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61) Rebel McKenzie
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When feisty twelve-year-old Rebel McKenzie, an aspiring paleontologist, goes to spend the summer taking care of her older sister's seven-year-old son at the mobile home park in Frog Level, Virginia, she never expects to enter a beauty pageant or meet a hand model.
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"A powerful introduction to forced disappearances for readers 10 and up. By a closed door, a child waits for his uncle, who is coming to stay. As he waits, he imagines all the fun things they'll do when he arrives: his uncle can teach him how to block a penalty shot and the boy can show him how well he is doing in school. But his uncle never arrives. Page by page, the boy grows older sitting in the same position, waiting to show his uncle his degree,...
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"The Eagles are one of Brazil's top teams - and Paulo's Uncle Marcos is their star striker. Soccer-mad Paulo is desperate to follow in his uncle's golden footsteps and is counting the days until his trials for the Eagles' junior squad. But when the day of the trials finally arrives, not everything goes quite according to plan - for Paulo or the Eagles." -- Back cover.
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Don Rosa library volume 5
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Scrooge McDuck strikes Klondike gold in the latest collection of the world-renowned Duck comics.
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Uncle Gobb volume 2
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Even though Malcolm managed to bamboozle and confuzle Uncle Gobb in the last book (hooray!), it was only temporary (boo!). Uncle Gobb is still living with him and still roaring at him about peas and poetry and Peter Parker. This time the plan to get rid of Uncle Gobb has to be mega. It has to be epic. It has to involve America, the Jumblies, the Genie (of course), Aunty Brenda the Mender and Malcolm's long-lost dad. But Malcolm doesn't know that Uncle...
69) Wrecker: a novel
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After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left alone or taken from their families would find the love and the family they deserve. For her, fiction was the tool to realize that world, and Wrecker, the central character in her second novel, is the abandoned child for whom life turns around in most unexpected ways. It's June of 1965 when Wrecker enters the world. The war is raging...
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Will giving them refuge...Heal their damaged past? Focused on his business and charity work, rancher Bowie Trudeau can't afford a distraction. Then his childhood crush, Sage Walker, returns home after thirteen years with her niece and nephew in tow. Helping the troubled kids and their aunt might put his career--and heart--in jeopardy. But uncovering her secrets and convincing Sage to stay might give him the family he's always wanted...
71) Next comes love
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"Street-smart city girl Erica Corelli spent the three best days of her childhood on Mirabelle Island. Now her sister has disappeared and Erica's on the run with her six-year-old nephew. The boy's father, an abusive Chicago cop, will stop at nothing to get his son back. Erica can only hope this unforgettable island paradise is a safe place to hide. Garrett Taylor, the island's chief of police, takes one look at Erica and thinks, Trouble. The mysterious,...
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Olivia Marshall will do anything to make her town's bicentennial celebration a success--even work with her ex-fiancé. It's only for a few weeks and then she'll never see Ben Kincaid again. But when her four-year-old nephew is abandoned on her doorstep, Olivia finds herself asking Ben for help. Soon, their tentative truce starts to feel like something more. But will Ben's past trauma destroy their second chance...before it even starts?
73) Walt Disney Uncle $crooge and Donald Duck: Treasure under glass and Life and Times of Scrooge Mcduck
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Don Rosa library volume 3 & 4
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"Danger ahoy! When pirates and fiendish fish block Scrooge McDuck from a "Treasure Under Glass," only noisy nephew Donald can break the impasse ... or can he? "--Page 4 of cover.
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Scrooge McDuck may have an uncanny knack for making money, but he's in over his head trying to keep up with his nephews. Along with their friends Launchpad McQuack, Gyro Gearloose, Mrs. Beakley and Webby Vanderquack, the gang crisscorsses the globe in a never-ending search for adventure.
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Scrooge McDuck may have an uncanny knack for making money, but he's in over his head trying to keep up with his nephews. Along with their friends Launchpad McQuack, Gyro Gearloose, Mrs. Beakley and Webby Vanderquack, the gang crisscorsses the globe in a never-ending search for adventure.
76) A baby in Alaska
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"Sam Frazier has three weeks in Alaska to acquire a small aviation company and serve as best man in a wedding--all with his infant nephew in tow. Thankfully, maid of honor and pilot Rylee Madden can't resist helping the new guardian, even if the acquisition might eliminate her job. The arrangement is temporary, and romance isn't an option. But will caring for baby Silas together change their minds?" -- Page [4] cover.
77) A ritmo de twist
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Español
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"Esta alocada comedia nos trae al Manuel 'Loco' Valdés como el bienintencionado pero mal-equipado Matusalén, cuyo único interés en la vida es bailar. Pero su tío, que quiere enseñarle a tener responsabilidades, lo ha dejado a cargo de su empresa de trajes de baño. El desastre sobreviene immediatamente, cuando un astuto competidor, Don Pedro, envía a dos bellas impostoras a robarse los últimos diseños de la compañía. Mientras Matusalén...
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"Reeling from the discovery that everything she knew about her life was a lie, Isadora is forced to take up a position as a governess in the brooding Marquis de Lyonnais's household. As she helps the marquis bond with his orphaned nephew, Isadora can't help but be drawn to the man behind the title. But can she trust him to protect her secret...one that's so explosive it could rock the court of King Louis XV!"--
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Don Rosa library volume 4
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"Uncle Scrooge, the world's richest duck, knows exactly where he got every coin he ever earned. And in this fourth book of Duck epics by Don Rosa, that story begins to unfold at last! Relive Scrooge's Scottish boyhood as "Last of the Clan McDuck, " then his teenage years as "Master of the Mississippi" on Uncle Pothole's steamboat! Witness Scrooge's first fights with the Beagle Boys and Flintheart Glomgold - and in a bonus "Chapter 0, " his earliest...