Sean Welsh Brown
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New York Times bestselling author and artist James Dean brings readers in for a big school surprise in Pete the Cat and the Surprise Teacher. When Pete goes to school, he finds out his teacher is out sick and the substitute teacher is . . . his mom! It's up to Pete to teach the teacher what school is all about. Pete the Cat and the Surprise Teacher is a My First I Can Read book, which means it's perfect for shared reading with a child.
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From Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick comes a delicious, fast paced whodunit about two socially outcast boys who set out to find jewels hidden for a century and unwittingly flush out a murderer. In award winner Philbrick's new page turning mystery, Arthur "Bash Man" is the school thug, paid with candy to bully and threaten other students. When genius orphan Darius Drake employs Arthur to help him discover the origin of a suspicious threat, written...
5) Flooded
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English
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The dark truth behind the Johnstown Flood of 1889 -- one of the greatest calamities our country has ever experienced--is revealed in a beautiful, harrowing story, told in luminous verse.
Before the flood, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a working class industry town filled with immigrants, factory workers, shop owners, housewives, and schoolchildren, all with hopes and dreams for the future. Sixteen-year-old Joe Dixon opens a newsstand and aspires to...