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  Kit Carson - A Biography for...

  Frances M. Perry

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  Four short, engaging biographies of some of America's most famous pioneers. This series includes the lives of...  - Daniel Boone and his daring settling of the Kentucky frontier  - Colonel George Rodgers Clarke and his heroic service to the Colonial Army during the American Revolution  - Davy Crockett and his brave defense of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution  - Kit Carson and his courageous exploration of Oregon, California and the uncharted West  Let these stories give you a front row seat to the draw, drama, and danger of Westward Expansion.

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  The Last Evolution - The Battle...

  John W. Campbell

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  Humanity has thrived for centuries on the brilliance and loyalty of its machines—beings of metal and logic who think, build, explore, and protect. But when an unknown species arrives from the deep void, wielding forces beyond comprehension, humankind discovers that its greatest creations may also be its only hope for survival. As entire colonies fall and life is swept from Earth, a handful of scientists and the most advanced machine minds race against time to unlock the secrets of ultimate energy, a breakthrough that could turn the tide—or seal the fate of all life in the Solar System. 
  In The Last Evolution, John W. Campbell, Jr. imagines a future where machines develop not only intelligence, but imagination, insight, and the capacity to dream beyond their creators. The story traces the moment when human ingenuity and machine logic collide under the pressure of extinction, forcing both to confront the nature of evolution itself. 
  John W. Campbell, Jr. (1910–1971) stands as one of the most influential figures in classic science fiction. As the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, he shaped the Golden Age, discovering and mentoring talents like Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and A. E. van Vogt. Yet Campbell was also a brilliant writer, crafting stories that blended rigorous speculation with vision and scale. The Last Evolution remains one of his most striking early works—a bold meditation on progress, intelligence, and the destiny of both humans and machines.

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  Robin Hood 8: Ballots Blasts &...

  Robert Muchamore

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  The eighth episode in the latest sure-fire hit series from the bestselling author of Cherub. Teen rebel and social-media star Robin Hood continues his epic struggle against the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham and brutal crime boss Guy Gisborne.Robin Hood is campaigning to get his dad, Ardagh Hood, elected Sheriff of Nottingham. But their rival is arch-gangster Guy Gisborne, who won't hesitate to stuff ballot boxes with fake votes to ensure that he wins the vote. And Robin has more personal worries - is he losing confidence in his ability to shoot arrows with deadly accuracy? Meanwhile Robin's half-brother Little John is caught up in his mother's presidential election campaign, further complicating contact with Robin, his father Ardagh and his relationship with his girlfriend, Gisborne's daughter Clare. The stakes get ever higher for both brothers in the eighth book of this all-action series.

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  Major and Mynah Project Puffin

  Karen Owen

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  SPUD – the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives – are on holiday, but find themselves in a race to solve a new mystery! When they discover puffins coated in waste oil that has been dumped in the sea, they must find out who is to blame. Can they crack the case before more damage is caused to precious sea life and the Welsh coastline?

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  Rainbow

  Michael Tolkien

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  Grace is fascinated by the natural world. To increase this precious sense of wonder, she is chosen by Nature’s spirit guides and guardians to travel on ‘a funny, sometimes fearful journey’ with an amethyst stone as her guide and promise of help along the way. Creatures she expects to assist her are too self-important. Her allies are small, often overlooked plants, flowers and insects. Her main goal seems to be discovering what lies in and beyond the rainbow, but her adventures bring her only slowly nearer to its mysterious garden, bridge and palace. Everything appears to be a long way round.  
  She decides to assist a lost, bitter boy – Downcast Don – to rediscover ‘wonder’ by obtaining for him a specially made silver spade. This takes her through strange and fearful forests, down a well to find an underground forge, and into an overwhelming encounter with an ancient giantess in a bleak desert. Her chief guide, Heartsease, assures her that it’s all part of a search for rainbow wisdom, to recognize the importance of all things and people and to accept ‘not knowing’. She can then ascend the ‘Shining Stairway’ to a stranger country beyond. 
  Up here Grace is nearer the rainbow but time and distance play tricks and she is in danger of being side-tracked. A knight, Sir Cloudy, a kind dreamer who lives in a time warp, invites her to his ‘Castle in the Air’. She is deceived by a Menace and his monstrous Mother, and only just escapes their clutches. The promised places are beautiful and intriguing but she must learn about what lies under the surface. The palace that crowns the bow bridge is where the guides and guardians weave their many-colored tapestries that reveal perspectives and choices about the future. When Grace descends the vanishing rainbow steps she meets characters who have made her journey so instructive, and once back in the everyday world she is still herself but somehow more so because she can see and understand more acutely.

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  The Chinese Emperor's New Clothes

  Ying Chang Compestine

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  David Roberts, the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Ada Twist, Scientistand Rosie Revere, Engineer, unites with award-winning author Ying Chang Compestine for a clever retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale. 
   
  Ming Da is only nine years old when he becomes the emperor of China. His ministers take advantage of the boy emperor by stealing rice, gold, and precious stones. But Ming Da has a plan. He orders his tailors to make him “magical” new clothes that only honest people can see. Can Ming Da outsmart his ministers and save his country?

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