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Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
Angela Cervantes - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A room locked for fifty years.A valuable peacock ring.A mysterious brother-sister duo.Paloma Marquez is traveling to Mexico City, birthplace of her deceased father, for the very first time. She's hoping that spending time in Mexico will help her unlock memories of the too-brief time they... |
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A Million Shades of Gray
Cynthia Kadohata - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A boy and his elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village immediately after the Vietnam war. |
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Blue Fingers: A Ninja's Tale
Cheryl Aylward Whitesel - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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The power and prowess of ninja never seem to lose their appeal to young readers, especially boys. Blue Fingers, a suspenseful, action-packed coming-of-age story set in feudal Japan, offers an up-close look at this noble, fierce way of life.Through an odd twist of fate, a stubborn twelve-year-old... |
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Lin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A Newbery Honor WinnerA New York Times BestsellerThis stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley... |
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Bob
Wendy Mass - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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It's been five years since Livy and her family have visited Livy's grandmother in Australia. Now that she's back, Livy has the feeling she's forgotten something really, really important about Gran's house.It turns out she's right.Bob, a short, greenish creature dressed in a chicken suit,... |
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The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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"Indispensable."-BOOKLIST (starred review) CARNEGIE MEDAL 2017 FINALISTSubhi is a refugee. He was born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, and the center is the only world he knows. But every night,... |
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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Linda Sue Park - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes... |
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Rooftoppers
Katherine Rundell - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Embrace possibility in this luminous novel about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop world in Paris.Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck that left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel... |
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Arcady's Goal
Eugene Yelchin - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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From Newbery Honor-winning author Eugene Yelchin comes another glimpse into Soviet Russia. For twelve-year-old Arcady, soccer is more than just a game. Sent to live in a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state, it is a means of survival, securing extra rations,... |
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Words In The Dust
Trent Reedy - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have her cleft palate fixed. Zulaikha knows all will be provided for her--"Inshallah," God willing.... |
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Astrid the Unstoppable
Maria Parr - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Pippi Longstocking meets Heidi meets Anne Shirley in this tale of an irrepressible girl in a mountain village who navigates unexpected changes with warmth and humor.Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," she loves to spend her days... |
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I Lived on Butterfly Hill
Marjorie Agosin - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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An eleven-year-old's world is upended by political turmoil in this searing novel from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile.Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the idyllic town of Valparaiso, Chile - until the time... |
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Orphan of the Sun
Gill Harvey - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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Visit www.orphanofthesun.com for excerpts, history, maps and more! Meryt-Re should consider herself lucky: her aunt and uncle take good care of her, a boy in the village wants to marry her, and the village itself is favored by the kings because it is home to the builders of the great Egyptian... |
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The Billionaire's Curse
Richard Newsome - Walden Pond Press
Format: Paperback
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Gerald Wilkins never considered himself a particularly exceptional thirteen-year-old. But that was before he inherited twenty billion pounds, a Caribbean island, a yacht, and three estates from a mysterious relative he never knew. But that's not all - because, as we discover, Gerald's great... |
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