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JUNE 2013 JUNE and herfatherheadsthenavy. awayfrom finishingschool, Hilary hasrun apprentice, butthere are complications: Hilary iselatedtobehired asapirate’s by Caroline Carlson Honorable League ofPirates #1 theSpot: The Marks Magic Very Nearly Houghton Mifflin: 9780547839530 •320ppFicHoughton Mifflin: Oxford University toLondon’s sewers. Coly Letterford andhercousinsearch from save thefamilypublishingcompany(again), To authenticateShakespeare manuscriptsand by R.Hicks•illustrated Deron by MarkEdward Geyer Mysteries, Book2 Tower oftheFive Orders: The Shakespeare Little, Brown: 9780316123051 •288ppFic missing teenchemistCleoKnight. asking more wrong questions,thistimeabout S. Theodora Markson, LemonySnicket is Still inStain’d-by-the-Sea withmentor by Lemony Snicket •illustrated by Seth 2 Question Questions: Did You“When Her Last?” See Allthe Wrong 9780062194343•368ppFicHarper: DECEMBER 2013 FEBRUARY 2014 JANUARY 2014 •
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• 22 | 800.491.0174 ELEMENTARY MARCH 2013 MARCH Viking: 9780670012879•128ppNonfic Viking: made ofelectricity? the Gulf Stream, andproved lightningis was themanwhoinvented bifocals,charted Did you know that thisFounding Father •illustratedby KathleenKrull by Kulikov Boris Benjamin Franklin: GiantsofScience 9780152059095•96ppNonfic Harcourt: lover) andIsaac Newton (unkemptrecluse). such asBarbara McClintock (chocolate on thehumansideoftwenty great scientists, This collectionofbriefbiographiesfocuses •illustratedby Hewitt KathleenKrull by Kathryn Explosions (and What theNeighbors Thought) Lives Experiments, oftheScientists: Holiday House:9780823428625•32ppNonfic in awaythatwillreally “sink in.” book demonstratesthemeaningofdensity doesn’t? Using simpleexperiments,this Why doesanapplefloatbutapenny A.Adlerby •illustrated David byRaff Anna Things That Float and Things That Don’t OCTOBER 2013 SEPTEMBER 2013 NOVEMBER 2013 ■ ■ ■ Appropriate readers for elementary thescience curriculum Supports Exclusively nonfiction SCE Grades 2–6 APRIL 2013 Free Membership Elementary Science Nonfiction Previous Titles forThisLevel MAY 2013
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• 24 | 800.491.0174 MIDDLE SCHOOL MARCH 2013 MARCH ‡ 9781442482753 •304ppFic McElderry: Margaret K. her beloved dogandaworld withoutthem. and ahard world.” Aworldwithherdadand had lived intwoworlds..Aneasyworld “By thetimeBinny waseleven years old,she McKay•illustratedby by Hilary Micah Player Binny for Short House:9780375969713•208ppFicRandom whaler onthewholePacific coast,” isgone. Pearl’s father, “probably thebestIndian Makah village,theyhave nowhale.And 1923: When thewhalersreturn totheir by RosanneParry Written inStone Farrar Straus Giroux: 9780374333126•240 pp•Fic school’s zero-tolerance policy. student, shemaybeexpelledbecauseofthe bag (withaparingknife)toschool.Aperfect Sierra mistakenlybringshermom’s lunch by ClaudiaMills Zero Tolerance OCTOBER 2013 SEPTEMBER 2013 NOVEMBER 2013 Not available to JLG’s Canadian customers. Substitutionwillbemadefor Canadian shipments. ■ ■ ■ More complex andchallengingthan Nonfiction Novels books intheALevelbooks Grades 5–7 B ‡
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