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Carlos Juarez and Sarah Stubbs match wits with an obsessed New York City neon sign maker out to steal the power of the Kurbs--powerful creatures who control the city's day, night, and seasons--and freeze the city solid. Reissue.
By Avi and Brian Floca (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780531068007 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Asterel races against time to locate a token which will prevent the Kurbs from freezing the city

Paperback:

9780531070581, titled "City of Light, City of Dark: A Comic Book Novel" | Reissue edition (Scholastic, March 1, 1995), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Asterel races against time to locate a token which will prevent the Kurbs from freezing the city

School and Library:

9780531086506 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Asterel races against time to locate a token which will prevent the Kurbs from freezing the city

A message-bearing bottle, thrown into the sea by a boy vacationing in the Caribbean, makes its way eastward in the Atlantic, then south to Antarctica, and onward to Australia, where it is discovered by an Aborigine girl.
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Robert Kraske

Hardcover:

9780531068908 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Follows the journey of Voyager, a bottle containing a message for whomever finds it, set to sail by a boy vacationing on a Caribbean island

School and Library:

9780531087404 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Follows the journey of Voyager, a bottle containing a message for whomever finds it, set to sail by a boy vacationing on a Caribbean island

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Hardscrabble Tennessee farmer Clemmon Hardigree's hard-luck changes when he plants seed potatoes in Cow Hollow before his fat mountain cows cause the pasture to collapse
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Helen Ketteman

Hardcover:

9780531094730 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Hardscrabble Tennessee farmer Clemmon Hardigree's hard-luck changes when he plants seed potatoes in Cow Hollow before his fat mountain cows cause the pasture to collapse

School and Library:

9780531087732 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Hardscrabble Tennessee farmer Clemmon Hardigree's hard-luck changes when he plants seed potatoes in Cow Hollow before his fat mountain cows cause the pasture to collapse

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Nick and Chip decide to dress up as a two-headed ghoul for the neighborhood Halloween party, but when Nick's little sister tags along, Nick thinks the night is ruined
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Lee Wardlaw

Paperback:

9780816741243 | Troll Communications Llc, September 1, 1996, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Best friends Nick and Chip dress up as a two-headed ghoul for the neighborhood Halloween party, and get a big surprise from Nick's little sister Daphne.

Reinforced:

9780606101950 | Demco Media, September 1, 1996, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Nick and Chip decide to dress up as a two-headed ghoul for the neighborhood Halloween party, but when Nick's little sister tags along, Nick thinks the night is ruined

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Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas
By Brian Floca (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780531094839 | Orchard Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr.

Library:

9780531087831 | Orchard Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr.

Reinforced:

9780606109062 | Demco Media, February 1, 1997, cover price $14.53 | About this edition: Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr.

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Four duck brothers set out for the city on the number one train on track number two, but when they arrive, Little Zack Quack is missing, and his three brothers--Brick, Brack, and Thackery--set out on a lively tour of the city to find him, in an entertaining counting book.

School and Library:

9780395730928 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Zack Quack and his brothers take the train to New York City where Zack gets lost, and the three brothers are joined by increasing numbers of city folks trying to find him.

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When her class goes ape on a school visit to the Natural History Museum, a wily teacher tells the tale of a rambunctious former classmate of her own who found himself left behind in the museum after dark

Hardcover:

9780531300084 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When her class goes ape on a school visit to the Natural History Museum, a wily teacher tells the tale of a rambunctious former classmate of her own who found himself left behind in the museum after dark

School and Library:

9780531330081 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When her class goes ape on a school visit to the Natural History Museum, a wily teacher tells the tale of a rambunctious former classmate of her own who found himself left behind in the museum after dark

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Recounts the history of the boomerang, explains some of the scientific principles that make one work, and provides instructions for various games and amusements that use the flexible indoor boomerang that is included.
By Ben Floca (illustrator), Brian Floca (illustrator), Davy Jones (illustrator) and Steve Tomecek

Paperback:

9780448415703 | Pap/toy edition (Grosset & Dunlap, May 1, 1997), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Recounts the history of the boomerang, explains some of the scientific principles that make one work, and provides instructions for various games and amusements that use the flexible indoor boomerang that is included.

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Explains how to knot a yo-yo and care for the string, and includes twenty-six different tricks, including walk-the-dog, around-the-world, and the half-moon
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Larry Sayco

Paperback:

9780448418407 | Grosset & Dunlap, April 1, 1998, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Explains how to knot a yo-yo and care for the string, and includes twenty-six different tricks, including walk-the-dog, around-the-world, and the half-moon

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The hedgehog family of number 5A has difficulty getting across the street without getting squashed, but young Max notices that humans get across the street safely, and sets out to discover their secret
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Dick King-Smith

Paperback:

9780816744374 | Troll Communications Llc, June 1, 1998, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The hedgehog family of number 5A has difficulty getting across the street without getting squashed, but young Max notices that humans get across the street safely, and sets out to discover their secret

Reinforced:

9780606136136 | Demco Media, June 1, 1998, cover price $11.70 | About this edition: The hedgehog family of number 5A has difficulty getting across the street without getting squashed, but young Max notices that humans get across the street safely, and sets out to discover their secret

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Two best friends who share everything, including their toys, bikes, and candy bars, learn that not everything can be shared when they find themselves arguing over who will keep a little toad that hops into their lives.
By Brian Floca (illustrator), Barbara Shook Hazen and Jane Manning (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780694010356 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Two friends like to share everything, but when they find a toad and argue over how to share it they eventually leave it in its own environment

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Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea pig can do all the tricks which she says it can
By Brian Floca (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780786802432, titled "The Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig" | Hyperion, September 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea pig can do all the tricks which she says it can

