Olivia's Staff Picks


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Book cover for "Cecilia's fundraiser"
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When Mr. Grizley's students learn about emotions and Cecilia forgets her tamales for the class fundraiser, she displays her sad card on her desk. Includes an activity designed to reinforce social emotional learning skills, glossary, and discussion and writing prompts.
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Everyone loves Bandit, but especially Bluey and Bingo! Find out what makes this true-blue dad so special."--Page 4 of cover.
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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It's sleepytime at the Heeler house! Bingo wants to do a Big Girl sleep. As she drifts away into a dreamy adventure with Flopsy, will Bingo make it through the night and wake up in her own bed?
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Series:
Hunger Games volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. "In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol...
Book cover for "Corduroy takes a bow"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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When Lisa takes Corduroy to the theater for the very first time, it's so magnificent and exciting that he just can't help heading out on his own to explore. From the orchestra pit to the prop table to the dressing rooms, Corduroy sees it all. Could there be a place for Corduroy on stage, too?
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Series:
Out of my mind volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time. A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Book cover for "Olivia the spy"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Listening in on her mother's conversations hoping to discover the secret plan for her upcoming birthday, Olivia instead hears her mother talking about her poor behavior and becomes concerned she'll be sent to military school.
Book cover for "The house of the scorpion"
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Book cover for "Turtles all the way down"
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
Book cover for "Pink around the rink"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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Pinkalicious's new ice skates are plain white, so before she takes them out on the ice she decides to color them with her cotton candy pink magic marker.
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4.4 stars
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After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three...
Book cover for "Dinosaurs before dark"
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic tree house, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
Book cover for "The tale of Peter Rabbit"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.
Book cover for "The lightning thief"
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Book cover for "The son of Neptune"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled. "Percy is confused. When he awoke after his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain-fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight. Somehow Percy...

17. Fangirl

Book cover for "Fangirl"
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Series:
Fangirl (Manga) volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Feeling cast off when her best friend outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words and worrying about her fragile father.
Book cover for "Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
Book cover for "Tales from a not-so-fabulous life"
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Series:
Dork diaries volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
Book cover for "The sinking of the Titanic, 1912"
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Series:
I survived volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.