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From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess
Meg Cabot - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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Return to the world of Meg Cabot's bestselling and beloved Princess Diaries series in From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess -- this time through the illustrated diary of a spunky new heroine: Princess Mia's long lost half-sister, Olivia!Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison... |
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Max Cassidy: Escape from Shadow Island
Paul Adam - Walden Pond Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Max Cassidy can escape from anythingOnly fourteen years old, Max is the world's foremost escape artist. Chained, handcuffed, locked in an airtight water tank, there's nothing he can't get himself out of. He learned the art from his father - a man who just two years ago was murdered,... |
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Ruby on the Outside
Nora Raleigh Baskin - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Ruby's mom is in prison, and to tell anyone the truth is to risk true friendship in this novel from the author of The Summer Before Boys that accurately and sensitively addresses a subject too often overlooked.Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes is about to start middle school, and only her aunt... |
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When Audrey Met Alice
Rebecca Behrens - Sourcebooks Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Living in the White House is like being permanently grounded. Only with tighter security. "A fun look into the private life of an inspiring first daughter."--Marissa Moss, bestselling author of the Amelia's Notebook and Mira's Diary series When First Daughter Audrey Rhodes discovers... |
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The Friendship Riddle
Megan Frazer Blakemore - Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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With nods to classic fantasy expertly woven into this surprising and emotionally-charged journey through the ups and downs of middle school, Megan Frazer Blakemore proves that even the bravest heroes need true friends by their side.Ruth Mudd-O'Flaherty has been a lone wolf at her new middle... |
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The Name of this Book Is Secret
Pseudonymous Bosch - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain) , he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony... |
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Allie, First at Last
Angela Cervantes - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Allie Velasco wants to be a trailblazer.A trendsetter.A winner.No better feeling exists in the world than stepping to the top of a winner's podium and hoisting a trophy high in the air. At least, that's what Allie thinks . . . she's never actually won anything before. Everyone in her family... |
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Gaby, Lost and Found
Angela Cervantes - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Wanted: One amazing forever home for one amazing sixth grader."My name is Gaby, and I'm looking for a home where I can invite my best friend over and have a warm breakfast a couple of times a week. Having the newest cell phone or fancy clothes isn't important, but I'd like... |
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The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift - that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated throughout the ages to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark. He is plunged at once into a quest for the |
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Monsterland
James Crowley - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A boy takes off on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure through a mysterious land, with the help of some monster friends It's Halloween, and everyone in Charlie's small town is excited for this year's festivities. Charlie's grandfather, Old Joe, is famous for his holiday haunts, and his pumpkin... |
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Solving Zoe
Barbara Dee - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover
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Zoe Bennett feels lost at her fancy private school. She's not the star drama queen like her sister, or a brainiac math genius like her brother. Luckily her best friend, Dara, is just as content as Zoe is to stay in the shadows -- or is she? When Dara gets a part in the school musical,... |
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Secrets of the Book
Erin Fry - Two Lions
Format: Hardcover
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You don't choose the book - the book chooses you. Sixth grader Spencer Lemon has a degenerative eye disease - and he's rapidly losing his eyesight. So he has no idea why he was chosen to guard Pandora's Book. When Ed, the old guy at the nursing home, hands over the book, he doesn't... |
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The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter
John Gosselink - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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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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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library
Chris Grabenstein - Random House
Format: Print book
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets A Night in the Museum in this action-packed New York Times Bestseller from Chris Grabenstein, coauthor of I Funny, Treasure Hunters and other bestselling series with James Patterson!Kyle Keeley is the class clown... |
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Rivals: A Baseball Great Novel
Tim Green - HarperCollins; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Cooperstown! Josh is thrilled when all his hard training pays off in a big way and his team, the Titans, makes it to a national tournament in Cooperstown, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. More is on the line for Josh than just a trophy. Winning would mean everything to his dad—now... |
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The Adventures of Beanboy
Lisa Harkrader - Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Format: Book
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Wheaton, Kansas seventh-grader Tucker MacBean loves comic books, so when his favorite comic has a contest to create a sidekick, he is hopeful that he can win, thereby fixing his struggling family.
SEQUEL: Cool Beans (2014).
