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  • Share Your Smile: Raina's Guide to Telling Your Own Story

    Raina Telgemeier

    Hardcover (Graphix, April 30, 2019)
    Get ready to journal and learn to tell your own story with Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts!Calling all fans of Raina Telgemeier!Have you ever thought about telling your own story, whether it be true or imagined? Are you interested in writing, drawing, or both? If the answers are yes, this fun, colorful, and interactive journal is for you! With guidance from Raina herself, brainstorm ideas, make lists, paste in personal photos, and use your imagination like never before to create your own stories. For additional inspiration, behind-the-scenes info from Raina's own comics-making adventures is featured inside.BONUS: Raina's next graphic novel, Guts, will be published on September 17, 2019. A special sneak peek is included in this book!
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  • What to Do When You Dread Your Bed: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems With Sleep

    Dawn Huebner, Bonnie Matthews

    Paperback (Magination Press, Feb. 15, 2008)
    As seen on The Today Show iParenting Media Award Winner Mom's Choice Award 2009 Gold Recipient for Self Improvement (Ages 9–12) 2009 Young Voices Award, Children's Interactive (Silver)Wouldn't it be great if you could climb into bed, snuggle under your covers, and fall asleep without any fuss or fear? Without listening for noises or thinking about bad guys? Without an extra drink, or an extra hug, or an extra trip to the bathroom?Bedtime is tough for many kids. If you're a kid who dreads your bed, and you're convinced that nothing short of magic will make nighttime easier, this book is for you.What to Do When You Dread Your Bed guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with sleep. Fears, busy brains, restless bodies, and overdependence on parents are all tackled as children gain the skills they need for more peaceful nights. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to fall asleep and stay asleep — like magic! This book is part of the Magination Press What-to-Do Guides for Kids® series and includes an “Introduction to Parents and Caregivers.” What-to-Guides for Kids® are interactive self-help books designed to guide 6–12 year olds and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of various psychological concerns. Engaging, encouraging, and easy to follow, these books educate, motivate, and empower children to work towards change.
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  • Build It! Volume 1: Make Supercool Models with Your LEGO® Classic Set

    Jennifer Kemmeter

    Paperback (Graphic Arts Books, Oct. 18, 2016)
    With simple, step-by-step directions and a visually rich design, this unique series of instruction books for LEGO® creations helps young children learn and have fun simultaneously.The Build It! series of 16 visually rich instruction books for LEGO® models is perfect for children ages 5 and up.Inside Volume 1 you'll find a range of creative models to put together--from animals to airplanes, street scenes to seascapes and much more, created using the LEGO® Classic set 10693, or bricks you already have at home. Each book in this interactive series contains 3-5 projects featuring a diverse range of models. Full color diagrams guide you through the process, enhancing the fun.
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  • The Ultimate Book of Vehicles: From Around the World

    Anne-Sophie Baumann, Didier Balicevic

    Hardcover (Twirl, March 18, 2014)
    "This cheerfully-illustrated, oversized book, with its sturdy flaps, popups, pull-tabs and wheels is just too much fun!" — Redbook Magazine's Mamarama BlogVehicles, vehicles, vehicles—nearly 100 of them—in all shapes and sizes: A giant crane hovers over a construction site, a spaceship roars into space... Best of all, lots of flaps, popups, pull-tabs, and rotating wheels bring the various vehicles to life. Readers will poke into a ship's hold, explore the innards of a garbage truck, and help demolish a house. Any child who's ever been intrigued by the roar of an engine will adore this extraordinary collection of things on the go, from the everyday to the nearly outrageous—yes, there's even a pooper-scooper scooter!• Supersized spreads feature marvelously detailed illustrations that just beg to be pored over again and again• More than 60 interactive flaps, tabs, and more to keep kids engaged• A captivating adventure that brings the world of transportation and the magic of books to life in young minds"Plenty on display to satisfy the vehicle-obsessed." — Publishers Weekly• Great family read-aloud book• Books for kids ages 4–9• Books for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school children
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  • DK Workbooks: Geography, Third Grade

    DK

    Paperback (DK Children, March 10, 2015)
    Perfect for children ages 8 and 9, this workbook provides extra practice to sharpen geography skills of third graders and contains curriculum-aligned exercises on topics including latitude and longitude, biomes, natural resources, changing maps, and more.Level by level, the write-in DK Workbooks: Geography series offers at-home practice that kids actually enjoy—making them ideal supplements to schoolwork. Designed to support curriculum standards, this series is developed with leading educational experts to build confidence and understanding.Each leveled workbook, for children ages 3–9, is packed with activities and challenges, offering the beneficial repetition and cumulative learning that lead to mastery. Fact boxes on each page give a simple overview of the topics being covered, review the basics, and often offer an example of the task at hand. The exercises themselves reinforce key geography topics including map reading, compass directions, continents, countries and states, borders, bodies of water, and more.
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  • Asking About Sex & Growing Up: A Question-and-Answer Book for Kids

