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Title:
Author:
Brandon Mull
Description:
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
Genre:
Fantasy
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
 
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Title:
Author:
Jerry Pinkney
Description:
In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.
Genre:
Picture Book
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
Title:
Author:
Joshua Prince
Description:
Jack, a railroad switchman, frantically tries to save an ant who is heading east on a westbound track, straight into the path of an oncoming freight train.
Genre:
Picture Book
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
Title:
Author:
Laurie Friedman
Description:
Simon Lester Henry Strauss is not in the least afraid of any haunted house, but there is something else that terrifies him.
Genre:
Picture Book
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
Title:
Author:
Roz Rosenbluth
Description:
When David invites popular kid Ruben Plotnick home, he worries how Ruben will react to his eccentric grandmother. A story of senility and overcoming school-age embarassment.
Genre:
Picture Book
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
Title:
Author:
Dianna Hutts Aston
Description:
On her family's farm in the town of Star, eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight and moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too.
Genre:
Picture Book
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
Title:
Author:
Maribeth Boelts
Description:
Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
Genre:
Picture Book
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
Title:
Author:
Jean Richards
Description:
Because of his curiosity about what the crocodile has for dinner, a little elephant and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.
Genre:
Picture Book
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
Title:
Author:
Jane Clarke
Description:
Gilbert the shark and his playmate go to far and wander into the dangerous depths of the sea.
Genre:
Picture Book
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
Title:
Author:
Roald Dahl
Description:
An illustrated collection of children's songs, fairy tales, and poems.
Genre:
Poetry
Submitted by:
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita
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