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  Junie B. Jones Boxed Set (Books 1-25)

  by Barbara Park

  25 books in all. Includes Books 1-24 of the series in paperback and a bonus hardcover copy of Book 26. TITLES INCLUDE: 1) Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus; 2) Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business; 3) Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth; 4) Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying; 5) Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake; 6) Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday; 7) Junie B.... (more)
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  Roald Dahl 15 Book Box Set

  by Roald Dahl

  It's really a 15 book set but full of Roald Dahl. These are easy children's books good for first time readers. Very fun and silly.
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  Wreck This Journal

  by Keri Smith

  For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal , an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them). Acclaimed illustrator Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in "destructive"... (more)
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  Dragon Adventures: Book 1

  Dragon Slippers

  by Jessica Day George

  Many stories tell of damsels in distress, who are rescued from the clutches of fire-breathing dragons by knights in shining armor, and swept off to live happily ever after. Unfortunately, this is not one of those stories. True, when Creel’s aunt suggests sacrificing her to the local dragon, it is with the hope that the knight will marry Creel and that everyone (aunt and family included) will benefit handsomely.... (more)
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  The Artist's Way

  A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

  by Julia Cameron

  The Artist's Way is an empowering book for aspiring and working artists. With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron leads you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces.The Artist's Way is unique... (more)
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  Writing Magic

  Creating Stories That Fly

  by Gail Carson Levine

  In Writing Magic , Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing. She shows how you, too, can get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write sparkling dialogue, develop memorable characters—and much, much more. She advises you about what to do when you feel stuck—and how to use helpful criticism. Best of all, she offers writing exercises that will set your... (more)
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  Guerrilla Marketing

  Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business

  by Jay Conrad Levinson

  When Guerrilla Marketing was first published in 1983, Jay Levinson revolutionized marketing strategies for the small-business owner with his take-no-prisoners approach to finding clients. Based on hundreds of solid ideas that really work, Levinson’s philosophy has given birth to a new way of learning about market share and how to gain it. In this completely updated and expanded fourth edition, Levinson offers a... (more)
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  I Can't Tell You

  by Hillary Frank

  After he opens his big mouth in a big fight with his best friend, Jake concludes that talking = trouble. He decides that communicating through writing is safer. Through notes scribbled on napkins and in notebooks, on upside-down calculators, and on walls with pudding-covered fingers, Jake explores new ways to express himself. But there are also the notes he never sends. To his flirty friend. Who is just a friend.... (more)
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  I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

  by Josh Lieb

  A boy who pretends he's dumb around his classmates has a secret fort and is a evil genius and wants to become class president and take over the school.
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  Calvin and Hobbes: Book 6

  Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"

  by Bill Watterson

  THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Cartoons follow the adventures of imaginative young Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, as they cope with bullies, babysitters, and the other everyday problems of growing up.
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  1-800-Where-R-You: Book 1

  When Lightning Strikes

  by Meg Cabot

  Jess Mastriani has never been what you'd call a typical Midwestern teenager—her extracurricular activities, instead of cheerleading or 4-H, include fist-fights with the football team and month-long stints in detention. A part of Jess would like to be the prom queen her mother has always envisioned her being, but another part is secretly counting the days until she's saved up enough money to buy her own... (more)
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  The Great Good Thing

  by Rod Townley

  Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often. Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting -- but that's the trouble. Her story is always exciting in the same way. Sylvie longs to get away and explore the world outside the confines of her book. When she breaks the... (more)
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  Calvin and Hobbes: Book 3

  Yukon Ho!

  by Bill Watterson

  The spirit of childhood leaps to life again with boundless energy and magic in Yukon Ho!, the newest collection of adventures featuring rambunctious six-year-old Calvin and his co-conspirator tiger-chum, Hobbes. Picking up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off, Yukon Ho! is sure to begin an immediate reign at the top of bestseller lists everywhere!
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  The War of Art

  Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

  by Steven Pressfield

  DO YOU: · dream about writing the Great American Novel? · regret not finishing your paintings, poems, or screenplays? · want to start a business or charity? · wish you could start dieting or exercising today? · hope to run a marathon someday? If "yes," then you need…THE WAR OF ART Now, in this powerful, straight-from-the-hip examination of the internal obstacles to success,... (more)
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  Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite

  by Paul Arden

  Referring to his first book, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be, Arden describes himself as "author of world's bestselling book," ably demonstrating one nugget of wisdom to be found in his latest: "Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great." Otherwise, the book suggests that Arden is less a great person (or a great author) than a great former creative director at... (more)
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  It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be

  by Paul Arden

  It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world - a pocket 'bible' for the talented and timid to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. The world's top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes and creativity, all... (more)
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  Bud, Not Buddy

  by Christopher Paul Curtis

  "It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's... (more)
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  If... (Getty Trust Publications : J. Paul Getty Museum)

  by Sarah Perry

  In her first book, artist Sarah Perry has created twenty magical watercolors that are an open invitation to the imaginations of children. Beautifully produced in full color, these fantastic images conjure up a world of limitless possibilities where anything can happen: leaves turn into green fish...cats fly about on wings...and butterflies become a little girl's coat of many colors. Children of all ages will enjoy... (more)
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  No Plot? No Problem!

  A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days

  by Chris Baty

  Chris Baty, motivator extraordinaire and instigator of a wildly successful writing revolution, spells out the secrets of writing -- and finishing -- a novel. Every fall, thousands of people sign up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which Baty founded, determined to (a) write that novel or (b) finish that novel in -- kid you not -- 30 days. Now Baty puts pen to paper himself to share the secrets of... (more)
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  The Girl Who Owned a City

  by O. T. Nelson

  A deadly virus has swept the world, killing off everyone over the age of twelve in the span of a month or so. In suburban Chicago, ten-year-old Lisa Nelson and her younger brother Todd are surviving, like all the children in the story, by looting abandoned houses and shops. Although there are abandoned cars in every driveway and lining every street, Lisa is the first child to think of driving one. She is also the... (more)