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The Twelve Days of Christmas in Arizona
WELCOME TO THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN ARIZONA!
Ready to greet you are 12 mules a-hauling, 11 sleds a-sliding, 10 sheep a-leaping, 9 cowboys signing... and much more from the Grand Canyon State.
Carlos is so excited about his cousin Isabella's visit to Arizona that he gives her one of these VERY unusual gifts on each of the twelve days of Christmas, and Isabella writes lively letters home to tell her mom and dad about her trip. Lucky readers are in for a wild Christmas countdown!
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2011 Glyph Award for Best Children's Fiction given by the Arizona Book Publishing Association, 2011 SCBWI Crystal Kite Finalist
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Close Encounters of a Third-World Kind
"Think of it as an adventure," twelve-year-old Annie Ferris's father tells her when he announces that the family will be spending the next two months in Nepal on a medical mission. But what sort of adventure is it if you have to leave behind your friends, sleep in a tent with your bratty little sister, and actually be expected to eat something called yak cheese? Not an adventure Annie wants any part of.
Then Annie meets Nirmala, a local girl, and she begins to get to know the real Nepal. Before long, Annie, her little sister, Chelsea, and Nirmala embark on a journey, and the girls find themselves lost in a real-life obstacle course--with a snarling dog, a creaking rope bridge, and a darkening night sky. Will Annie be ready to handle the adventure she finds after all?
In this warm and comic tour of self-discovery, Jennifer J. Stewart gets to the heart of what it truly means to be a family.
Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award List; Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award List; Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award List
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The Bean King's Daughter
Phoebe Marchant is not your average poor little orphan. In fact, heiress to the Bean King's fortune, she may be the richest twelve-year-old in America.
But life isn't always easy for Phoebe. Along with Poppy's estate, she's also inherited a big problem—Vicki-with-two-i's—last and luckiest of her stepmothers.
Luckily, Phoebe is a professional at ousting stepmothers with things such as spiders. She's also used to getting her own way. but Vicki seems to know her own fair share of tricks and has a different idea about what it should mean to be the Bean King's daughter.
Do this wicked stepmother and her conniving orphan charge have more to learn from each other than they realize?
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If That Breathes Fire, We're Toast!
Rick is none too happy when his mother ups and drags him from San Diego, where he had friends, to Arizona, where he knows no one except for Fat Boy, his cat. He dreads a long, dull, boring summer, until the day Madam Yang arrives on the scene.
Madam Yang is no fairy godmother. She's a fire-breathing, princess-chasing, time-traveling, hotheaded dragon, with her own ideas on just about everything.
Now Rick and his neighbor Natalie are in the hot seat. Will the two of them be able to keep Madam Yang happy, or will their goose be cooked?
VOYA Best Fantasies of the Year List; Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award List