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The Unwanteds

Lisa McMann - Aladdin
Format: Paperback

A riveting middle-grade dystopian novel from New York Times bestselling Wake author Lisa McMann that Kirkus Reviews calls "The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter."When Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. That is the way of the people of Quill. Each year, all the thirteen-year-olds...
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The Candymakers

Wendy Mass - ‎Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Four children have been chosen to compete in a national competition to find the tastiest confection in the country. Who will invent a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Lightning Chew?Logan, the Candymakers son, who can detect the color of chocolate by touch...
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Pie

Sarah Weeks - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

From the award-winning author of SO B. IT, a story about family, friendship, and...pie!When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily...
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Walls Within Walls

Maureen Sherry - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move from their cozy Brooklyn neighborhood to a swanky apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. They have no friends, a nanny who takes the place of their parents, and a school...
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Belly Up

Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.
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Tuesdays at the Castle

Jessica Day George - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No one ever knows what the castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that is-takes the time to map out the new additions....
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Once Upon a Toad

Heather Vogel Frederick - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Format: Book

A girl gets into a mouthful of trouble in this modern fractured fairy tale, from the author of The Mother-Daughter Book Club. Once upon a time, Cat Starr lived with her astronaut mom in Houston. But when her mother gets sent on a long-term mission, Cat has to move to a far away land...
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The Third Wheel

Jeff Kinney - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Greg Heffley is not willing to be the odd man out.A dance at Greg's middle school has everyone scrambling to find a partner, and Greg is determined not to be left by the wayside. So he concocts a desperate plan to find someone - anyone! - to go with on the big night.But Greg's schemes go hilariously...
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Septimus Heap, Book Seven: Fyre

Angie Sage - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Favorite characters return in this stunning seventh and final book in Angie Sage's New York Times bestselling magykal series: ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand, Alchemist Marcellus Pye, and of course Septimus Heap, Jenna, Beetle, Simon, Lucy, and the rest of the Heap gang.Jenna will...
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Under Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book II

Colin Meloy - Balzer + Bray
Format: Print book

Under Wildwood is the second book in the New York Times bestselling adventure series the Wildwood Chronicles from Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, the acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society.Ever since Prue McKeel returned home from the Impassable...
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The Spindlers

Lauren Oliver - Harper
Format: Book

Evocative of Alice in Wonderland, this novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver is a bewitching story about the reaches of loyalty and the enduring power of hope. Perfect for fans of the author's other middle grade novels: Liesl & Po and the Curiosity House series.Looking...
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The Ogre of Oglefort

Eva Ibbotson - Dutton Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

For excitement-hungry orphan Ivo, a mission to save Princess Mirella from the dreaded Ogre of Oglefort is a dream come true. Together with a hag, a wizard, and a troll, Ivo sets out, ready for adventure. But when they get to the ogre's castle, the rescuers are in for a surprise: the princess...
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Catherynne M. Valente - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book

"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century." -- Time magazine, on the Fairyland seriesSeptember has longed to return to Fairyland after her first adventure there. And when she finally does, she learns that its inhabitants...
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The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict

Trenton Lee Stewart - Little
Format: Print book

Before there was a Mysterious Benedict Society, there was simply a boy named Nicholas Benedict. Meet the boy who started it all....
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Hortens Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure

Lissa Evans - Union Square Kids
Format: Hardcover

Enter a wonderful world filled with real magic, mystery, and danger.As if being small and having S. Horten as his name isnt bad enough, now 10-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his friends.But on his very first day in his new home, Stuarts swept up in an extraordinary...
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Three Times Lucky

Sheila Turnage - Puffin Books
Format: Print book

A Newbery Honor BookA hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven...
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Horton Halfpott: or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset

Tom Angleberger - Amulet Books
Format: Book

Tom Angleberger's latest, loopiest middle-grade novel begins when M'Lady Luggertuck loosens her corset (it's never been loosened before ) , thereby setting off a chain of events in which all the strict rules of Smugwick Manor are abandoned. When, as a result of "the Loosening, "...
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The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic

Jennifer Trafton - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge leads (much to her chagrin) a very dull life on the Island at the Center of Everything . . . until the night she overhears a life-changing secret. It seems that Mount Majestic, the rising and falling mountain in the center of the island, is not a mountain...
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The Mostly True Story of Jack

Kelly Barnhill - Little
Format: Hardcover

Enter a world where magic bubbles just below the surface. . . .When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa, to live with his strange aunt and uncle, he expects a summer of boredom. Little does he know that the people of Hazelwood have been waiting for him for quite a long time.When he arrives,...
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A Dash of Magic

Kathryn Littlewood - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

This second book in the acclaimed Bliss trilogy mixes the down-home heart-punch of Ingrid Law's Newbery Honor Book Savvy, the always-on-the-edge-of-chaos comedy of Cheaper by the Dozen, and a humorous magic all its own to create a thoroughly original confection to please every reader's...
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The Vengekeep Prophecies

Brian Farrey - Harper
Format: Print book

Forget what you know about prophecies - this epic middle-grade fantasy about a clumsy boy born into a family of thieves is fresh, fun, and anything but predictable! The first in an unforgettable trilogy, this Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year takes everything you thought you knew...
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Scumble

Ingrid Law - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Nine years after Mibs's Savvy journey, her cousin Ledge has just turned thirteen . . . But Ledger Kale's savvy is a total dud--all he does is make little things fall apart. So his parents decide it's safe to head to Wyoming, where it's soon revealed that Ledge's savvy is much more powerful...
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Chomp (Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series)

Carl Hiaasen - Thorndike Press
Format: Large Print Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller -- Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle. His father is the unpredictable one. When his dad takes...
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