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Stella by starlight
Sharon M Draper - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Stella lives in the segregated South - in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can't. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years.... |
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All the Answers
Kate Messner - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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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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Story Thieves
James Riley - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious, action-packed New York Times bestselling series launches with a story-within-a-story, from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what... |
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The Case of the Missing Moonstone
Jordan Stratford - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"-- |
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I Totally Funniest: A Middle School Story
James Patterson - jimmy patterson
Format: Book
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Finding himself one step closer to his dream of being the best kid comic in the world Jamie faces his biggest challenge yet After scoring big on national TV in the semifinals contest everyone back home is jumping on the Jamie Grimm bandwagon and all the attention might be going to his head... |
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A Nearer Moon
Melanie Crowder - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Along a lively river, in a village raised on stilts, lives a girl named Luna. All her life she has heard tales of the time before the dam appeared, when sprites danced in the currents and no one got the mysterious wasting illness from a mouthful of river water. These are just stories, though... |
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The Book of Storms
Ruth Hatfield - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Danny O'Neill has never been what you'd call adventurous. But when he wakes the morning after a storm to find his house empty, his parents gone, and himself able to hear the thoughts of a dying tree, he has no choice but to set out to find answers. He soon learns that the enigmatic... |
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A Plague of Bogles
Catherine Jinks - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Pickles - until she betrayed him. Now Jem wants revenge, but first he needs a new job. Luckily Alfred the bogler, the man who kills the child-eating monsters that hide in the shadows of Victorian London,... |
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Hero
Sarah Lean - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Book
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Leo is invincible when he's pretending to be a gladiator in his imagination, but in real life, he struggles to make friends - unless you count his neighbor's little dog, Jack Pepper. So Leo is thrilled when the cool kids invite him to hang out, even though they sometimes pressure... |
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Finding the Worm
Mark Goldblatt - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Trouble always seems to find thirteen-year-old Julian Twerski. First it was a bullying incident, and now he's been accused of vandalizing a painting. The principal doesn't want to suspend him again, so instead, he asks Julian to write a 200-word essay on good citizenship. Julian... |
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Public School Superhero
James Patterson - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover
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Kenny Wright is a kid with a secret identity. In his mind, he's Stainlezz Steel, super-powered defender of the weak. In reality, he's a chess club devotee known as a "Grandma's Boy," a label that makes him an easy target for bullies. Kenny wants to bring a little more Steel to the real... |
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Always October
Bruce Coville - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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Jake's baby brother, LD, may be a monster (complete with fangs and fur!) , but together with his best friend, Lily, Jake isn't going to let anything happen to that baby. Even if it turns out LD may be the key to saving the world - or destroying it. Soon Jake and Lily are on a perilous... |
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The End of the Wild
NICOLE HELGET - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Eleven-year-old Fern doesn't have the easiest life. Her stepfather is out of work, and she's responsible for putting dinner on the table--not to mention keeping her wild younger brothers out of trouble. The woods near... |
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Spy School
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Like many kids, Ben Ripley imagines life as a secret agent would be pretty awesome -- so when he learns he's been recruited to the C.I.A.'s top secret Academy of Espionage, it sounds too good to be true. And it is. From the moment he arrives -- and ends up in the middle of an enemy attack... |
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The Stars of Summer: An All Four Stars Book
Tara Dairman - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Eleven-year-old foodie Gladys Gatsby now has her first published review under her belt and is looking forward to a quiet summer of cooking and reviewing. But her plans quickly go awry when her friend Charissa Bentley delivers Gladys's birthday gift: a free summer at Camp Bentley. As Gladys... |
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A curious tale of the in-between
Lauren DeStefano - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Book
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Pram Bellamy is special--she can talk to ghosts. She doesn't have too many friends amongst the living, but that's all right. She has her books, she has her aunts, and she has her best friend, the ghostly Felix.
Then Pram meets Clarence, a boy from school who has also lost a parent... |
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Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk
Liesl Shurtliff - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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All his life, Jack has longed for an adventure, so when giants turn up in the neighbor's cabbage patch, he is thrilled! Soon Jack is chasing them to a land beyond the clouds, with his little sister, Annabella, in tow. The kingdom of giants is full of super-sized fun: puddings to swim... |
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Wonder at the Edge of the World
Nicole Helget - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl who wants to know everything challenges her assumptions about family, loyalty, and friendship as she fights to save her father's legacy--and to begin creating her own. |
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The League of Beastly Dreadfuls Book 1
Holly Grant - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Anastasia is a completely average almost-eleven-year-old. That is, UNTIL her parents die in a tragic vacuum-cleaner accident. UNTIL she's rescued by two long-lost great-aunties. And UNTIL she's taken to their delightful and, er, "authentic" Victorian home, St. Agony's... |
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Breadcrumbs
Anne Ursu - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning modern-day fairy tale from acclaimed author Anne Ursu Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. But that was before he stopped talking to her and disappeared into a forest with a mysterious woman made of ice. Now it's up to Hazel to go in after him. Inspired by Hans... |
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Wild Boy and the Black Terror
Rob Lloyd Jones - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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From London's vilest slums to its grandest palaces, Wild Boy and Clarissa hunt a murderous poisoner in hope of proving themselves to a skeptical society.London, 1842. Wild Boy, master detective and former freak-show performer, and Clarissa, circus acrobat and troublemaker, are the secret... |
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