Schwartz & Wade Books

Not As We Know It

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Copies: 6

Twins Jamie and Ned do everything together, from watching their favorite show, Star Trek, to riding their bikes, to beachcombing after a storm. But Ned is sick with cystic fibrosis, and he may someday leave Jamie behind. One day the boys find a strange animal on the beach: smooth flesh on one end, scales at the other, and short arms and legs with long webbed fingers and toes. Could it be a merman, like in the old stories Granddad tells?

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550L
Not As We Know It

One Year in Coal Harbor

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Primrose Squarp - the invincible heroine of the Newbery Honor Book Everything on a Waffle - returns for another adventure-filled year in Coal Harbor.

Her parents, once lost at sea, are safe at home, just as she always believed they would be. But now other people and places that Primrose loves are in precarious circumstances. For one thing, Uncle Jack and Miss Bowzer can't - or won't - connect, no matter how hard Primrose tries to move their romance along. There's also the logging of Mendolay Mountain, which threatens the woods Primrose has always known.

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880L
One Year in Coal Harbor

Cecil the Pet Glacier

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Copies: 7

Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team up to create an indescribably unique picture book about wanting to be normal, then coming to appreciate being different. Ruby would love to be like everyone else—not easy when you have a tiara-wearing mother and a father who spends his time trimming outrageous topiary. She'd also like to get a nice normal pet, maybe a dog. Then, on a family vacation to Norway, she finds herself adopted by a small, affectionate glacier.

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AD820L
Cecil the Pet Glacier

Clever Jack Takes the Cake

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Take a bite out of this deliciously funny original fairy tale by a bestselling picture-book duo. While girls are sure to love a storyabout a princess's birthday party, Jack's adventures with trolls, bears, and gypsies make this an ideal read for boys, too.

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AD600L
Clever Jack Takes the Cake