    Joanna Cole, Bill Thomas

    Paperback (HarperCollins, June 30, 2009)
    What do you want to know about sex? Information about sex is everywhere. But what you learn from TV, movies, the internet, and friends is not always a healthy or accurate view of sexuality. Now revised and updated with current facts, Joanna Cole's Asking About Sex & Growing Up is the perfect book to provide answers to questions about sex. Writing especially for preteens, the author uses a question-and-answer format to offer straightforward information on a wide variety of subjects related to sex and puberty.
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  • Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book Box Set #2: Books 5-8

    Herman Parish, Lynne Avril

    Paperback (Greenwillow Books, Oct. 20, 2015)
    The Amelia Bedelia chapter books have sold more than one million copies. This box set includes books 5–8 in the bestselling Amelia Bedelia chapter book series: Amelia Bedelia Shapes Up, Amelia Bedelia Cleans Up, Amelia Bedelia Sets Sail, and Amelia Bedelia Dances Off. A sticker sheet with more than 50 exclusive Amelia Bedelia stickers is also included. Amelia Bedelia is all boxed up—literally!Short, fast-paced chapters, tons of friends and funny situations, and black-and-white illustrations by Lynne Avril on every page make the Amelia Bedelia chapter books an ideal choice for readers of the Ivy + Bean, Magic Tree House, and Judy Moody books. Each book features a guide to the idioms introduced in the story. A sticker sheet with more than 50 exclusive Amelia Bedelia stickers is also included in the box. The Amelia Bedelia chapter book boxed set makes a great gift and is a wonderful way to introduce newly independent readers to a favorite character!
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  • Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

    Stuart Gibbs

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, March 24, 2020)
    In the latest novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident sleuth to solve his most improbable mystery yet—with a victim that’s 65 million years old.Teddy was all set for a campout at his friend Sage’s family ranch—but then Sage gets terrible news: The skull of a rare dinosaur that was being excavated on his property has mysteriously vanished overnight in the middle of a rainstorm, even though it weighed 500 pounds. Not a single footprint has been left behind. Since the dinosaur was top secret, the police don’t believe anyone outside the dig could have stolen it. A T-rex skull can sell for millions of dollars, and everyone is a suspect—including J.J. McCracken, the owner of FunJungle. Meanwhile, Teddy’s old foes, the Barksdale twins, have gotten into trouble with an illegally purchased anaconda, and Teddy’s girlfriend Summer wants to find out who’s behind the local trade in black market reptiles. The two cases will drag Teddy into more danger and chaos than ever before, in this mystery that’s stranger than fiction.
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  • Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

    Ellen Levine, Kadir Nelson

    Hardcover (Scholastic Press, Jan. 1, 2007)
    A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
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  • I am Walt Disney

    Brad Meltzer, Christopher Eliopoulos

    Hardcover (Dial Books, Sept. 10, 2019)
    Handpicked by Amazon kids’ books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box – a children’s subscription that inspires a love of reading.The 18th picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Walt Disney, who made dreams come true.This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. At the back are an excellent timeline and photos. This volume features Walt Disney, who makes dreams come true for himself and countless kids around the world.
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  • Grumplets and Pests: Zoey and Sassafras #7

    Asia Citro, Marion Lindsay

    Paperback (The Innovation Press, Oct. 8, 2019)
    In the seventh book, Zoey and Sassafras are excited to enjoy their summer with their magical friends. But . . . why is everyone so grumpy? A bunch of bad days one after the other lead Zoey to suspect that something more is afoot. It's up to Zoey and Sassafras to solve the mystery before they end up with one bummer of a summer! Each story in the Zoey and Sassafras series features a new magical animal with a problem that must be solved using science. There isn't a set formula for each book; Zoey sometimes needs to run experiments, while other times she needs to investigate a mystery, and yet other times she needs to do research. Zoey models how to keep a science journal through her handwritten entries in each story. Each story is complete with a glossary of the kid-friendly definitions for scientific terms used. The series highlights child-led inquiry science and the topics covered align with both Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.
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  • Stone Fox

    John Reynolds Gardiner, Greg Hargreaves

    Paperback (HarperCollins, April 27, 2010)
    John Reynolds Gardiner's classic action-packed adventure story about a thrilling dogsled race has captivated readers for more than thirty years.Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, who lives with his grandfather in Wyoming. When Grandfather falls ill, he is no longer able to work the farm, which is in danger of foreclosure. Little Willy is determined to win the National Dogsled Race—the prize money would save the farm and his grandfather. But he isn't the only one who desperately wants to win. Willy and his brave dog Searchlight must face off against experienced racers, including a Native American man named Stone Fox, who has never lost a race. Exciting and heartwarming, this novel has sold millions of copies and was named a New York Times Outstanding Children's Book.
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