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A Game of Noctis
Deva Fagan - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling middle grade fantasy about a girl who must participate in a deadly game with a ragtag team of players to save her grandfather from a terrible fate - perfect for fans of James Riley and Shannon Messenger!. In the opulent, sinking city of Dantessa, the Great Game rules all. Pia Paro... |
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Pax
Sara Pennypacker - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Longlist * New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the YearFrom bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become... |
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Mummies Around the World (Lightning Bolt Books ® — That's Scary!)
Emma Carlson-Berne - Lerner Publications ™
Format: August 1
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From Egyptian pharaohs to bodies preserved in bogs, young readers will learn about human and animal mummies throughout history. This book explores how mummies are made and the spooky stories around them. |
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Ink Girls
Marieke Nijkamp - Greenwillow Books
Format: Paperback
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Every secret is a story waiting to happen.From New York Times-bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp and illustrator Sylvia Bi, this debut middle grade graphic novel celebrates the power that everyone - even those often overlooked - has to create change. In a vibrant city, two girls from very... |
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A Mango-Shaped Space
Wendy Mass - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Mia Winchell has synesthesia, the mingling of perceptions whereby a person can see sounds, smell colors, or taste shapes. Forced to reveal her condition, she must look to herself to develop an understanding and appreciation of her gift in this coming-of-age novel. |
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The Playbook: 52 Rules To Aim, Shoot, And Score In This Game Called Life
Kwame Alexander - Turtleback Books
Format: Library Binding
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Kwame Alexander shares poetry and inspiring lessons about the rules of life, as well as upliftingquotes from athletes such asStephen CurryandVenus Williamsandother exemplarslike Sonia Sotomayor and Michelle Obamain this motivational and inspirational... |
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling - Sterling Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned." - School Library Journal (Starred review) Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire... |
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The Stonekeeper's Curse
Kazu Kibuishi - GRAPHIX
Format: Paperback
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Graphic novel star Kazu Kibuishi returns with his mysterious world full of new allies . . . and old enemies!Emily and Navin's mother is still in a coma from the arachnopod's poison, and there's only one place to find help: Kanalis, the bustling, beautiful city of waterfalls.... |
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The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau - Yearling
Format: Paperback
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NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, and Harry Treadaway! This tie-in edition of The City of Ember features a movie-art cover and an 8-page photo insert. Jeanne DuPrau's instant classic tells the story of the great, underground... |
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What Makes Us Human
Victor D.O. Santos - Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A poetic riddle about language, history, and culture, released in partnership with UNESCO in honor of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) . Can you guess what I am? I have been around a very, very long time. You hardly knew me as a baby, but now you cannot get me out of your... |
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Next Stop: (A Graphic Novel)
Debbie Fong - Random House Graphic
Format: Hardcover
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Stand-alone debut Next Stop is a heartfelt graphic-novel from award-winning illustrator Debbie Fong that tackles tough topics with warmth and humor.. Pia is a soft-spoken middle schooler whose life is turned upside down after the loss of her younger brother, followed by her parents'... |
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Regan Barnhill - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2017 Newbery Award The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book... |
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Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I
Colin Meloy - Balzer + Bray; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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For fans of The Chronicles of Narnia comes the first book in the Wildwood Chronicles, the New York Times bestselling fantasy adventure series by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society. In Wildwood, Prue and her friend... |
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Art Club (A Graphic Novel)
Rashad Doucet - Little, Brown Ink
Format: Paperback
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Drawn from the author's own childhood like New Kid, this contemporary graphic novel paints a picture of an aspiring young artist on a mission to prove that the arts are worth fighting for.. Dale Donavan has heard the same lecture over and over again: Art will get you nowhere in life.... |
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Sisters
Raina Telgemeier - Graphix
Format: Paperback
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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers... |
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Paige Not Found
Jen Wilde - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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An adventure story that examines consent and privacy in a way that books have not had to before this generation where everything is online.A week ago, if someone had told Paige she'd be stuck in traffic with three total strangers on a mission to stop a global organization from controlling... |
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The Secret of the Ravens
Joanna Cacao - Clarion Books
Format: Paperback
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In this charming middle grade graphic novel, orphan twins Elliot and Liza find themselves taking on a series of mysterious raven quests in order to make money and survive - only for Liza to be mortally injured during one of their adventures. Now, Elliot must team up with a mysterious dark... |
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis - Candlewick
Format: Print book
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Meet "detective" Timmy Failure, star of the kids' comedy of the year. Created by New York Times best-selling cartoonist Stephan Pastis.Take Timmy Failure - the clueless, comically self-confident CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation. Add his impressively... |
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas - Turtleback Books
Format: Library Binding
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Zomorod is eleven and originally from Iran, but please, call her Cindy. From a New York Times bestselling memoirist, a humorous, voice-driven debut novel about growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s. |
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Murder Is Bad Manners
Robin Stevens - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Two friends form a detective agency - and must solve their first murder case - in this "sharp-witted debut" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that is the first adventure in a brand-new middle grade mystery series set at a 1930s boarding school.Daisy Wells and Hazel... |
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The Harlem charade
Natasha Tarpley - Findaway World
Format: Audiobook
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Seventh-graders Jin, Alexandra, and Elvin come from very different backgrounds and circumstances, but they all live in Harlem, and when Elvin's grandfather is attacked they band together to find out who is responsible--and the search leads them to an enigmatic artist whose missing masterpieces... |
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Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-or-Break Moment
Carla Killough McClafferty - Lerner Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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"When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment - fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last... |
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Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Pablo Cartaya - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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One boy's search for his father leads him to Puerto Rico in this moving middle-grade novel, for fans of Ghost and See You in the Cosmos.Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only in the eighth grade,... |
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So Done
PAULA CHASE - Greenwillow Books
Format: Paperback
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When best friends Tai and Mila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and the looming dance auditions for a new talented-and-gifted program.Fans of Rene Watson's Piecing Me Together will love this memorable story... |
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Better Nate Than Ever
Tim Federle - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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"The Nate series by Tim Federle is a wonderful evocation of what it's like to be a theater kid. Highly recommended." - Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the musical, Hamilton A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Slate... |
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The Second Favorite Daughters Club 1: Sister Sabotage
Colleen Oakes - Pixel Ink
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Sisters and Netflix's The Baby-sitter's Club, a contemporary series for the siblings who always come in last.. Santana Barnes is tired of playing second fiddle to her ballet protégé, honor student older sister Victoria. Casey Hammond is sick of her cute-as-a-button,... |
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