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  A Faraway Island is a splendid piece of historical fiction depicting the lives of two displaced Jewish girls at the beginning of the Second World War. Stephie and her younger sister, Nellie, have been sent by their Austrian parents to live in Sweden. Placed in separate homes on an island, Nellie at once assimilates into the Swedish language and culture. Longing for her parents and former life in Vienna, Stephie’s adjustment to her new life is slow; her foster mother is rather cold, she has difficulty making friends, and she inadvertently makes a number of mistakes which are misconstrued as disobedient... Click here for more of the curledupkids.com review of Annika Thor and translator Linda Schenk's A Faraway Island.
 
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*Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy* by Leonard S. Marcus, editor - click here for our young readers book review
 
Leonard S. Marcus's
Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy
*Lifting the Sky* by Mackie D'Arge - click here for our young readers book review
 
Mackie D'Arge's
Lifting the Sky
*A Faraway Island* by Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schenk - click here for our young readers book review
 
Annika Thor and Linda Schenk's
A Faraway Island
*The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum* by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Ray Fenwick - click here for our young readers book review
 
Candace Fleming and Ray Fenwick's
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum
*The Legend of Witch Bane* by Kevis Hendrickson - click here for our young readers book review
 
Kevis Hendrickson's
The Legend of Witch Bane
*Versus: Warriors* by Steve Stone - click here for our young readers book review
 
Steve Stone's
Versus: Warriors
*Rocks & Minerals: A Gem of a Read * by Dan Green, illustrated by Simon Basher - click here for our young readers book review
 
Dan Green and Simon Basher's
Rocks & Minerals: A Gem of a Read
*GirlForce: Shine* by Nikki Goldstein - click here for our young readers book review
 
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
 
 
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3-D Atlas and World Tour - Marie Javins
15 Minutes - Steve Young
100 Cupboards - N.D. Wilson

Adam Canfield of the Slash - Michael Winerip
Adam Canfield: Watch Your Back! - Michael Winerip
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Aesop's Fables - Lisbeth Zwerger
Aidan of Oren: The Journey Begins - Alan St. Jean
Akimbo & the Crocodile Man - Alexander McCall Smith
Akira to Zoltan: Twenty-Six Men Who Changed the World - Cynthia Chin-Lee
Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness) - Tamora Pierce
All the Cats of Cairo - Inda Schaenen
Amber Ambrosia: The Serpent's Chain Book 2 - Rae Bridgman
Amelia Rules, Vols. 1-3: The Whole World's Crazy, What Makes You Happy, & Superheroes - Jimmy Gownley
The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History - Jennifer Armstrong and Roger Roth
Animals Robert Scott Saw: An Adventure in Antarctica - Sandra Markle
The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen - Maria Tatar
The Annotated Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett and Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Arabel and Mortimer - Joan Aiken
Arabel's Raven - Joan Aiken
Araminta Spookie 2: The Sword in the Grotto - Angie Sage
Astro Socks - Leigh M. LeCreux
At the Firefly Gate - Linda Newbery
Atherton #1: The House of Power - Patrick Carman

Babymouse: Our Hero - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Babymouse: Queen of the World - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Babymouse #6: Camp Babymouse - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Babymouse #7: Skater Girl - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Babymouse #8: Puppy Love - Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Beacon Street Girls: Lucky Charm - Annie Bryant
Beacon Street Girls: Maeve on the Red Carpet - Annie Bryant
A Bear Called Paddington (50th Anniversary Edition) - Michael Bond
Befiddled - Pedro De Alcantara
Belle Prater's Boy - Ruth White
Big Bang! The Tongue-Tickling Tale of a Speck That Became Spectacular - Carolyn Cinami Decristofano
The Big Book of Boy Stuff - Bart King
The Big Book of Girl Stuff - Bart King
Big Bugs - Seymour Simon
Big Rig Rustlers - Max Elliot Anderson
Billy Hooten: Owlboy - Thomas E. Sniegoski
The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt - Walter Farley
The Black Stallion's Sulky Colt - Walter Farley
Blast to the Past #1: Lincoln's Legacy - Stacia Deutsch & Rhody Cohon
Blindspot - Kevin C. Pyle
Blue Schwartz & Nefertiti's Necklace: A Mystery with Recipes - Betty Jacobson Hechtman
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past - James M. Deem
The Book of Fairies - Michael Hague
Books to Check Out for Kids: A Journal - Chronicle Books
Born to Fly - Michael Ferrari
Brain Quest DVD Game: Ages 8-10 - Brighter Minds Media
Buggy Crenshaw and the Bungler's Paradox (In Search of the Nexus, Book 1) - R.M. Wilburn
Buggy Crenshaw and the Bungler's Paradox: In Search of the Nexus, Book 1 - R.M. Wilburn
Buggy Crenshaw and the Deadwood Principle: Evolution (In Search of the Nexus, Book 2) - R.M. Wilburn
Butterfingers - J.M. Trelleward

