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Marty Frye Private Eye #1: The Case Of The Missing Action Figure & Other Mysteries, Katherine Cooper Dec 2018

Marty Frye Private Eye #1: The Case Of The Missing Action Figure & Other Mysteries, Katherine Cooper

Children's Book and Media Review

Marty Frye is no ordinary young boy. He’s a private detective who solves mysterious crimes. From helping a classmate, a store owner, and his own sister, Marty’s detective skills are well-known and trusted. Not only does he solve crime, but he does it with rhyme. With a love of poetry, this crime fighting detective speaks in rhymes while he solves crimes. With a missing diary, missing action figures, and missing flour, Marty has a lot of work to do before it’s bedtime.

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Little Chef, Sydnee Burr Dec 2018

Little Chef, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

Determined to prepare her grandmother's favorite meal during an upcoming visit, a young girl fearlessly reigns in the kitchen. Partway through preparations, she tries to decide on a secret ingredient. The young chef selects a spice, adds it, and then serves up her dinner to the family. It is a success! Everyone loves her dish, especially her grandmother. At the end of the meal, the grandmother asks her granddaughter what the secret ingredient was, and the little chef bravely reminds her grandmother that a good chef never reveals her secrets.

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Jane, The Fox & Me, Emma Patton Dec 2018

Jane, The Fox & Me, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

Helene feels like a big, fat sausage. It’s probably because that’s what the girls she goes to school with have been telling her for what feels like forever. The only time she feels like she can escape her embarrassing life and repulsive body is when she is reading Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre was misunderstood, too. So, when Helene is reading about Jane’s life, she feels like there might just be a place where she fits in, because if Jane was able to find it, maybe she can too. When Helene is forced to go on a camping trip for school, …

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I Got It!, Maryn Wheeler Dec 2018

I Got It!, Maryn Wheeler

Children's Book and Media Review

He just needs to catch the ball. A boy has been assigned to play outfield in a neighborhood pick-up game of baseball. Soon, his chance for a fly ball has come his way. As if in slow-motion, he imagines all of the worst-case scenarios that would hinder his catch. Luckily, these figments of his imagination turn positive as he uses the boost of his teammates to catch the ball and shout, “I got it!”

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I Am Helen Keller, Kelly Garcia Dec 2018

I Am Helen Keller, Kelly Garcia

Children's Book and Media Review

Helen Keller becomes blind and deaf as an infant from an illness. She then has to learn how to cope with life without being able to see or hear anything, and she is very frustrated because she cannot communicate with anyone anymore. A dear teacher, Anne Sullivan, comes into her life and teaches her Braille as well as sign language, and eventually Helen learns how to speak out loud. She is then able to communicate with others, and she goes on to accomplish many things in her life that most people thought she would never be able to do. When …

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Going For A Sea Bath, Cynthia Phillips Dec 2018

Going For A Sea Bath, Cynthia Phillips

Children's Book and Media Review

It’s time for her bath, but Leanne would rather continue to play in the ocean waves. The bathtub is too boring. Suddenly her father has a brilliant idea. Why not bring the ocean to her? Soon enough, the tub is filled to the brim with sea creatures of all kinds. Now the tub is not so boring. But when the ten octopi are brought in, Leanne realizes that maybe a bath in the sea would be better.

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Goddess Girls: Artemis The Brave, Kelly Garcia Dec 2018

Goddess Girls: Artemis The Brave, Kelly Garcia

Children's Book and Media Review

Artemis is the goddess of hunting, so naturally she should always be brave, or at least that’s what she tells herself. But at thirteen years of age, she is afraid sometimes. However, she would never admit that she is scared to anyone. She has sworn off love and feels like crushes are dumb. That is, until there is a new boy at school. As the school is getting ready to put on a play, Artemis learns much about herself along with the help of her friends and her brother, Apollo.

