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2) Busy Betty
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"As she tries to give her big, smelly dog Frank a bath, which becomes more impossible by the minute, Betty learns that she can accomplish anything with perseverance, teamwork, and one great idea"--
6) La la la
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Follows a singing girl's fruitless search for a friend in her world, until one night when her song is finally heard by someone who understands.
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Questioneers volume 1
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When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
8) D. W. flips!
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D.W., a young aardvark, discovers that lots of practice eventually helps her master the new routine in her gymnastics class.
9) Oh, Panda
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Panda tries to follow a butterfly over a mountain, but the slippery, snowy slope makes it difficult to climb.
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"In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending picture book, Dahabo must decide whether to keep working on her science fair project or quit. Readers make choices for Dahabo and read what happens next, with each story path leading to different consequences. Includes four different endings and discussion questions"--
13) Grit
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Grit-persistence and perseverance in the face of setbacks-is an important ingredient for a successful life. People such as Helen Keller and Harriet Tubman overcame incredible odds, and the example they set will be an inspiration to readers as they learn a
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"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited...
15) SumoKitty
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A hungry cat gets a job hunting mice at a sumo training center (heya), but once the mice are gone he continues to stuff himself until he is too fat to chase the mice that have returned--so he decides to train with the sumo wrestlers, and SumoKitty becomes a scourge of mice and an inspiration to the wrestlers.
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Dead Sea squirrels volume 3
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"Michael learns that--like the Thessalonians in the Bible--he will prosper if he works hard when Pearl the 2,000-year-old squirrel helps him study for his math test." --
17) Just one flake
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Determined to catch a perfect snowflake, Liam sticks out his tongue and tries a number of tricks, all to no avail, but after giving it one last shot, he grabs one in an unexpected way.
19) Wizard's hall
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A young apprentice wizard saves the wizard's training hall by trusting and believing in himself.
20) Hockey dreams
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Wayne Miller reflects on how he ended up in the locker room of the Minnesota Elk, on the night of his first professional hockey game.