A Caldecott Celebration: Seven Authors and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal - Leonard S. Marcus
Call Me Aram (New Beginnings) - Marsha Skrypuch and Muriel Woods
Century Quartet #1: Ring of Fire - Pierdomenico Baccalario and Leah D. Janeczko
Change-up: Mystery at the World Series - John Feinstein
Charlotte in Paris - Joan MacPhail Knight
Children of the Dawnland - Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
Children's Miscellany - Matthew Morgan & Samantha Barnes
Christian the Lion - Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Cinderella (As If You Didn't Already Know the Story) - Barbara Ensor
Cinderella (As If You Didn't Already Know the Story) - Barbara Ensor
Cirque Du Freak #9: Killers of the Dawn - Darren Shan
Cirque Du Freak #11: Lord of the Shadows - Darren Shan
Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now - Lauren Child
Classic Western Stories: The Most Beloved Stories - Cooper Edens
Classics Illustrated #4: The Raven & Other Poems (Classics Illustrated Graphic Novels) - Edgar Allan Poe and Gahan Wilson
The Clique - Lisi Harrison
Collectopia: A Friendship Scraptacular - Catherine Rondeau and Peggy Brown
Collectopia: Wacktivity - Catherine Rondeau and Peggy Brown
Collinsfort Village - Joe Ekaitis
Corydon & the Island of Monsters - Tobias Druitt
Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl - John Feinstein
Crazy Fish - Norma Fox Mazer
Creepy Chicago: A Ghosthunter's Tales of the City's Scariest Sites - Ursula Bielski
The Criminal in the Caymans (Incredible Journey Books) - Connie Lee Berry
Crossing Cadogan Bay: The Secret of the Keepers - J.M. Mangano
Curiosity - Gerald Allen Wunsch
The Curse of the Raven Mocker - Lisi Harrison

Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards - Lemony Snicket
Daring Quests of Mystics - Shirley Cheng
The Dark Dreamweaver (The Remin Chronicles Book 1) - Nick Ruth
The Darkest Age II: The Book of the Sword - A.J. Lake
The Declaration - Gemma Malley
Deep and Dark and Dangerous - Mary Downing Hahn
Demonkeeper - Royce Buckingham
The Diamond of Darkhold: The Fourth Book of Ember - Jeanne Duprau
Diary of a Would-Be Princess - Jessica Green
Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom - Tim Byrd
Doctor Illuminatus: The Alchemist's Son Part 1 - Martin Booth
Do-Over - Christine Hurley Deriso
Dragon Flight - Jessica Day George
Dragon Slippers - Jessica Day George
Dragon Tears - Ruth E. Glover
Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons - Dugald Steer
The Dreadful Revenge of Ernest Gallen - James Lincoln Collier

Eagle (The Five Ancestors, Book 5) - Jeff Stone
The Edge Chronicles 8: The Winter Knights - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
The Edge Chronicles 9: Clash of the Sky Galleons - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Eggs [unabridged audio CD] - Jerry Spinelli
Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel - Ruth Barshaw
Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in Town - Ruth Barshaw
Emily Windsnap & the Monster from the Deep - Liz Kessler
Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini - Sid Fleischman
Eulalia! (Redwall) - Brian Jacques
The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 1: The Hero Revealed - William Boniface

