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San Diego Public Library New Additions January 2009 San Diego Public Library New Additions January 2009 Juvenile Materials 000 - Computer Science and Generalities Compact Discs 100 - Philosophy & Psychology DVD Videos/Videocassettes 200 - Religion E Audiocassettes 300 - Social Sciences E Audiovisual Materials 400 - Language E Books 500 - Science E CD-ROMs 600 - Technology E Compact Discs 700 - Art E DVD Videos/Videocassettes 800 - Literature E Foreign Language 900 - Geography & History E New Additions Audiocassettes Fiction Audiovisual Materials Foreign Languages Biographies Graphic Novels CD-ROMs Large Print Fiction Call # Author Title J FIC/ACEY Acey, Mark. Garfield's haunted house and other spooky tales J FIC/ATKINS Atkins, Jeannine, 1953- Anne Hutchinson's way J FIC/BABBITT Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck everlasting J FIC/BALDUCCI 3-4 Balducci, Rita. A sea of friends J FIC/BALDUCCI 3-4 Balducci, Rita. Girl's best friend J FIC/BALL 3-4 Ball, Jacqueline A., 1952- The lucky skates J FIC/BARROWS 3-4 Barrows, Annie. Ivy + Bean and the ghost that had to go J FIC/BARROWS 3-4 Barrows, Annie. Ivy + Bean bound to be bad J FIC/BARROWS 3-4 Barrows, Annie. Ivy + Bean break the fossil record J FIC/BARROWS 3-4 Barrows, Annie. Ivy + Bean take care of the babysitter J FIC/BARTOLETTI Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. A coal miner's bride : the diary of Anetka Kaminska J FIC/BAUM Baum, L. Frank The wonderful Wizard of Oz J FIC/BIRDSALL Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street J FIC/BLUME Blume, Judy. Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. J FIC/BLUME Blume, Judy. Double Fudge J FIC/BLUME Blume, Judy. Fudge-a-mania J FIC/BLUME 3-4 Blume, Judy. Soupy Saturdays with The Pain and The Great One J FIC/BODKIN Bodkin, Odds. Ghost of the Southern Belle : a sea tale J FIC/BOND 3-4 Bond, Michael. Paddington here and now J FIC/BUNTING Bunting, Eve, 1928- Summer wheels J FIC/CARMODY Carmody, Isobelle. Little Fur : the legend begins J FIC/CATALANOTTO 3-4 Catalanotto, Peter. The Veteran's Day visitor J FIC/CLEARY Cleary, Beverly. Henry Huggins J FIC/CLEARY Cleary, Beverly. The mouse and the motorcycle J FIC/COLFER Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl J FIC/COLFER Colfer, Eoin. The legend of Spud Murphy J FIC/CREECH Creech, Sharon. Walk two moons J FIC/DAHL Dahl, Roald. The BFG J FIC/DAHL Dahl, Roald. The complete adventures of Charlie and Willy Wonka J FIC/DALEY Daley, Michael J. Rat trap J FIC/DANKO Danko, Dan. Operation squish! J FIC/DAVID david David Copperfield J FIC/DEGROSS DeGross, Monalisa. Donavan's double trouble J FIC/DELACROIX 3-4 DeLaCroix, Alice. How to survive a totally boring summer J FIC/DENENBERG Denenberg, Barry. One eye laughing, the other weeping : the diary of Julie Weiss J FIC/DENSLOW 3-4 Denslow, Sharon Phillips. All their names were Courage : a novel of the Civil War JR FIC/DEPAOLA DePaola, Tomie, 1934- Brava, Strega Nona! a heartwarming pop-up book J FIC/DITERLIZZI 3-4 DiTerlizzi, Tony. The field guide J FIC/DIXON Dixon, Franklin W. Mystery of the whale tattoo J FIC/DIXON Dixon, Franklin W. The flickering torch mystery J FIC/DIXON Dixon, Franklin W. The mystery of the Aztec warrior J FIC/DIXON Dixon, Franklin W. The secret agent on flight 101 J FIC/DIXON Dixon, Franklin W. The short-wave mystery J FIC/D'LACEY D'Lacey, Chris. Icefire J FIC/DOYLE Doyle, Roddy, 1958- The Giggler treatment J FIC/ENDE Ende, Michael. The neverending story J FIC/ERICKSON Erickson, John R., 1943- Hank the Cowdog and monkey business J FIC/ERICKSON Erickson, John R., 1943- The case of the haystack kitties J FIC/ERICKSON 3-4 Erickson, John R., 1943- The garbage monster from outer space J FIC/ERNST Ernst, Kathleen, 1959- Trouble at Fort La Pointe J FIC/FARMER Farmer, Nancy, 1941- The Sea of Trolls J FIC/FLEISCHMAN Fleischman, Sid, 1920- The giant rat of Sumatra : or, Pirates galore J FIC/FLEISCHMAN Fleischman, Sid, 1920- The whipping boy J FIC/FUNKE Funke, Cornelia Caroline. Dragon rider J FIC/GAIMAN Gaiman, Neil. The graveyard book 3 J FIC/GEORGE George, Jean Craighead, 1919- Julie J FIC/GIBLIN 3-4 Giblin, James. Did Fleming rescue Churchill? : a research puzzle J FIC/GUTMAN 3-4 Gutman, Dan. Miss Lazar is bizarre! J FIC/GUTMAN 3-4 Gutman, Dan. Mr. Docker is off his rocker! J FIC/GUTMAN 3-4 Gutman, Dan. Mr. Granite is from another planet! J FIC/GUTMAN 3-4 Gutman, Dan. Mr. Sunny is funny! J FIC/GUTMAN 3-4 Gutman, Dan. Mrs. Cooney is loony! J FIC/GUTMAN 3-4 Gutman, Dan. Mrs. Dole is out of control! J FIC/GUTMAN 3-4 Gutman, Dan. Mrs. Kormel is not normal! J FIC/GUTMAN 3-4 Gutman, Dan. Ms. LaGrange is strange! J FIC/GUTMAN 3-4 