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  ABC's & 123's

  Kim Mitzo Thompson

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  Learning ABC's and 123's is easy and fun with the collection of alphabet and number learning songs! These songs encourage children to want to read and write while teaching them more about the alphabet, how to count and special techniques on remembering the number system!

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  Pep Squad

  Eileen O'Hely

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  A fantastic kid's spy adventure set in a secret agent training school  
  
  
  
  - Similar to the Alex Rider series
  - Irish-based but with a host of international characters and settings
  - Author of the Penny the Pencil series for younger readers Fourteen-year-old Jess Leclair is an exceptional teenager: athletically gifted and academically brilliant. Bored at her conventional Dublin school, she is thrilled to be offered a place at PEP Academy, the training ground for the top-secret PEP (Planet Earth Protection) Squad. During her first term, Jess quickly makes friends with her roommate, extreme-sport-loving Emily Harris, and the Sykes twins, Ben and Matt. Together, they learn the skills they will need to become world-class spies, like lock-picking, making disguises, abseiling, foreign languages and combat training. The teenagers are promised an easy first mission at the end of their first year. But then they find out they must infiltrate a Bavarian castle and steal a sample of a deadly virus that could wipe out all of humanity. Faced with armed guards, a complex security system, an evil genius and a traitor, the trainee spies must save the day or die trying. This is the next big thing in adventure fiction for pre-teens!

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  The Haunter

  R.L. Stine

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  In this spinoff to the New York Times–bestselling Goosebumps series, a tween boy is haunted by a ghost who makes him misbehave at school. 
   
  Sammy Baker is a quiet kid who wishes he wasn’t so shy and timid. He is frightened but eager to prove he can be brave. On Halloween night, he follows his friends to the Marple House, an abandoned mansion on the other side of town.Just past midnight, he feels a cold tingle at the back of his neck. The cold seeps down, a heavy chill he has never felt before. Soon, his whole head feels like a block of ice. He’s about to scream-but the cold feeling vanishes. Sammy doesn’t realize that he has just met The Haunter, and that his nightmares are only just beginning.

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  Bubble Gum Rescue

  Helen Perelman

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  When gooey butterscotch endangers the inhabitants of Sugar Valley, it’s up to the Candy Fairies to come up with a sweet treat of a solution!While putting the finishing touches on her special caramel chocolate candies, Melli finds a small bird, his feathers coated in sticky butterscotch syrup. She learns from Cocoa that there’s a deep crack in the butterscotch volcano in the Caramel Hills, and gooey butterscotch is spilling everywhere, trapping small animals and endangering the sweet environment.     How will the Candy Fairies protect the animals and their yummy homes from this candy catastrophe? By using pink, chewy bubble gum to plug up the crack and save the day, of course! The entire Candy Kingdom discovers that working together always makes life sweeter...and safer.

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  Summer on the Moon

  Adrian Fogelin

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  A move from an impoverished tenement to an unfinished suburban development turns thirteen-year-old Socko’s world inside out It’s summer vacation, and Socko and his best friend Damien are hanging around the Kludge apartments, taking care to avoid the local gang members. When Socko’s great-grandfather suddenly offers to buy a house in the suburbs, Socko’s mom jumps at the chance to leave the bad neighborhood. Socko hates to leave Damien behind, but they pack up their few belongings and move to Moon Ridge Estates.   Nothing there is even remotely what Socko had imagined—Moon Ridge is a lonely wasteland of half-finished houses. Socko tries to make the best of a bad situation, hopping on his skateboard to explore the empty streets that are now his private domain.   Constructing new lives will involve taking some risks, but in time a ragtag community begins to rally around the struggling development. With humor and heart, Adrian Fogelin weaves a timely story of loyalty, family, community, and economic hardship.

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  Lost in the Amazon - A Battle...

  Tod Olson

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  In this true story written for young readers, a teen is the only survivor of a plane crash and must stay alive in the South American jungle until rescue. 
   
  Peru, Christmas Eve, 1970. It was supposed to be a routine flight, carrying eighty-six passengers across the Andes Mountains and home for the holiday. But high above the Amazon rainforest, a roiling storm engulfs the plane. Lightning strikes. A deafening whoosh sweeps through the cabin. And suddenly, seventeen-year-old Juliane Koepcke is alone. The plane has vanished. She is strapped to her seat and plunging 3,500 feet to the forest floor. On Christmas Day, she wakes. She is injured, covered in mud, but strangely—miraculously—alive. And now, in a remote corner of the largest rainforest on Earth, the real battle for survival begins.

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