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The First State of Being

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever.

It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, …

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Pepper and Me

From three-time NYT Best Illustrated creator of On a Magical Do-Nothing Day comes a stunning picture book about a little girl, the scab on her knee, and the healing they do together.

In this utterly en…

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Jane, the Fox & Me

Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies — Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to …

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Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books

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There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

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One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary

“Feels like reading a love story that doesn't quite know it's a love story yet, and a success story that doesn't know it’s made it.”—Emma Straub, New York Times–bestselling author of This Time Tomorro…

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The Skull

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.

In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when …

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Picture This: How Pictures Work

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas--about how the visual composition of images works to engage the …

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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)

From Dagger Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously bril…

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Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully crafted and researched study on color and light in paintings. This art instruction book will accompany …

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Michael Rosen's Sad Book

With unmitigated honesty, a touch of humor, and sensitive illustrations by Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with us all.

Sometimes I'm sad and I d…

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