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  Ada Twist Scientist: Show Me the...

  Gabrielle Meyer

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  It’s Easter! The eggs are decorated, the baskets are ready, and Mr. Twist’s Easter pants are looking fly, which means one thing: it’s time for the annual Twist Easter Egg Hunt, Ada’s favorite family tradition. And this year, her parents are letting Ada hide the eggs! But Arthur, her big brother, thinks the egg hunt is going to be too easy now that he’s eleven—so Ada has to do a test hiding to make sure it’s super hard or else Arthur will retire from the egg hunt forever! Soon Ada, Rosie, and Iggy are brainstorming about how to find the hardest hiding spot in the history of egg-hiding. This sweet and funny story is all about learning from your mistakes and accepting that sometimes you might fail.

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  Monster Melee 85

  J. Dallas Brooks

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  In 1985, with the power to walk between reality and the Beyond Realm, 5th-grader Billy’s been haunted for nearly half his life by monsters that no one else can see. He knows that totally wigging out will land him in detention or worse...grounded. No Atari. No MTV. No fun of any kind! Billy decides to take karate by forging his mom’s signature on a permission slip. The mysterious Sensei gives him a radical watch that lets him do something he never thought possible: fight back. A scary Skull Cloud monster confronts Billy and demands a showdown on Halloween in the Monster Melee, an epic battle between monsters and kids that happens every 37 years. It’s a fight he can’t win alone. Can Billy, a loner, assemble a team of real friends to help him battle this terrible monster, or will the ghouls of the Beyond Realm invade Nebraska and then the world?

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  Out of the Shadows - How Lotte...

  Fiona Robinson

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  Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full eleven years before Disney’s Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairytales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she learned about paperschnitte, or papercuts, which helped her create her signature style of silhouettes. She grew up to make more than forty films throughout her long career, most of which were fairytales that used her stop-film animation technique of hand-cut silhouettes. Reiniger is now seen as the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation and the inventor of an early form of the multiplane camera.

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  Bedtime Stories for 2 to 5 Year...

  Jacqui Brown, Maud Lindsay,...

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  Settle down for bed time with this collection of calming bedtime stories for 2 to 5 year olds. Each story will transport your little one to a magical adventure and get them ready to fall asleep into a deep relaxing slumber.

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  Little Blacknose

  Hildegarde Hoyt Swift

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  Little Blacknose is a charming children’s tale about the historic steam locomotive DeWitt Clinton, presented in a storytelling style that brings history to life. The narrative is told from the train’s perspective and follows its journey from creation to its early days of service on the tracks. As “Little Blacknose,” the locomotive faces challenges and doubts, but perseveres through determination, pride, and a sense of purpose. 
  Throughout the story, the train reflects on its origins, the expectations placed on it, and the pride that comes from being part of something greater. Its experiences echo the spirit of early railroad pioneers, showing young readers that progress often comes through humility, effort, and belief. The book also touches on themes of legacy: how even a locomotive’s retirement can symbolize the enduring value of a life well lived in service and ambition. 
  Awarded a Newbery Honor in 1930, Little Blacknose remains a timeless classic—encouraging children to value heritage, perseverance, and the adventure in every journey.

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  Spying on Spies - How Elizebeth...

  Marissa Moss

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  The fascinating story of America's first female code-breaker, Elizebeth Smith Friedman 
   
  As one of the world’s greatest code-breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman saved many lives throughout the twentieth century, catching dangerous criminals with her brilliant mind. Yet, she has largely been written out of history books, unlike her famous code-breaker husband. Spying on Spies seeks to right this oversight. 
   
  Whip-smart and determined, Elizebeth displayed a remarkable aptitude for language and recognizing patterns from a young age. After she became the Treasury Department’s and Coast Guard’s first code-breaker, she trained all her male colleagues and created her own top-notch code-breaking unit, the first ever led by a woman. 
   
  During Prohibition, her work solving and intercepting coded messages from mobsters and criminal gangs led to hundreds of high-profile prosecutions, including members of Al Capone’s gang. Her crowning achievement came during World War II, when Elizebeth uncovered an intricate network of Nazi spies operating in South America. She cracked supposedly unsolvable codes just like the much more famous Alan Turing did at Bletchley Park in England. 
   
  Spying on Spies tells the inspiring story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM whose legacy deserves to come out of the shadows. 
   
  This audiobook contains a supplemental PDF.

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