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Terpin Taft is an easygoing, popular boy--a good egg, happy to tell people what they want to hear, even if it means stretching the truth a bit. Until the day he meets a stranger on a train and tells the man a consoling lie. The results are so disastrous that Terpin resolves never again to speak or act except by the truth in his heart. But this, too, has disastrous--if sometimes comical--results. In fact, his new policy of honesty wreaks such havoc among his friends and family that he finally has no choice but to flee his hometown. Elegantly and lyrically written, Terpin is a modern fable that emphasizes the importance of being true to one's own values--no matter what. AUTHOR: Tor Seidler
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Watermelon Day by Kathi Appelt, Lulu Bailey
All through a long spring and summer Jesse waits for her watermelon to grow and ripen so she can enjoy the delicious fruit. Oil pastel paintings illustrate the text. AUTHOR: Kathi Appelt, Lulu Bailey
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Squashed by C. J. Critt, Joan Bauer
16-year-old Ellie Morgan sets out to grow a huge, potentially prize-winning pumpkin--all the while trying to lose 20 pounds herself. AUTHOR: C. J. Critt, Joan Bauer
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Summer's Vacation by Lynn Plourde, Couch
Description not available.Despite reminders from Father Time and Mother Earth, Summer neglects her chores while she is on vacation. AUTHOR: Lynn Plourde, Couch
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Range of Motion by Beth Fowler, Elizabeth Berg
Lainey's husband has sustained a freak accident and lies in a coma. She is the only one who believes he will recover. This exquisitely rendered novel is the story of her undying faith. AUTHOR: Beth Fowler, Elizabeth Berg
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Evelina by Edward A. Bloom, Flo Gibson, Frances Burney, Margaret Anne Doody, Stewart J. Cooke
Fanny Burney's lighthearted first novel, completed after nine years of secret labor, was published anonymously in January 1778. Before the end of that year, it had gone through four editions--a huge popular success. In Burney's own words, it is the story, written in letters, of a young woman of obscure birth, but conspicuous beauty, who makes, at the age of seventeen, her first appearance upon the great and busy stage of life; with a virtuous mind, a cultivated understanding, and a feeling heart, her ignorance of the forms, and inexperience in the manners of the world, occasion all the little incidents which these volumes record. As a chronicle of life in 18th-century England, EVELINA is incomparable, Burney's heroine is a lovable (and unerringly perfect!) young woman, and the entire novel is leavened by its author's sharp satirical eye. AUTHOR: Edward A. Bloom, Flo Gibson, Frances Burney, Margaret Anne Doody, Stewart J. Cooke
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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