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Goodbye Spring, Hello Summer (Kenard Pak’s Changing Seasons)

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:49:52 +0000

As the sun shines bright, rainy days disappear, and new flowers begin to bloom, everyone knows–summer is on its way!

Join a young girl as she roams grassy plains and shady forests, greeting all the signs of the coming season. In a series of conversations with everything from the rolling hills to the chickadees up above, she says goodbye to spring and welcomes the liveliness of summer.

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Crack Goes the Cascarón: An Eggcellent Not-Just-For-Easter Shellebration!

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:49:09 +0000

“Shell-abrate a joyous Latine tradition with Toti and his family in this upbeat … story, hatched in time for Easter”–Provided by publisher.

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Dino-Birthday (Dino-Holidays)

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:48:28 +0000

Dinosaurs celebrate their birthdays with a variety of different parties, presents, and games depending on the season.

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Happy Mother’s Day from the Crayons

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:47:37 +0000

“Red Crayon loves his mom because she works extra hard, especially on the holidays. Yellow and Orange Crayons love their grandma who has a been like a mom to them. And White Crayon loves his mom a ton, even if he can’t always see her. In this inclusive celebration of all kinds of families, the Crayons … show how much [they] love celebrating their moms–and other family members–on Mother’s Day”

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Will the Pigeon Graduate?

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:46:20 +0000

The Pigeon had better graduate! He did the work! He paid attention to the little details! He overcame some BIG obstacles! The Pigeon’s got this . . . Or does he?

Do YOU think The Pigeon will graduate?

Grab your caps, don your gowns, and raise your hands for The Pigeon’s biggest adventure yet in this uplifting, hilarious, and inspirational graduation picture book from three-time Caldecott honoree Mo Willems. It’s a PhD* in fun!

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Famous Last Words

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:45:29 +0000

“It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla’s life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But after she arrives at the office, police officers storm the foyer: in the city, just near her work, a man has taken three hostages and is now in a tense standoff with law enforcement. And Luke, the person she’s loved for more than a decade, the father of her child, is involved. But he is not a hostage. He is the kidnapper”

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Me Talk Pretty One Day

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:44:45 +0000

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of “Naked”, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.

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Dracula

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:43:50 +0000

“Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St. George’s Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will come full sway. But business must be done, so Jonathan makes his way to the Castle – and then his nightmare begins. His beloved wife Meena and other lost souls have fallen under the Count’s horrifying spell. Dracula must be destroyed.”

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Dragonslayer (Wings of Fire)

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:42:58 +0000

“Ivy doesn’t trust the Dragonslayer. He may be her father and the beloved ruler of Valor, but she knows he’s hiding more than the treasure from the sand dragon he killed two decades ago. Leaf doesn’t trust dragons. They’re the reason his favorite sister, Wren, is dead, and now he’ll do whatever it takes to slay even one. Wren doesn’t trust anyone. She swore off humans after her village tried to sacrifice her to the dragons. She only has one friend, a small, wonderful mountain dragon named Sky, and they don’t need anyone else. In a world of dragons, the humans who scramble around underfoot are easy to overlook. But Ivy, Leaf, and Wren will each cross paths with dragons in ways that could shape the destiny of both species. Is a new future possible for all of them … one in which humans can look to the skies with hope instead of fear?”

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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

Brian Gadberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:41:55 +0000

Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy–as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.

When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother’s instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.

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