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1) Just because
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When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
2) Anomaly
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Living in a post-apocalyptic State that has supposedly eliminated emotions, Thalli is slated for annihilation by the Scientists when her carefully-kept secret that she is an anomaly becomes known, but when she becomes their test subject, instead, she learns that she may actually be part of a Creator's greater design.
10) Pandora's box
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Ruby tries to stop her younger brother Max from sneaking into her room and snooping by reading him an altered version of "Pandora's Box."
11) Purple coyote
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A young boy pays an unusual price to learn why the coyote that appears near his home in the desert is purple.
12) Windows
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Walking his dog at dusk, one boy catches glimpses of the lives around him in this lovely ode to autumn evenings, exploring your neighborhood, and coming home.
14) Scaredy cats
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Three kittens ponder what is in a mysterious, gift-wrapped box. They humorously wonder if it's a cake, but it also could be a crocodile, a tiger, or a great white shark! Will any of the scaredy cats have the courage to peek in the box?
15) One boy watching
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"This lyrical picture book follows one boy's early morning bus ride to school and the many things he observes"--
16) Twenty questions
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"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead -- to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to...
18) The guest room
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"Tess has a bad habit. She can't stop snooping through her guests' belongings . . . When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister's old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it's the closest she's felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister, Rosie. After her newest lodger, Arran,...
20) Little Why
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Little Why the elephant can't stay in line. There's so much to see, but then he sees a snappy crocodile and his curiosity gets the better of him.