Children’s Books

Ruffing It

Ruffing It
Title: Ruffing It
ASIN: B08CVTJDVZ
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Published: July 12, 2020
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Life in Last Chance Gulch has never been easy for 10-year-old Charlie Fogalman...not with a teacher who just might be a Russian spy, not with Fletcher Stickney, the biggest and meanest bully on the planet. But when Charlie changes into a dog during a magic spell gone bad, things take a turn for the worse. His previous life wasn't easy, but at least he was human. Will Charlie ever walk on two legs again?

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The Adventures of Gracie & Monkeybear, Book 1: Summer

The Adventures of Gracie & Monkeybear, Book 1: Summer
Title: The Adventures of Gracie & Monkeybear, Book 1: Summer
ASIN: B01N1ZCBUH
Gracie & MonkeyBear is told through the actions and conversations between a brilliant young girl and her partner in adventure, the most celebrated canine inventor the world has ever seen MonkeyBear! The pace is that of children, hopping and bouncing from one creative thought to the next, one adventure to another. This is not a traditional children's book, it is a storyworld meant to be read and experienced together, parent and child, veteran bookworms with new readers. At its core, The Adventures of Gracie & MonkeyBear embodies the concepts of relentless curiosity, untethered imagination, power of diverse friendships and experiences (like the world around us), heroic acts of kindness based on strength of character and most of all, the belief that all living things are connected and should be treated with love, compassion, and respect.

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Thomas and the Tiger-Turtle

Thomas and the Tiger-Turtle: A Picture Book for Kids
Title: Thomas and the Tiger-Turtle: A Picture Book for Kids
ASIN: B00KC8FG7C
Published: May 13, 2014
Author's Twitter: @jonno_go
When Thomas finds a talking turtle in his yard, he's amazed and surprised, especially when the turtle insists, "I'm not a turtle. I'm a tiger!" After a visit to the zoo and a fun chase, the turtle--or is it a tiger?--discovers an important truth and makes a fast friend.

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Eeek! The Runaway Alien

Eeek! The Runaway Alien
Title: Eeek! The Runaway Alien
ASIN: B007D2XYTC
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Published: February 23, 2012
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A boy, an alien and World Cup football. A match made in heaven for soccer fans aged 7-10! Laugh-out-loud funny! Eleven-year-old Charlie Spruit can't believe his luck when he opens his door to an alien one morning. Who is he? Why has he come? Charlie soon discovers that this alien has run away from space to Earth to be with him because he's soccer mad and the World Cup is on...! 'Eeek,' as Charlie decides to call him, takes up secret residence in Charlie's bedroom where he sleeps on the ceiling by night and pores over Charlie's football magazines and stickers by day. All is going surprisingly well until slimy sci-fi mad Sid Spiker, who lives out the back, spots Eeek through his telescope. Sid has his own plans for this alien, which bring surprises that no-one could have imagined...

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DOGUAR AND THE BABOONS OF WAR

Doguar and the Baboons of War
Title: Doguar and the Baboons of War
ASIN: B008IF0L7Q
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Published: July 6, 2012
Author's Twitter: @simonjtownley
At a top secret science project deep in the English countryside, boffins have found a way to enhance animal brainpower. But the scatter-brained professor behind the research is unaware of a sinister plan - to use his upgraded baboons as weapons of war. Luckily, his pet project, two Airedale Terriers with near-human intelligence, have a nose for danger.

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The Sun Zebra

The Sun Zebra
Title: The Sun Zebra
ASIN: B006AC5FCU
Published: November 18, 2011
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"The Sun Zebra"is best described as a children's book for grownups. Its aim is to encourage us to discover (or rediscover) the amazing things that children and their magical carefree world can teach us, even as we try to teach them about the harsh realities of our own. The book is a collection of five stories that follow the "adventures in living" of an unusual little girl named Nell, her mother Rhonda, and Nell's father who is the narrator of the stories.

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Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble

Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble
Title: Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble
ASIN: B00DOE08Q0
Published: December 17, 2013
Can Noah Zarc stop Earth from being destroyed... a second time? “Pease’s strength as a storyteller lies in his ability to connect multiple time periods imaginatively, as well as Noah’s excited, fast-paced narration.” ~ Publishers Weekly Noah Zarc has a life most kids only dream of – traveling through time on an immense spaceship, seeing the wonders of the solar system, and experiencing the vast history of Earth... before everything on the planet was destroyed. His family's mission is to repopulate Earth with life retrieved from the past. Of course, nothing ever goes as planned. His mother and father vanish during an operation to Earth’s ancient past, and together with his brother, sister, and an orphaned girl from the Ice Age, Noah sets out on a quest through space and time to rescue his parents and bring them back to the 31st century. Yet, as they soon discover, his parents' disappearance was no accident. The Zarc family is being systematically hunted by a dark foe who will stop at nothing to thwart the Zarc mission, even if that means destroying all life on Earth... again, including everything, and everyone, Noah holds dear.

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