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  The Adventures of Billy Bog...

  Ian Campbell

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  It is a lovely day in Billy Bog Brush's neighbourhood. Billy is wondering what to do with himself, when he hears his neighbour, Mrs. Brown, screaming for help. Billy springs into action! Billy races to the scene where he finds Mrs. Brown's house is on fire and she is locked out. Billy must use creative thinking to find a key. Will Billy manage to get the key before the fire brigade arrives? In this sweet children's story about courage and helping others, Billy learns how much fun it can be to be a hero!

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  Open the Door to Liberty! - A...

  Anne Rockwell

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  The story of revolution leaderToussaint L'Ouverture of St. Domingue (now Haiti).The island now known as Haiti was once a French colony called St. Domingue, where white plantation owners forced hundreds of thousands of African slaves to farm sugar cane. Toussaint L'Ouverture was one of those slaves . . . but not for long. The day would come when L'Ouverture would lead his island's slaves into a revolution for freedom, and his efforts would influence the course of world history.

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  Librarian's Night Before Christmas

  David R. Davis

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  Santa Claus spreads holiday cheer to a hard-working librarian on Christmas Eve in this humorous take on the children’s classic. Due to low staffing, a librarian must spend her Christmas Eve stacking the shelves at a library in desperate need of renovations. After the strain of a long night that has left her feeling “like Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol,” she is pleasantly surprised to see Santa and his six elves coming to her rescue in a red bookmobile.  In this delightful retelling of Clement C. Moore’s classic, Santa signs Newbery winners and starred Caldecotts and stocks the library shelves with Hawthorne, Steinbeck, Millay, and Hemingway. After reading to the children and drinking some hot chocolate, Santa puts his elves to work replacing the rugs, fixing leaks, and organizing gifts according to the Dewey decimal system. As he leaves, Santa pays overdue fees and booms, “Do one more good deed. Have a real merry Christmas—teach someone to read!” Praise for Librarian’s Night Before Christmas“Santa is appropriately jolly and the elves, exuberant. A library cat and mouse contribute to the antics.” —School Library Journal“This volume will definitely find a place in the hearts of librarians and library lovers.” —Review of Texas Books

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  National Parks and Monuments

  Publishing Flying Frog

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  Read about the special features and quirky characteristics that make up America’s parks and monuments from the east to the west coast. Full-color illustrations and interesting trivia make it an easy and fun journey of learning! Discover shorelines, canyons, and mountains as you travel down rivers and hike along historic scenic trails. 

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  Silver and Plum - And Other Stories

  Tang Tang

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  Welcome to Fairy Tales from Tang Tang  Tang Tang weaves traditional Chinese storytelling with Western fantasy elements, using vivid language to craft unique stories of wonder and magic. These beautiful, poignant fairy tales will leave an imprint on your heart with their universal themes of friendship, family, loyalty and loss.  What happens when …  two children promise to reunite in a year and two toy cats make the same pledge?  a ghost carries an orphan girl away to his island to teach his plants to talk?  an immortal phoenix falls in love with a mortal man?  a young boy rides a mysterious train into the wilderness?  a sleepless ghost decides to hang upside down in a girl’s chimney? This book is for children and for adults who never lost their sense of wonder. Translated from the original Chinese  Edited by Rebecca Moesta and illustrated by Lü Qiumei. Translated by Li Xiaochun and Rebecca Moesta

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  Amelia Bedelia Cleans Up

  Herman Parish

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  Amelia Bedelia clears out a vacant lot to build a clubhouse in the New York Times–bestselling series about the childhood of America’s favorite housekeeper! 
   
  Amelia Bedelia and her friends need a clubhouse for their new Explorers’ Club. One day they discover an empty lot with a huge tree right in the middle of it. It’s the perfect spot to build a cool tree house for club headquarters. The lot is a big mess, so Amelia Bedelia, her friends, and their parents pitch in and clean it up. They discover:Lots of old tiresTons of junkTrash and recyclablesStray (but really cute) catsThat you can’t build a tree house in a lot that doesn’t belong to you! 
   
  Uh-oh! Will Amelia Bedelia and her friends ever get the clubhouse of their dreams? 
   
  Praise for the series 
   
  “Readers will giggle over Amelia’s mishaps.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “Parish has turned the clock back, making Amelia Bedelia young again and giving a new generation of readers the opportunity to enjoy her humor and self-confidence.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  Includes a guide to the idioms used in the book and black-and-white art throughout

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