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Clueless McGee

Jeff Mack - Philomel Books
Format: Print book

Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Encyclopedia Brown!Clueless McGee is just your average fifth-grader: snarky, awkward, and a magnet for trouble. The only difference: he's also an amateur detective. Determined to make his absent father proud, he uses the skills he's learned playing video games...
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Agent Q, or The Smell of Danger!

M.T. Anderson - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

It's time for Lily, Katie, and Jasper to head home from their exciting Delaware adventure, but the Awful Autarch's spies and goons are everywhere, and it's clear that *they* have other plans for our three intrepid heroes. Chock full of ups, downs, twists, turns, and even a band of sentient...
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Babies, Burglars, and Other Bumps in the Night

Lenore Look - Random House Children's Books
Format: Print book

Here is the fifth book in the beloved and hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which has been compared to Diary of a Wimpy Kid and is perfect for beginning and reluctant readers. Alvin, an Asian American second grader who's afraid of everything, has started to notice his mother...
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Lawn Boy Returns

Gary Paulsen - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover

Gary Paulsen's funny follow-up to Lawn Boy is full of big surprises and big laughs. Lawn Boy says: The summer I was twelve, mowing lawns with Grandpa's old riding mower turned into big business. With advice from Arnold the stockbroker, I learned all about making money. Six weeks...
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Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception

Gary Paulsen - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Book

Kevin doesn't mean to make trouble when he lies. He's just really good at it, and it makes life so much easier. But as his lies pile up, he finds himself in big - and funny - trouble with his friends, family, and teachers. He's got to find a way to end his lying streak - forever.From...
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Dragonbreath #8: Nightmare of the Iguana

Ursula Vernon - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Danny Dragonbreath has seen a lot of weird things, but nothing quite like the inside of his best friend Wendell's brain. Wendell has been having terrible nightmares, and Danny and Wendell's totally-not-girlfriend Suki agree to venture into the iguana's mind to get rid of the thing causing...
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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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Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O'Rodeo and her Wonder Horse

Tom Angleberger - Amulet Books
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Tom Angleberger flexes his comic muscle in this hairy adventure story with twists at every turn.Regular kid Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend - Casper, a master of disguise and hypnosis - and world domination. It all begins...
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again

Frank Cottrell Boyce - Candlewick Press
Format: Book

Buckle your seatbelt for the first-ever follow up to Ian Fleming's only children's story.When the Tooting family finds an old engine and fits it to their camper van, they have no idea what kind of adventure lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary car . . . and it wants...
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Remarkable

Elizabeth Foley - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A wonderfully whimsical debut that proves ordinary people can do extraordinary things In the mountain town of Remarkable, everyone is extraordinarily talented, extraordinarily gifted, or just plain extraordinary. Everyone, that is, except Jane Doe, the most average ten-year-old who ever...
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Boom!

Mark Haddon - David Fickling Books
Format: Book

An explosive, highly charged, and hilarious middle-grade adventure from Mark Haddon, acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.From the moment that Jim and his best friend, Charlie, bug the staff room and overhear two of their teachers speaking to each...
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The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

Christopher Healy - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover

Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You've never heard of them, have you? These are the princes who saved Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel, respectively, and yet, thanks to those lousy bards who wrote the tales, you likely know them only as Prince...
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Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan

R. A. Spratt - Little
Format: Hardcover

The world's most fabulous nanny pig is back in this side-splitting sequel to The Adventures of Nanny Piggins! When Mr. Green announces his diabolical plan-he has decided to get married-his children are horrified. Because if he finds a wife, he'll get fire their beloved nanny. Breakfast...
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Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters

Rachel Vail - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Book

It's the start of the school year, and nothing feels right to Justin. He didn't get the teacher he wanted, he's not in the same class as his best friend, and his little sister, Elizabeth, is starting kindergarten at his school. Elizabeth doesn't seem nervous at all. Justin is very nervous...
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Lulu Walks the Dogs (The Lulu Series)

Judith Viorst - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Feisty Lulu sets out to make some dough in this illustrated chapter book with "plenty of appeal" (Kirkus Reviews) from childrens book legends Judith Viorst and Lane Smith.The stubbornly hilarious Lulu has decided its time to buckle down and earn some cash. How else can she save...
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Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World

Mac Barnett - Disney Hyperion
Format: Print book

Some kids are too smart for their own good...and maybe for everybody else's good. When an overly ambitious little girl builds a humongous robot for her science fair, she fully expects to win first place. What she doesn't expect is the chaos that follows. Mac Barnett, a new picture book...
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A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea

Michael Ian Black - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Could anything possibly be more fun than a pig parade!? You wouldn't think so. But you'd be wrong. A pig parade is a terrible idea. Pigs hate to march, refuse to wear the uniforms, don't care about floats, and insist on playing country music ballads. Those are just some of the reasons....
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The Boy Who Cried Ninja

Alex Latimer - Peachtree
Format: Book

In this quirky twist on The Boy Who Cried Wolf, a boy s excuses turn out to have an unexpected element of truth.
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Goldilocks and Just One Bear

Leigh Hodgkinson - Nosy Crow
Format: Book

In this award-winning authorillustrator's witty sequel to the traditional Goldilocks story, Little Bear is all grown up and Goldilocks is a distant memory. One day, Little Bear wanders out of the woods and finds himself lost in the Big City. Will he find the city too noisy? Too quiet? Or just...
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I Broke My Trunk! (Elephant and Piggie Series)

- Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Hardcover

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends.In I Broke My Trunk! Gerald tells Piggie the long, crazy story about breaking his trunk. Will Piggie end up with a long, crazy...
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Mrs. Noodlekugel

Daniel Pinkwater - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

With signature wit and whimsy, the inimitable Daniel Pinkwater introduces an eccentric, endearing babysitter every child will wish they could have.Nick and Maxine live in a tall building with one apartment on top of another. So when they look out their window and see a little house they...
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The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee: An Origami Yoda Book

Tom Angleberger - ‎Harry N. Abrams; 3rd Edition.
Format: Hardcover

The third case file of the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series from Tom Angleberger!   Is it possible to have a case file without Origami Yoda?   With Dwight suspended, McQuarrie Middle School is missing its most famous attendee: Origami Yoda. And no Yoda...
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I Represent Sean Rosen

Jeff Baron - Greenwillow Books
Format: Print book

Sean Rosen makes funny videos you can watch online. He also has ideas for movies, TV shows, and games that he knows are good enough to be produced by the biggest studios in Hollywood. The only problem is, he's a kid. And he's busy with school. And he lives far from Los Angeles or New York...
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