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Books for Teens Who Love Adventure Stories
Variant by Robison Wells
The knife of never letting go [sound recording] by Patrick Ness
The maze runner by James Dashner
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz ; adapted by Antony Johnston ; illustrated by Kanako Damerum & Yuzuru Takasaki
The night she disappeared by April Henry
Safekeeping by Karen Hesse
Nobody by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Chow Down Easy Readers
Pancakes, crackers, and pizza: a book about shapes by Marjorie Eberts and Margaret Gisler ; illustrations by Steven Hayes ; prepared under the direction of Robert Hillerich
Good food by written by DeMar Reggier ; illustrated by David Austin Clar
The greedy python by Richard Buckley ; illustrated by Eric Carle
Custard Surprise by Bernard Lodge ; pictures by Tim Bowers
Pete the cat: Pete's big lunch by created by James Dean
Easy as apple pie by Karen Gray Ruelle
Love Stories: Great Romantic Films
Penelope [videodisc] by Summit Entertainment and Stone Village Pictures present a Type A Films ; Tatira Active Film production in association with Grosvenor Park Productions
Miss Pettigrew lives for a day [videodisc] by Keylight Entertainment Group ; Kudos Productions Ltd.
I could never be your woman [videodisc] by I Could Never Ltd. ; Bauer Martinez Studios ; Scott Rudin Productions
Four weddings and a funeral [videodisc] by Polygram Filmed Entertainment and Channel Four Films [present] ; a Working Title production
The proposal [videodisc] by Touchstone Pictures presents a Mandeville Films production, an Anne Fletcher film
50 first dates [videodisc] by Columbia Pictures presents a Happy Madison/Anonymous Content and Flower Films production, a film by Peter Segal
Curtains Up Children's Picture Books
You can't take a balloon into the Museum of Fine Arts by story by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman ; pictures by Robin Preiss Glasser
Giraffes can't dance by Giles Andreae ; illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees
Dancing in the wings by Debbie Allen ; pictures by Kadir Nelson
The barn dance by Pat Hutchins
Books for Kids Who Love Adventure Stories
Mission unstoppable by Dan Gutman
Itch: the explosive adventures of an element hunter by Simon Mayo
The billionaire's curse by Richard Newsome ; illustrated by Jonny Duddle
Ruby Redfort: look into my eyes by Lauren Child
Young samurai: the way of the warrior by Chris Bradford
Copper by Rebecca Lisle
The last musketeer by Stuart Gibbs
Curtains Up Children's Readers & Fiction Books
Elephants cannot dance! by Mo Willems
Dancing with the star by Alex Harvey ; illustrated by Stephen Reed
Practice makes perfect by text and jacket art by Rosemary Wells ; interior illustrations by Jody Wheeler
The smile by Donna Jo Napoli
Leonardo's shadow: or, My astonishing life as Leonardo da Vinci's servant by Christopher Grey
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett ; with artwork by Brett Helquist
Heidi Heckelbeck is ready to dance! by Wanda Coven ; illustrated by Priscilla Burris
Books for Kids Who Love Fantasy Novels
The Floating Islands by Rachel Neumeier
City of fire by Laurence Yep
Poison by Bridget Zinn
Dragon run by Patrick Matthews
The flame in the mist by Kit Grindstaff
Winterling by Sarah Prineas
Bad unicorn by Platte F. Clark
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson ; illustrations by Ben McSweeney
Curtains Up Children's Non-Fiction Books
Kids make music!: clapping & tapping from Bach to rock by Avery Hart and Paul Mantell ; illustrated by Loretta Trezzo Braren
M is for melody: a music alphabet by written by Kathy-jo Wargin and illustrated by Katherine Larson
Linnea in Monet's garden by text, Christina Bjork ; drawings, Lena Anderson
The twelve dancing princesses by a fairy tale by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell ; illustrated by Dorothée Duntze
Cool painting: the art of creativity for kids by Anders Hanson
Painting by Jane Bower
Great Sci-Fi for Teens
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Program by Suzanne Young
Pulse by Patrick Carman
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Curtains Up Children's DVDs
Caillou [videodisc]: Caillou the creative by Cinar Productions
Dora the explorer [videodisc]: Dance to the rescue by directed by Ray Pointer ; written by Eric Weiner
Angelina Ballerina. Love to dance [videodisc]
The Wiggles [videodisc]: You make me feel like dancing: Learn to move to the music! by The Wiggles Touring Pty. Limited
Arthur's music jamboree [videodisc] by produced by Cassandra Schafhausen ; written by Peter K. Hirsch ; directed by Greg Bailey
Dance to the music [videodisc]
Doodlebops. Let's rock! [videodisc]
Yo gabba gabba. Music makes me move! [videodisc] by Nickelodeon