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Amari and the Night Brothers

B. B. Alston
Format: Hardcover

Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a trilogy filled with #blackgirlmagic. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor. Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing...
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The Beast and the Bethany

Jack Meggitt-Phillips
Format: Hardcover

Beauty comes at a price. And no one knows that better than Ebenezer Tweezer, who has stayed beautiful for 511 years. How, you may wonder? Ebenezer simply has to feed the beast in the attic of his mansion. In return for meals of performing monkeys, statues of Winston Churchill, and the occasional...
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Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom

Matthew Swanson - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Live each day as if it were your last.When Ben reads his fortune-cookie fortune, he's alarmed and inspired. Immediately, he begins drafting a bucket list of unfinished tasks and lifelong dreams (finish his 1000-piece model of the Taj Mahal, eat an entire cake, etc....) . As Ben marches...
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Carry Me Home

Janet Fox - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lulu and her younger sister, Serena, have a secret. As Daddy always says, "it's best if we keep it to ourselves," and so they have. But hiding your past is one thing. Hiding where you live - and that your Daddy has gone missing - is harder. At first Lulu isn't...
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Distress Signal

Mary E. Lambert - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Lavender's class is on a field trip in the desert of Chiricahua National Monument, hiking down a ravine, when a flash flood strikes!As the water hurtles down the ravine, everyone sprints for safety. Lavender runs in the opposite direction as the rest of her class and scrambles up a tree...
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Julieta and the Diamond Enigma

Luisana Duarte Armendïriz - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Merci Suarez in this smart young middle-grade mystery about a diamond gone missing from the Louvre and the sweet and spunky girl who cracks the case. Nine-year-old Julieta is finally about to put a purple pin in her family's...
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Leonard

Carlie Sorosiak - Walker Books US
Format: Hardcover

The cat that Olive rescues from a flood has a secret: he's not really a cat at all, but an alien who crashed to Earth on a beam of light. The cat, whom Olive names Leonard, was prepared to visit the planet as a human - but something went wrong. Now Leonard may never know what it's...
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The Lion of Mars

Jennifer L. Holm
Format: Hardcover

Bell has spent his whole life - all eleven years of it - on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid - he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they...
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Measuring Up

Lily LaMotte - HarperAlley
Format: Paperback

"A beautiful story about food, family, and finding your place in the world." - Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese and Dragon Hoops "A delicious and heartwarming exploration of identity by a young immigrant trying to find her place in multiple cultures."...
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The Million Dollar Race

MATTHEW ROSS SMITH - Aladdin
Format: Paperback

"I dare you to predict the winner of The Million Dollar Race. OK, you dragged it out of me: it's the READER!" - Jerry Spinelli, Newbery Award-winning author of Maniac Magee Perfect for fans of Lizzy Legend and the Baseball Genius series, this quick-paced, heartfelt, and zany...
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Mystery on Magnolia Circle

Kate Klise - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

What happens when two friends take on the world's summer?On the first day of vacation, ten-year-old Ivy Crowden falls down the stairs and breaks her leg. Stuck in a plaster cast, she's certain her summer is doomed. Not even Teddy, her neighbor and best friend, can cheer her up because...
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Shirley and Jamila Save Their Summer

Gillian Goerz - Dial Books
Format: Paperback

This middle-grade graphic novel for fans of Roller Girl and Smile introduces Jamila and Shirley, two unlikely friends who save each other's summers while solving their neighborhood's biggest mysteries.Jamila Waheed is staring down a lonely summer in a new neighborhood--until she meets...
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Stella

McCall Hoyle - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover

An uplifting and poignant story about a former service beagle named Stella who must find the courage to overcome her fears and use her special nose to save a girl&;s life. Ever since Stella was a puppy, she was trained to use her powerful beagle nose to sniff out chemicals used in explosives...
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