Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Retold from the Johanna Spyri Original

An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

Classic Starts®: Heidi

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New York

Annabel the Actress Starring In: Hound of the Barkervilles 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Beast in Ms. Rooney’s Room

Patricia Reilly Giff

Each student in Ms. Rooney's room celebrates the December holidays by being a secret pal to a classmate.

The Kids of Polk Street School: December Secrets

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Beverly Cleary

Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary brings her understanding and warmth to every page of this wonderful story of a "bad boy."

When it comes to stirring up a little excitement in class, Otis Spofford knows just what to do. He can turn a folk dance fiesta into a three-ring circus . . . or an arithmetic lesson into a spitball marathon.

Best of all, Otis likes teasing neat, well-behaved Ellen Tebbits--until the day his teasing goes too far. Now Otis is nervous, because Ellen isn't just mad . . . she's planning something!

Otis Spofford

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Marc Brown

An Arthur Chapter Book

Arthur's Mystery Envelope It looks like trouble when the principal asks Arthur to take home a large envelope marked CONFIDENTIAL. His friends try to guess what's inside. It might just be information on...summer school! Will Arthur face the consequences or pretend to lose the envelope? In chapter-book format, for children who are ready to read on their own, this mysterious adventure will surely be a hit among Arthur fans.

Arthur's Mystery Envelope

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Jon Scieszka

The campaign is going well. The SPHDZ word is getting out. 1000's of kids have signed up to say they are SPHDZ. But things haven't gotten any easier for Michael K. The SPHDZ are still trying to blend in to our Earth culture, but not very successfully. They're still mixing up Thanksgiving, cartoon plots, holidays, and commercials. This makes it especially hard for Michael K. to both hide the SPHDZ from Agent Umber and accomplish the SPHDZ Mission. He's forced to enlist the help of fellow fifth graders, Venus and TJ.

When they (Michael K. and the SPHDZ) are given the assignment to write and perform the school play, Umber thinks he's closing in on the aliens...the kindergartners playing the turkeys.

Spaceheadz Book #2!

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Lee Wardlaw

Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt was born to invent things, and his latest gadget-- the Nice Alarm, which wakes you up with a gentle tap on the shoulder--promises to make him rich and famous All Sneeze needs to do is attend the Invention Convention, and he will be catapulted into stardom. So, when Sneeze's convention plans are nixed by his parents, who have enrolled him in a creative writing class instead, he is appalled. For his first writing project, Sneeze starts a list of ways to bug his parents. It keeps growing until he hits upon a brilliant plan--a plan that will enable him to attend the convention with or without his parents. . . .

101 Ways to Bug Your Parents

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Louisiana

Magic Under The Stars

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When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life

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Dear Mr. Henshaw, I wish somebody would stop stealing the good stuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things, too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pull up in front in the rig ... Dad would yell out of the cab, "Come on, Leigh. Hop in and I'll give you a lift to school." Leigh Botts has been author Boyd Henshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid at school. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals from his lunchbag. Then Leigh's teacher assigns a letter-writing project. Naturally Leigh chooses to write to Mr. Henshaw, whose surprising answer changes Leigh's life.

Dear Mr. Henshaw

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Oregon

Your Former Friend, Matthew

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Dan Elish

Daphna Whispers is insanely gifted. At age two and a half, she composed her first sonata. At age eight, she completed an opera. And now, at eleven and three-quarters, she is orchestrating a piano rhapsody. With a rÉsumÉ like that, it's no wonder she is a student at the prestigious Blatt School for the Insanely Gifted. But as sixth grade draws to a close, Daphna's mind is far from the upcoming "Insanity Cup" competition. She's preoccupied by her mother's disappearance two months ago. When a mysterious man breaks into Daphna's small New York apartment, Daphna discovers that her mother's disappearance wasn't a random accident. Her mother knew something—and now somebody is after Daphna. What starts out as a simple fact-finding trip to the basement with her friends spirals into an international expedition. And while Daphna hopes to uncover the secret of her mother's disappearance on her global trek, the last thing she expects to uncover is an outrageous secret about the Blatt School. And one insanely shocking secret about herself.

The School for the Insanely Gifted

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Natalie Babbitt

An out-of-work actor, Hercules Feltwright, stumbles into a job tutoring Willet Goody, the only child of a widow living in a large, lonely house. Willet quickly involves his tutor in the search to discover the truth about his father. The mystery unfolds with the discovery of hidden treasure, a gypsy séance, and the frightening exploration of the tomb of Midas Goody.

