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44) Santa Baby
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"An exhausted Santa wishes for youth and ends up becoming a baby days before Christmas"--
45) Old friends
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"Marjorie wants a friend who loves the same things she does: baking shows, knitting, and gardening. Someone like Granny. So with a sprinkle of flour in her hair and a spritz of lavender perfume, Marjorie goes undercover to the local Senior Citizens Group"--
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"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--
48) Cloud chaser
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Emery spends the summer building a flying machine with a new neighbor, an old man named Leon.
49) Holding on
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A young girl spends song-filled summers with her music-loving grandmother in the Philippines, but when her beloved Lola starts slipping into silence and stillness, the girl helps her grandmother hold on with music and the joyful memories the songs bring.
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OBD Summer Easy Readers - YOUTH
OBD Summer Picture Books - YOUTH
Sizzling Summer Reads - ROD Children's
OBD Summer Picture Books - YOUTH
Sizzling Summer Reads - ROD Children's
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To relieve the boredom of a long, hot summer, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby join their fun-loving neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her mischievous dog Zeke on an adventurous sightseeing boat cruise.
53) Grave secrets
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Deadtime stories (Reissued) volume 1
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Amanda maintains a pet cemetery in her backyard where she buries her dead pets, but when she and her friends prepare to bury a dead squirrel they find a grave with a doll in it, a discovery with links to a scary elderly neighbor.
57) Verdi
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A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
58) Newspaper hats
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A little girl, Georgie, visits her grandfather in the nursing home where he is suffering from memory loss, and manages to reconnect with him when they make newspaper hats for everyone.
59) Miss Rumphius
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As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
60) The mitten tree
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Old Sarah knits mittens for all the children waiting for the school bus and hangs them on the blue spruce tree at the bus stop.