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Girls Who Code, Kristie Hinckley Dec 2018

Girls Who Code, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Lucy, a middle schooler, is excited for coding club to start. But when coding club isn’t what she expects, Lucy has to find a way to learn how to code on her own. When someone sends her on a secret scavenger hunt of sorts filled with coding clues, she gets excited, but is also confused and suspicious. The girls, with a little help from Lucy’s mostly annoying brother, write code in order to catch the culprit. In the end, it’s their coding club advisor who was the coding clue culprit the whole time! The group of four girls become a …

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Giant Pumpkin Suite, Sydnee Burr Dec 2018

Giant Pumpkin Suite, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

At age twelve, Rose performs far above her academic level and is an accomplished cellist. In order to reach this height in performance and maintain it, she strictly organizes her days into homework and practice, leaving little to no room for anything else. Her twin brother couldn't be any more different. Not interested in school, and with grades far below his sister Rose, Thomas agrees to help his aging neighbor grow a giant pumpkin. When life takes an unexpected turn, Rose is forced to take a step back, relearn what it means to have fun, and make meaningful discoveries in …

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Get A Job Making Stuff To Sell, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Get A Job Making Stuff To Sell, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

This book inspires children to make things to sell to earn their own income. Lemonade and baked goods are an obvious way to start, but there are other options as well that are showcased in this book. There are nine ideas in total that provide readers with ways to make a few dollars of their own. It's never too soon to start your own business. You can make a difference at any age, and you can start small and move onto greater things. Whether it’s making soap, jewelry, or custom artwork, young entrepreneurs can make steps toward a bright and …

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Gabby Garcia's Ultimate Playbook, Kristie Hinckley Dec 2018

Gabby Garcia's Ultimate Playbook, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Gabby Garcia has a bunch of broken dreams now that her junior high school is filled with asbestos and she has to play for the baseball team that used to be her competitor. She records all of her twelve-year-old thoughts in her playbook, which she says is not anything like a diary. The opposing team and coach aren’t excited to have her on the team, so she quits baseball and joins the field hockey team, where she thinks she can actually win and feel welcome. She bounces between friend groups and sports teams in order to find her niche. At …

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Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy, Becca Wilhite Dec 2018

Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy, Becca Wilhite

Children's Book and Media Review

Footer Davis, ten-year-old budding journalist, secretly investigates the details of a local tragedy with her best friend, Peavine Jones. Against her dad’s instructions, her teacher’s suggestions, and the bossy social worker’s orders, Footer digs into the clues left behind after the fire at the Abrams farm. Instead of answers, she gets flashbacks—but that’s impossible, since she wasn’t even there. She realizes she’s maybe, probably coming down with the same mental illness that has her mother locked up in a faraway hospital. With a dedication to finding answers that outweighs her fears for her own sanity, Footer discovers enough clues to …

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Flying Colors: A Guide To Flags From Around The World!, Ariel Woodbury Dec 2018

Flying Colors: A Guide To Flags From Around The World!, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Each country’s flag has a history. The style and color of the flag has symbolism that defines its country. Switzerland’s flag and other square flags are militaristic. Tribands, flags divided into three parallel strips of color, are symbolic of a republican country. Thirty-two countries that were once colonies of the British Empire still have the Union Jack in the upper hoist, the top corner by the flag pole. The Union Jack itself is a merging of the original English, Scottish, and Irish Flags. The history behind the development of our world flags and the individual flags themselves is rich and …

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Every Girl Is A Princess, Nan Rao Dec 2018

Every Girl Is A Princess, Nan Rao

Children's Book and Media Review

Every girl is a princess and every princess has a special crown. The book takes the reader through five different princesses around the world, identified by the special item that adorns their crown as well as the animal they adore. The interactive flap for each character lets the reader reveal the crown that belongs to the princess. The end of the story gives the reader a pleasant surprise showing that she is also a princess by looking into a mirror.

