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Dear Beast
by Dori Hillestad Butler
Through a series of letters, Simon, a grumpy and jealous cat, informs Baxter, his boy's new dog, that he is not welcome and should leave at once
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The Best Friend Plan
by Stephanie Calmenson
In a series debut co-written by the author of the Magic School Bus series, two best friends struggle to salvage a well-planned summer when one of them is told she is being sent to sleep-away camp.
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Spooky Sleuths: The Ghost Tree
by Natasha Deen
When Asim moves to a new town, he must save his new teacher when an evil spirit from Guyanese folklore begins to wreak havoc.
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Little Owl Rescue
by Rachel Delahaye
In this latest installment of the new chapter book series Little Animal Rescue, what starts out as a day at a carnival and a ride on the flying swings for Callie and her friend Gabriel ends up becoming an adventure for Callie when she is magically whisked away to Texas, where she finds an abandoned barn owlet.
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Eva's Treetop Festival
by Rebecca Elliott
Volunteering to organize a school festival, Eva Wingddale is rapidly overwhelmed by the event's many details and considers asking a less-than-trustworthy frenemy, Sue, for help.
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Kondo & Kezumi Visit Giant Island
by David Goodner
Living on a fantastical island of berry trees, flitter-birds and fluffle-bunnies, big Kondo and little Kezumi discover a map in a bottle that has washed ashore before building a boat that takes them on remarkable adventures.
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Mighty Meg and the Magical Ring
by Sammy Griffin
Eight-year-old Meg's life is turned upside-down when the ring she received from her Aunt Nikki, an archaeologist, gives her superpowers, but can she find the courage to be the superhero her town needs?
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The Princess in Black and the Giant Problem
by Shannon Hale
The Princess in Black is ready for her snowy playdate with the Goat Avenger and the Princess in Blankets. It's a perfect day to build snow monsters and battle them for practice. But just when they're about to wage battle, a huge foot smashes their snow monster. "SQUASHY!" It's a giant, and it's smashing everything in its path! The giant is too strong for the three friends, so the Princess in Blankets has an idea: it's time to light the Sparkle Signal and summon help.
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Dory Fantasmagory
by Abby Hanlon
Dory, the youngest in her family, is a girl with a very active imagination, and she spends the summer playing with her imaginary friend, pretending to be a dog, battling monsters, and generally driving her family nuts.
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DJ Funkyfoot: The Show Must Go Oink
by Tom Angleberger
DJ Funkyfoot is a chihuahua DJ who is happy to become a butler for fancy opera star Wolfgoose Pigwig, but as the singing pig's demands get more absurd, so do the disasters.
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The Fabled Stables: Willa the Wisp
by Jonathan Auxier
One day eight-year-old Auggie, the caretaker of the rare animals in the Fabled Stables, ventures into the swamp to save a new rare creature, the wisp.
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Layla and the Bots: Happy Paws
by Vicky Fang
Using their collective problem-solving talents and creativity to build cool inventions, rock band members Layla and the Bots help transform a run-down amusement park into a theme park for dogs that features such attractions as the Rub-a-Dub Mud Slide and the Tummy Rubbing Machine.
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Press Start: Game over, Super Rabbit Boy!
by Thomas Flintham
When the nefarious King Viking creates a robot army to spread No Fun throughout Animal Town and abducts fun-loving Singing Dog, video game character Super Rabbit Boy must use his speed and bravery to save the day, along with the help of a human player who must win level after level.
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Little Goddess Girls: Athena & the Magic Land
by Joan Holub
Carried from her home by a strange, sparkly storm, little Athena arrives in the land of Mount Olympus and an adventure inspired by The Wizard of Oz, in a debut entry in a new early reader series by the authors of the Goddess Girls and Heroes in Training adventures.
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The Best Friend Bandit: Molly Mac
by Marty Kelley
Initially worried that the new girl in class, Tori, might steal her cookies, Molly is soon faced with a bigger problem--it seems that Tori is stealing Molly's best friend, Kayley.
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Geeger the Robot Goes to School!
by Jarrett Lerner
Geeger the Robot is going to school. But not robot school...a school with kids, the human kind! Geeger isn't used to human ways, and his zany misunderstandings and overly literal responses to instructions lead to quite a few mishaps. He's starting to wonder if he can even make it until snack time! Will a bot made of wires, nuts, and bolts fit in with a classroom of kids?
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Juana & Lucas
by Juana Medina
Juana's life is just about perfect. She lives in the beautiful city of Bogotá with her two most favorite people in the world: her mami and her dog, Lucas. Lately, though, things have become a little less perfect. Mami has a new hairdo and a new amigo named Luis with whom she has been spending a LOT of time. He is kind and teaches Juana about things like photography and jazz music, but sometimes Juana can't help wishing things would go back to the way they were before. When Mami announces that she and Luis are getting married and that they will all be moving to a new casa, Juana is quite distraught. Lucky for her, though, some things will never change -- like how much Mami loves her.
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Itty Bitty Princess Kitty: The Newest Princess
by Melody Mews
Anticipating the arrival of her eighth shooting star and ascension as a princess, an excited Itty Bitty Kitty becomes apprehensive when she learns that she has to leave her friends and former school behind.