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Just for You to Know
Cheryl Harness - HarperCollins
Format: Library Binding
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As her family noisily slurps root beers at a drive-in stop, Carmen longs to be invisible -- especially when Clark and Larry shout out the news about Mama. Can it get any worse than this? Carmen imagines she's been kidnapped -- how else did she wind up as one of the Cathcarts. . . . At almost... |
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Two Hot Dogs with Everything
Paul Haven
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The Sluggers are a baseball team whose past is filled with hundreds of defeats and near misses. Year after year, they play the kind of baseball that challenges the most faithful of fans. But when it comes to Slugger supporters, there's a whole other category. Die-hard fans who re |
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Rules for Stealing Stars
Corey Ann Haydu - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Sharon Creech and Wendy Mass, Corey Ann Haydu's sparkling middle grade debut is a sister story with a twist of magic, a swirl of darkness, and a whole lot of hope.Silly is used to feeling left out. Her three older sisters think she's too little for most things... |
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Hope Is a Ferris Wheel
Robin Herrera - Harry N Abrams Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Ten-year-old Star Mackie lives in a trailer park with her flaky mom and her melancholy older sister, Winter, whom Star idolizes. Moving to a new town has made it difficult for Star to make friends, when her classmates tease her because of where she lives and because of her layered blue... |
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The Forget-Me-Not Summer
Leila Howland - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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This charming story about the summer three California sisters spend on Cape Cod is perfect for fans of The Penderwicks and The Mother-Daughter Book Club. Full of moments both humorous and reflective, The Forget-Me-Not Summer is a story about three girls facing their fears, adjusting to change,... |
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover
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Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers... |
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The Swift Boys & Me
Kody Keplinger - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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The lyrical and moving middle-grade debut from YA author Kody Keplinger!The lyrical and moving middle-grade debut from YA author Kody Keplinger!Eleven-year-old Nola Sutton has been best friends and neighbors with the Swift boys for practically her whole life. There's the youngest, Kevin,... |
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Schooled
Gordon Korman - Disney-Hyperion; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Capricorn Anderson had never watched a television show before. He'd never tasted a pizza. He had never even heard of a wedgie. And he had never, in his wildest dreams, thought of living anywhere but Garland Farm commune with his hippie caretaker, Rain. |
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Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai - Harper
Format: Book
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Inside Out and Back Again is a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience of fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama, this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been... |
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The Pages Between Us
Lindsey Leavitt - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Told in letters, posters, blog posts, homework assignments, and more, The Pages Between Us is a totally fun, totally earnest snapshot of middle grade friendship - and what it truly means to be there for someone during the ups, downs, and everything in between.Piper and Olivia have been... |
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A Handful of Stars
Cynthia Lord - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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This powerful middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of RULES explores a friendship between a small-town girl and the daughter of migrant workers.When Lily's blind dog, Lucky, slips his collar and runs away across the wide-open blueberry barrens of eastern Maine, it's Salma Santiago... |
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The Magician's Fire
Simon Nicholson - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Print book
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"This series opener is action-packed and fast-paced... will appeal to fans of the '39 Clues.'" -School Library JournalYoung Harry Houdini spends his days chaining himself to train tracks and teetering on wires high above the city with his two best friends, Arthur and Billie.... |
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The Boundless
Kenneth Oppel - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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All aboard for an action-packed escapade from the internationally bestselling author of Airborne and the Silverwing trilogy.The Boundless, the greatest train ever built, is on its maiden voyage across the country, and first-class passenger Will Everett is about to embark on the adventure... |
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Wonder
R J Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. The book that inspired the Choose Kind... |
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The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (Scholastic Gold)
W R Philbrick - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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A Newbery Honor Book, this warm, funny, & heart-wrenching Civil War novel introduces readers to the Battle of Gettysburg & "Little Round Top," one of the most famous feats of bravery in U.S. history!In this emotive Newbery Honor-winning page-turner, 12 year-old orphan Homer runs... |
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Nightmares!
Jason Segel - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller Jason Segel multitalented actor writer and musician teams up with New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Miller for the hilariously frightening middle grade novel Nightmares the first book in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must... |
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The Way Home Looks Now
Wendy Wan-Long Shang - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Chinese American Peter Lee and his family always shared a passion for baseball, bonding over backlot games and the Pittsburgh Pirates. But when a devastating tragedy strikes, the family flies apart and Peter's mom becomes paralyzed by grief, drifting further and further... |
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The Meaning of Maggie
Megan Jean Sovern - Chronicle Books Llc
Format: Print book
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* "Smart, sensitive, sad and funny." - Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewAs befits a future President of the United States of America, Maggie Mayfield has decided to write a memoir of the past year of her life. And what a banner year it's been! During this period she's Student of the Month... |
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When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Library Binding
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Winner of the 2010 John Newbery MedalFour mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid,... |
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The Doom Machine
Mark Teague - The Blue Sky Press
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling writer/illustrator Mark Teague presents a witty, vivid novel about Jack and Isadora, two kids who discover a spaceship and are taken aboard by aliens who plan to take over the Earth!When a spaceship lands in Vern Hollow, Jack's hometown, he and his no-account inventor-uncle... |
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Catherynne M. Valente - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Book
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welve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket, who invites her on an adventure, implying... |
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Paperboy
Vince Vawter - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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*"Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird." - Booklist, Starred "An unforgettable boy and his unforgettable story. I loved it!" - ROB BUYEA, author of Because of Mr. Terupt and Mr. Terupt Falls Again This Newbery Honor winner is perfect for fans of To Kill a Mockingbird,... |
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The Book of Lost Things
Cynthia Voigt - Knopf Books for Young Readers; 8.11.2013 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Newbery medalist Cynthia Voigt presents a rollicking mystery in three acts!Maxs parents are missing. They are actors, and thus unpredictable, but sailing away, leaving Max with only a cryptic note, is unusual even for them. Did they intend to leave him behind Have they been kidnappedUntil... |
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Loot How To Steal A Fortune
Jude Watson - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: "Find jewels."But March learns that... |
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Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile
Marcia Wells - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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Art, mystery, fun and friendship, combine in this illustrated middle grade series debut. Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red," has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees. When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes... |
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The Fizzy Whiz Kid
Maiya Williams - Harry N. Abrams; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Readers will laugh along with all the misadventures - and sneak a peek behind the Hollywood curtain - in this sweet and funny novel. |
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Adam Canfield of the Slash
Michael Winerip - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Extra! Extra! Middle-school reporters stand up to authority to expose a school scandal in this funny, inspiring story set behind the scenes at a student newspaper.Late for math club, late for jazz band, late for soccer Adam Canfield has to be the most overprogrammed middle-school student... |
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Monsterland
James Crowley - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A boy takes off on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure through a mysterious land, with the help of some monster friends It's Halloween, and everyone in Charlie's small town is excited for this year's festivities. Charlie's grandfather, Old Joe, is famous for his holiday haunts, and his pumpkin... |
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Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile
Marcia Wells - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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Art, mystery, fun and friendship, combine in this illustrated middle grade series debut. Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red," has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees. When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes... |
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