Recently Acquired Books For Kids

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Cressida Cowell

How to Ride a Dragon's Storm

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, everyone's favorite reluctant Viking hero, has three months, five days and six hours to discover America, get back to Berk, save his father, battle Polarserpents and win the annual Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race. Can he do it?
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Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Legion of the Dead (Barnaby Grimes Series ; 3)

Gangland funerals and diving expeditions are hazardous enough, but when the graveyards begin to give up their dead, this tick-tock lad is faced with his deadliest challenge yet. . . .
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Sara Pennypacker

Clementine, Friend of the Week

With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.

Allison Lassieur

Westward Expansion: An Interactive History Adventure

Describes the people and events of the age of Manifest Destiny and the American West. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a traveler on the Oregon Trail, a laborer, or a Sioux warrior.
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Sy Montgomery

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot

On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the kakapo population.
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Dan Green

Math: A Book You Can Count On

Presents mathematical concepts using lively descriptions and cartoon illustrations personifying each concept.
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