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  The Cat-Tailed Rabbit - And...

  Tang Tang

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  A collection of enchanting fairytales by the acclaimed Chinese children’s author, now available in English.    One of China’s most celebrated authors of children’s literature, Tang Tang, weaves traditional Chinese storytelling with Western fantasy elements. With vivid language and playful imagery, she crafts unique stories of wonder and magic. These poignant fairy tales will leave an imprint on your heart with their universal themes of friendship, family, loyalty, and loss.  In this collection, Tang Tang explores what happens when a young boy makes a promise to a childhood friend; when generations of imps misunderstand a nursery rhyme; when a grandmother sneaks out of heaven to visit her granddaughter; and when a girl grows up and loses interest in a beloved pet.

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  Claudia and the Middle School...

  Ann M. Martin

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  Claudia and the Baby-Sitters investigate after she’s accused of cheating in this whodunnit from the charming hit series. 
   
  For once, Claudia’s studied really hard for her math test. And when she gets her paper back, it has an A- on it. All right! 
   
  But then Claudia’s math teacher calls her to his desk and accuses her of copying off of Shawna Riverson’s test. 
   
  Claudia can’t believe it, and neither can the Baby-sitters. Claudia would never cheat! And they’re not going to rest until they help clear Claudia’s name! 
   
  The best friends you’ll ever have—with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

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  Some Kind of Magic

  Adrian Fogelin

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  The award-winning author of Crossing Jordan brings her Neighborhood novels to a close with “a fine, complex tale of family, friends and magic” (Kirkus Reviews).  I wish . . . just for once, something exciting would happen around here.   Cass, Jemmie, Ben, and Justin have been friends for years now, but this could be their last summer together. They start high school in the fall, and each of them has different feelings about the future. Then something unusual happens during a basketball game.   Ben’s little brother, Cody, shows up, wearing a fedora left behind by their missing uncle, claiming the cap is magic. With the brim covering his eyes, Cody sinks the ball in the hoop—twice. Although the older kids are hesitant to believe in a magic hat, it soon leads them into the woods to an abandoned house with a mysterious past that will change everything . . .  

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  Wild Blood

  Kathryn Lasky

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  From the author of the New York Times–bestselling Guardians of Ga’hoole, when a filly from a wild herd is taken, the horses must rally to her rescue. 
   
  After adopting an orphan human boy, the first herd of horses in the New World is finally ready to make the treacherous journey across the mountains to find the Sweet Grass that promises survival. But when their leader, Estrella, is captured by cruel men, it delivers a blow to the very heart of the herd. If the horses turn back, they’ll never make it across the mountains before winter. But if they leave Estrella in captivity, the wild-born filly will surely perish.  
   
  The conclusion to Kathryn Lasky’s Horses of the Dawn trilogy will make your heart beat to the rhythm of thundering hooves, leaving you breathless as you join the herd’s final fight for freedom. 
   
  Praise for Horses of the Dawn, book one: 
   
  “As in works such as her Guardians of Ga’hoole series, Lasky uses animals to touch on very human issues. —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  “Lasky successfully fuses fantasy and fact as she gives her equine characters credible emotional depth and underscores the tensions and disparity between Old and New World sensibilities. It’s a haunting story of loss, self-discovery, survival, and homecoming.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Helen Keller

  Grace Norwich

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  Meet the extraordinary young woman who learned to read, write, and speak—even though she was deaf and blind. 
   
  I am two years old when I become deaf and blind. I live in a world of darkness. I am finally able to read and write with the help of my teacher Annie Sullivan. I am Helen Keller. 
   
  Learn all about this remarkable young woman whose accomplishments are truly inspiring, with this biography including:illustrations throughouta timelinean introduction to the other people you’ll meet in the book, including Helen’s amazing teacher and the men who fell in love with hermapssidebarsa top ten list of important things to know, and more

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  Nature Poem

  Tommy Pico

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  A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. 
  Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He'd slap a tree across the face. He'd rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he'd rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. 
  While he's adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word "natural," over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the "natural world," he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.

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