juvenile fiction

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juvenile fiction

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a dinosaur grows up
1987
A baby duckbilled dinosaur living eighty million years ago on the North American continent leaves her mother's nest, forages for food, evades predators, mates, and produces a family of her own.

Tales for the perfect child

1985
Vignettes of children whose less than desirable behavior is masked in insidious but acceptable ways.

The mountains of Tibet

1987
After dying, a Tibetan woodcutter is given the choice of going to heaven or to live another life anywhere in the universe.

Katerina's wish

2012
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.

Binny for short

2013
Eleven-year-old Binny struggles to cope with her father's death and the loss of her beloved dog while she adjusts to a new home that might be haunted by her horrible Aunt Violet.

The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop

2013
Eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily are recruited by a talking cat to assist her and MI6 in foiling the dastardly plans of their great-great-uncle, a chocolatier who used magic to make a candy that bestows immortality.

Splish, splash!

2000
Different animals ask to join a fish in a tub until the tub is full.

Question Boy meets Little Miss Know-It-All

2012
A curious boy with non-stop questions meets a girl who seems to know all the answers.

The boo! book

2012
Explains how to recognize a haunted book, and what to do when one finds one.

Bird child

2009
Eliza feels bad for the new girl, Lainey, who is constantly tormented by the other children in the schoolyard, but she feels afraid to act until she talks to her mother and finally finds the courage to stand up to the bullies.

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