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Tunnels

Roderick Gordon - Chicken House/Scholastic
Format: Print book

The international sensation! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father...
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The Ruins of Gorlan

John A. Flanagan - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone!They have always scared him in the past - the Rangers, with their dark cloaksand shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old...
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Black Beauty (Sterling Classics)

Anna Sewell - Sterling; Unabridged edition
Format: Hardcover

The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical...
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The Incredible Journey

Sheila Every Burnford - Yearling Books
Format: Book

Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure,...
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Starcross: A Stirring Adventure of Spies, Time Travel and Curious Hats

Philip Reeve - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Art, Myrtle and their mother accept the kind invitation of a holiday to an up-and-coming asteroid resort. But they set out with visions of rest and relaxation only to be sucked into a dastardly plot involving spies, time travel, and mind-altering clothing! Before their adventures are out,...
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Earthfall

Mark Walden - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The battle for mankind is about to begin in this riveting story of Earth's invasion from the author of the H.I.V.E. series.Sam awakens to see strange vessels gathered in the skies around London. As he stares up, people stream past, walking silently toward the enormous ships, which emit...
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The Lightning Catcher

Anne Cameron - Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Hardcover

The first book of a funny fantasy and adventure series about three friends who discover they have the ability to control the weather. It's Storm Chasers meets The 39 Clues, in a story that BOOKLIST called "fascinating . . . mixing serious science with full-on fantasy."Eleven-year-old...
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The Horse Road

Troon Harrison - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

For girls who love the historical adventures of American Girl and the equestrian details of Canterwood Crest or Horse Diaries, this wonderful new series delivers both. In The Horse Road, we meet Kallisto, a superb equestrian living in central Asia. On her way back from delivering horses...
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Justin Thyme

Panama Oxridge - 21st Century; 3rd Revised edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Justin Thyme is a self-made billionaire living in a castle overlooking Loch Ness. The day he turns thirteen, he receives an anonymous gift: a fabulous watch with a puzzling message hidden on it. When he tells his father of his plans to build a time machine, the Laird of Thyme reveals tantalising...
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The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter

John Gosselink - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Designed like a case file, chock-full of notes, journal entries, letters, e-mails, illustrations, and more, The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter is a hilarious middle-grade novel that argues why Thaddeus should be released from his in-school suspension and explains the unbelievable circumstances...
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Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

Ryder Windham - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader--now in paperback!. The full story of Anakin Skywalker, from his birth in slavery to his death as the powerful Darth Vader ... told for the first time in its entirety by NYT bestselling Star Wars author Ryder Windham. Spanning all six Star Wars movie and including...
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The Fantastic Family Whipple

Matthew Ward - Razorbill
Format: Print book

For every child who’s ever dreamed of being in the Guinness Book of World Records comes the story of eleven-year-old Arthur Whipple and his fantastic family of world record breakers . . . - Most Crème Brulée Eaten in One Minute - Highest Number of Matching Outfits...
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Hatching Magic

Ann Downer - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.
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Twelve Minutes to Midnight (1) (The Penelope Tredwell Mysteries)

Christopher Edge - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Paperback

Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Victorian Britains bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her spine-chilling tales -- concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch -- are gripping the public. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam...
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Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World

Vordak T. Incomprehensible - EgmontUSA
Format: Hardcover

Slip on your acid-free gloves, make sure you have a duplicate copy of How to Grow Up and Rule the World (just in case something should happen to this one) and try to follow along as the incomparable, superior-in-all-ways Vordak the Incomprehensible teaches you a thing or two about villainy....
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The Monstrumologist

Richard Yancey - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Hardcover

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
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Star Wars: Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi

Ryder Windham - Scholastic, Inc.
Format: Print book

Hermit. Mentor. General. Jedi.Overlooked as a Padawan, he was to become one of the most revered Masters of all.Sworn to serve the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order, his own apprentice would bring about their destruction.Powerless to retrieve Darth Vader from the dark side, he would train...
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The Elementia Chronicles #1: Quest for Justice: An Unofficial Minecraft-Fan Adventure

