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Kathryn Williams
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A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year pick for 2023!
With the mystery of Maureen Johnson and Brittany Cavallaro and the historical intrigue of Romanov, this genre-bending YA will pull readers into one girl's journey of discovering the impossible tale of a long-lost aunt—and through her, the importance of being true to yourself.
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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2010
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"I died one summer, or I almost did. Part of me did. I don't say that to be dramatic, only because it's true." For the past nine years, Helena Waite has been returning to summer camp at Southpoint. Every year the camp and its familiar routines, landmarks, and people have welcomed her back like a long-lost family member. But this year she is returning not as a camper, but as a counselor, while her best friend, Katie Bell remains behind. All too quickly,...
3) Rock Royalty
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Mitchie knows that working in the kitchen at Camp Rock is a small price to pay for the summer of her life. But when Tess's mother makes a surprise visit to camp, Mitchie starts to wonder what it would be like to live as rock royalty.
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Meet amazing penguins from all around the world! Young readers will learn about penguins big and small in this new pre-reader from National Geographic Kids. Through text features such as a vocabulary tree and wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to vocabulary in concept groups - helping them make connections between words and expand their understanding of the world.
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Clare Rainbow-Dashell, the only child of delightfully eccentric, wealthy hippies, has just taken a hiatus from her career as an acclaimed wildlife photographer and returned to California to pursue her academic dreams when a disastrous affair with a professor catapults her to another continent: Africa. There, she immerses herself in well-paid commercial work for a luxury safari lodge as she seeks to regain her emotional and financial self-reliance....