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Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Emma Patton Dec 2018

Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

There’s a new library in town, and the world-famous game maker, Mr. Lemoncello, is one of the funders. Now that it’s almost time for the library to open, Mr. Lemoncello is inviting select twelve-year-olds from the town to spend the night in his library before the grand opening. But Mr. Lemoncello also has a trick up his sleeve. For those who wish to participate, he is offering a prize to the first student who can figure out how to escape his library before the time runs out. Through a series of games, literary trivia, and general sneakiness, the students must …

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Draw Like An Ancient Egyptian, Ariel Woodbury Dec 2018

Draw Like An Ancient Egyptian, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Many Egyptian gods are represented by animals and have great powers. The Egyptians would draw people from the front with their heads and legs in profile. What would you look like as an Egyptian god? Their alphabet had thousands of hieroglyphs. Try to write your name using a simplified version of their alphabet. Their canopic jars, death masks, coffins and sarcophagi were all decorated elaborately and works of art. They had many styles, and with this book you can try to design your own!

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Dk Readers L3: Titanic: The Disaster That Shocked The World!, Erica Sonzogni Dec 2018

Dk Readers L3: Titanic: The Disaster That Shocked The World!, Erica Sonzogni

Children's Book and Media Review

The Titanic is a disaster that fascinates people of every age. When reading Titanic: The Disaster that Shocked the World!, there are many new details that are introduced. For example, the Titanic stopped in Ireland and France before it sank, and newspapers wrote fake articles saying that everyone had been saved from the sinking ship. This book states the events of the famous shipwreck in chronological order using a narrative approach, also including non-fiction text features to provide additional information.

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Dinosaur Rap, Megan Hall Dec 2018

Dinosaur Rap, Megan Hall

Children's Book and Media Review

Do you know how to do the dinosaur rap? The stegosaurus struts its stuff while the T-Rex clicks its claws. Then all the dinosaurs join in! Readers follow along as different dinosaurs display their unique dance moves and then help the dinosaurs sing the dinosaur rap.

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Dinner Time, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Dinner Time, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Animals get hungry too! In this hungry picture book, readers follow a dinner menu up the jungle food chain as one animal eats another from one page to the next. Each hungry creature eats the last before winding on their own way into the jungle and meeting the next predator who greets them and gobbles them. All but the last apex predator, who chooses to eat without conversation!

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Did You Eat The Parakeet, Nan Rao Dec 2018

Did You Eat The Parakeet, Nan Rao

Children's Book and Media Review

The little girl’s pet parakeet has gone missing and who else to blame but the family cat! The storybook starts out with a picture showing that the pet parakeet has happily flown out of its cage without the owner knowing. When the girl notices, she immediately wonders if her cat has simply enjoyed a budgie cuisine. As the book goes on, the little girl poses various questions to the family cat showing her disappointment and disapproval for what she thinks may have taken place. Finally, the cat shows its little owner that the parakeet is perched on her head all …

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Daniel Coldstar: The Relic War, Becky Jamieson Dec 2018

Daniel Coldstar: The Relic War, Becky Jamieson

Children's Book and Media Review

None of the boys slaving away truly remember their lives before the relic mine. Daniel Coldstar, however, is determined to get out. With the help of a relic, Daniel makes his way up to the world’s surface and out into space. He makes friends with Hex, an anatom, and Truth Seekers Ionica and Ben. The Truth Seekers are a powerful interstellar organization that tries to keep peace within and among the many different human-colonized worlds. With the help of the Truth Seekers, Daniel returns to rescue the other kids still trapped in the mines. There, he finds that those he …

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Cool Construction And Building Blocks, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Cool Construction And Building Blocks, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

Cool Construction and Building Blocks contains six projects for children who love to build and create. There are three projects that involve the popular building blocks, LEGOs. There is also a project that uses magnets to build with and another project features a super crafty design for making transparent blocks. There is also some background information included that provides a historical glance at favorite toys such as Lincoln Logs, LEGOs, and other building sets. This book feeds the mind of a young builder and provides them with new ways to create.

