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The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls

Elise Primavera - HarperChildren's Audio
Format: Book

For seven years, bad luck has followed Ivy around like a dog on a leash. Her father disappeared, her mother is a washed-up beauty-pageant winner, and now Viola and her mother have moved into a raqmshackle house on Gumm Street. Ivy's new neighbors-bookish Pru, stuck-up Cat, and wannabe adventurer...
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Otherworld Chronicles #2: The Seven Swords

Nils Johnson-Shelton - Harper
Format: Print book

The thrilling, action-packed sequel to The Invisible Tower, which School Library Journal called "a surefire hit with the legions of Rick Riordan fans."Spending the summer fighting dragons, rescuing wizards, and leaping through portals into the Otherworld was just the start of Artie...
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The Death Catchers

Jennifer Anne Kogler - Walker Children's
Format: Paperback

Until the letters of the newspaper article she was reading rearranged themselves into an article foretelling her best friend Jodi's death, Lizzy Mortimer had always thought of Crabapple as a relatiVely normal coastal town. But the truth is anything but normal-Lizzy is the descendant of Morgan...
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Gregor and the Code of Claw

Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

The stunning conclusion to the riveting Gregor the Overlander series.Everyone in the Underland has been taking great pains to keep The Prophecy of Time from Gregor. Gregor knows it must say something awful but he never imagined just how awful: It calls for the warrior's death. Now, with...
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Magic by the Book

Nina Bernstein - Farrar
Format: Print book

Neither Anne nor Emily remembered choosing the book at the library, but when as they read it, the boundary between their world and the one described in the book disappears. Suddenly they are in Sherwood Forest, where they join Robin Hood's band. The further adventures that await Anne, Emily,...
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Fishtale

Hans Bauer - Marshall Cavendish Children
Format: Hardcover

What might have been an ordinary fishing trip becomes an unforgettable adventure when twelve-year-old Sawyer Brown pursues a legendary giant catfish and a stolen ring that may hold the key to his mother's life. Sawyer's family runs a catfish farm in rural Mississippi. When his widowed mom gets...
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The Last Olympian

Rick Riordan - Gale Cengage Learning
Format: Large Print Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller -- In this momentous final book in the bestselling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson?s sixteenth birthday unfolds. All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds for victory are grim. Kronos?s...
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Between Two Ends

David Ward - Amulet Books
Format: Book

When Yeats and his parents visit his grandmother's creepy old house, Yeats reunites a pair of pirate bookends and uncovers the amazing truth: Years ago, Yeats's father traveled into The Arabian Nights with a friend, and the friend, Shari, is still stuck in the tales. Assisted by the not-always-trustworthy...
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The Book of Wonders

Jasmine Richards - Harper
Format: Book

Sorcerers, Cyclops, Djinnis . . . Magic.Thirteen-year-old Zardi loves to hear stories about fantastical beings long banned from the kingdom of Arribitha. But anyone who is caught whispering of their powers will feel the rage of the sultan - a terrifying tyrant who, even with his eyes closed,...
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The Last Musketeer #2: Traitor's Chase

Stuart Gibbs - Harper
Format: Book

Greg Rich is beginning to get the hang of things in 1615 Paris. Having assumed the identity of a young D'Artagnan, Greg united the legendary three Musketeers and succeeded in freeing his parents from a dank prison cell. But he hasn't figured out how to get home. Or how to defeat the dangerous...
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The Three-Headed Book: Lunch Walks Among Us; The Invisible Fran; The Fran That Time Forgot (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist)

Jim Benton - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

From creating monsters to invisibility formulas to time travel, there is no obstacle that Franny can't conquer. Now you can catch up on her early experiments and see what it takes to become a mad scientist!
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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman - Thorndike Press
Format: Hardcover

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures...
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The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye: An Enola Holmes Mystery

Nancy Springer - Penguin Young Readers Group
Format: Paperback

Dont miss Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess! Now a Netflix original movie starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, and Helena Bonham Carter!Enola Holmes--younger sister to Sherlock Holmes--is back on another case!As Enola searches for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo,...
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The Bridge to Never Land

Dave Barry - Disney/Hyperion Books
Format: Print book

One summer morning while Aidan and Sarah are visiting their grandfather, they discover a secret compartment in his battered wooden desk. Inside is a yellowed envelope that contains a piece of very thin, almost translucent, white paper, on which, handwritten in black ink, are a series of seemingly...
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Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth

James V Hart - HarperCollins
Format: Book

With his long black curls, a shadowy family tree, and an affinity for pet spiders, James Matthew bears little resemblance to his starched-collar, blue-blooded peers at Eton. Dubbed King Jas., he stops at nothing to become the most notorious underclassman in the prestigious school's history....
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Out of the Wild

Sarah Beth Durst - Razorbill
Format: Print book

Beware the Wild?it bites. Ever since Julie Marchen helped defeat the fairytale world of the Wild, life?s been pretty much back to normal. That is, as normal as life can be for a girl whose mom is Rapunzel. Yes, that Rapunzel. Then the Wild mysteriously releases Zel?s prince (Julie?s dad!)...
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Storybound

Marissa Burt - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

When Una Fairchild stumbles upon a mysterious book buried deep in the basement of her school library, she thinks nothing of opening the cover and diving in. But instead of paging through a regular novel, Una suddenly finds herself Written In to the land of Story - a world filled with Heroes...
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Calamity Jack

Shannon Hale - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover

Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind ... with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler...maybe even thief? One fine day Jack picks a target a little more giant than the usual, and one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying...
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The Nine Pound Hammer

John Claude Bemis - Random House
Format: Book

What if John Henry had a son?Twelve-year-old Ray is haunted by the strangest memories of his father, whom Ray swears could speak to animals. Now an orphan, Ray jumps from a train going through the American South and falls in with a medicine show train and its stable of sideshow performers....
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Jamie to the Rescue!

Tina Gallo - Simon Spotlight
Format: Print book

Meet Jamie and join his adventures with the Guardians in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on the Rise of the Guardians movie!When Jamie, a young boy, first meets the Guardians, he can't believe his eyes. But sometimes, in order to help save the world, you need to believe in a little...
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How to Save Your Tail*: *if you are a rat nabbed by cats who really like stories about magic spoons, wolves with snout-warts, big, hairy chimney trolls . . . and cookies, too.

Mary Elizabeth Hanson - Yearling
Format: Paperback

ONCE UPON A time, in a grand castle, there lived a rat named Bob, who was fond of baking and wild about reading. So begins Bob's quest to save himself from being eaten by Muffin and Brutus, the Queen's cats. How does Bob attempt to escape their claws? By telling them fractured fairy tales...
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Terry Pratchett - HarperCollins
Format: Book

One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town.They'd...
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