The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood - Barb Bentler Ullman
Faith, Hope and Ivy June - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Faithgirlz Bible - Nancy N. Rue
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Grace Notes - Dandi Daley Mackall
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Grace Notes - Dandi Daley Mackall
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Just Jazz - Dandi Daley Mackall
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Love, Annie - Dandi Daley Mackall
Faithgirlz/Blog On!: Storm Rising - Dandi Daley Mackall
Fergus, the Soccer Playing Colt - Dan A. Peterson
Far-Flung Adventures: Corby Flood - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Far-Flung Adventures: Fergus Crane - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Far-Flung Adventures: Hugo Pepper - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Fig Pudding - Ralph Fletcher
Firecracker Jones Is on the Case - Christopher Klim
First Light - Rebecca Stead
First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet - Tamora Pierce
Fish and Sphinx (Middlegate Series) - Rae Bridgman
The Floating Circus - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Fly by Night - Frances Hardinge
For a Speck of Gold - Donna Getzinger
Forrest Tales: The Secret of the Labyrinth - C.J. Lewis
Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist: Frantastic Voyage - Jim Benton
Free to Be...You and Me (The 35th Anniversary Edition) - by Marlo Thomas and friends, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds

Gaia Girls: Way of Water - Lee Welles
Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth - Lee Welles
Ganga: The River That Flows from Heaven to Earth - Vatsala Sperling, Harish Johari and Pieter Weltevrede
Geronimo Stilton #1: The Discovery of America - Geronimo Stilton
Geronimo Stilton #2: The Secret of the Sphinx - Geronimo Stilton
The Ghost in Allie's Pool - Sari Bodi
Ghost Letters - Stephen Alter
The Ghosts of Lone Jack - Lance Lee Noel
A Girl Called Boy - Belinda Hurmence
GirlForce: Shine - Nikki Goldstein
The Gods and Their Machines - Oisin McGann
The Golden Rat - Don Wulffson
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes - Pamela S. Turner

The Handy Astronomy Answer Book - Charles Liu
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Harry The Poisonous Centipede Goes to Sea - Lynne Reid Banks
Heat - Mike Lupica
Hey There, Stink Bug! - Leslie Bulion
Holes - Louis Sachar
Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
Horns and Wrinkles - Joseph Helgerson
Horses of Half Moon Ranch: Wild Horses - Jenny Oldfield
Hot Hand: Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids - Mike Lupica
Hot Issues, Cool Choices - Sandra McLeod Humphrey

I Heard It from Alice Zucchini: Poems About the Garden - Juanita Havill
I, Coriander - Sally Gardner
The Ice Dragon - George R.R. Martin
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period - Gennifer Chodenko
In Search of Molly Pitcher - Linda Grant De Pauw
In the Pocket: Johnny Unitas and Me - Mike Leonetti
Ingo - Helen Dunmore
Into the Firestorm - Deborah Hopkinson
Into the Woods - Lyn Gardner
Isabel of the Whales - Hester Velmans
It's Not the Stork: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends - Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley

Jennifer Murdley's Toad (A Magic Shop Book) - Bruce Coville
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (A Magic Shop Book) - Bruce Coville
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver - Chris Riddell
Judy Moody & Stink: The Holy Joliday - Megan McDonald Peter H. Reynolds
Jump: The Nick Guide to Jumping Rope - Nickelodeon

Kids Cook 1-2-3: Recipes for Young Chefs Using Only Three Ingredients - Rozanne Gold
Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb - Kirsten Miller
Kino No Tabi: Book One of the Beautiful World - Keiichi Shigusawa
The Knit-It Kit for Kids: 10 Fun Beginning Knitting Projects - Jennifer Traig
Kyleah's Tree - Lauren Child
Kobzar's Children: A Century of Untold Stories by Ukrainians - Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

