smells like Treasure
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Selfors
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Younguncle Comes to Town
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Singh
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A Series of Unfortunate
Events (series)
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Snicket
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No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay)
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Trueit
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Peace, Locomotion
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Woodson
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Historical Fiction
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Title
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Author
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Historical Mysteries (series)
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American Girl
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Sophia’s War: A Tale of the
Revolution
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Avi
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Jefferson’s Sons
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Bradley
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper
Cranes
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Coerr
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Elijah of Buxton
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Curtis
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The Mighty Miss Malone
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Curtis
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The Giant Rat of Sumatra: Or
Pirates Galore
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Fleischman
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Number the Stars
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Lowry
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Scraps of Time (series)
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McKissack
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Faith, Hope and Ivy June
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Naylor
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Keeping Score
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Park
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Trouble Don’t Last
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Pearsall
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Sugar
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Rhodes
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Riding Freedom
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Ryan
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Dear America (series) includes
My Name is America and Royal Diaries series)
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Scholastic (many authors)
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Countdown
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Wiles
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One Crazy Summer
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Williams-Garcia
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Breaking Stalin’s Nose
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Yelchin
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The Dragon’s Child: A Story
of Angel Island
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Yep
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Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Title
|
Author
|
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Secrets of Droon (series)
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Abbott
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Whales on Stilts!
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Anderson
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Dragon Castle
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Bruchac
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The Sisters Grimm (series)
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Buckley
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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (series)
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Guibert
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Boom!
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Haddon
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Warrior (series)
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Hunter
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A Wrinkle in Time
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L’Engle
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
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Lin
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Charlie Bone (series)
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Nimmo
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The Magic Thief (series)
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Prineas
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Harry Potter (series)
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Rowling
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The Night Fairy
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Schlitz
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Alien Feast
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Simmons
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The Books of Elsewhere (series)
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West
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City of Fire/City of Ice
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Yep
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Folktales,
Fairy Tales & Legends
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Title
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Author
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Persephone
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Clayton
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Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide
Cinderella
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Fleischman
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Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy
Tales and True Tales
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Hamilton
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The Blue Fairy Book
(series)
|
Lang
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The Boy from the
Dragon Palace
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MacDonald
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Pig Boy: A Trickster
Tale from Hawaii
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McDermott
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Genies, Meanies and
Magic Rings: Three Tales from the Arabian Nights
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Mitchell
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More Bones: Scary
Stories from Around the World
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Olson
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The Beautiful Stories
of Life: Six Greek Myths, Retold
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Rylant
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Can you Guess my
Name? Traditional Tales Around the World
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Sierra
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A Pride of African
Tales
|
Washington
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Biography
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Title
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Author
|
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Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum
Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the Word
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Fern
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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow:
A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
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Golio
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Dave the Potter: Artist,
Poet, Slave
|
Hill
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When the Beat was Born: DJ
Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
|
Hill
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Farmer Will Allen and the
Growing Table
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Martin
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Daredevil: The Daring Life of
Betty Skelton
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McCarthy
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Temple Grandin: How the Girl
who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
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Montgomery
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Electrical Wizard: How Nikola
Tesla Lit Up the World
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Rusch
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Becoming Babe Ruth
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Tavares
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Ballons over Broadway: The
True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade
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Sweet
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Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge
Grows in the Bronx
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Winter | Informational Books
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Title
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Author
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Millions, Billions &
Trillions: Understanding Big Numbers
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Adler
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Shimmer and Splash: The
Sparkling World of Sea Life
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Arnosky
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Dinosaurs in Your Backyard
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Brewster
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Citizen Scientists: Be a Part
of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
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Burns
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Bat Scientists
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Carson
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Extreme Animals: The Toughest
Creatures on Earth
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Davies
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Haunted Histories: Creepy
Castles, Dark Dungeons and Powerful Palaces
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Everett
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Locomotive
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Floca
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The Wolves are Back
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George
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Galaxies, Galaxies!
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Gibbons
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The Reasons for Seasons!
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Gibbons
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Bones: Skeletons and How they
Work
|
Jenkins
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Boston Tea Party
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Kroll
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The Tarantula Scientist
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Montgomery
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Remember: The Journey to
School Integration
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Morrison
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Polar Bears
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Newman
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We are the Ship: The Story of
Negro League Baseball
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Nelson
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How to Clean a Hippopotamus
|
Page
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Volcano Rising
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Rusch
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Insect Detective
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Voake
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Poetry
|
Title
|
Author
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Outside Your Window
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Davies
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In the Wild
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Elliot
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Messing Around on the Monkey Bars: And Other
School Poems for Two Voices
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Franco
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Love to Langston
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Medina
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The 20th Century Children’s Poetry
Treasury
|
Prelutsky
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Guyky: A Year of Haiku for Boys
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Rackza
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The Hound Dog’s Haiku: And Other Poems for Dog
Lovers
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Rosen
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Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
|
Sidman
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Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
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Sidman
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