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Childhood Of Famous American's: George Washington's First Victory, Megan Hall Dec 2018

Childhood Of Famous American's: George Washington's First Victory, Megan Hall

Children's Book and Media Review

With his father recently passed away, how will young George Washington be able to leave his family to visit his older brother at Mount Vernon? George asks his mother repeatedly for permission to visit his brother, but she says no. While at school, George thinks of several ideas to convince his mother. As he arrives at home at the end of the school day, he comes up with a perfect reason that will let him visit Mount Vernon. The book tells of George Washington’s first victory in a way that readers old and young will enjoy.

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Challenger Deep, Melissa Heaton Dec 2018

Challenger Deep, Melissa Heaton

Children's Book and Media Review

Caden Bosch is a bright high school sophomore who struggles to keep his head above water in a sea of mental illness. His friends start noticing his unusual behavior and keep their distance. Caden’s parents are concerned by his verbal outbursts of paranoia. The voices in Caden’s head and his strange dreams keep him from acting like a typical teenage boy, so his parents eventually admit him to Seaview Memorial Hospital. During his time at Seaview, Caden learns more about himself and how to live with mental illness.

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Bully, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Bully, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

It seems only natural that a big belligerent bullfrog might become a bully who wants all of the pond, all of the lilies, and everything all for himself! But that's not fair! All of the other small creatures that he pushes out band together and push him out to a muddy pond that he can enjoy all by himself.

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Building Amazing Creations, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Building Amazing Creations, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

Sean Kenney is an amazing artist who once had a big dream and took a chance on it. He escaped from the confines of his office cubicle and stepped into the world of creativity. His persistence paid off, and he now creates one-of-a-kind LEGO sculptures for clients around the world. This book is a collector's item full of color photographs of Sean's numerous creations. The behind-the-scenes look at Sean's exciting and unique job is an inspiring delight.

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Breakout, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Breakout, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Seventh grader Nora Tucker is looking forward to a summer full of cookouts, hikes, and swimming. Her plans for the year go awry when the high-security prison near her home has a breakout. Now two killers are on the loose somewhere near Nora's sleepy town in upstate New York, and the residents are becoming more fearful and distrusting. Inspired by her English teacher, Nora and her friend Lizzie set out to document the events of the breakout through letters, text messages, voice recordings, and more. Along the way they get to know Elidee, a new girl who has just moved …

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Emma Patton Dec 2018

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

Margaret just wants to be like everyone else. After her family moves from New York City to a suburban town in New Jersey, Margaret is confronted with questions she’s never had to face before. In her new town, every family is heavily involved in their respective church communities, but Margaret’s family is not religious. Margaret is also entering a new phase of her life. Her new friends talk about boys and the development of their bodies, and they seem to demand that Margaret do the same. Once she sees how far along these girls are, she suddenly feels so immature …

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Amulet #1: The Stonekeeper, Emma Patton Dec 2018

Amulet #1: The Stonekeeper, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

Emily, her mom, and her brother just moved into her great-grandfather’s house, and it’s rumored to be haunted. When a strange creature comes in the middle of the night and kidnaps Emily’s mom, it starts to seem like that rumor might be true. Emily and her brother, Navin, must embark on a quest to save to their mom. An amulet that Emily found in her great-grandfather’s study is giving her instructions on where she should go and how to survive. It’s clear that it has powers beyond those found in this world, and it leads Emily and Navin to an …

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Amina's Voice, Emma Patton Dec 2018

Amina's Voice, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

Amina is a talented singer who is afraid to perform. She’s also a Pakistani American girl trying to find her place between the traditional culture and religion of her parents and the American way of life that she sees at school. Amina must find her voice for her friends, her family, and her community. She worries about losing her best friend, Soojin, to another girl in the class who Soojin now wants to be friends with, even though Amina isn’t so sure about her. With her family, she has to respect her uncle, Thaya Jaan, even if she disagrees with …

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