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Waking Dragons Featured
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Jane Yolen
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Wake up with a pair of sleepy dragons and the knight who must get them ready for school! Dragons wake up, Dragons rise, Dragons open Dragon eyes. From tumbling out of their humongous blankets to devouring a...
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Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty
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Philomel
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A reimagining of Sleeping Beauty from a master storyteller Gorse is the thirteenth and youngest in a family of fairies tied to the evil king's land and made to do his bidding. Because of an oath made to the king's great-great-ever-so-many-times-great-grandfather, if they try to leave or disobey the...
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Bug Off! Creepy, Crawly Poems Featured
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Wordsong
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In Bug Off! readers meet thirteen bugs in playful, humorous poems and startling, intimate photographs. Nonfiction prose paragraphs broaden the perspective: Children will learn how bees make honey, that many butterflies can taste food with their feet, that lovebugs can fly higher than the Empire State Building, and much more....
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Take Two!: A Celebration of Twins Featured
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Candlewick Press
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Old twins, new twins, famous twins, not-at-all-alike twins, side-by-side twins, let's play twins, not-yet twins, mirror twins - all kinds of twins! - come together in a collection of original poems by two of our most celebrated authors for young people: J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen. From a wave...
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Creepy Monsters Sleepy Monsters Featured
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Jane Yolen
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Candlewick Press
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Creep, gurgle, crawl, tumble! Meet two young monsters who are far from scary - they’re too busy having fun. They go to school, play outside with their friends, and eat after-school snacks. But they also have a bedtime, whether or not they’re ready for it! Young children and parents alike...
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How Do Dinosaurs Go Up and Down?
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Jane Yolen
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Scholastic
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Board Book
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Owl Moon
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Jane Yolen
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Penguin Putnam
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General Fiction
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Heart's Blood
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Jane Yolen
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Harcourt
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Fantasy
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Sleeping Ugly
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Penguin Putnam
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How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
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Jane Yolen
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Scholastic
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Picture Book
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Girl in a Cage
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Jane Yolen
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Penguin Putnam
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Historical Fiction
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How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?
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Scholastic
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Picture Book
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How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors?
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Scholastic
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Troll Bridge: A Rock'n' Roll Fairy Tale
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Jane Yolen
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Tor Books
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Mythology & Folklore
A wicked adventure—or deadly…trollble. For sixteen-year-old harpist prodigy Moira, the annual Dairy Princess event in Vanderby is just another lame publicity "op." Moira a dairy princess? Get real. Twelve girls have been selected to have their likeness carved in butter and displayed on the Trollholm Bridge. It's a Vanderby...
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Sleep, Black Bear, Sleep
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HarperCollins Publishers
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