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Infants & Preschool

Dinotrux by Chris Gall.
Chomping, digging, honking, and rolling, such fearsome creatures as "Craneosaurus," "Dumploducus," and "Blacktopadon," blend the endless appeal of dinosaurs and trucks into one hilarious volume.

Let’s Do Nothing! by Tony Fucile.
Doing nothing is a lot harder than it looks, as Sal and Frankie discover in this very funny picture book.

Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Rosenthal.
It's a duck. No, it's a rabbit. See the duck’s beck.  No it’s rabbit ears. You’ll just have to read this and decide for yourself.

Sylvie by Jennifer Sattler.
Sylvie asks her Mama why flamingos are all pink. The answer—"the little shrimp we eat are pink"—leads her to seek more colorful things to eat, with hilarious results.

Where is Baby’s Beach Ball by Karen Katz.
Help baby search for her colorful beach ball, it’s under one of these flaps!

The Nine Lives of Rotten Ralph by Jack Gantos.
After a night of "being rotten with his alley cat friends," Rotten Ralph gets some bad news from the vet-- he's used up eight of his lives. Will Ralph stop being rotten?

Ages 6 to 9

Good Dog, Aggie by Lori Ries.
Aggie is a good dog, but she does not obey, so Ben takes her to doggie school. However doggie school does not work out, so Ben needs to find another way to help his dog learn.

Life-Size Zoo by Teruyuki.
Laser-sharp, actual-size photographs make you want to reach out and touch the whiskers, ears or horns of these zoo animals.

The Composer is Dead by Lemony Snicket.
The Composer is dead (“This is called decomposing”) and the Inspector is called in to uncover the murderer—or murderers. Music CD included.

Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel by Nikki Grimes.
Smart, confident Dyamonde sits in her third-grade classroom and wonders why she’s been at her new school for weeks and still doesn’t have a best friend. Then in walks Free, a new student who’s so irritable that Dyamonde secretly names him Rude Boy.

Ages 10 to 14

Beyond the Grave by Jude Watson.
The Cahill siblings are at it again - this time in Egypt. Mysterious clues are hidden in some of the most famous tombs in all of history, but danger still abounds.

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan.
Percy Jackson, whose ADHD is caused by the supercharged blood coursing through his veins courtesy of his father Poseidon, returns to save the world from Kronos in the concluding volume of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

Freaky Monday by Mary Rogers and Heather Hach.
13-year-old Hadley finds her body mysteriously switched with her English teacher, Ms. Pit.

The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer.
Sherlock Holmes’
14-year-old sister, Enola, plays a cat and mouse game with her older brother Sherlock, as she solves a mystery involving her landlady and Florence Nightingale.

Wild Things by Clay Carmichael.
Zoë and the cat are strays-- both have lost their mother, both have learned to count only on themselves and both are taken in and eventually loved by an unlikely caregiver.

 
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