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Sunday: 11 am - 4 pm

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Dog Ate My Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game By Mad Libs Cover Image
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Meow Libs: World's Greatest Word Game (Mad Libs) By Mad Libs Cover Image
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Super Silly Mad Libs Junior: World's Greatest Word Game By Roger Price Cover Image
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Star Wars Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game By Roger Price, Leonard Stern Cover Image
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National Geographic Kids Just Joking: 300 Hilarious Jokes, Tricky Tongue Twisters, and Ridiculous Riddles By National Geographic Kids Cover Image
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Mad About Animals Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game By Roger Price, Leonard Stern Cover Image
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Laugh-Out-Loud: The Big Book of Knock-Knock Jokes (Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids) By Rob Elliott Cover Image
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Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever! By Eva Blank, Alison Benjamin, Rosanne Green, Ilana Weitzman, Mike Wright (Illustrator), Lisa Sparks Cover Image
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By Eva Blank, Alison Benjamin, Rosanne Green, Ilana Weitzman, Mike Wright (Illustrator), Lisa Sparks
$9.95
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Pokémon Battle Let's Go Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game By Laura Macchiarola Cover Image
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Christmas Carol Mad Libs: Stocking Stuffer Mad Libs By Roger Price, Leonard Stern Cover Image
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Cute as an Axolotl: Discovering the World's Most Adorable Animals (The World of Weird Animals) By Jess Keating Cover Image
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Couldn't Drive? (Wait! What?) By Dan Gutman, Allison Steinfeld (Illustrator) Cover Image
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Honoring Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month

  • Barely Floating By Lilliam Rivera Cover Image
  • My Papi Has a Motorcycle By Isabel Quintero, Zeke Peña (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Spanish Is the Language of My Family By Michael Genhart, John Parra (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • How to Speak in Spanglish By Mónica Mancillas, Olivia de Castro (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • ChupaCarter and the Haunted Piñata By George Lopez, Ryan Calejo, Santy Gutierrez (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold) By Pam Muñoz Ryan Cover Image
  • Merci Suárez Changes Gears By Meg Medina Cover Image
  • Rafa Counts on Papá By Joe Cepeda Cover Image
  • Witchlings By Claribel A. Ortega Cover Image
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    Invisible: A Graphic Novel By Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Gabriela Epstein (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Efrén Divided By Ernesto Cisneros Cover Image
  • Cajas de cartón: The Circuit (Spanish Edition) (Cajas de carton #1) By Francisco Jiménez Cover Image
  • Frizzy By Claribel A. Ortega, Rose Bousamra (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • ChupaCarter By George Lopez, Ryan Calejo, Santy Gutierrez (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Sofia Valdez, Future Prez (The Questioneers) By Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • ¡Vamos! Let's Go Read (World of ¡Vamos!) By III Raúl the Third, III Raúl the Third (Illustrator) Cover Image

Eerie and exciting reads!

  • Boo Bark! Board Book By Mudpuppy, Kathryn Selbert (By (artist)) Cover Image
  • Boris and Bella By Carolyn Crimi, Gris Grimly (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Happy Halloweenie By Katie Vernon, Katie Vernon (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Hopefully the Scarecrow By Michelle Houts, Sara Palacios (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • The Otherwoods By Justine Pucella Winans, Justine Pucella Winans Cover Image
  • Dem Bones By Bob Barner Cover Image
  • Not a Pumpkin! (A Lift-the-Flap Book) By Susie Lee Jin, Susie Lee Jin (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight By Shelly Page (Editor), Alex Brown (Editor), Kalynn Bayron, Alex Brown, Vanessa Montalban, Rebecca Kim Wells, Kosoko Jackson, Trang Thanh Tran, Maya Gittelman, Em X. Liu, Shelly Page, Tara Sim, Ayida Shonibar, Ryan Douglass, Sara Farizan Cover Image
  • Room on the Broom By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Halloween Fun (Holiday Fun Activity Books) By Highlights (Created by) Cover Image
  • Boo! Baa, La La La! By Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Herbert's First Halloween: (Halloween Children's Books, Early Elementary Story Books, Picture Books about Bravery) By Cynthia Rylant, Steven Henry (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Grumpy Monkey Don't Be Scared By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Hellaween By Moss Lawton Cover Image
  • The Light Inside By Dan Misdea, Dan Misdea (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Spooky Pookie (Little Pookie) By Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Celebrate the Day of the Dead! By Diane de Anda, Gloria Félix (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Hidden Pictures My First Lift-the-Flap Halloween Jokes (Highlights Joke Books) By Highlights (Created by) Cover Image
  • Boo Bark! Board Book By Mudpuppy, Kathryn Selbert (By (artist)) Cover Image
  • The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror By Erica Waters, Chloe Gong, Tori Bovalino, Hannah Whitten, Allison Saft, Olivia Chadha, Courtney Gould, Aden Polydoros, Shakira Toussaint, Alex Brown Cover Image
  • The Wheels on the Costume By Cindy Jin, Lauren Lowen (Illustrator) Cover Image

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Perfectly Pegasus (Not Quite Narwhal and Friends) By Jessie Sima, Jessie Sima (Illustrator) Cover Image

Perfectly Pegasus (Not Quite Narwhal and Friends) (Hardcover)

By Jessie Sima, Jessie Sima (Illustrator)
$17.99

 If you're like me and you worship at the shrine of Not Quite Narwhal, get ready for the most joyful follow up ever, with Perfectly Pegasus!! Joyful, touching, and funny—an absolute treasure!! Jessie Sima continues to bring goodness to our world with their affirming, adorable, and universal stories.
(Picture book, all ages!) - Reviewed by Iz


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