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Joshua Dread
Lee Bacon

Reading Level: Grades 4-6

Starting a new school is never easy.  It is even harder when you have to remember your new alias and make sure you never even hint at the fact that your parents are supervillians intent on destroying the world.

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Books by Lee Bacon

Other villianous tales include:

Artemis Fowl by Eon Colfer

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks anThe Cloak Society by Jeramy Kraatz

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Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin

Reading Level: Grades 5 and up

Bomb  reads like an edge-of -your- seat spy novel, but it's all true.  It tells of  the Herculean effort behind building the bomb, the desperate arms race with Germany that will decide WWII,  the heroic efforts of Norwegein resistance fighters, and  the spies determined to steal the plans for the Soviet Union.  The story of the scientific genius behind the bomb,  the politics, the military heroics, and the espionage make this a thrilling read where truth is far more exciting than fiction.

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Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
Mo Willems

Reading Level: Ages 3 - 9

Three dinosaurs leave food on the table and the door unlocked, but they aren't doing it on purpose to try to lure a famous blonde lunch, um, girl into the house, honest.

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Scarlett Dedd
Cathy Brett

Reading Level: Grades 6 -8

Scarlett cannot bear the idea of going on an weekend school retreat where she'll have to get dressed in front of the other girls who will see her secondhand store gray underwear. The perfect out seems to appear in the form of some mushrooms that, according to a book she glances at, will make her sick to her stomach. Unfortunately, a slight identification error winds up killing her and her entire family leaving her, a girl who only had four friends in life, an extremely lonely ghost. Then a boy on a ghostly chat room suggests that she kill one or two of her former friends so that she can have companions forever. That's not a terrible idea, is it?

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This is Not My Hat
Jon Klassen

Reading Level: Ages 3 - 9

The author of I Want My Hat Back has returned with yet another stolen hat story. This time we follow the hat thief who thinks he has committed the perfect crime.

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