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Erec Rex
For the millions of Harry Potter fans desperately waiting for the next installment of the famous series, this novel will provide a worthwhile diversion. The first book in what promises to be an ongoing fantasy series, "Erec Rex" contains...
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The Farm Team
With sheep on skates and a pig in the goal, the idea of a “farm team” is imaginatively reinvented in this hockey-themed Cinderella story. Farmer Stolski’s animals love to play hockey, despite the fact that they’ve failed to bring...
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One More Sheep
Anyone can count sheep to fall asleep, but staying awake while counting them, well, that’s a different story. Sam the shepherd often dozes off while counting his ten sheep after he’s safely tucked them into bed for the night. When a...
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Robert Takes a Stand
Third-grader Robert Dorfman starts a demonstration for animal rights and learns that the issue is not as simple as it seems. In his zeal to “protect the earth and all its creatures” he plans a protest in front of his local fur...
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Rosa's Room
Anyone who has moved as a child remembers the event as a significant and potentially scary milestone of childhood. However, Rosa approaches the situation with determination and style in this picture book, which reads like a how-to manual...
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Graphic Classics
Who has time to read the classics’ Everyone, now that Eureka Productions has created the Graphic Classics series. Each title features the classic works of a well-known author adapted into comics and illustrated stories by an assortment...
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The Warlord's Puppeteers
Embedded within this adventurous tale of warlords, bandits, and puppeteers is a subtle math lesson on the concept of proportion. Young Chuan and his artist mentor are traveling through the wilderness of Ancient China in the company of a...
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The Little Black Hen
This Russian fairy tale is rich with action, enchantment, and moral choices, and clearly aimed toward a sophisticated elementary school audience. Written by nineteenth-century Russian novelist Antony Pogorelsky (also a collector of...