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All the Answers

Kate Messner - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

What if your pencil had all the answers? Would you ace every test? Would you know what your teachers were thinking? When Ava Anderson finds a scratched up pencil she doodles like she would with any other pencil. But when she writes a question in the margin of her math quiz, she hears a clear...
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The Question of Miracles

Elana K. Arnold - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Sixth-grader Iris Abernathy hates life in Corvallis, Oregon, where her family just moved. It's always raining, and everything is so wet. Besides, nothing has felt right since Iris's best friend, Sarah, died. When Iris meets Boris, an awkward mouth-breather with a know-it-all...
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Listen, slowly

Thanhha Lai; Lulu Lam - Harper Audio
Format: Book

California girl born and raised, Mai can't wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, though, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai's parents think this trip will be a great...
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The Tapper Twins Go to War

Geoff Rodkey - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This bestselling first book in the Tapper Twins series is a hilariously authentic showcase of what it's like to be in middle school in our digitally-saturated world, told as a colorful "oral history" with photos, screenshots, text messages, chat logs, and online gaming...
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The Dirt Diary By Anna Staniszewski

Anna Staniszewski - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Paperback

Eighth grade never smelled so bad. Rachel Lee didn't think anything could be worse than her parents splitting up. She was wrong. Working for her mom's new house-cleaning business puts Rachel in the dirty bathrooms of the most popular kids in the eighth grade. Which does not help her already...
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Teddy Mars Book #1: Almost a World Record Breaker

Molly B. Burnham - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Book

Teddy Mars is determined to stand out in a world full of wonders and a house bursting with siblings. With the help of his best friends, Teddy tries to build the biggest snow mound, stuff the most grapes in his mouth, and lift a chair with his teeth. He'll do anything to succeed--even...
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Binny in Secret

Hilary McKay - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Book

School has started, and Binny can't stand it. She has a horrid hand-me-down uniform and the kids make fun of her "posh" city accent.

Then a storm damages the roof of their home, and Binny, her sensible older sister Clem, and her rambunctious brother James (and...
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From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

Meg Cabot - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Book

Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison is a completely average twelve-year-old: average height, average weight, average brown hair of average length, average brown skin and average hazel eyes. The only things about her that aren't average are her name (too long and princess themed)...
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A Little Bit of Spectacular

Gin Phillips - Dial Books
Format: Book

Olivia and her mom have just moved in with her grandmother, and Olivia has exactly zero friends at her new school. But after a strange message on the bathroom wall of a cafe catches her eye, Olivia decides that Birmingham, Alabama, may be a little more interesting than it seems. So begins...
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Ruby on the Outside

Nora Raleigh Baskin - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Ruby's mom is in prison, and to tell anyone the truth is to risk true friendship in this novel from the author of The Summer Before Boys that accurately and sensitively addresses a subject too often overlooked.Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes is about to start middle school, and only her aunt...
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Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories

R J Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Auggie & Me gives readers a special look at Auggie's world through three new points of view. Previously only available in ebook, now they'll be published all together--complete with an introduction from the author on how she came to write them--in a gorgeous hardcover...
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In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse

Joseph Marshall - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Through stories of Lakota leader Crazy Horse, a boy learns about his heritage and himself in this American Indian Youth Literature Award-winning novel from acclaimed author Joseph Marshall III Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy, though you wouldnt guess it by his name. His mother is Lakota,...
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Spirit Week Showdown

Julie Hasson - Balzer + Bray
Format: Book

Nine-year-old Mya Tibbs is boot-scootin' excited for the best week of the whole school year - SPIRIT WEEK! She and her megapopular best friend, Naomi Jackson, even made a pinky promise to be Spirit Week partners so they can win the big prize: special VIP tickets to the Fall Festival! But...
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The turn of the tide

Rosanne Parry - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

In Japan, you're always prepared for an earthquake. That's why Kai knows just what to do when the first rumbles shake the earth. But he does the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do: He runs. And then the tsunami hits.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pacific,...
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Wonder Woman at Super Hero High

Random House. - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Get your cape on with the DC Super Hero Girls - the unprecedented new Super Hero universe especially for girls! Readers of all ages can fly high with the all-new adventures of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, and some of the world's most iconic female super heroes as high schoolers! Wonder...
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Far from Fair

Elana K Arnold - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Odette Zyskowski has a list: Things That Aren't Fair. At the top of the list is her parents' decision to take the family on the road in an ugly RV they've nicknamed the Coach. There's nothing fair about leaving California and living in the cramped Coach with her parents and exasperating...
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The Firefly Code

Megan Frazer Blakemore - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in their utopian community, Old Harmonie. In a world this safe and perfect, theyve never had to question anything . . . never had to wonder about how their lives came to be. Until a new girl named Ilana moves in. Shes so perfect that...
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Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins,...
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The Imaginary

A.F. Harrold - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Rudger is Amanda Shuffleup's imaginary friend. Nobody else can see Rudger--until the evil Mr. Bunting arrives at Amanda's door. Mr. Bunting hunts imaginaries. Rumor has it that he even eats them. And now he's found Rudger.Soon Rudger is alone, and running for his imaginary life. He needs...
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Unidentified Suburban Object

Mike Jung - Arthur a Levine
Format: Hardcover

The next person who compares Chloe Cho with famous violinist Abigail Yang is going to HEAR it. Chloe has just about had it with people not knowing the difference between someone who's Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. She's had it with people thinking that everything she does well -- getting...
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The Seventh Wish

Kate Messner - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Charlie feels like she's always coming in last. From her Mom's new job to her sister's life away at college, everything else always seems to be more important than Charlie's upcoming dance competition or science project. Unsure of how to get her family's attention, Charlie comes across...
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Dara Palmer's Major Drama

Emma Shevah - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Book

Dara Palmer longs for stardom-but when she isn't cast in her middle school's production of The Sound of Music, she get suspicious. It can't be because she's not the best. She was born to be a famous movie star. It must because she's adopted from Cambodia and doesn't...
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The World from Up Here

Cecilia Galante - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Wren Baker has never felt brave a day in her life. She doesn't even know what she's afraid of, really. Only that if she raises her voice or leaves her mark or ventures too far from home, she'll risk falling flat on her face.But that all changes when Wren's cousin, Silver, walks into her life....
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