| Water Steps
| Kyna likes her friends, her purple hair, and taking photographs. But there's something she definitely doesn't like: the water. Every time she comes near it, she feels the sinister pull of the depths trying to draw her down to a watery grave. Even the calm water in the bathtub reminds her of the torrential storm that took the lives of her sailing family when she was just a baby. But Kyna's adopted parents love nothing more than to swim and splash about in lakes and streams, or even the local pool...More
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| Maya's World: Renee Marie of France (Pictureback(R))
| A TALL GIRL who is afraid of heights? When Renée Marie's class takes a trip to the Eiffel Tower, she would much rather stay with her feet on the ground than go up to the top!
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| The Adirondack Kids #2: Rescue on Bald Mountain
| The adventures of The Adirondack Kids continue in this second volume of the popular new middle reader chapter book series by father and son writing team, Gary & Justin VanRiper. In this story, Justin Robert and Jackie Salsberry are on a special mission. It is Fourth of July weekend in the Adirondacks and time for the annual ping-pong ball drop at Inlet. Their best friend, Nick Barnes, has won the opportunity to release the balls from a seaplane, but there is just one problem. He is afraid of ...More
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| Something to Sing about
| Jamie Jos fear of bees has been not much more than an annoyance for the Morgan family - that is until the summer their church exploded. While trying to make sense of this event, Jamie Jo deals with overcoming other struggles: she fears reaching out to a new girl in the neighborhood, she worries about taking on the responsibility of a puppy, and she doesnt know why her older brothers return home has caused tension in the family. She has to deal with all of this without going outside (where the be...More
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| Fool's Gold
| For as long as he can remember, people have warned fourteen-year-old Rudy and other kids in the neighborhood not to play in Pyramid Hill's abandoned gold mines. Even Rudy's best friend, Barney, a true daredevil, won't go near those cavernous death traps. That is, until Tyler Lewis moves in from L.A. Ty's determined to go in, and he's got a map.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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| The Eye and I: Story
| Jeffrey's fear of the electronic eye of the video camera nearly paralyzes him when he discovers he must make a filmed speech before his fifth grade class, but then he comes up with a sensational idea.
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| Dennis Dipp on Gilbert's Pond (Racers S.)
| Dennis Dipp hates water, even the thought of it makes him go green. But the Colonel, his host at Hardley-Skint Hall, is busy digging a pond for his goldfish, Gilbert. Worse still, dastardly Phil Buckett is determined to make Dennis cross it! Can Dennis triumph over his fear?
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