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The Berenstain Bears' New Neighbors

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Wishtree

Katherine Applegate · 224 pages

Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . . Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"—people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with her crow friend Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this "wishtree" watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all. Until

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A Bear Called Paddington

Michael Bond · 160 pages

Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington, a most endearing bear from Darkest Peru on a railway platform in London. A sign hanging around his neck said, "Please look after this bear. Thank you" So that is just what they did. From the very first night when he attempted his first bath and ended up nearly flooding the house, Paddington was seldom far from imminent disaster. Jonathan and Judy were de

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Benny and Penny in The Big No-No!

Geoffrey Hayes · 32 pages

Two mice meet their new neighbor and discover that she is not as scary as they feared.

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Smoky Night

Eve Bunting · 36 pages

When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.

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Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners

Laurie Keller · 40 pages

**Mr. Rabbit's new neighbors are Otters. OTTERS! But he doesn't know anything about Otters.** Will they get along? Will they be friends? Just treat otters the same way you'd like them to treat you, advises wise Mr. Owl. And so begins Mr. Rabbit's reflection on good manners. **In her smart, quirky style Laurie Keller highlights how to be a good friend and neighbor--just follow the Golden Rule!**

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Chester's Way

Kevin Henkes · 32 pages

Chester and Wilson share the same exact way of doing things, until Lilly moves into the neighborhood and shows them that new ways can be just as good.

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Goodnight Already!

Jory John · 32 pages

Bear has never been so tired but his next-door neighbor, a wide-awake duck, keeps disturbing his sleep. Bear has never been so tired, but his next-door neighbor, a wide-awake duck, keeps disturbing his sleep. The coauthor is Benji Davies.

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Fish is Fish

Leo Lionni · 32 pages

When his friend, the tadpole, becomes a frog and leaves the pond to explore the world, the little fish decides that maybe he doesn't have to remain in the pond either.

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Leo the Lop

Stephen Cosgrove · 32 pages

Leo is a lop-eared rabbit whose ears go down, not up. The other normal rabbits laughed and laughed until they discovered that down was normal and up was not. A classic Serendipity story about the meaning of normal.

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All the Lonely People

Mike Gayle · 430 pages

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Miss Spider's Tea Party

David Kirk · 32 pages

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Clifford and the Grouchy Neighbors

Norman Bridwell · 32 pages

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Stellaluna

Janell Cannon · 48 pages

After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.

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The Bear and the Piano

David Litchfield · 40 pages

"A bear finds a piano in the woods, learns to play it, and travels to the big city to become rich and famous, but ultimately discovers that his old friends in the forest back home are still the best audience of all"--

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Big Wolf and Little Wolf

Nadine Brun-Cosme · 32 pages

Big Wolf has always lived alone at the top of a hill under a tree, so when a little wolf suddenly arrives one day, he does not know what to think.

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Unloveable

Dan Yaccarino

Alfred, a pug, is made to feel inferior by a cat, a parrot, and the other neighborhood dogs, until a new dog moves in next door and helps Alfred to realize he is fine just the way he is.

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Icefire

Chris d'Lacey · 421 pages

The second installment in a fantasy series. A man who becomes the tenant to a potter who makes dragons, but with a twist. Some of the dragons seem to have odd properties. follow him as he discovers the odd nature of this house and its occupants!

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The Cricket in Times Square

George Selden · 151 pages

An updated version of the timeless children's classic featuring a business-savvy mouse, a kind alley cat, and a talented country cricket, featuring a new foreword and revisions by YA author Stacey Lee. Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the v

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Odd Duck

Cecil Castellucci

"Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that. Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. Theodora quite likes him, but she can't overlook his odd habits. It's a good thing Chad has a normal friend like Theodora to set a good example for him. But who

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Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi · 205 pages

"First published in serial form from 1881 to 1883 in Il Giornale dei bambini, the many adventures of Pinocchio, Geppetto's wooden puppet who came to life to laugh, cry, and dance like a real boy, garnered immediate acclaim as a children's story. Today Italians consider the novel, along with The Divine Comedy and The Decameron, one of their most important works of literature. Readers familiar only

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum · 226 pages

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz remains one of the world's most beloved and widely read books. Throughout a century of remarkable change, the popularity of L. Frank Baum's classic tale has endured and grown, embraced by generation after generation of children and the young at heart. To honour the centennial of its publication in 1900, the University Press of Kansas is presenting this special anniversar

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Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli · 184 pages

Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.

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The Rainbow Fish

Marcus Pfister · 32 pages

Rainbow Fish has a disagreement with Little Blue because Little Blue has a sea glass which Rainbow Fish thinks he lost.

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The Book of Unknown Americans

Cristina Henriquez · 294 pages

After their daughter Maribel suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras leave Mexico and come to America. But upon settling at Redwood Apartments, a two-story cinderblock complex just off a highway in Delaware, they discover that Maribel's recovery-the piece of the American Dream on which they've pinned all their hopes-will not be easy. Every task seems to confront them with language, racial, and

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