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Children's Summer Reading
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Publisher Comments This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey. He... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick Publisher Comments Orphan, clock keeper, thief: Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. Combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film, Caldecott Honor artist Selznick breaks open the novel... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.55 Used - Hardcover
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Half Magic (Edward Eager's Tales of Magic) by Edward Eager Staff Pick I love this story. Four children (one brother and three sisters) find a magic coin. They don't initially understand the coin's special properties or how to use it without causing unwanted mayhem — since only half of a wish comes true when wished in the... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Brain (Great Brain #1) by John D. Fitzgerald and Mercer Mayer Publisher Comments For decades, the Great Brain and his little brother have enchanted readers. Now three of these heartwarming and funny stories featuring the young con artist are reissued. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Light Princess by George MacDonald and Maurice Sendak Publisher Comments This newly illustrated set of four paperbacks holds the complete fantasy stories (except for several longer stories readily available elsewhere) of George MacDonald.The Light PrincessThe Giant's HeartThe CarasoynPort in a StormPapa's Story (A Scot's... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Trade Paper
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Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto Publisher Comments The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in Californias Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of eleven short stories that reveal big themes in the small events of daily life. Crooked teeth, ponytailed... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dragon Keeper by Carole Wilkinson Publisher Comments In the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, the last remaining dragon is in danger of being killed by the cruel Emperor. A nameless orphan with no past and an uncertain future becomes his unlikely ally. The young orphan soon discovers that it is her... (read more) Your price: $5.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Fire Thief (Fire Thief Trilogy #01) by Terry Deary Publisher Comments International best-selling author Terry Deary reinvents the myth of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to the human race. To escape the gods' revenge, Prometheus travels through time to a murky metropolis called Eden City... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Emily Windsnap) by Liz Kessler and Sarah Gibb Publisher Comments For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rabbit Hill (Puffin Newberry Library) by Robert Lawson Staff Pick Written in 1944, this is one of the classics of children's literature. The animals of Rabbit Hill and the folks who live in the big house learn about coexisting, giving us all something to think about in terms of how we interact with the world around us.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eleanor Coerr and Ronald Himler Publisher Comments Based on a true story, young Sadako faces the battle of her life when she is diagnosed with "atomic bomb disease" (leukemia). She turns to her native Japanese beliefs and makes one thousand paper cranes so the gods will grant her wish to be well.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Homer Price by Robert Mccloskey Publisher Comments Homer Price lives two miles out of Centerburg, where Route 56 meets 56A, but most of his friends and relatives live in town. They include Aunt Aggy and Uncle Ulysses, the Sheriff and the boys, Miss Terwilliger, Miss Naomi Enders, great-great-great... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pirate Curse (Wave Walkers #01) by Kai Meyer and Elizabeth D. Crawford Publisher Comments The pirates of the Caribbean have a name for kids who can walk on water — they call them polliwogs. As far as 14-year-old Jolly knows, she's the last polliwog still alive. She is valuable to the pirate captain who raised her, for she can sneak up on... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mandy (Julie Andrews Collection) by Julie Andrews Edwards and Johanna Westerman Publisher Comments The magic of finding a home Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. All through the spring, summer, and fall... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford and Valorie Fisher Publisher Comments It wasn't as if Moxy Maxwell hadn't tried to do her summer reading. She and Stuart Little had been inseparable all summer, like best friends. If Stuart Little wasn't in her backpack, it was in her lap...or holding up the coffee table...or getting... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Benny and Babe by Eoin Colfer Publisher Comments Benny, a sports-obsessed, carefree kid, is convinced that he can take on the world--until he spends the summer living with his grandfather and meets resident tomboy and all-around tough-girl Babe Meara. Benny may be a wise guy, but Babe is at least three... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis Staff Pick Maude March is a "wanted woman," though she never meant to be. As she and her sister Sallie face one hardship after another, their troubles mount and their lives begin to look like those of the roughriders in the dime novels Sallie reads. If I ever had... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain, Book One (Chronicles of Prydain #01) by Lloyd Alexander Publisher Comments The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Country (Eidolon Chronicles #01) by Jane Johnson and Adam Stower Publisher Comments Ben wants a Mongolian Fighting Fish more than anything. But when he goes to Mr. Dodds's Pet Emporium with his hard-earned savings, he buys a cat instead. He doesn't have a choice, really. The cat insists. Iggy (as the tabby likes to be called) has... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ralph S. Mouse (Avon Camelot Books) by Beverly Cleary and Paul O. Zelinsky Publisher Comments "Look, Ryan," he said. "I'm in trouble and I don't have time to tell you about it. Just take me and my motorcycle with you, and don't ask questions." "To school?" Ryan was surprised. Ralph's pesky cousins are wrecking his motorcycle, and his janitor... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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