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Ivy and Bean: What's the Big Idea (Unabridged)

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Annie Barrows' Ivy and Bean books star a pair of mismatched best friends who are nevertheless inseparable. The science fair is here, and everyone in Ivy and Bean's second-grade class couldn't be more excited. This year's theme is global warming, and all of the kids are working on their own projects and experiments. But what are Ivy and Bean up to?

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550L
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01:19
Ivy and Bean: What's the Big Idea (Unabridged)

Horrible Harry In Room 2B (Unabridged)

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Second grade is never dull with Harry in the classroom. He loves to do horrible things, like showing his pet snake to Song Lee and making her scream, or pinning Sidney to the ground and making him say, "I love girls". You never know what Harry will do next!

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480L
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00:26
Horrible Harry In Room 2B (Unabridged)

The Fox Busters (Unabridged)

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Ransome, Sims, and Jefferies were three astonishing chickens! So exceptional were they that they were to become a legend to future generations at Foxearth Farm. Not only could they fly out of the reach of foxes, but they found a way of defeating even the most crafty of attacks.

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The Fox Busters (Unabridged)

Pretty Polly (Unabridged)

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Abigail would love to have a pet parrot, but they're too expensive. So she decides to teach one of her father's chickens to talk instead. To the amazement of Abigail's family, she succeeds. Soon, they have to stop Polly being quite so chatty.

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Pretty Polly (Unabridged)

Cowboy and Octopus (Unabridged)

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Peanut butter and jelly. George and Martha. Frog and Toad. Cowboy and...Octopus? Yes, that's right. Meet Cowboy and Octopus - the next great pair to become a household name. Cowboy likes beans'n'bacon and bacon'n'beans. Octopus eats raw seafood. Octopus prefers knock-knock jokes, but Cowboy doesn't get them. How will these two ever be friends?

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AD350L
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00:07
Cowboy and Octopus (Unabridged)

Squids Will Be Squids (Unabridged)

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Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just plain annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka has found a way around that problem: he just makes like Aesop and changes all the people to animals or food, adds a moral to each story, and calls the stories fables!

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AD650L
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00:21
Squids Will Be Squids (Unabridged)

Mercy Watson to the Rescue (Unabridged)

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To Mr. and Mrs. Watson, Mercy is not just a pig, she's a porcine wonder. And to the portly and good-natured Mercy, the Watsons are an excellent source of buttered toast, not to mention that buttery-toast feeling she gets when she snuggles into bed with them. This is not, however, so good for the Watsons' bed. BOOM! CRACK! Welcome to the wry and endearing world of Mercy Watson.

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450L
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00:19
Mercy Watson to the Rescue (Unabridged)

Mercy Watson #4: Princess In Disguise (Unabridged)

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Mercy's in the pink for her fourth adventure!

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390L
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00:21
Mercy Watson #4: Princess In Disguise (Unabridged)

Mercy Watson #5: Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig (Unabridged) (Unabridged Fiction)

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Can Mercy Watson outwit...Animal Control? The porcine wonder's on the lam in her latest tongue-in-snout adventure!

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380L
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00:24
Mercy Watson #5: Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig (Unabridged) (Unabridged  Fiction)

The Emperor's New Clothes (Unabridged)

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A vain emperor who loves new clothes wears a royal robe created especially for him by two swindlers.

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The Emperor's New Clothes (Unabridged)

Frog and Toad Together

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Copies: 31

Toad likes the flowers that Frog grew in his garden. Frog likes the chocolate chip cookies Toad baked. Frog and Toad are friends. Beginning readers will delight in these five stories about two friends who are always together.

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Frog and Toad Together

Tales for Very Picky Eaters

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Copies: 7

A father tells outlandish stories while trying to get his young son, who is a very picky eater, to eat foods he thinks he will not like.

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AD500L
Tales for Very Picky Eaters

Bink & Gollie

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Two roller-skating best friends, one tiny, one tall, share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.

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AD310L
Bink & Gollie

I Want My Hat Back

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The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear begins to despond, a deer comes by and asks a simple question that sparks the bear's memory and renews his search with a vengeance.

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90L
I Want My Hat Back

E-Mergency!

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It s an E-mergency! The letter E has fallen down the stairs and ended up in the hospital. Now the only way to get her back on her feet is for everyone to stop using her. But who will substitute for E? The other letters have to make a decision, ASAP. Z is too sleepy, P is always in the bathroom, and Y asks way too many questions. Thankfully, O rolls in to save the day, because he's "so well-rounded." Now E can rost up and got bottor . . . as long as ovorybody follows the rulos. Chock-full of verbal and visual puns, this zany book is sure to tickle both the brain and the funny bone.

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AD480L
E-Mergency!

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