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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This Step into Reading collection features five LEGO City leveled readers, featuring careers including firefighters, handy persons, police, and veterinarians. Step 3 readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics. For children who are ready to read on their own.
2) Tiny wonders
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The world is full of wonders, if we take a small moment to look! A beautiful story about everyday magic. April's town is dull and gray, and the people there are too busy to laugh or look up at the sky. But when April remembers Grandma's stories about wonder in the world, like the secret language of flowers, April wonders: Can dandelions help? Planting tiny seeds while the seasons shift towards spring, April watches as the dandelions and other flowers...
Author
Series
Legends of Lotus Island volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Doing the New Year's break, Plum and her friends travel to fancy, fashionable Nakhon Island to stay with Sam and his mother, the powerful Lady Ubon. The New Year always brings food, parties, and the grand old tradition of making a wish. At first, Plum is dazzled by the big city. But under the glittering surface, many secrets lurk. Mysterious tremors that shake the ground are growing worse by the day. Nakhon's troubles give Plum a chance to fulfill...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the Game provides a target--a blinking blue dot on the map. Willie's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Amelia and Kylee, two young sisters, were found unharmed in their upstairs bedroom the night their teenage cousin Grace, who was babysitting them, vanished from the farmhouse in rural Missouri, leaving behind evidence of a violent struggle. Grace had been on the verge of escaping their dead-end town, the first in their family to go to college instead of getting married and going to work at the meatpacking plant. Her disappearance is a warning to...
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 10
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey -- now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds -- and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--
7) Wild love
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Forbes may have labeled Ford Grant the World's Hottest Billionaire, but all he cares about is escaping the press and opening a recording studio in gorgeous small town Rose Hill. Something that comes to a screeching halt when he ends up face-to-face with a young girl who claims he's her biological father. Now, he spends his days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old, all while trying desperately to keep his hands the hell off his...
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn't the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she'll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous standards of the town takes its toll. One night, when Owen won't...
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