Sean Fay Wolfe - HarperCollins
Format: Print book

Introducing an unofficial Minecraft-fan adventure series inspired by the bestselling game!Fans of the bestselling video game Minecraft, middle grade readers, and action-adventure story enthusiasts of all ages are about to embark on an exciting journey that will take them far beyond the world...
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Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: 20 Chilling Tales from the Wilderness

Hal Johnson - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

Just for kids, twenty bone-chilling tales about the most dangerous fantastical beasts in American folklore. Meet the Snoligoster, who feeds on the shadows of its victims. The Hodag, like a spiny-backed bull-horned rhinoceros. The Hoop Snake, which can chase prey at speeds of up to 60 miles...
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The Fowl Twins

Eoin Colfer - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

One week after their eleventh birthday, the Fowl twins--scientist Myles, and Beckett, the force of nature--are left in the care of house security (NANNI) for a single night. In that time they befriend a troll who has clawed his way through the earth's crust to the surface. Unfortunately...
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Alice Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll - 1st World Library
Format: eBook

Welcome back to the world of Helen Oxenbury's Alice! An exuberant edition of the Lewis Carroll masterpiece, lavishly illustrated by one of the most beloved children's book artists of our time.Helen Oxenbury's ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND set a new standard for contemporary editions...
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Whichwood

TAHEREH MAFI - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Embark on a wondrous journey through the land of Whichwood in this stunning companion to Tahereh Mafi's acclaimed bestseller Furthermore.A Kirkus Best Book of the Year! "Deliciously descriptive prose. . . . Darkly fascinating." Kirkus "Unforgettable heroine."...
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Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History's Mysteries

Elizabeth MacLeod - Annick Press
Format: Print book

How did King Tut really die? The mystery of the young pharaoh's death is only one of the puzzles that modern science has helped solve. Thanks to forensics -- the scientific way of examining physical evidence -- we now know what killed Napoleon and whether Anastasia survived the massacre...
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Armada: A Novel

Ernest Cline - Crown
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline can. Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames...
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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner
Format: eBook

The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925) , stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken...
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

Candace Fleming - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

"[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters,...
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Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific

Mary Cronk Farrell - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S. Army nurses. But when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers...
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Invasion of the Overworld: Book One in the Gameknight999 Series: An Unofficial Minecrafter's Adventure

Mark Cheverton - Sky Pony Press
Format: Paperback

The world of Minecraft comes to life in this thrilling adventure!Gameknight999 loved Minecraft, but above all else, he loved to grief - to intentionally ruin the gaming experience for other users.When one of his father's inventions teleports him into the game, Gameknight is forced to live...
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Jason Reynolds - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep...
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Last Seen Leaving

Caleb Roehrig - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book

Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking question he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. All eyes are on Flynn -- as January's boyfriend, he must know something. But Flynn has a secret of his own. And as he struggles to uncover the truth...
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Fallen Grace

Mary Hooper - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Life has been nothing but unfair to Grace Parkes and her sister. Penniless, the two orphans manage to stay alive-but only barely, like so many on the streets of Victorian London. And Grace must bear a greater heartbreak, having become pregnant from terrible circumstances and then given...
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The Rising: A Department 19 Novel

Will Hill - Razorbill; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Enthralling. . . . From UV grenades to exploding stake bombs to a giant anti-vampire superweapon, the gadgets add a neat modern twist to the traditional stakings. Fans will devour the pages and thirst for the next volume.KirkusWill keep teens who are undaunted by its 600 pages on the edge...
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The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman
Format: Book

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

George Orwell - Penguin Group
Format: Paperback

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups...
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Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel

Dean Koontz - Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Book

The dead dont talk. I dont know why. But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontzs dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life...
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Book

The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday,...
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Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life

Catherine Reef - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Nontraditional, controversial, rebellious, and politically volatile, the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are remembered for their provocative paintings as well as for their deep love for each other. Their marriage was one of the most tumultuous and infamous in history—filled...
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