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Anne Arrives
by K. George
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who was sent to live on a Prince Edward Island farm by mistake, wants to make it her home and must convince the elderly brother and sister that live there to keep her.
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Astrid the Astronaut: The Astronomically Grand Plan
by Rie Neal
Trying to get her Astronomically Grand Plan off the ground to win a trip to real-life space camp, hearing impaired Astrid is determined to be the first astronaut with hearing aids in space, but she runs into some snags as she tries to complete her mission.
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Sadiq and the Desert Star
by Siman Nuurali
Sadiq's father is going on a business trip, but before he goes he tells Sadiq a story of the Desert Star, which fits in perfectly with Sadiq's third grade class field trip to the planetarium, and inspires Sadiq to build a simple telescope to study the stars when his father returns.
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Sharing the Mound
by Dorothy H. Price
J.C. is excited to join the new baseball team at the community center and show off his pitching skills, but his enthusiasm turns to disappointment when Vicky is chosen to take the mound first.
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One Smart Sheep
by Gary D. Schmidt
Wilson is a curious sheep, and after he foolishly climbs into the back of a piano movers' truck, he ends up alone in the big city, far from the farm. But Wilson is also one smart sheep, and soon enough he's finding his way home to his worried owner by recognizing the sounds that he heard while he was trapped in the truck -- a jackhammer, a calliope, a hotdog man. And could that be the excited barking of his friend Tippy, the border collie?
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Maggie Sparks and the Monster Baby
by Steve Smallman
Tired of her baby brother getting all the attention, Maggie Sparks turns to her pet chameleon, Bat, and a little magic to help her out.
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The Dinosaur Club: The T. rex attack
by Rex Stone
In this adventure-filled installment of a new series, young readers are transported back to the prehistoric world where they will learn all about dinosaurs.
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Catalina Incognito
by Jennifer Torres
When her aunt, a famous telenovela actress, gives her a magical sewing kit, 8-year-old Catalina Castaneda must create the perfect disguise to track down the person responsible for stealing the rhinestones for her aunts most famous costume.
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Mia Mayhem is a Superhero!
by Kara West
Invited to attend the after-school Program for In-Training Superheroes upon discovering that she has superpowers, 8-year-old Mia Macarooney struggles to balance her regular everyday life with the responsibilities of her secret identity.
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Peter & Ernesto: The Lost Sloths
by Graham Annable
A sequel to ""Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths"" finds Peter, Ernesto and the rest of their sloth friends losing their homes in a hurricane and searching for a new place to live in the jungle, where they work to protect each other from dangerous predators.
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Blue, Barry & Pancakes: Danger on Mount Choco
by Dan Abdo
Blue, Barry, and Pancakes are best friends! They love funky music, penguins that wear hats, and going on BIG adventures! One day, Barry convinces Blue and Pancakes to enter an epic sundae-making contest. Blue and Pancakes just want to have fun, but Barry is in it to WIN IT. He knows exactly how he's going to get the trophy, but it's going to be dangerous. It'll take sacrifice. He might even lose his pals along the way...
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Crab & Snail: The Invisible Whale
by Beth Ferry
When best beach friends Crab and Snail discover that it is only raining on them, they consult one know-it-all gull to get to the bottom of it and make a special new friend in the process.
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The Flower Garden
by Renée Kurilla
After planting a seed packet in the backyard, things don't go as expected for best friends Anna and Tess. They fall asleep in the sun and wake up to blooms as tall as buildings! Did the seeds really grow that fast? All is explained when Anna and Tess meet May, a little garden gnome whose magic is responsible for the transformation. The girls are May's size now, and they follow her through the flower garden and into May's underground gnome home--discovering new things about their world and themselves along the way. This immersive graphic novel from author-illustrator Renée Kurilla is perfect for emerging readers. It explores growing and changing friendships and offers details to discover on every page and with every read.
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Surviving the Wild: Star the Elephant
by Remy Lai
When Star the Elephant gets separated from his family as they search for a new home, he encounters giant spiders, the vast ocean beyond his island and strange humans as he makes his way back to his herd.
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Bug Scouts: Out in the Wild!
by Mike Lowery
To earn their foraging bug badge, Doug, Abby and Josh, the Bug Scouts, embark on an adventure in the wilderness to find an edible plant and encounter a clever, yet hungry, frog who distracts them from their mission.
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Baloney and Friends
by Greg Pizzoli
Told through comics-style panels, a new series by the Geisel Medal-winning creator of The Watermelon Seed introduces a piggy protagonist who performs questionable magic, braves the swimming pool and gives support to a friend.
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Sir Ladybug
by Corey R. Tabor
Sir Ladybug, who never turns down a quest, and his trusty friends must put their heads together to come up with the perfect plan to rescue a caterpillar from the clutches of a monster (a hungry chickadee).
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Monster Friends
by Kaeti Vandorn
When his neighbor Emily refuses to let him sit alone being unhappy in his house, Reggie must find a way to let new friends in during a summer where many adventures await.
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Shark and Bot
by Brian Yanish
A graphic-novel series debut celebrating the power of diversity in friendship depicts unlikely best pals Shark and Bot, who overcome their sharp-toothed and saw-armed differences to support each other against bullies who will not share the playground.
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Elmhurst Public Library 125 S Prospect Ave. Elmhurst, Illinois 60126 (630) 279-8696
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