- Address:
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4504 S. Central AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90011
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(323) 234-9106
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(323) 231-4291
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- Librarian:
- Daisy Pulido, Acting Senior Librarian
at the Vernon Branch Library!
Borrow a play kit and take it home for a week! Each play kit contains a toy, a book, and a list of suggested activities for you and your child to do at home. There are lots of toys to choose from!
Upcoming Events at Vernon - Leon H. Washington Jr. Memorial Branch Library
Every Saturday/ Todos los sabados at 10a.m.
Please come and learn English with the Vernon Branch, courtesy of the Adult Literacy Center at the Juniper Serra Branch. / Por favor venga...
Ongoing Events
Student Zone - The Student Zone is available from 2:30-5:30p.m. Monday through Thursday to assist with homework and printing for school age children and teens through 12th grade.
Computer Comfort - Beginning, hands-on training on how to use the mouse and keyboard. No computer experience necessary. Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 p.m
STAR - Children may come listen to stories or read to our volunteers.
Star Reader Miss Peggy - Tuesdays 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Star Reader Mireya - Saturdays 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Also, LAPD Officers read to children on Fridays from 4:00-5:00 p.m.
- Hot Titles:
- Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- YA
- Children's
Fiction Hot Titles
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The late show.
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Camino Island.
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House of spies
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Into the water.
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The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane : a novel
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A gentleman in Moscow
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The ministry of utmost happiness
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Magpie murders
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Y is for yesterday
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Mrs. Fletcher : a novel
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Do not become alarmed
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The lying game.
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The force : a novel
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Rich people problems : a novel
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Two kinds of truth.
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Use of force : a thriller
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The identicals : a novel
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Watch me disappear : a novel
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Testimony
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The women in the castle : a novel
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The handmaid's tale
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Paradise valley
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The people we hate at the wedding
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Glass houses : a novel
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine : a novel
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Murder games
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Less : a novel
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Final girls : a novel
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Anything is possible
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The Essex Serpent : a novel
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The heirs : a novel
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Since we fell
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Before we were yours : a novel
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The strange case of the alchemist's daughter
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The Alice network : a novel
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The smack : a novel
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When the English fall : a novel
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Goodbye, vitamin : a novel
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Don't let go
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Fierce kingdom : a novel
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Crime scene : a novel
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Saints for all occasions
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Beartown : a novel
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Behold the dreamers : a novel
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Seeing red
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Golden Hill : a novel of old New York
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The last laugh : a novel
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Exposed.
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Conversations with friends : a novel
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The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel
Non-Fiction Hot Titles
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Al Franken, giant of the Senate
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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
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Hunger : a memoir of (my) body
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Devil's bargain : Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the storming of the presidency
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Astrophysics for people in a hurry
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The subtle art of not giving a fuck : a counterintuitive approach to living a good life
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Option B : facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy
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Theft by finding : diaries (1977-2002)
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The plant paradox : the hidden dangers in "healthy" foods that cause disease and weight gain
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The glass castle : a memoir
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We are never meeting in real life : essays
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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You don't have to say you love me : a memoir
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Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
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I can't make this up : life lessons
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Hué 1968 : a turning point of the American war in Vietnam
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The rules do not apply : a memoir
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Tools of titans : the tactics, routines, and habits of billionaires, icons, and world-class performers
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Make your bed : little things that can change your life...and maybe the world
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Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow
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Democracy in chains : the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America
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Who thought this was a good idea? : and other questions you should have answers to when you work in the White House
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Sapiens : a brief history of humankind
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Milk and honey
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No is not enough : resisting Trump's shock politics and winning the world we need
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The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying
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Dying : a memoir
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Salt, fat, acid, heat : the four elements of good cooking
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Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
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You are a badass at making money : master the mindset of wealth.
