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  Brothers Karamazov The (Easy...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gemma Barder

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  An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages!
  Dimitri is angry and reckless. Ivan is smart and logical. Alyosha is caring and forgiving. And their half-brother Smerdyakov is treated no better than a servant by their father. When Dimitri falls in love with a woman who isn’t his fiancée and sets out to get the money his father is keeping from him, tensions within the family run higher than ever.
  Can Alyosha bring the Karamazov family together before disaster strikes?

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  Daksha The Medicine Girl

  Gita V. Reddy

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  Daksha lives in a hamlet on the Himalayas. An orphan, she learns native medicine by assisting a vaidya. A chance encounter brings her to the notice of people who move her to town and admit her to a school. 
  Daksha is unhappy there and wants to return to her hamlet – until a resourceful doctor helps her adjust to her new life. 
  Daksha the Medicine Girl and The Missing Girl (also by the author) are used as supplementary readers in some schools in India.

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  Girls Solve Everything - Stories...

  Catherine Thimmesh

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  Brave women from diverse backgrounds make the world a better place through their businesses in this inspiring companion to the best-selling Girls Think of Everything by Sibert-winner Catherine Thimmesh and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet. For fans of Women Who Dared and Women in Science.   
  Women all over the globe are asking questions that affect lives and creating businesses that answer them. Like, can we keep premature babies warm when they're born far from the hospital? Or, can the elderly stay in their homes and eat a balanced diet? Women are taking on and solving these issues with their ingenuity and business acumen. 
  How did they get their ideas? Where does the funding for their projects come from? And how have some of these businesses touched YOUR life? Girls Solve Everything answers these questions, inspiring today's kids to learn from entrepreneurs and take on some of the world's biggest problems, one solution at a time.

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  Ion the Young Shuttle

  Kielen King

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  Meet Ion...a young space shuttle that goes around the universe learning, exploring, and having fun! Get ready to blast off and make a new friend in space! This fun book for new and early readers was written by Kielen King and illustrated by Heather Lunny.

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  World Cup

  Matt Christopher

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  Soccer. No other sport in the world captivates a bigger audience -- and no other competition electrifies its fans like the World Cup. Now, just in time for the next World Cup competition, comes a book just for kids, jam-packed with information about each and every World Cup ever played.  Want to know who was behind the biggest surprise defeat of the 1950 tournament? It's in here. Curious about what happened to the Jules Rimet trophy when it was in England? Turn to the chapter on World Cup 1966. Wondering what the term Total Football means? You'll find the answer here -- along with much, much more, including a bonus chapter on the Women's World Cup and lists of winners, runners-up, and scores of past Cups. And because it all comes from Matt Christopher, young readers know they're getting the best sports writing on the shelf.

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  There Was an Old Woman (Who...

  Melissa Everett

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  There Was an Old Woman (Who Lived in a Shoe): What do you do when you live in a shoe? Save up some loot and move to a boot! There Was a Crooked Man: Everything is a little crooked in this silly rhyme everyone loves to recite.

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