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81) Table wars!
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Shirley Squirrel liked school. Her favorite part of the school day was lunch. Today at lunch, Smokey Spaniel hurled a walnut at Shirley. This started a food fight which everyone thought it was fun, except for the lunch lady. Will the lunch lady have to clean up the mess by herself or will Shirley and her friends help out?
83) The code
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Chris always does the right thing. But when he knows who messed with Sam in the school yard, he can’t speak up. His friends can’t either. There’s the silent code that every kid follows. Chris decides he can’t live with himself if he doesn’t say something, so he makes a stand and is shocked at the outcome. Mean bully Phil is actually … cool. But then Phil asks him to do something so wrong.
84) Sky watchers
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Dez and Jax are both in the sixth grade. Now they can be Sky Watchers, kids who patrol the sky path to school on their sky bikes. The Sky Watchers protect their schoolmates from spinners, little flat disks that have been programmed to steal bike packs and take them to the ground below. Nobody but the gang kids go below the tree line. It’s polluted down there.
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Somebody is stealing diamonds from the jeweler Mohammed Carat! It looks like the culprit is someone on his staff, but who? Is it Luke Smith, the recently hired fitness fanatic with a taste for the finer things in life? It surely can't be Vivian Leander, the loyal shop assistant who is now short of money ... The police in the little town of Valleby are stuck, so they contact young detectives Jerry and Maya, classmates who run their own detective agency....
86) E. B. White
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Introduces E.B. White, his childhood in New York, his work at the New Yorker, his farm in Maine, and his authorship and inspiration for his books.
89) The gift
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Zeke’s parents have split up. His dad is hurt and angry when Zeke sides with his mother. But Zeke’s emotions go on a crazy roller coaster ride when he’s visited by a mysterious kid that only he can see … until he finds out his grandpa can also see the ghost. Zeke’s world is rocked in new ways when he finds out that he can see and talk to the dead.
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"Election day is right around the corner, and guess who's running for class president? A.J. and Andrea! Mayor Hubble is going to teach the kids all the ins and outs of politics, and every vote counts. Who's going to win? Who's going to lose? And who's going to kiss a baby? Ew, gross!--Publisher.
92) Killer flood
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Dan and Pete are excited to have a sleepover at Dan’s house while their parents are away. Their excitement turns to fear when the dam breaks and a killer flood smashes through town. The boys decide to stay put until they realize that Dan’s elderly neighbors may be in danger. When they reach the neighbors’ house, they find one of them near death. His lifesaving medicine is under water, and his wife is too old to make her way to...
93) Dogsong
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A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels at odds with aspects of modern life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
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What’s going on at the art museum in Pleasant Valley? Did the Egyptian mummy really come to life after 3,000 years? The terrified night watchman claims that he saw the mummy walking around the museum. The very same night, the most valuable painting in the museum was cut out of its frame. Once again, young detectives Jerry and Maya are called in by the chief of police to get to the bottom of the strange and spooky events.
96) Strawberry Hill
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Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.
98) Ghost Mountain
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Luke Lawson is raising two couch potatoes, and that does not sit well with him. So he decides he's going to toughed up his two boys, Winston and Nelson, with an adventure in the great outdoors. At first, the boys are grumpy and upset, but as they explore nature, they become more curious and interested in the world around them. And Winston experiences a life-changing event when he meets the ghost of a Native American teen and takes a mellow midnight...
99) I am Underdog
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Kemba feels like the lamest kid in school. If only he could be cool like the computer game superhero Underdog. But he can’t even save himself from the biggest bully in the sixth grade, let alone protect the weakest of the weak like Underdog does. He has zero friends. Or so he thinks. Kemba hasn’t even had the courage to try until one act of cruelty pushes him over the edge.
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"Celebrate Christmas with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and all their friends. As you complete the Look and Find activities in all eight festive scenes, they'll go ice skating, hang decorations, have fun in the snow, and much more. When you get to the end of the book you'll discover even more Look and Find challenges for every scene."--P. [4] of cover.