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Molly wants to look her best for picture day at her school, and what looks better than a tux?Molly's school picture day is coming up, and she wants to have a perfect portrait taken to hang on their wall. Her mom has picked out a nice dress for her, but Molly knows from experience that dresses are trouble. They have tight places and hard-to-reach zippers, and worst of all, no pockets! Luckily, she has the perfect thing to save picture day--her brother's old tuxedo!But mom doesn't want her to wear a tuxedo in the photo; she thinks Molly looks best in the dress. Can Molly find the courage to follow her heart and get her mom to realize just how awesome she'd look in a tux? This book highlights a gender nonconforming main character and is published in partnership with GLAAD to accelerate LGBTQ inclusivity and acceptance.

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World War II was over, but in Japan, lines for a simple bowl of ramen noodles wound down the sidewalk. What Momofuku Ando did next would change food forever. Andrea Wang, author of Watercress (a Newberry honor book and winner of the Caldecott Medal), tells the true story behind the creation of one of the world's most popular foods.'An inspiring story of persistence and an ideal purchase for any collection.' School Library Journal, STARRED review2021 Nutmeg Book Awards NomineeWinner of the 2020 Sakura AwardRead Across America Book of the Month, May 2021Center for Multicultural Children's Literature Best Book of 2019 ListSmithsonian Magazine '10 Best Children's Books of 2019' ListEvery day, Momofuku Ando would retire to his lab--a little shed in his backyard. For years, he'd dreamed about making a new kind of

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'A joustingly jolly good time.' --Kirkus ReviewsNobbin Swill returns to solve another mystery in the third book in this hilarious middle-grade series that has two-color illustrations throughout!Nobbin is still Prince Charming's assistant, and Charming needs all the luck he can get to win the tournament at the King's Jubilee. While searching for a new good luck charm, he finds a goose who follows him around wherever he goes, who he names Marge. But his father gifts him with a new charm, his mother's handkerchief. Where before he was clumsy and bumbling, now he is swift and confident.The night of the royal ball, he meets a maiden who seems to be as interested in the lost and found as he is, but Marge splashes punch on her and scares her off. However, Charming realizes that he must have offered her the handkerchief to clean up her punch, and now he's left without his good luck charm right before the tourney. Will Nobbin be able to find

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