L Is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for a Clever Tongue - Chronicle Books
The Lambkins - Eve Bunting
Lawn Boy - Gary Paulsen
Legend of the White Wolf - Max Elliot Anderson
The Legend of Zoey - Candie Moonshower
Leo and the Lesser Lion - Sandra Forrester
Let's Go Yo-Yo! - Nickelodeon
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary - Candace Fleming
Listen! - Stephanie S. Tolan
Little Eagle - Chen Jiang Hong
The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
Looking for Marco Polo - Alan Armstrong and Tim Jessell
Lucy Rose: Busy Like You Can't Believe - Katy Kelly
Luke Carter and the Sword of Kings - A.J. Ensor
Lyra's Oxford - Philip Pullman

Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles - Rupert Kingfisher and Sue Hellard
The Magic Half - Annie Barrows
Magic Tree House #34: Season of the Sandstorms - Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House #36: Blizzard of the Blue Moon - Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn - Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House Research Guide: Polar Bears and the Arctic - Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce
Magic Tree House Research Guide: Tsunamis & Other Natural Disasters - Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce
The Magical Worlds of Philip Pullman - David Colbert
Magickeepers: The Eternal Hourglass - Erica Kirov and Eric Fortune
Manga Claus: The Blade of Kringle [graphic novel] - Nathaniel Marunas
Mao and Me - Chen Jiang Hong
Mars and the Search for Life - Elaine Scott
Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics - P.L. Travers
Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookery Book with a Story - P.L. Travers
Masterpieces Up Close: Western Painting from the 14th to 20th Centuries - Claire d'Harcourt
Matisse on the Loose - Georgia Bragg
Max & Maddy and the Bursting Balloons - Alexander McCall Smith
Max & Maddy and the Chocolate Money Mystery - Alexander McCall Smith
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. (Landmark Books) - James T. Dekay
Melonhead - Kary Kelly and Gillian Johnson
Melusine - Halloween - Francois Gilson and Clarke
Middle School: How to Deal - Sarah Miller, Alex Stikeleather & Sara Borden
Minerva Clark Gets a Clue - Karen Karbo
The Misadventures of Hobart Hucklebuck - Stan Swanson
The Misadventures of Maude March: Or Trouble Rides a Fast Horse - Audrey Couloumbis
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster - Debra Frasier
Miss O & Friends: Room for One More - Devra Newberger Speregen
Miss O & Friends: Trouble with a Capital O - Devra Newberger Speregen
Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure - Georgia Byng
Monsterology: The Complete Book of Monstrous Beasts - Ernest Drake and Dugald Steer
The Moon of Gomrath: A Tale of Alderley - Alan Garner
Mountain Cabin Mystery - Max Elliot Anderson
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 - David Petersen
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano (But She Does Love Being in Recitals) - Peggy Gifford and Valorie Fisher
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little - Peggy Gifford
Muddle Earth - Paul Stewart
Mudshark - Gary Paulsen
The Museum of Mary Child - Cassandra Golds
My Body, My Self for Girls: A What's Happening to My Body? Quizbook & Journal, 2nd Ed. - Lynda & Area Madaras
My Feelings, My Self: A Growing-Up Journal for Girls, 2nd Ed. (What's Happening to My Body? Series) - Lynda & Area Madaras
My Last Best Friend - Julie Bowe
My Missmatched Life: A Marvelous, Zany, Kooky, Fabulous Scrapbook - Chronicle Books
My One Hundred Adventures - Polly Horvath
The Mystery of the Jubilee Diamond - Gary Wassner
The Mystery of the Third Lucretia (Kari + Lucas Mystery) - Susan Runholt

The Name Game Jr.: The Family Guessing Game - Steve Crystal
The Name of This Book Is Secret - Pseudonymous Bosch
Nathan Quist and the Curious Affair of the Crescent Earrings - Adam Stuck, Marvin G. Baker and Beth Dellinger
National Geographic Kids Almanac 2010
The Necklace of Stones - Philip Carraher
The New Way Things Work: A Visual Guide to the World of Machines - David Macaulay
The Newspaper Caper - Max Elliot Anderson
The Nick Guide to Your Best-Ever School Year - Nickelodeon
The Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore
Nim's Island - Wendy Orr
The Nine Lives of Travis Keating - Jill MacLean
No Castles Here - A.C.E. Bauer
North Woods Poachers - Max Elliot Anderson
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Nurse Matilda: The Collected Tales - Christianna Brand and Edward Ardizzone
The Nutcracker - Michael Hague

