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Dream Room Designer

By T. Bugbird

Is your bedroom looking a bit tired? Perhaps that frilly pink border your parents picked out when you were born is looking, well, babyish. Before you go to town on your walls, do some planning with the help of this design book written just for you. In addition to tons of great advice, the book comes with several helpful tools, like a style wheel that offers more options than you could imagine (Shag? Hardwood? Plaid? Stars?) and a 3D room model featuring wallpaper and floor-covering options. Think of it as a dollhouse in a book…for budding designers.

Fairy School Drop-out By

Meredith Badger

So, you like fairies, but you don’t like frills…or glitter…or tutus…or flowers. You are not alone. Elly is a fairy, and even she doesn’t like any of those things. She wears jeans, and likes to skateboard. Still, Elly’s forced to go to The Mossy Blossom Academy for Young Fairies, where she’s supposed to spend all day with other fairies and learn all sorts of fairy stuff. Elly has already been expelled from two other fairy academies, but that doesn’t seem to have quieted her rebellious streak. She’s terrible at spelling and always forgets to change her wand. But if she can’t stick it out at Mossy Blossom, Elly is destined to be a fairy school drop-out.

You Are Weird: Your Body’s Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions

By Diane Swanson

There are lots of books out there that explain your incredible, and often gross, bodily functions. But this book is a little different. It zeros in on some of your strangest body parts, the parts that seem to be there for no reason, or at least a reason beyond our understanding. For instance, the appendix is a worm-like tube in your belly that serves no purpose. By the time we’re teenagers we grow an extra set of molars that we don’t need and that often cause problems. Some people can wiggle their ears, while others can’t because they don’t have the right muscles. Many of these useless body parts can probably be explained by evolution — in other words, at some point, our ancient predecessors needed them to survive. Now we’re just stuck with them.