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"Mia's abuela has left her sunny house with parrots and palm trees to live with Mia and her parents in the city. The night she arrives, Mia tries to share her favorite book with Abuela before they go to sleep and discovers that Abuela can't read the words inside. So while they cook, Mia helps Abuela learn English ("Dough. Masa"), and Mia learns some Spanish too, but it's still hard for Abuela to learn the words she needs to tell Mia all her stories....
4) Terrific
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"Terrific," says Eugene when he wins an all-expenses-paid cruise to Bermuda. "I'll probably get a really nasty sunburn." But Eugene's luck is much worse than that. His ship sinks, and he ends up stranded on a tiny island.
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"Harold is an amazing mimic, and can imitate the sound of everything in his home. Tired of repeating the same old noises, he yearns to find out what other voices there are in the big, wide world. But what happens when he suddenly realizes that he doesn't yet have a voice of his own?"--P. [4] of cover.
8) Time to fly
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Just when Zoe is starting to feel at home in Ambler, Pennsylvania, living with her veterinarian grandmother and learning about a flock of wild parrots, her actress mother arrives to take her to a new home in Los Angeles.
11) Hello, Jimmy!
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"A funny, noisy parrot comes into Jack's world and brings him closer to his dad in an unexpected and moving way"--
14) Harry's Mad
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An african grey parrot is the last thing that Harry Holdsworth expects to inherit from Great-Uncle George. Who wants a pet bird when you're hoping for a treasure chest? Certainly not Harry - until Mad opens his beak and starts to speak!
17) Super parrot
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Polly the Parrot hitches a ride on Carmen's hat with surprising results.
18) My life of crime
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A sixth grader's discovery of a bedraggled classroom pet parrot sets him on an adventure with real ethical and legal implications.