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How to Avoid Extinction
Paul Acampora - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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Since the death of his grandfather, Leo's number one chore has been to chase after his grandmother who seems to wander away from home every few days. Now, Gram's decided to roam farther than ever. And despite his misgivings, Leo's going along for the ride. With his seventeen-year-old... |
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John David Anderson - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover
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With multiple starred reviews, don't miss this humorous, poignant, and original contemporary story about bullying, broken friendships, social media, and the failures of communication between kids. From John David Anderson, author of the acclaimed Ms. Bixby's Last Day.In middle school, words... |
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Soar
Joan Bauer - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Newbery Honor-winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation - and readers will cheer him on!Jeremiah is the world's biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport.... |
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Tangerine
Edward Bloor - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. But he’s not so blind that he can’t see there are some very unusual things about his family’s new home in Tangerine County, Florida. Where else does a sinkhole swallow the local school,... |
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Dustin Grubbs: One Man Show
John J. Bonk - Little, Brown Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Maybe wanting to be an actor is kind of an ambitious career goal for an 11-year-old, but this doesn't stop Dustin Grubbs. He refuses to accept defeat, like when the school play he's assistant directing and starring in, The Castle of The Crooked Crowns, seems doomed to failure at every... |
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The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
PABLO CARTAYA - VIKING CHILDREN'S Books
Format: Print book
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"Sensational." - Matt de la Pea, New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author of The Last Stop on Market StreetSave the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG,... |
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko - Puffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A Newbery Honor BookToday I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There's my sister, Natalie, except she doesn't count. And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island... |
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Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Book
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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things.2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things... |
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The Bubble Wrap Boy
Phil Earle - Delacorte Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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A funny and inspiring novel about friendship, family, and one undersized boy's ability to think BIG. Charlie Han's troubles are much bigger than he is. At school he's branded an outsider, a loser - the tiny kid from the Chinese takeout. His only ally is Sinus Sedgely, a kid with... |
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Still a Work in Progress
Jo Knowles - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister's secret struggle.Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring,... |
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Hoot
Carl Hiaasen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more. A New York Times bestseller!Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls... |
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Kimberly Willis Holt
Format: Paperback
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Nothing ever happens in Toby's small Texas town. Nothing much until this summer that's full of big changes. It's tough for Toby when his mother leaves home to be a country singer. Toby takes it hard when his best friend Cal's older brother goes off to fight in Vietnam. Now the |
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The Great Greene Heist
Varian Johnson - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover
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Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal,... |
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One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte
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For Bobby Marks, summer does not equal fun.While most people are happy to take off their heavy jackets and long pants, Bobby can't even button his jeans or reach over his belly to touch his toes. Spending the summer at Rumson Lake is sheer torture.This particular |
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The Only Game
Mike Lupica - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Can a young baseball star maintain his love of the game after the loss of his brother? Find out in this start to the Home Team series about a small town with high hopes, from New York Times bestselling author and sportswriting legend Mike Lupica.Jack Callahan is the star of his baseball... |
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School for Sidekicks
Kelly McCullough - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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"Evan Quick, Hero's Log, May the 25th ... and darn it - I just can't do this. I'm never going to be a Mask. Get over it Evan."Evan Quick has spent his whole life dreaming of becoming a hero. Every morning he wakes up and runs through a checklist of test to see if he's developed... |
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Search for the Shadowman
Joan Lowery Nixon
Format: Paperback
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For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Search for the Shadowman from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Twelve-year-old Andy Thomas isn't thrilled with his teacher's assignment to e |
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Fishbone's Song
Gary Paulsen - Simon & Schuster Books
Format: Print book
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An orphan reflects on the lessons he was taught by the wise old man who raised him in this lyrical novel that reads like poetry from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen.Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage... |
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All Three Stooges
Erica S Perl - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable coming-of-age story about comedy, loss, and friendship for fans of Jennifer L. Holm and Gary D. Schmidt.Spoiler alert: This book is not about the Three Stooges. It's about Noah and Dash, two seventh graders who are best friends and comedy junkies. That is, they were best... |
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The Kingdom Keepers
Ridley Pearson - Disney Editions
Format: Deckle Edge]
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When Disney comes looking for five teenagers to serve as actors for a new technology-Daylight Hologram Images, or DHIs-there is more to it than meets the eye. Strange things have been happening inside the Florida park parts from one ride are found mysteriously moved to another in the Fantasmic!... |
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Stormwalker
Mike Revell - Quercus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since his mother died, 11-year-old Owen has felt lost. He's drifting apart from his dad, his grades are dropping, and the only thing keeping him sane are the soccer trials coming up.Then, in the middle of school one day, he is sucked out of real life and thrown into a desolate... |
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Ghost
Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying... |
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The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
Format: Print book
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Now in paperback--the first novel of a new series that mixes classic Greek mythology with modern adventure. After learning he is a demigod, Percy Jackson is sent to a summer camp on Long Island, where he meets the father he never knew--Poseidon, god of the sea.
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The Eighth Day
Dianne K. Salerni - Harper
Format: Print book
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In this riveting fantasy adventure, thirteen-year-old Jax Aubrey discovers a secret eighth day with roots tracing back to Arthurian legend. Fans of Percy Jackson will devour this first book in a new series that combines exciting magic and pulse-pounding suspense.When Jax wakes up to a world... |
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The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade
Jordan Sonnenblick - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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In sixth grade, bad things can happen to good kids. Bullies will find your weakness and jump on it. Teachers will say you did something wrong when really didn't mean to do anything wrong. The kids who joke the loudest can drown out the quieter, nicer kids. Maverick wants to change all that.... |
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Crash
Jerry Spinelli
Format: Library Binding
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John Coogan, better known as Crash because o f his reputation on the football field, is proud of his mach o image, and when he meets gentle Quaker, Penn Webb, he find s a prime victim for bullying. ' |
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Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)
Jerry Spinelli - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs.. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadnt made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years,... |
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Wringer (Newbery Honor Book)
Jerry Spinelli
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He did not want to be a wringer.Palmer LaRue is rnning out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten, the day he's supposed to become a wringer.This thing, this not wanting to be a wringer, did it ever knock him from his bike? Unite his sneaker... |
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Stranger Things Have Happened
Jeff Strand - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback
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"This book would be a good stepping stone for those readers who enjoy the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series."-School Library ConnectionJeff Strand's signature humor returns in this tale of magic, illusions, and self-discovery. Harry Houdini. Penn and Teller. David Copperfield. Marcus... |
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The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones
Wendelin Van Draanen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding
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Award-winning author Wendelin Van Draanen gives us a fresh and funny story about a boy learning to become the brave hero of his own life. Perfect for fans of Counting by 7s and The Fourteenth Goldfish. My secret life is filled with psychic vampires, wheelchair zombies, chain-rattlin'... |
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