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Stink may be a super science freak, but even Dr. Stinkelstein is feeling freaked out about having a slime mold living and growing in his very own room. At Saturday Science Club, Stink learns that these one-celled organisms are smart enough to find their way out of mazes and gang up on food sources.
45) Lions & liars
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Fifth-grader Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.
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When a young lady finds herself at a castle in the midst of terrible storm with her dog Prince S, she's mistaken as princess herself and forced to marry the prince. But she's not complaining. A humorous retelling of The Princess and the Pea, as told by the princess--who really was not a princess at all, and was kept awake by her dog. Features critical thinking questions, a glossary, and resources for further information.
52) No lie, pigs (and their houses) can fly!: the story of the three little pigs as told by the wolf
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A humorous retelling of the fairy tale as told from the point of view of the misunderstood wolf, who suffers from "uncontrollable breathing syndrome" and really just wants to be friends.
53) Creepy carrots!
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Picture Books for Halloween 2024
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
54) Triangle
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Triangle plots to play a trick on his friend Square that's sure to make him jump. Triangle travels from his own neighborhood composed of triangular homes to Square's home--a square house surrounded by other square homes. Triangle's hissing snake sound has the terrifying effect he hoped it would. But when Square chases Triangle home and traps him in his dark house by wedging himself in the doorway--and becoming hopelessly stuck--it's hard to tell who...
55) Pinkalicious
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A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
56) House of robots
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"Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"-- Provided by publisher.
57) The intuitionist
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This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
It is a time of calamity...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
It is a time of calamity...
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"The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates Toole's novel as well as one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed 'slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one.' Set in New Orleans with a wild cast of characters ... the novel serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its parade of...