Paperback:

9780786811359, titled "Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig" | Hyperion, September 1, 1996, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea pig can do all the tricks which she says it can

Reinforced:

9780606155953 | Demco Media, January 1, 1999, cover price $12.45 | About this edition: Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea pig can do all the tricks which she says it can

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A dynamic collection of poems celebrates the joy and anguish of baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, soccer, skating, swimming, and running races. By the editor of Weather: Poems for All Seasons.
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Lee Bennett Hopkins (editor)

Hardcover:

9780060278007 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems celebrating the joy and anguish of baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, soccer, skating, swimming, and running races

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Answers questions about the physical, emotional, sexual, and social changes that teenage boys undergo during adolescence (view table of contents)
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Michael Gurian

Hardcover:

9780843174748 | Price Stern Sloan, February 1, 1999, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: Answers questions about the physical, emotional, sexual, and social changes that teenage boys undergo during adolescence

Paperback:

9780843174830 | Price Stern Sloan, February 1, 1999, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Answers questions about the physical, emotional, sexual, and social changes that teenage boys undergo during adolescence

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Solomon's powerful sneezes causes worldwide chaos, in this fun-filled tale with an easy-to-read rhyming text. 25,000 first printing.
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Marilyn Singer

Hardcover:

9780694017485 | Harperfestival, September 1, 1999, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Solomon's powerful sneezes cause worldwide chaos

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A route map, a time line, crisp text, and breathtaking pictures chronicle the dinosaur finds of Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews during two of his five expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in 1922 and 1923.

Hardcover:

9780789425393 | Dk Pub, March 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Describes the expeditions led by Roy Chapman Andrews for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.

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The follow-up to The Ultimate Yo-Yo Book offers troubleshooting hints and easy-to-follow, detailed directions for many new tricks, including Backwards Dog Walk, Ally Oop, Yo-Ball, and more. Original. (view table of contents)
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Larry Sayco

Paperback:

9780448419688 | Grosset & Dunlap, May 1, 2000, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Explains how to perform fifteen different tricks including skin the cat, alley oop, and the backward dog walk.

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Two squabbling siblings learn about symmetry when their babysitter helps them build and fly a kite.
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Stuart J. Murphy

Hardcover:

9780060280345 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Two squabbling siblings learn about symmetry when their babysitter helps them build and fly a kite.

Paperback:

9780064467377 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Two squabbling siblings learn about symmetry when their babysitter helps them build and fly a kite.

Library:

9780060280352 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2000, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Two squabbling siblings learn about symmetry when their babysitter helps them build and fly a kite.

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Stories cover the exploits of the animals living in the Dimwood Forest.
By Brian Floca (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780064410175 | Box edition (Trophy Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $23.96 | About this edition: Stories cover the exploits of the animals living in the Dimwood Forest.

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An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.

School and Library:

9780689850912 | Atheneum, November 1, 2003, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.

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Asterel races against time to locate a token which will prevent the Kurbs from freezing the city
By Avi and Brian Floca (other contributor)

Reinforced:

9780606327510 | Demco Media, November 30, 2004, cover price $18.90 | About this edition: Asterel races against time to locate a token which will prevent the Kurbs from freezing the city

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During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, Billy Bayly and his mother shelter a young Confederate deserter on their Pennsylvania farm, in an easy-to-read story which includes an historical note on the incident. Reprint.
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Deborah Hopkinson

Paperback:

9780689833960 | Reprint edition (Simon Spotlight, March 7, 2006), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a mother and son shelter a young Confederate deserter.

School and Library:

9780689839641 | Simon Spotlight, March 1, 2005, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a mother and son shelter a young Confederate deserter.

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In the year 1900, New York City’s animal residents are buzzing with baseball fever as squirrels manage the teams and possums work behind-the-scenes, in a colorful tale from the Newbery Medalist author of Poppy and Ereth’s Birthday. Reprint.
By Avi and Brian Floca (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780060006822 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.

Paperback:

9780060515577 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 2005), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.

Library:

9780060515560 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 2003), cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.

After making a dangerous voyage down the Mississippi from New York, Bartleby, who had started life as a pet turtle, and his alligator friend Seezer must learn to survive in their true bayou home.

Hardcover:

9780525473664 | Dutton Childrens Books, July 21, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: After making a dangerous voyage down the Mississippi from New York, Bartleby, who had started life as a pet turtle, and his alligator friend Seezer must learn to survive in their true bayou home.

Miscellaneous:

9781101153284 | Dutton Childrens Books, July 21, 2005, cover price $14.99
9781101154106 | Dutton Childrens Books, July 21, 2005, cover price $14.99

When Union soldiers march by the farm and ask Johnny if he wants to join them, the young slave quickly leaves the only home he has ever known, takes a job working on the company's mule team, and risks his very life doing dangerous tasks in the hopes that it will lead to becoming a free man at the end of the Civil War. Reprint.
By Brian Floca (illustrator) and Deborah Hopkinson

Hardcover:

9780689839658 | Simon Spotlight, September 6, 2005, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A boy who hates being a slave joins the Union Army to fight for freedom, and proves himself brave and capable of handling a mule team when the need arises.

Paperback:

9780689839665 | Reprint edition (Simon Spotlight, January 9, 2007), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: A boy who hates being a slave joins the Union Army to fight for freedom, and proves himself brave and capable of handling a mule team when the need arises.

Prebinding:

9781435202900 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 28, 2007), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A boy who hates being a slave joins the Union Army to fight for freedom, and proves himself brave and capable of handling a mule team when the need arises.
9780606064644 | Turtleback Books, January 9, 2007, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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