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44) Stick together!
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After returning home from her spring break trip where Gabby Gomez met her uncle Sol Azteca, she finds herself becoming friends with her former bully Natalie Gooch. At school, substitute teacher Mr. Hansen returns to Fillmore Elementary acting strangely, and he soon transforms into an overgrown hamster. It's up to Gabby as Gum Girl and Natalie as the Brainstormer to stop Mr. Hansen from destroying the city and change him back into a human. With the...
46) Hunted
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Four children have discovered that they have spirit animals, a rare bond between human and animal that has launched them on a quest to save their world. The team heads to the forests of Eura, where another Great Beast is hidden.
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"Rachel is still reeling from the news that Earth is secretly under attack by parasitic aliens, the Yeerks. Now she and her friends are the planet's only defense -- five kids who, purely by chance, stumbled onto a downed spacecraft and were given the power to morph into any animals they touch. The team's best lead is their assistant principal, Mr. Chapman, who is the human host to a high-ranking Yeerk official. It's not much, but Rachel's always been...
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In this graphic novel adaptation of the middle grade series, a group of children encounters a dying shapeshifting alien who warns them of an impending Earth invasion by a parasitic species known as the Yeerks. Before its death, the alien gives the kids powers to change into animals to fight the Yeerks, until they can get help from other alien species who are on their way to help them.
49) Kaiju no. 8: 4
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"Kafka wants to clean up kaiju, but not literally! Will a sudden metamorphosis stand in the way of his dream? With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino, a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood dream,...
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Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.
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Metamorphosis seems like the ultimate evolutionary magic trick. From Ovid to Kafka to X-Men, tales of metamorphosis richly permeate human culture. The myth of transformation is so common that it seems almost pre-programmed into our imagination. But is the scientific fact of metamorphosis just as strange as fiction or...even stranger? Filmmaker David Malone explores the science behind metamorphosis.
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A collection of short stories by Franz Kafka in a new English translation featuring the well-known title story about a man who wakes up to find that he has turned into a giant insect. Other stories in the collection explore themes of power, whimsy, and Kafka's own difficult relationship with his father. An introduction, notes, and a chronology provide context for the stories.