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When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
By: Elise Broach
Illustrated by: David Small
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 25, 2007
Ages: 3 - 7
Get a WHAT!?Free WHAT!?DINOSAURS?Just when a little boy thinks he's going to die of boredom from running errands with his mom, the most remarkable, the most stupendous thing happens. He discovers that on this day, and this day...
Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Cover By: Christopher Silas Neal
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth,...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf
A Year Told Through Stuff
By: Jennifer L. Holm
Illustrated by: Elicia Castaldi
This edition: Paper Over Board, 128 pages
Publication date: July 24, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet...