On the Wings of Heroes - Richard Peck
The Otherworldlies - Jennifer Anne Kogler
Otto Undercover #4: Toxic Taffy Takeover - Rhea Perlman
Owlboy: The Girl with the Destructo Touch - Thomas E. Sniegoski

Paleo Bugs: Survival of the Creepiest - Timothy J. Bradley
Pandora Gets Jealous (Mythic Miss-Adventures) - Carolyn Hennesey
Pandora Gets Vain (Mythic Miss-Adventures) - Carolyn Hennesey
Pandora Gets Vain (Mythic Miss-Adventures) - Carolyn Hennesey
The People Could Fly - Virginia Hamilton
The Periodic Table: Elements with Style! - Adrian Dingle and Simon Basher
The Phantom Isles - Stephen Alter
Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister - Liz Kessler
A Pickpocket's Tale - Karen Schwabach
The Picture Wagon: A Children's Historical Novel - Donna Getzinger
Playing with Stuff: Outrageous Games with Ordinary Objects - Ferry Piekart & Lars Deltrap
The Pocket Guide to Mischief - Bart King and Brenda Brown
The Poisoned Crown (Sangreal Trilogy) - Amanda Hemingway
Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters - Patricia McKissack
Portia's Exclusive and Confidential Rules on True Friendship - Anna Hays
Portia's Ultra Mysterious Double Life - Anna Hays
The Postcard - Tony Abbott
Pretty Freekin Scary #1: You Smell Dead - Chris P. Flesh
Prizefighter en Mi Casa - E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Project Mulberry - Linda Sue Park
The Prometheus Project: Captured - Douglas E. Richards
The Prophecy - Hilari Bell
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers - Gary Paulsen
Pure Dead Batty - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Brilliant - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Frozen - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Magic - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Trouble - Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Wicked - Debi Gliori

Quincy, the Hobby Photographer - J. Otto Seibold

The Railway Children - E. Nesbit
The Random House Dinosaur Travel Guide - Kelly Milner Halls
Rapunzel: A Bilingual Book - Francesc Bofill
Real Samurai - Stephen Turnbull
Rescuing Seneca Crane (Kari + Lucas Mystery) - Susan Runholt
Return to Sender - Julia Alvarez
Rickshaw Girl - Mitali Perkins
Rivers of Fire (Atherton, Book 2) - Patrick Carman
The Road to Oz: Twists, Turns, Bumps, and Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum - Kathleen Krull and Kevin Hawkes
The Road to Revolution! (The Cartoon Chronicles of America) - Stan Mack and Susan Champlin
Robin: The Lovable Morgan Horse - Ellen F. Feld
Rocks and Minerals: A Gem of a Read - Dan Green and Simon Basher
Rotten School #6: The Heinie Prize - R.L. Stine
Rotten School #7: Dudes, the School is Haunted! - R.L. Stine
Running with the Reservoir Pups (Eddie and the Gang with No Name) - Colin Bateman

