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|  | Oliver & Amanda's Halloween by Ann Schweninger, Jean Van Leeuwen
Pig siblings Oliver and Amanda celebrate Halloween by carving a jack-o'-lantern and going trick-or-treating. Color illustrations accompany the text of this beginning-reader book. AUTHOR: Ann Schweninger, Jean Van Leeuwen
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Food Fight by Janet Bode
A growing problem: children with eating disorders Anorexia. Bulimia. Compulsive overeating. These potentially fatal eating disorders, long associated with teenagers and young women, are now increasingly affecting younger and younger children -- some as young as eight or nine. In the first book to speak directly to preteens and their parents about this dangerous topic, noted author Janet Bode describes symptoms, possible causes, and ways to deal with these illnesses. Food Fight includes many first-person interviews with children who suffer from these disorders, as well as their parents, doctors, and other experts. This is a comprehensive resource guide, providing invaluable information that may help families survive what often seems like an impossible situation. AUTHOR: Janet Bode
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
These 10 short stories are often about smart professional men whose difficulties include troubled marriages, iffy adulterous ones, and bad memories of past ones. AUTHOR: Richard Ford
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Six Minute Science Experiments
What a wonderful world we live in -- and these 50 imaginative science experiments vividly demonstrate to kids concepts of nature such as gravity, evaporation, friction, density, and absorption. All you need are simple household articles! Fun's a-poppin' when children compare the weight of popped or unpopped popcorn. They'll get all puddled up finding out where rainwater goes and whether shallow or deep puddles dry more quickly. A good (and educational) time will be had by all who check out how gardens grow, prepare frozen yogurt, make music, create abstract paintings, and race toy cars.
CATEGORY: General
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 | Psychozone by David Lubar
Offbeat and twisted. Funny and terrifying. Each of the stories in this dazzling collection is a breathtaking joyride into that mysterious, dark region of the mind where reality and fancy collide: the PsychoZone. AUTHOR: David Lubar
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Invader by C. J. Cherryh
Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the Atevi, it unexpectedly returns to orbit overhead, threatening the stability of both Atevi and human government. This is the sequel to Foreigner. AUTHOR: C. J. Cherryh
PUBLISHER: D A W Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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