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Legend has it that the only way to find a unicorn is to know where to look and how to craft a beautiful gift that shows her you are a friend. If you're lucky, she may even take you for a ride! So, gather some natural craft supplies like daisies, vines, ferns, apples, and grass, and get ready to find a magical new friend. If your heart is pure, you just might discover a unicorn in the wild. By being resourceful, careful, and kind, you can make beautiful...
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"Secrets and lies can't stay buried forever in Cedar Valley. In the summer, hikers and campers pack the small Colorado town's meadows and fields. And in the winter, skiers and snowboarders take over the mountains. Season by season, year after year, time passes and the lies, like the aspens and evergreens that surround the town, take root and spread deep. Now, someone has uncovered the lies, and it is his murder that continues a chain of events that...
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"Rachel is dancing in Tippington's annual Christmas play! She can't wait for her moment in the spotlight. But when Jack Frost's goblins steal three magic shoes that make Christmas plays sparkle, it looks like the performance is over before it begins. Paige the Christmas Play Fairy knows that the show must go on! Can Rachel and Kirsty help her save the day? Or will Jack Frost take the 'merry' out of 'Merry Christmas'?"--P. [4] of cover.
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Garden Revolution shows how an ecological approach to planting can lead to beautiful gardens that buck much of conventional gardening's counter-productive, time-consuming practices. Instead of picking the wrong plant and then constantly tilling, weeding, irrigating, and fertilizing, Larry Weaner advocates for choosing plants that are adapted to the soil and climate of a specific site and letting them naturally evolve over time
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In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality-to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England-had been one of the founding values of Acadia. Its settlers traded and intermarried...
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"As Hazel Fine steps out of her crummy hotel room into the bright LA sunshine, she knows she's got one, and only one, chance. Her audition for the massive talent show, The Sing Along, could change her life forever. She has the skills, what she needs now is a bit of luck. Soon Hazel finds herself alongside fifteen other contestants who all have the same dream: superstardom. There's the beautiful Hollywood golden child, Bella. The bright, bubbly country...
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Purls and prayers volume 2
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"Fair Meadows Retirement Community might as well be a country club for most of the retirees enjoying the pool, golf course, and book clubs. But for the caregivers whose family members reside upstairs in the special Memory Care Unit, vacation is over. Comforting these caregivers is exactly why the Woolgatherers group has formed. They make prayer shawls to support those affected by the heartbreaking reality of not being recognized by a loved one-people...
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Simon & Schuster
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2021.
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"The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their "Thing Finder box," and hiding under the dining room table, eavesdropping as three generations of relatives gossiped and played the numbers. The girls spent countless afternoons together, ice skating in the nearby Lake Meadows apartment complex, swimming in the pool at the Ida B. Wells housing project, and daydreaming of their futures: Dawn a...
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Magic animal friends. Main series volume 8
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Scholastic
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2016.
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Welcome to a magical world where animals talk and play - just like you and me! There's a wild wind blowing in Friendship Forest, as Grizelda's storm dragon takes over the magical windmill that controls the forest's breezes! Lily and Jess must help little guinea pig Rosie rescue her family and save the forest - before Grizelda takes over once and for all!
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"Miracle Country captures one family's spirit and losses in a harsh landscape that has been shaped and exploited over hundreds of years, and chronicles the author's journey as she realizes that there's nowhere else in the country, no matter how green and welcoming, that feels like home"--
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"From one of the country's most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman's life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl's most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother. She was hit with a jolt of joy so intense and unexpected, she wanted to "investigate" it--as though it were...
94) All that man is
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Szalay (London and the South-East) delivers a kaleidoscopic portrayal of nine men at various stages in their lives, each in the throes of extraordinary change. Despite their diverse circumstances, they are all somehow connected, engaged in a search for relevance and-dare they even consider it-meaning. English teenagers Simon and Ferdinand arrive in Berlin with competing ideas of how best to enjoy their time abroad; Bérnard, working halfheartedly...
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Scholastic
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2013
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IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Rachel and Kirsty are thrilled when their fairy friends whisk them away to the Fairyland Music Festival! But the festival is a mess. Jack Frost has stolen the Superstar Fairies' magic music clefs. He's determined to be the biggest superstar in the world and the girls are determined to stop him! Oh, no! Vanessa the Choreography Fairy is missing her music clef. Now dancers are stumbling all over! Can Rachel and Kirsty help save the day and the...
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Bloomsbury
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2016
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"There is no way but gentlenesse to redeeme a Hawke ? Edmund Bert, 1619Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers sliding down heaps of coal dust, listening out for the colliery siren at the end of shifts, and praying for his father's safe return. It seemed all too likely that he would follow in his father's footsteps and end up working in the pits, especially when to his mother's horror and his...
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"Praise for Joan Aiken's stories: "Wildly inventive, darkly lyrical, and always surprising. should be cherished."--Publishers Weekly "Darkly whimsical stories. Aiken writes with surpassing spirit and alertness, her elegant restraint and dry wit never fail to leave their mark."--Kirkus Reviews"Will appeal to readers of short stories and literary fiction. Highly recommended."--Library Journal "Aiken's pastoral meadows and circus chaos, gothic grotesques...
98) Super Bugs
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Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
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2016.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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In rhyming text, the Super Bugs buzz all over town, rescuing other insects in danger.
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"James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of sixteen pigeon breeds in the dovecote, and cultivated climbing plants in the study, and to Bournemouth, where on one memorable family vacation he fed carnivorous...
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Scholastic
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2014.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Jack Frost never gets anything in his Christmas stocking, so this year, he's decided that nobody else will, either. He's stolen Natalie the Christmas Stocking Fairy's three magic objects. Without them, Natalie can't make sure that kids all over the world get their special presents! Can Kirsty and Rachel help their newest fairy friend? Or is the Christmas magic about to fizzle and fade?"--Page 4 of cover