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Benny and Penny in Lights Out!
by Geoffrey Hayes
Published 2012 by Toon Books

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At bedtime Benny and Penny, two mouse siblings, take turns telling stories and calming night fears. What's that rustling in the bushes?

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Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover
by Cece Bell
Published 2012 by Candlewick Press (MA)

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WINNER OF A 2013 GEISEL HONOR!

Rabbit's carefully planned visit with Robot doesn't work out exactly as he imagined in this offbeat tale about two comically mismatched friends.

Rabbit is excited: his friend Robot is coming to spend the night! Rabbit has left nothing to chance and has drawn up a list of all the things they will do.... More...

Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic
by Ginnie Lo
Published 2012 by Lee & Low Books

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"A Chinese American girl's Auntie Yang discovers soybeans--a favorite Chinese food--growing in Illinois, leading her family to a soybean picnic tradition that grows into an annual community event.... More...

Machines Go to Work in the City
by William Low
Published 2012 by Henry Holt & Company

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Toddlers love machines and things that go, and this book gives them everything they want, from a bucket truck to a tower crane to an airplane. Every other spread has an interactive gatefold which extends the original picture to three pages, revealing something new about each situation.... More...

Second Life of Abigail Walker
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Published 2012 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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An award-winning author returns to modern middle-grade fiction to tell the rousing, spirited story of a girl who is being bullied, a discharged soldier with PTSD, and the ancient, mysterious fox that connects them--and helps them see another way to live.... More...

Peculiar
by Stefan Bachmann
Published 2012 by Greenwillow Books

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A changeling suddenly finds himself at the center of a web of intrigue and danger when he is stalked by a sinister faery. Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.In the faery slums of Bath, Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie live by these words.... More...

What Came from the Stars
by Gary D Schmidt
Published 2012 by Clarion Books

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From a two-time Newbery honoree and Printz honoree comes a tale where a peaceful civilization of a faraway planet has been besieged by a dark lord, and in a desperate attempt for survival send their most precious gift across the cosmos--all the way into Tommy Pepper's lunch box.... More...

Unfortunate Son
by Constance Leeds
Published 2012 by Viking

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Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in 15th-centuryFrance, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight. Even after being kidnappedand sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.... More...