Kirsten W. Larson

Meet self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane.

Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could design one that worked. She took inspiration from both nature and her many failures, driving herself to perfect the design that would eventually successfully fly.

Publisher	‎Calkins Creek; Illustrated edition (February 25, 2020)
Language	‎English
Reading age	‎7 - 10 years, from customers
Grade level	‎2 - 5

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane

Wood, Wire, Wings

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Marianne Malone

The perfect next step for kids who love the Magic Tree House series, time travel, mystery, and adventure!

Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the deep inside the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms. Each room is set in a different historic period, and every detail is perfect. Some might even say, the rooms are magic.

But what if on a field trip, you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you could sneak inside and explore the rooms' secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? . . . And that someone had left something important behind?

Eleven-year-olds Jack and Ruthie are about to find out!


 "Irresistible."--The New York Times

"Marianne Malone has tapped into a fantasy that is . . . completely universal."--Chicago Tribune

"A solid story. Recommend this book to fans of Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer."--School Library Journal

The Sixty-Eight Rooms

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The Girl Who Loved Coyotes by Nancy Wood 
	•	Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins, 1995
	•	Hardcover with Dust jacket in archival sleeve. 48 pages

LIKE NEW Vintage First Edition, First Printing. Sticker residue on back of DJ.
	•	ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0688139817 
	•	ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0688139810
	•	Reading age ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9

Presents twelve Southwestern tales including, "The girl who loved coyotes," "Sun Mother and Moon Mother," "How coyote got his song," "The animal convention," and "The rainbow bridge"

“ … many of these 12 original stories, the coyote is a central figure of survival amid the clash of Indian, Spanish, and Anglo cultures. The title story launches the book's exploration of conflict. When a sheepherder's daughter watches a pack of coyotes eat one of her father's sheep, she cries, "Those are my father's sheep!" and a coyote replies, "It's our nature to eat sheep." Sympathetic to the coyotes, the girl flees with the pack and is said to be heard singing with them every new moon. 

The stories vary greatly, but all are compellingly written, inventive, and tinged with mysticism and melancholy over an environment scarred by warring human interests. The striking, oil-on-linen illustrations also convey a complexity of viewpoint. 

Both primitive and ornate, traditional and contemporary, the paintings somehow wrestle the southwestern cliches of cactus and howling coyotes into emblems of great dignity.” Julie Yates Walton - BL


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

12 Southwestern Tales

The Girl Who Loved Coyotes by Nancy Wood 

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Longing to be one of the popular girls in her new town, Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into their club. Now Kammie's trapped in the dark, counting the hours, waiting to be rescued. (The Girls have gone for help, haven't they?)



As hours pass, Kammie's real-life predicament mixes with memories of the best and worst moments of her life so far, including the awful reasons her family moved to this new town in the first place. And as she begins to feel hungry and thirsty and light-headed, Kammie starts to imagine she has company, including a French-speaking coyote and goats that just might be zombies.



Karen Rivers has created a unique narrator with an authentic, sympathetic, sharp, funny voice who will have readers laughing and crying and laugh-crying over the course of physically and emotionally suspenseful, utterly believable events.

The Girl in the Well Is Me

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Suzanne Lang

Everyone's favorite New York Times bestselling Grumpy Monkey is back in this hilarious sequel about managing social anxiety and listening to your needs!

Have you ever been a little anxious about going to a party? Jim Panzee feels that. Porcupine is having a big party, and according to Jim's best friend Norman, there will be--gulp--dancing. Jim can DEFINITELY not dance. When he tells his friends, they all try to teach him cool moves--surely that's the only reason Jim isn't excited about this party!

Now, their job complete, the other animals sweep Jim along, all the way to the dance floor. Jim is dipped, swayed, and twirled until he can't take it anymore--he just doesn't like to dance! When he lets everyone know, he's met with disbelief...until Water Buffalo reveals that he doesn't much care to dance, either. As more and more animals have the courage speak their truths, does this mean there's no place for them at this party?

In this hilarious sequel to GRUMPY MONKEY, kids will learn that it's okay not to go with the flow if they're uncomfortable, and that speaking up about what they need can help others speak up, too--and maybe they need the same thing!

Grumpy Monkey Party Time!

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Jeff Kinney

The Ugly Truth

Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 5

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Simon James

Whales don't live in ponds--or do they?

"Dear Mr. Blueberry, I love whales very much and I think I saw one in my pond today. Please send me some information on whales."

It's vacation time, so Emily has to write to her teacher to help when she discovers a blue whale living in her pond. Mr. Blueberry answers that she must be mistaken, because whales live in the ocean, not in ponds.

