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Becoming a Good Creature I wish I could share every page of this book because it's a treasure! School is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship, compassion, and how to be a better creature in the world. Pick up your copy at Bookasaurus or online: https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandproducts/9780358252108

Make the countdown to the holidays even more exciting with the new 2020 LEGO advent calendars! We have all 4 styles in stock: Harry Potter, City, Friends, and Star Wars. Reserve your advent here: https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandpr/lego%20advent%202020

The final installment of Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo: The Tower of Nero is out today! Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth in the pathetic moral form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? Will Meg have a last showdown with her father? Will this helpless form of Apollo have to face his arch nemesis, Python? Who will be on hand at Camp Half-Blood to assist? These questions and more will be answered in this book that all... demigods are eagerly awaiting. Available at Bookasaurus https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandproducts/1484746457 See more

Becoming Muhammad Ali (Grades 3-7) Before he was The Greatest, Cassius Clay was a boy growing up like any other in Louisville, Kentucky, hanging out with friends, going to school, and, because he was black, facing racism. He began training as a boxer at age 12 and started the journey that would transform him to Mohammad Ali. This is a fictionalized account of Ali as a boy told in prose and verse from two master storytellers, James Patterson and Kwame Alexander. Reserve your copy here https://www.leighsbooks.com/book/0316498165

The newest adventure in the bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series! In Construction Site Mission: Demolition!, the construction team we all know and love has an exciting job to dosmashing, crushing, sorting, and hauling. They must work together, breaking things down, and cleaning it all up at the end of the day. Filled with playful rhyming text and vibrant illustrations to inspire cleanup, it teaches teamwork, perseverance, and how to overcome obstaclesand have fun! Available at Bookasaurus: https://www.leighsbooks.com/book/1452182574

Becoming a Good Creature I wish I could share every page of this book because it's a treasure! School is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship, compassion, and how to be a better creature in the world. Pick up your copy at Bookasaurus or online: https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandproducts/9780358252108

There's more to ABCs that meets the I... The Alphabet's Alphabet by Chris Harris, illustrated by Dan Santat is a totally twisted take on the alphabet that invites readers to look at it in a whole new way: An A is an H that just won't stand up right, a B is a D with its belt on too tight, and a Z is an L in a tug-of-war fight! Twenty-six letters, unique from each other -- and yet, every letter looks just like one another! Kind of like...one big family. Available at Bookasaurus: https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandproducts/0316266620

From legendary author and illustrator duo Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram comes the delightful sequel to the heartwarming picture book classic Guess How Much I Love You. Little Nutbrown Hare is out exploring on his own. Off he hops along the path and through the grass until he reaches Cloudy Mountain, where something extraordinary happens: he discovers a new friend! Now the fun can really begin.Twenty-five years after we met the Nutbrown Hares, this enchanting new tale about friendship is bound to capture the hearts of Guess How Much I Love You fansand everyone elsethe world over. Available at Bookasaurus https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandproducts/9781536217476

New from Chris Colfer! A Tale of Witchcraft... The enchanting sequel to A Tale of Magic... is filled with brand-new adventures and a cast of memorable characters, both familiar and new. Available at Bookasaurus https://www.leighsbooks.com/book/0316523569

Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books for Tweens Here are five new science fiction and fantasy books for your middle grade reader. The Silver Arrow ... On her 11th birthday, a girl & her brother embark on a magical journey aboard a special train. Along the way they learn about animals, nature, and realize they have power to save the Earth. This is a great book for kids who love trains, science, adventure, have concern about climate change, and kids realizing the power of their own voices. https://www.leighsbooks.com/book/0316539538 Sal and Gabi books 1 & 2 bring in Cuban mythology culture in this mulit-dimensional adventure. https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandprod/Carlos%20Hernandez The Fowl Twins: Artemis Fowl's younger brothers star in this book. There are trolls, fairies, lots of cool gadgets, action, adventure, and fantasy galore! https://www.leighsbooks.com/book/1368052568 The Storm Runner Series In this adventure centered around Mayan mythology, a 13-year-old opens a portal to the ancient gods and has to race to close it before the world ends. https://www.leighsbooks.com/books/J.c.%20Cervantes Finn And The Intergalactic Lunchbox Finn Foley has a lunchbox, and when he opens it, weird things come outlike a seven-foot-tall robot and a strange, blinking device that glues itself to his chest. The lunchbox also opens wormholesshortcuts through spacethat take Finn to the farthest corners of the galaxy. Sounds awesome, right? Not so much. Rocketing through the cosmos attracts the attention of the Plague, a race of gigantic bugs. https://www.leighsbooks.com/book/0525646876

New Release! The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road by Max Brallier Following the events of The Midnight Blade and June's Wild Flight--Jack Sullivan, Quint Baker, June Del Toro, and Dirk Savage return in an edge-of-your-seat, adventure-packed Last Kids on Earth! Available at Bookasaurus https://www.leighsbooks.com/book/1984835343

For the third time ever, best friends Elephant & Piggie have five adventures to help foster early readers' problem-solving skills. Titles include: There is a Bird on Your Head!; Are You Ready to Play Outside?; Elephants Cannot Dance!; Should I Share My Ice Cream?; and I Will Take a Nap. Pick up your copy at Bookasaurus: https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandproducts/9781368057158

New from Neil Patrick Harris, The Magic Misfits: The Fourth Suit Join the Magic Misfits as they discover adventure, friendship, and more than a few hidden secrets in this finale of the unique and always surprising series. Whether you're a long-time expert at illusion or simply a new fan of stage magic, hold on to your top hat! Available at Bookasaurus: https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandproducts/0316391956

New from Jerry Craft: Class Act Class Act follows up the critically acclaimed and Newbery award-winning New Kid, with this poignant and funny full-color companion graphic novel about Jordan’s friend Drew, who has his own struggles at Riverdale Academy Day School. Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying, You have to work twice as hard to be just as good. His grandmother has told him that his entire life. But lately he’s been thinking: Even if he works ten times... as hard, he may never get the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the prestigious Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted. Then, after a visit to his friend Liam’s house, Drew realizes that Liam is one of those privileged kids. He wants to pretend like everything is okay, but even his best friend, Jordan, can tell that something is up. As the pressures build, and he starts to feel more isolated than ever, will Drew find a way to bridge the divide so he and his friends can truly accept each other? And more importantly, will he finally be able to accept himself? Available at Bookasaurus: https://www.leighsbooks.com/booksandproducts/9780062885500

Tools for Early Learning Whether your kids are in a classroom or in front of a laptop, your child’s learning routine is different this year. Here are some tools to help develop basic skills and engage your child with learning. Fairytale Spinner Game: Players spin to select the elements for their fairy tale. When they have all of them collected, they tell the tale that these elements evoke. Promotes literacy and story telling. https://www.leighsbooks.com/product/18745... Koala Bounce Board Game: Kids learn colors, numbers, and shapes in this brisk board game. Choose a place on the tree for your koala based on the color, number or shape you draw. Land on an occupied branch and the koala that is there gets bounced to the branch below! https://www.leighsbooks.com/product/22242 In Puppy Fuffle players will use their counting skills to collect as many treats and toys as they can to be top dog! https://www.leighsbooks.com/product/20775 Alphabet & Numbers Puzzle Pairs: Emergent readers can match letters with words and dots to numbers. https://www.leighsbooks.com/product/22246