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|  | La Cabana En el Arbol by Gillian Cross, Paul Howard
Juan and Santi are excited because their father is building them a tree house. Just after starting, however, he has to leave the country. The children are upset, but their father promises to send them a package with something for the tree house every month. He keeps his promise and the children now have to imagine how they will use each thing they receive. This is a wonderful book about an enriching relationship between parents and children. AUTHOR: Gillian Cross, Paul Howard
PUBLISHER: Alfaguara, Ediciones, S.A.- Grupo Santillana
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | The King & the Tortoise by Kathy Blankley, Tololwa M. Mollel
A picture-book version of a traditional folk tale from Cameroon. When a king challenges his subjects to make him a robe of smoke, the hare, the elephant, the fox, and the leopard all try but fail. Will the humble tortoise be able to meet the king`s challenge? Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Kathy Blankley, Tololwa M. Mollel
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Keepsake by Antoinette Stockenberg
Keepsake, Connecticut, is a quaint, peaceful town. Then Quinn Leary returns, reopening a scandal the town would rather forget: a murder his father was accused of 17 years before. Quinn has come back to clear his father's name and right the wrongs of the past. Olivia doesn't realize it, but she has been waiting for this moment. Soon family secrets, shattered dreams, and fierce rivalries come together in powerful and unexpected ways, offering a once-in-a-lifetime chance for new beginnings. AUTHOR: Antoinette Stockenberg
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Terror in Disney World by Gregory C. Banning, Roy Macgregor
A hockey trip finds the Screech Owls stumbling across a plot to terrorize all of America. AUTHOR: Gregory C. Banning, Roy Macgregor
PUBLISHER: McClelland & Stewart/Tundra Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Dragonwings by B. D. Wong, Laurence Yep
An 8-year-old a boy named Moon Shadow leaves his home in China and sets sail for America where he is to be reunited with his father, who immigrated to the United States before Moon Shadow was born. Once in America Moon Shadow helps his father, Windrider, fulfill a fabulous dream. This novel, set in the early 1900s, is based on a historical account of a Chinese immigrant in the United States who built a flying machine. AUTHOR: B. D. Wong, Laurence Yep
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Report to the Principal's Office! by Jerry Spinelli
Sunny Wyler, Eddie Mott, Salem Brownmiller, and Pickles Johnson, all students at the brand new Plumstead Middle School, are called down to the principal's office. Why could principal Charles Brimlow want to see them? Part of the School Daze series of books. AUTHOR: Jerry Spinelli
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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