Dweeb: Burgers, Beasts, and Brainwashed Bullies

	After being framed for stealing bake sale money, the five smartest boys in the eighth grade are imprisoned in a small room beneath their junior high school in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, and must use their nerdish powers to expose a conspiracy involving fast f ood, standardized testing, and a school full of overachieving zombies.
	When weird things start happening at their junior high, 8th-graders Denton, Wendell, Eddie, Elijah, and Bijay, better known as DWEEB, know they are the only ones who have the smarts to solve the mystery, but with Vice Principal Snodgrass on their case, the challenge to do so becomes even greater.

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Newbery winner When You Reach Me By Rebecca Stead

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

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Caldecott winner The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's trap. With vivid depictions of the landscape of the African Serengeti and expressively-drawn characters, Pinkney makes this a truly special retelling, and his stunning pictures speak volumes.

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The Dog Who Loved Tortillas

When Gabriela and her brother Dieguito get a puppy named Sofie, they fight over who she belongs to, but when Sofie gets very sick they find the answer.

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Peter Rabbit Munch

Young children will love turning each page and watching as Peter nibbles and munches his way through almost everything in Mr. McGregor's garden. Each page is a little smaller than the one before, and Peter's little teeth marks prove he's not far away! Turn the last page to see if poor Mr. McGregor will be left with anything at all for HIS lunch! A soft learning approach is integrated as the book counts down from 5 to 1.

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