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The Wrap-Up List

Author: 
Steven Arntson
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Reading Level: Grades 6 - 8

Gabriella is having a perfectly normal day, until she receives a letter from her Death, Hercule, informing her that she has been chosen for Departure.  Now she has one week to wrap things up with her friends and family and to try to figure out what will force Hercule to give her a Pardon before he comes and makes her disappear.

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Ball

Author: 
Mary Sullivan
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Reading Level: Ages 3 - 7

This one word book cleverly tells the story of a ball obsessed dog who has nobody to play with him.

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Graveyard Shift

Author: 
Chirs Westwood
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Reading Level: Grades 4 - 6

A Dog's Life

Author: 
Caroline Sherman
Illustrator: 
Donald Wu
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Reading Level: Ages 2 - 6

A dog talks about all the things he has to do each day, like make sure people don't oversleep and clean the dishes in this funny book for dog lovers.

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Fang Girl

Author: 
Helen Keeble
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Reading Level: Grades 6 and up

Xanthe Jane (don't call her Xanthe) has always loved vampires, as stories, but she knows they aren't real. Then one night she is woken up by a cellphone playing the theme from Dracula and discovers that she is in a coffin, in her grave, and her vampire sire is exhuming her. When her sire is chased off before she can finish digging Jane up, Jane is left to figure out how she could be a vampire when she's never been bitten and what is she supposed to do now, in this tongue-in-cheek vampire novel.

Penny and Her Marble

Author: 
Kevin Henkes
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Reading Level: Grades1 - 2

While taking a walk Penny finds a beautiful marble on Mrs. Goodwin's lawn and takes it home, but then her conscience begins to bother her. What if the marble belongs to Mrs. Goodwin and she wants it back?

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Lucky Ducklings

Author: 
Eva Moore
Illustrator: 
Nancy Carpenter
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Reading Level: Ages 2 - 7

Mama duck takes her duckings for a walk through the park and into town where they encounter an unexpected sewer grate with holes just the right size to swallow up ducklings in this book reminiscent of Make Way for Ducklings and Ducks Disappearing.

Perfectly Percy

Author: 
Paul Schmid
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Reading Level: Ages 3 - 6

The thing that makes Percy the happiest is balloons. Unfortunately, because he is a porcupine, balloons also tend to make him the saddest as well. How can a little porcupine possibly play with a balloon without popping it?

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