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  When I Grow Up - I Want To Be An...

  Angelina P. Fioretti

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  Angelina wonders about being an Archaeologist   -  the latest book from the “Angelina’s An Author” Series! 
  What do you want to be? 
  Will you have friends? 
  Will you like working hard? 
  Will your boss be nice? 
  Read the book and see! 
    
  Also in the Angelina’s An Author Series: 
  The Princess and The Sisters: a modern fairy-tale 
  Going To Italy: a family vacation 
   Stickers, journals, backpack pin, free video book and more available at www.angelinasanauthor.com

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  Persephone and the Underworld

  Claudia Martin

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  Take a trip with Charon the ferryman to discover four magical stories about the Underworld. Find out why Persephone plays a trick to stay and how Sisyphus plays a trick to leave-and how to make friends with a three-headed dog.

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  Confederate Bushwhackers: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  The Civil War is best remembered for the big battles and the legendary generals who fought on both sides, like Robert E. Lee facing off against Ulysses S. Grant in 1864. In kind, the Eastern Theater has always drawn more interest and attention than the West. However, while massive armies marched around the country fighting each other, there were other small guerrilla groups that engaged in irregular warfare on the margins, and perhaps the most famous of them was led by Colonel John Mosby. Mosby, the “Gray Ghost” of the Confederate lore that celebrates the Lost Cause, has an image that has proven nearly impossible to corrupt or change, and time has done little good against it. Unlike the vanished 19th century code of honor that he represented, Mosby has retained the image and all its connotations. 
  Quantrill’s Raiders operated along the border between Missouri and Kansas, which had been the scene of partisan fighting over a decade earlier during the debate over whether Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as free states or slave states. In “Bloody Kansas”, zealous pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces fought each other, most notably John Brown, and the region became a breeding ground for individuals like Quantrill who shifted right back into similar fighting once the Civil War started. Rather than target military infrastructure or enemy soldiers, the bushwhackers rode in smaller numbers and targeted civilians on the other side of the conflict, making men like Bloody Bill Anderson and John Mosby notorious. However, none are remembered like Quantrill and his men, not only because of their deeds during the Civil War but because of the actions of some of the former Raiders after it. Quantrill is best known for raiding Lawrence, Kansas in August 1863 and slaughtering nearly 200 boys and men between the ages of 14 and 90 under the pretext that they were capable of holding a gun and thus helping the Union cause. 

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  The Farnsworth Chronicles - Book...

  William Staub

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  NJ Farnsworth is a thirteen-year-old in the seventh grade. He is the third of four children in his single-parent family—and he was born with spina bifida. Until this year, NJ hated school and merely endured every day in his wheelchair. But when his school gave him a laptop for his homework, he discovered an artificial intelligence game in which he could walk and run and play like other children. On each level of the game, he learns new principles, values, and skills to help him live better in his wheelchair. This time the game’s mission requires him to save the lives of three people before he can complete the level successfully and advance in the game. But who does he have to save? What must he save them from? How can he save anyone else when he is just thirteen years old? Will he even be able to save himself inside this level of Rhineheart’s Game? 
  William Staub has been writing fiction (novels, short stories, flash fiction stories) most of his adult life. He graduated from Brigham Young University in the field of Education and taught special needs students in Baltimore, Maryland for 13 years. He studied writing at the University of Maryland. However, he spent most of his adult life in the military, living in four different countries, eight different states of the US and traveling to many other places around the world. Married to his wife of 54+ years, they have four grown children, seven grandchildren, and at least four great-grandchildren (and growing). He is currently retired, writing in his spare time and living in Florida with his wife and their emeritus service dog, Ranger.

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  Not a Unicorn

  Daina Middleton

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  Who doesn't like unicorns? This girl. 
   
  Jewel's your average eighth grader. Awkward relationship with a cute boy, ex-BFFs with a popular girl, mom issues at home. You've read it all before. Except for one thing: Jewel has a unicorn horn on her head. 
   
  (Okay, and one other thing, but it's just too weird to mention here!) 
   
  Jewel tries to stay invisible at school, looking forward to the day when she can finally leave her small town behind, making art with her fellow weirdos, and obsessively reading graphic novels with her best friends. But when she's selected  
  to represent her school at the regional French speaking competition, she decides she's had enough of the shy life. The horn needs to come off. 
   
  What happens when you have the ability to become the girl you've always wanted to be? When you don't know your true self, how do you know your true friends?  
   
  What happens when everything in your life—your biggest struggle, your greatest joy, and your dearest friends—all combine in one calamitous adventure? 
   
  With a sparkle of magic, a treasure trove of true determination, and help from all her friends both real and invisible, Jewel just might survive this year with her heart—and her head—intact.

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  Pete the Cat and the Wright...

  James Dean, Kimberly Dean

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  Pete the Cat helps the Wright brothers build their first flying machine in this historical fiction Level 1 I Can Read from New York Times bestselling creators Kimberly and James Dean.  
  When Pete the Cat learns that the Wright brothers' flying machine can’t fly without the wind, he has an idea. What if it didn’t need wind to fly? Together, the cats invent the perfect solution. Pete may even get the chance to fly! This early reader includes an author’s note about the real life Wright brothers and the true story of the first flight.  
  Find out in this Level 1 I Can Read book from the creators of Pete the Cat, Kimberly and James Dean. Pete the Cat and the Wright Brothers is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own.

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