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Allie, First at Last
Angela Cervantes - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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Born into a family of over-achievers, Allie has never finished first in anything, but she is determined to win the Trailblazer contest with an entry about her great grandfather, her town's first Congressional Medal of Honor winner.
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Cleo Edison Oliver, Playground Millionaire
Sundee Tucker Frazier - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Book
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Organizing what she believes to be a quick-and-painless loose tooth removal business for her fifth-grade project, multiracial entrepreneur-in-training Cleo struggles with a queasy client, an estrangement with her best friend and an insensitive bully.
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Cold Cereal
Adam Rex - Balzer + Bray
Format: Book
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A boy who may be part changeling, twins involved in a bizarre secret experiment, and a clurichaun in a red tracksuit try to save the world from an evil cereal company whose ultimate goal is world domination.
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Fenway and Hattie
Betty G Birney - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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When Fenway and his family move from the city to the suburbs, he has a very difficult time adjusting to the new dog park, an influx of evil squirrels, and, most of all, his best friend Hattie finding other interests.
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Force Out
Tim Green - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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When Joey has to compete with his best friend, Zach, for a single spot on an elite baseball team, he is forced to decide how far he is willing to go to win.
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block . . . for the fourth time. California's Newport Beach is her family's latest perch, and she's determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name - Cindy. It's the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes... |
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Josh Baxter Levels Up
Gavin Brown - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Josh Baxter is sick and tired of hitting the reset button. It's not easy being the new kid for the third time in two years. One mistake and now the middle school football star is out to get him. And Josh's sister keeps offering him lame advice about how to make friends, as if he needs her help... |
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Let's Pretend We Never Met
MELISSA WALKER - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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Struggling to adapt when her family moves during the school year, Mattie makes friends with the girl next door during winter break only to confront unpopularity when she learns that her new friend is the weird girl in school who no one likes.
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Lights, Camera, Cook!
Charise Mericle Harper - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Follows Tate, Rae, Caroline, and Oliver, ages nine to eleven, both on and off-camera as they compete in a televised cooking competition. Includes cooking tips.
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Monsters Unleashed
JOHN KLOEPFER - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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When twelve-year-old outcast Freddie Liddle and his best (and only) friend, Manny Vasquez, accidentally bring their 3D monster creations to life, the boys must stop them before they take over the entire town.
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Mountain Dog
Margarita Engle - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Book
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When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
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Mr. Chickee's Funny Money
Christopher Paul Curtis - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Book
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Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter, his friend Russell, and Russell's huge dog Zoopy solve the mystery of a quadrillion-dollar bill with the image of James Brown on it.
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My Life as a Book
Janet Tashjian - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Summer's finally here, and Derek Fallon is looking forward to pelting the UPS truck with water balloons, climbing onto the garage roof, and conducting silly investigations. But when his parents decide to send him to Learning Camp, Derek's dreams of fun come to an end. Ever since he's been... |
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Overboard!
Terry Lynn Johnson - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Eleven-year-old Travis and his family are on a whale watch off the coast of Washington when disaster strikes. The boat capsizes, throwing everyone into the ice-cold chaotic waves. Separated from... |
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Peter and the Starcatchers
Ridley Pearson - Disney Hyperion
Format: eBook
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Don't even think of starting this book unless you're sitting in a comfortable chair and have lots of time. Afast-paced, impossible-to-put-down adventure awaits as the young orphan Peter and his mates are dispatched to an island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They set sail aboard the Never... |
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Sasquatch in the Paint
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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Theo Rollins is starting eighth grade six inches taller, and his new height is making everyone expect more from him. Coach Mandrake wants to transform him from invisible science geek into star basketball player, even though Theo has little experience with the game. When Theo tries to hone... |
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Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time
Lisa Yee - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Book
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After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisy his academically demanding father.
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Want to aspire to greatness? Check out this new edition of Timmy Failure's first adventure - featuring the bonus section "How to Draw Timmy and Total."He may be clueless, but the comically self-confident Timmy Failure is CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation.... |
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A Whole New Ballgame
Phil Bildner - Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015.
Format: Book
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Embarking on a fifth-grade year marked by an unconventional teacher and a new basketball coach, best friends Rip and Red work together to overcome Rip's academic struggles and Red's autism-related difficulties.
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The Worm Whisperer
Betty Hicks - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Book
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Ellison Ellis Coffey, a lonely fifth-grader, discovers he might have the special gift of talking to bugs and decides to use his ability to win his town's annual Woolly Worm Race.
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Under Locker and Key
Allison K. Hymas - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Jeremy Wilderson teams up with his rival crime fighter to stop the stealing spree that's wreaking havoc on Scottsville Middle School in this action-packed MAX novel.Jeremy Wilderson is not a thief. In fact, he is his middle school's one and only retrieval specialist. Confiscated... |
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