Goody Hall

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Have a Wedding

The Littles 

Douglas Evans

You know the classroom at the end of the hall? The one with the tall teacher? And the Pain-In-The-Neck who likes to write his name on the blackboard in snot? Yeah, well, weird stuff has been going on down the hall . . . . First of all, when Roger was cleaning the erasers, out billowed a huge cloud of chalk dust--and a chalk dust genie! And when the genie granted the Roger's wish to be the teacher of the class, Roger got more than he bargained for. Namely, he got himself--Roger--disturbing the class and making everyone, even himself, miserable. And Kenneth--that kid who hates reading? Well, he found a book that can tell his future. But he has to read it to find out what's going to happen. . . . Not to mention what happened to Rosalie, who always copies answers off of other kids' papers. Something was bugging her. A doodlebug. It just crawled into her ear and started telling her the answers to all of her schoolwork. It looked like she was never going to have to cheat again, until Mr. Leeks exterminated the classroom at the end of the hall. Then Rosalie was on her own . . . . The nine laugh-out-loud funny tales in this zany collection teach valuable lessons about teaching, learning, and life in a third-grade classroom.

The Classroom at the End of the Hall

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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Natasha Wing

When a little camper arrives at summer camp, he is quite nervous until an unlikely friend comes to his rescue and introduces him to tons of summertime fun! Original.

The Night Before Summer Camp

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Elizabeth Schaefer

Rey never thought she would leave the desert planet of Jakku, but her life is turned upside down when she meets BB-8, a small droid with a big secret. Like it or not, Rey is about to be caught up in something much larger than herself: a galactic war between the evil First Order and the fledgling Resistance. But something is awakening inside of Rey, something that might turn the tides of fortune in the galaxy. . . .

Star Wars the Force Awakens: Rey's Story

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Geronimo Stilton

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Seventh Adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy

Geronimo's seventh quest in the Kingdom of Fantasy!I, Geronimo Stilton, was so excited to find myself in the Kingdom of Fantasy for a seventh time. Blossom, Queen of the Fairies, needed me to find the seven enchanted charms before the Wizard of the Black Pearl could get to them!Seven guardians across the realm protected each charm. When combined, the charms would bring enormouse power -- which the evil wizard was after. Squeak! Could I survive the dangers of new kingdoms and mysterious creatures to find the charms and save the Kingdom of Fantasy? I was up for the challenge!

The Enchanted Charms

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Lauren Child

When her best friend announces that she is moving away, Clarice Bean has a new entry for her "Worry" journal and hopes that something will happen to change things back to the way they were.

Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

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Disney Books

A group of students who attend the Utah high school where the original High School Musical movies were filmed prepare for their fall production of High School Musical.


Ricky and Nini, who play Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez, share chemistry on and off the stage, but with their understudies E.J. and Gina plotting to take over their roles, will these talented performers make it to opening night?


Includes an eight-page, full-color insert of photos from the breakout Disney + series.

































































































































HSMTMTS: Novelization, Season 1

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Ginger Zee

When Helicity Dunlap flies for Texas to spend time with her best friend Mia she hopes to leave the tragedies of the devastating tornado and flash flood back in Michigan-at least for a little while. Her responsibilities at Mia's Aunt Suze's beachfront bed and breakfast are pretty simple and leave her lots of time to enjoy hunting for sea glass, sunbathing, and exploring a summer romance. But Helicity comes by her name honestly-Helicity means to spin-and her troubles from home follow her south. Her concerns about her older brother Andy intensify-even though he shows up to surprise her in Texas. And if there's one place in the world that has weather to rival Michigan's, it's Texas. She and her friends go out for a day sail and get caught up in a derecho-a line of intense, widespread, and fast-moving windstorms that once again turn her boat-and life-upside down. She'll have to face her fears and muster all her strength and knowledge to fight her way out of the nightmare.

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Johanna Spyri; Lisa Church (Abridged by); Jamel Akib (Illustrator); Arthur Pober (Afterword by)

Classic Starts®: Heidi

Ellen Conford

Annabel the Actress Starring In: Hound of the Barkervilles

Patricia Reilly Giff

The Beast in Ms. Rooney’s Room

Patricia Reilly Giff

The Kids of Polk Street School: December Secrets

Beverly Cleary

Otis Spofford

Marc Brown

Arthur's Mystery Envelope

Jon Scieszka

Spaceheadz Book #2!

Lee Wardlaw

101 Ways to Bug Your Parents

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Magic Under The Stars

James Patterson; Chris Tebbetts; Laura Park (Illustrator)

Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life

Beverly Cleary

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Susan Cappadonia Love

Magic Under The Stars

LouAnn Gaeddert; Mary B. Schwark (Illustrator)

Your Former Friend, Matthew

Dan Elish

The School for the Insanely Gifted

Natalie Babbitt

Goody Hall

John Peterson

The Littles

Douglas Evans

The Classroom at the End of the Hall

James Patterson

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Natasha Wing

The Night Before Summer Camp

Elizabeth Schaefer

Star Wars the Force Awakens: Rey's Story

Geronimo Stilton

The Enchanted Charms

Lauren Child

Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

Disney Books

HSMTMTS: Novelization, Season 1

Ginger Zee

Chasing Helicity into the Wind