Throughout the summer, Emily and Mr. Blueberry exchange letters, until Emily has a happy surprise to share with her teacher. In the process, Emily learns a lot about whales. And Mr. Blueberry learns even more about imagination, faith, and love.

Dear Mr. Blueberry

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

"Come along with CoComelon! Join JJ and his family and friends as they go on wonderful adventures! From having a playdate with his best friend, Cody, to riding the school bus with his friends to playing games with his brother and sister, the CoComelon fun has just begun! This treasury includes twelve fun stories based on popular CoComelon videos, all timed to be read aloud in about five minutes!"--Back cover.

CoComelon 5-Minute Stories

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Maurice Sendak

Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things,where he is made king.

Where the Wild Things Are

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Illinois

Meet one smart chicken chaser. She can catch any chicken on her grandmother's farm except one - the elusive Miss Hen. In a hilarious battle of wits, the spirited narrator regales readers with her campaign to catch Miss Hen, but this chicken is "fast as a mosquito buzzing and quick as a fleabite." Our chicken chaser has her mind set on winning, until she discovers that sometimes it's just as satisfying not to catch chickens as it is to catch them.

A fresh voice full of sass and inventive, bold collage illustrations full of surprises create a childlike escapade brimming with funny high jinks that leads the reader on a merry, memorable chase.

The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County

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American icon and international superstar Dionne Warwick presents an inspiring and entertaining children's picture book that encourages kids to find their best talent in life and embrace it.

"Little D" is ambling through childhood like any other little kid--enjoying her family and neighbors, her pet dog, her hobbies, and school--when one day she discovers that she has a special talent. In her first-ever singing performance in front of an audience, Little D brings the house down! And she discovers, with her grandfather's encouragement ("If you think it, you can do it!"), that everyone has a special talent and it's up to each person to findit, embrace it, perfect it, and enjoy it!

The book includes audio CD featuring an exclusive recording of the gospel song "Jesus Loves Me" (the first song young Dionne performed before an audience, as told in the book), as well as a reading of the book by Ms. Warwick.

Say a Little Prayer

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Whatever After Two Peas In A Pod 

Andrew Glass

A fictionalized account describing how John Chapman was joined in the western Pennsylvania wilderness by his half-brother Nathaniel, who was unprepared for John's spartan lifestyle and unusual ways.

Folks Call Me Appleseed John

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fair condition: slight warping on the cover. 

Michigan

Mysteries according to Humphrey

Jennifer Ziegler

Idaho

Don't miss this hilarious story from Jennifer Ziegler that Kirkus Reviews calls "cuter than a kitten"!

One bride. Two boys. Three flower girls who won't hold their peace. What could go wrong with this wedding? Everything!

The Brewster triplets, Dawn, Darby, and Delaney, would usually spend their summer eating ice cream, playing wtih their dog, and reading about the U. S. presidents. But this year they're stuck helping their big sister, Lily, plan her wedding. Burton, Lily's groom-to-be, is not nice or fun, and he looks like an armadillo.

The triplets can't stand to see Lily marry someone so wrong for her, so they'll stop at nothing to delay Lily's big day. But will sprinklers, a photo slideshow, a muddy dog, and some unexpected allies be enough to prevent their sister and the whole Brewster family from living unhappily ever after?

Three times the flower girls means three times the mayhem in this hilarious, sweet story from Jennifer Ziegler.

Revenge of the Flower Girls

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Texas

Rex Fenderbender is the new school bus driver, and rumour has it that he drives as if he's racing in the Indy 500 and that he makes the kids rebuild the engine when it breaks down. Are the rumours true? The students will soon find out!

The School Bus Driver from the Black Lagoon

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Stephanie Campisi

Written by an Australian living in the US, Quacks Like a Duck is a celebration of finding your people anywhere you go...even if it's in costume and on the other side of the world.

Quacks Like a Duck

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North Carolina

Selby's Secret

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K. S. Robeson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tales from Wind Creek

Chloe and Bia

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George Shannon

This is the bird my great great great grandmother carved 

This Is the Bird

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Lynne Kelly

Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.

Song for a Whale

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Greg records his sixth-grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 1

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New Jersey

A Descendants Novel

Rise of the Isle of the Lost 

It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters, from Academy-Award winning director and former NFL wide receiver Matthew A. Cherry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Vashti Harrison.

Zuri's hair has a mind of its own. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Zuri knows it's beautiful. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her -- and her hair -- happy.

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