The Saddle Club: Horse Power - Bonnie Bryant
The Scary States of America: 50 Weird and Terrifying Stories Based on True Events - Michael Teitelbaum
Scat - Carl Hiaasen
Sea Stories: A Classic Illustrated Edition - Cooper Edens
The Search for Belle Prater - Ruth White
The Secret Alliance and the Copycat Crook - Eleanor Davis
The Secret History of Mermaids and Creatures of the Deep - Ari Berk
Secret of Abbott's Cave - Max Elliot Anderson
The Secret Shelter - Sandi LeFaucher
The Secret World of Magic - Rosalind Kerven
Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 3: The Vampire's Curse - Dan Greenburg
Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 4: Fall of the House of Mandible - Dan Greenburg
Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 5: The Shluffmuffin Boy is History - Dan Greenburg
The Seems: The Split Second (Book 2) - John Hulme and Michael Wexler
Septimus Heap, Book 2: Flyte - Angie Sage
Septimus Heap, Book 1: Magyk - Angie Sage
Septimus Heap, Book 3: Physik - Angie Sage
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 2: The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3: The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4: The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5: The Austere Academy - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6: The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7: The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12: The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
The Serpent's Spell - Rae Bridgman
Shakespeare's Secret - Elise Broach
Shelby & the Shifting Rings - A.M. Veillon
Shredderman 1: Secret Identity - Wendelin Van Draanen
Shredderman 2: Attack of the Tagger - Wendelin Van Draanen
Sienna's Scrapbook: Our African American Heritage - Toni Trent Parker & Janell Genovese
The Skull of Truth: A Magic Shop Book - Bruce Coville
Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy and Tom Percival
Small Steps - Louis Sachar
Snowbone - Cat Weatherill
Solomon Snow and the Silver Spoon - Kaye Umansky
Solomon Snow and the Stolen Jewel - Kaye Umansky
The Somebodies - N.E. Bode
Spellbound - Anna Dale
The Spoon in the Bathroom Wall - Tony Johnston
Spyology: The Complete Book of Spycraft - Spencer Blake and Dugald A. Steer
Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet - Tamora Pierce
Suddenly Supernatural: School Spirit - Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Summerhouse Time - Eileen Spinelli
Swords: An Artist's Devotion - Ben Boos
Sylvie and the Songman - Tim Binding

Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A Classic Illustrated Edition - Cooper Edens
Tangerine - Edward Bloor
Tennyson - Lesley M.M. Blume
Terror at Wolf Lake - Max Elliot Anderson
Thank You, Lucky Stars - Beverly Donofrio
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos - R.L. LaFevers
Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris - R.L. LaFevers
Thornspell - Helen Lowe
A Thousand Never Evers - Shana Burg
Through the Looking Glass (Classics Illustrated Graphic Novels #3) - Lewis Carroll and Kyle Baker
Thumbelina: Tiny Runaway Bride - Barbara Ensor
Timothy of the Cay - Theodore Taylor
Toad Heaven - Morris Gleitzman
Toad Rage - Morris Gleitzman
Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself - Jerry and Eileen Spinelli
Tour America: A Journey Through Poems & Art - Diane Siebert
Treasure in Tahiti (Incredible Journey Books) - Connie Lee Berry
Trees (Field Guides) - Maria Angeles Julivert
Trickster's Choice: Daughter of the Lioness, Book 1 - Tamora Pierce
Trickster's Queen: Daughter of the Lioness, Book 2 - Tamora Pierce
Trouble Under Oz - Sherwood Smith
True Talents - David Lubar
The Truth: I'm a Girl, I'm Smart and I Know Everything - Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
Twelve - Lauren Myracle
Two Hot Dogs with Everything - Paul Haven
Two-Minute Drill: Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids - Mike Lupica

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror - Chris Priestley
Ursula's Maiden Army - Philip Griffith

Vampire Island - Adele Griffin
Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning - Danette Haworth
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle - Hugh Lofting

The Water Horse - Dick King-Smith
What the Parrot Told Alice - Dale Smith
Weird Planet #2: Lost in Las Vegas (A Stepping Stone Book) - Dan Greenburg
Whittington - Alan Armstrong
The Wickit Chronicles #1: Ely Plot - Joan Lennon
Wild Girl - Patricia Reilly Giff
William Shakespeare's The Tempest - Marianna Mayer
The Witch of Clatteringshaws (Wolves Chronicles) - Joan Aiken
L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz Graphic Novel - Michael Cavallaro
Write Before Your Eyes - Lisa Williams Kline
Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly - Gail Carson Levine

The Year They Won: A Tale of the Boston Red Sox - Gerard Purciello
Yesterday's Magic - Pamela F. Service

Zahrah the Windseeker - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Zoe Sophia in New York: The Mystery of the Pink Phoenix Papers - Claudia Mauner & Elisa Smalley







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