Gutman, Dan. Ms. Todd is odd! J FIC/HAGEN 3-4 Hazen, Lynn E. Cinder Rabbit J FIC/HAHN Hahn, Mary Downing. All the lovely bad ones : a ghost story J FIC/HAHN Hahn, Mary Downing. Wait till Helen comes : a ghost story J FIC/HALE Hale, Bruce. Prince of Underwhere J FIC/HALE Hale, Bruce. The hamster of the Baskervilles : from the tattered casebook of Chet Gecko J FIC/HALE 3-4 Hale, Bruce. The mystery of Mr. Nice : from the tattered casebook of Chet Gecko, private eye J FIC/HALE 3-4 Hale, Bruce. The possum always rings twice J FIC/HARPER Harper, Charise Mericle. Just Grace J FIC/HARPER Harper, Charise Mericle. Still just Grace J FIC/HART Hart, Alison, 1950- Gabriel's journey J FIC/HELPRIN Helprin, Mark. Swan lake J FIC/HESSE Hesse, Karen. A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin J FIC/HORWOOD Horwood, William. The willows in winter J FIC/HURWITZ 3-4 Hurwitz, Johanna. Squirrel world J FIC/KEENE Keene, Carolyn. The bungalow mystery J FIC/KEENE Keene, Carolyn. The secret of Shadow Ranch J FIC/KEENE 3-4 Keene, Carolyn. Lights, Camera--- Cats! J FIC/KEENE 3-4 Keene, Carolyn. Sleepover sleuths J FIC/KEENE 3-4 Keene, Carolyn. The circus scare 4 J FIC/KENNEMORE 3-4 Kennemore, Tim. Alice's birthday pig J FIC/KESSLER Kessler, Liz. Emily Windsnap and the castle in the mist J FIC/KIMMEL Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Mary Ingalls on her own J FIC/KINNEY Kinney, Jeff. Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal J FIC/KINNEY Kinney, Jeff. Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules J FIC/KONIGSBURG Konigsburg, E. L. From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler J FIC/KRULIK 3-4 Krulik, Nancy E. No bones about it J FIC/LANTHIER Lanthier, Jennifer. The mystery of the Martello tower J FIC/LAWSON 3-4 Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957. Ben and me : a new and astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin J FIC/LEIGHTON Leighton, Marian. A tale of two cities J FIC/LEVINE Levine, Gail Carson. Fairy dust and the quest for the egg J FIC/LEVINE Levine, Gail Carson. The fairy's return and other princess tales J FIC/LOOK 3-4 Look, Lenore. Alvin Ho : allergic to girls, school, and other scary things J FIC/LOWRY Lowry, Lois. The giver J FIC/MCDONALD 3-4 McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody J FIC/MCDONALD 3-4 McDonald, Megan. Stink : the incredible shrinking kid J FIC/MCGRAW McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. The moorchild J FIC/MCKISSACK McKissack, Pat, 1944- Color me dark : the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North J FIC/MCKISSACK McKissack, Pat, 1944- Stitchin' and pullin' : a Gee's Bend quilt J FIC/MONTGOMERY Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Anne of Green Gables J FIC/MONTGOMERY Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Anne of the island and tales of Avonlea J FIC/MOSS Moss, Marissa. Amelia takes command J FIC/MOSS Moss, Marissa. Amelia works it out J FIC/NAYLOR 3-4 Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Eating enchiladas J FIC/NELSON Nelson, N. A. Bringing the boy home J FIC/NESBIT Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924. The railway children J FIC/NIMMO Nimmo, Jenny. Midnight for Charlie Bone J FIC/NUZUM Nuzum, K. A. The leanin' dog J FIC/OSBORNE Osborne, Mary Pope. My secret war : the World War II diary of Madeline Beck J FIC/OSBORNE 3-4 Osborne, Mary Pope. Dragon of the red dawn 5 J FIC/OSBORNE 3-4 Osborne, Mary Pope. Haunted castle on Hallows Eve J FIC/OSBORNE 3-4 Osborne, Mary Pope. Season of the sandstorms J FIC/OSBORNE 3-4 Osborne, Mary Pope. Winter of the ice wizard J FIC/PARISH 3-4 Parish, Peggy. Key to the treasure J FIC/PATERSON Paterson, Katherine. Bread and roses, too J FIC/PETERSON 3-4 Peterson, Melissa (Melissa A.) Animal adventures J FIC/PETTY Petty, J. T. (John T.) Clemency Pogue, fairy killer J FIC/PFEFFER Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948- Meg's story J FIC/PILKEY 3-4 Pilkey, Dav, 1966- Captain Underpants and the attack of the talking toilets : another epic novel J FIC/PILKEY 3-4 Pilkey, Dav, 1966- Captain Underpants and the big, bad battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, part 1 J FIC/PILKEY 3-4 Pilkey, Dav, 1966- Captain Underpants and the invasion of the incredibly naughty cafeteria ladies J FIC/PILKEY 3-4 Pilkey, Dav, 1966- Captain Underpants and the perilous plot of Professor Poopypants J FIC/RAWLS Rawls, Wilson. Where the red fern grows : the story of two dogs and a boy J FIC/RICHARDSON Richardson, Charisse K. The real slam dunk J FIC/ROBINSON Robinson, Barbara. The best Christmas pageant ever J FIC/RODOWSKY 3-4 Rodowsky, Colby F.
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