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Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
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Too fat, too slutty, too loud : the rise and reign of the unruly woman
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The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined
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Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst
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Priestdaddy
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The fact of a body : a murder and a memoir
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Dinner : changing the game
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The life-changing manga of tidying up : a magical story
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American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
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White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America
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Seeds on ice : Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault
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What happened
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The Grim Sleeper : the lost women of South Central
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The chickenshit club : why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives
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Do I make myself clear? : why writing well matters
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Runnin' with the devil : a backstage pass to the wild times, loud rock, and the down and dirty truth behind the making of Van Halen
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Nevertheless : a memoir
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The hot one : a memoir of friendship, sex, and murder in the Hollywood Hills
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Fat for fuel : a revolutionary diet to combat cancer, boost brain power, and increase your energy
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What she ate : six remarkable women and the food that tells their stories
YA Hot Titles
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The hate u give.
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The dark prophecy (The trials of Apollo, book 2)
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The battle of the Labyrinth
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The lost hero
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The last Olympian
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The sea of monsters
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Thirteen reasons why
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The blood of Olympus
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The mark of Athena
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The hidden oracle
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Everything, everything
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The Hammer of Thor
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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The House of Hades
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The Titan's curse
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The son of Neptune
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One of us is lying
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, book 1 : the sword of summer.
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Tower of dawn
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Wonder Woman : warbringer
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City of Glass
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The alchemist
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A court of wings and ruin
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Once and for all
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Demigods & magicians : Percy and Annabeth meet the Kanes.
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Eleanor & Park
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Little & lion
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Always and forever, Lara Jean
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Girl in reverse
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To all the boys I've loved before
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Divergent
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The death cure
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Lord of shadows
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The gentleman's guide to vice and virtue
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Cinder
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The Sun is also a star
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City of ashes
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Mockingjay
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Six of crows
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Throne of glass
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The crown
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Middle school, the worst years of my life
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The city of Ember
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Insurgent
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One dark throne
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The heir.
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Lady midnight
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City of bones
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The elite
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The demigod files
Children's Hot Titles
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Babymouse
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Pokémon adventures
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Diary of a wimpy kid : double down
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Diary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever
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Wonder
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Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel
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Diary of a wimpy kid : old school
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Diary of a wimpy kid : hard luck
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Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the long haul
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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
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Dork diaries 7. by Rachel Renée Russell. Tales from a not-so-glam TV star
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Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules
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My little pony. Friendship is magic
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Tales from a not-so-graceful ice princess
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth
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Pokémon black and white
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Dork diaries : tales from a not-so-fabulous life
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Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
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Dork diaries 11. Rachel Renee Russell. Tales from a not-so-friendly frenemy
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw
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Tales from a not-so-smart Miss Know-It-All
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Rise of the Isle of the Lost : a Descendants novel
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Tales from a not-so-popular party girl
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Dork diaries 9. Rachel Renee Russell. Tales from a not-so-dorky drama queen
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Dork diaries. Tales from a not-so-happy heartbreaker
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The one and only Ivan
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Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
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Worlds collide
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![Pokemon adventures. story, Hidenori Kusaka ; art, Satoshi Yamamoto ; [translation, Katherine Schilling]. Diamond and Pearl/Platinum](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/hot-titles-scroller/public/items/2014/4e2437fe985e12fb0aa5daec7a135cd1.jpg?itok=Vw2Zdjim)
Pokemon adventures. story, Hidenori Kusaka ; art, Satoshi Yamamoto ; [translation, Katherine Schilling]. Diamond and Pearl/Platinum
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Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
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I'm a frog!
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Dog Man. written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey, as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with color by Jose Garibaldi. [1]
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Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
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Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
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The thank you book
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Captain Underpants and the tyrannical retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000 : the eleventh epic novel
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The Baby-sitters Club. a graphic novel
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Harry Potter and the cursed child : parts one and two. a new play by Jack Thorne ; based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling ; John Tiffany & Jack Thorne, writers. The official script book of the
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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
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Captain Underpants and the sensational saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot : the twelfth epic novel
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The Baby-sitters Club. a graphic novel
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The Baby-sitters Club. a graphic novel
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The duckling gets a cookie!?
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Dog Man unleashed. written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey, as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with interior color by Jose Garibaldi. [2]
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The red pyramid
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I will take a nap!
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Llama Llama misses mama
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