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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Little Crab and Very Big Crab live in a tiny rock pool near the sea. Today they're going for a dip in the big ocean. 'This is going to be so great, ' says Little Crab, splish-splashing and squelch-squelching along, all the way to the very edge. Then comes a first glance down at the waves. WHOOSH! Maybe it's better if they don't go in? With vivid colors, bold shapes, and his trademark visual humor, Chris Haughton shows that sometimes a gentle 'don't...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Terry is definitely not an octopus. He's just a regular guy who happens to have a few extra limbs and a love of tuna. But again, he is NOT an octopus. Look, if he were an octopus, he'd be living in the ocean, right? Not to mention going to Super Octopus Fantasea Adventure World. He definitely wouldn't be on land, unless he was afraid of the water. Which he absolutely isn't! OK, perhaps just a LITTLE. Maybe, just maybe, it's time he learned how to...
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Field day is one week away, and everyone has to go. But you'd rather go home! Crazy coach Kong is making up all the events! You might leap over lions, hop over hippos, skip through snakes, and tiptoe around tigers! Will it be a field day of dreams or a field day of screams?
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
This frightfully funny classic tells the story of three skeletons--a big skeleton, a little skeleton, and a dog skeleton--who venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, only to find that everyone is in bed. Who will they scare now?
89) Pina
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Pina explores the haunted country of the imagination where children struggle to place themselves in the big scary world. Pina's fear to venture out of his little house into the wide world will resonate with timid kids.The techniques he uses to overcome his fear--mindful breathing, thinking of his favorite things, carrying a familiar, comforting object with him when he leaves the house--will prove useful to many children. It took the author two years...
90) Swim, Jim!
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Jim the crocodile finds the courage to face his fear of swimming in this funny and charming debut picture book for fans of Jabari Jumps and Jean Reidy's Truman! Jim the crocodile is scared of swimming -- or rather, of sinking. His family's swamp is just too deep, too dark, and too big. But maybe he could swim, if only there were a smaller swamp where he could try it on his own terms. Jim wiggle-waggles far and wide until he finds the perfect place....
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Daniel is not so sure about going to camp. There will be bugs. And uncomfortable beds. And leeches! Megabat can't WAIT to go to camp! There will be so much smooshfruit, and he loves a good sing-along. Daniel starts to think camp isn't so bad. He's made friends, and his bed isn't THAT uncomfortable. Megabat has made a new friend too. But his new friend wants him to go flying to spooky caves. And her mom is very toothy. As Daniel is getting into the...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Katie Honors is a really brave kid. She can go to bed with just one small night light. She can hold her tears in when it's time to say goodbye to her mom at school. But sometimes Katie isn't ready to say goodbye and doesn't feel brave at all. When this happens, she Kaplooms! She refuses to let go of her mom, and everything is flurried as she begins to cry. Her emotions feel frightening. It's not the Katie Honors she wants to be. But her mother assures...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Told in text messages, middle-schooler Ava is having a really bad day: her parents are getting divorced, she has had a big argument with her best friends, and the charge on her cellphone is getting low; but things are about to get a lot worse because the lockdown alarm has just gone off, and there is an intruder in the school building.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Salama Kassab era una estudiante de farmacia cuando empezaron a estallar los gritos de libertad en Siria. Todavía tenía a sus padres y a su hermano mayor; todavía tenía su casa? Tenía una vida de adolescente normal. Ahora, Salama trabaja como voluntaria en un hospital de Homs, ayudando a los heridos que atraviesan sus puertas a diario. Sin embargo, en secreto, está desesperada por encontrar una forma de salir de su querido país antes...
96) The midnighters
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Following the one clue her friend Sylvie left behind before she went missing, Ema seeks to infiltrate the mysterious Midnight Guild to rescue Sylvie, despite a peculiar fear of shadows and the ability to predict events before they happen.
The Graveyard Book meets Nevermoor in this ghostly tale about two friends, one murder mystery, and a world of intrigue. Find the courage to be extraordinary... Ema Vaskov has always felt different. In a family of...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Life in Sunrise Valley is tranquil, but beyond its borders lies certain death. A dangerous black fog looms outside the village, but its inhabitants are kept safe by an ingenious machine known as the dam. Pig's father built the dam and taught him how to maintain it. And then this brilliant inventor did the unthinkable: he walked into the fog and was never seen again. Now Pig is the dam keeper. Except for his best friend, Fox, and the town bully, Hippo,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hugh does not like walking home alone through the woods which the other children say is inhabited by a monster, but today he has no choice, and it is not only his shadow that follows him--and that is only one of five scary stories included in this collection.
100) Spiderelefante
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta mañana al despertarse Juan el elefante descubre una criatura peluda, con muchas patas y grandes ojos detrás de su cabeza. ¡Una araña! ¿Me va a comer? ¿Pondrá huevos en mi cabeza? Juan vuelve al ataque, esta vez su mayor preocupación será como deshacerse del inesperado visitante de su casa." -Amazon.com
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