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The Honest Truth
Dan Gemeinhart - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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The debut of a phenomenal new middle-grade talent.In all the ways that matter, Mark is a normal kid. He's got a dog named Beau and a best friend, Jessie. He likes to take photos and write haiku poems in his notebook. He dreams of climbing a mountain one day.But in one important way, Mark... |
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Paper Things
Jennifer Richard Jacobson - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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"Will engender empathy and understanding of a serious and all-too-real problem. Jacobsons story is poignant but never preachy." - School Library Journal (starred review) . When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose her big brother.... |
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Loot How To Steal A Fortune
Jude Watson - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: "Find jewels."But March learns that... |
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Paper Things
Jennifer Richard Jacobson - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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"Will engender empathy and understanding of a serious and all-too-real problem. Jacobsons story is poignant but never preachy." - School Library Journal (starred review) . When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose her big brother.... |
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The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence
Stan Lee - Disney Press
Format: Book
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When twelve magical superpowers are unleashed on the world, a Chinese-America teenager named Steven will be thrown into the middle of an epic global chase. He'll have to master strange powers, outrun super-powered mercenaries, and unlock the mysterious powers of the Zodiac.
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Alistair Grim's Odditorium
Gregory Funaro - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Book
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Grubb, age twelve (or thereabouts) , has never known anything beyond his miserable existence as a chimney sweep, paid only in insults and abuse by his cruel master.
All of that changes the day he stows away in the coach belonging to a mysterious guest at the inn that he is tasked... |
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Ruby Redfort Look Into My Eyes
Lauren Child - Candlewick Press
Format: Book
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Ruby, a genius code-cracker and daring detective, along with her sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret crime-busting organization called Spectrum. Ruby gets into lots of scrapes with evil villains, but she's always ice-cool in a crisis. Just take a classic screwball comedy, add heaps... |
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The Question of Miracles
Elana K. Arnold - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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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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Fish in a Tree
Lynda Mullaly Hunt - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Book
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Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels... |
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The Island of Dr. Libris
Chris Grabenstein - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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What if your favorite characters came to life? Billy's spending the summer in a lakeside cabin that belongs to the mysterious Dr. Libris. But something strange is going on. Besides the security cameras everywhere, there's Dr. Libris's private bookcase. Whenever Billy opens the books... |
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The Question of Miracles
Elana K. Arnold - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Fog Diver
Joel Ross - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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Once the Fog started rising, the earth was covered with a deadly white mist until nothing remained but the mountaintops. Now humanity clings to its highest peaks, called the Rooftop, where the wealthy Five Families rule over the lower slopes and floating junkyards.
Thirteen-year-old Chess... |
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Moonpenny Island
Tricia Springstubb - Balzer + Bray
Format: Book
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Moonpenny is a tiny island in a great lake. When the summer people leave and the ferries stop running, just the tried-and-true islanders are left behind. Flor and her best, her perfect friend, Sylvie, are the only eleven-year-olds for miles and miles - and Flor couldn't be happier.... |
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No Passengers Beyond This Point
Gennifer Choldenko - Dial Books
Format: Book
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Siblings India, Finn, and Mouse are stunned when their mom tells them they are flying that night--without her--to their Uncle Red's home in Colorado. But things take an even more dramatic turn when their plane lands in a very unusual place. A mysterious driver meets them at the airport;... |
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Waiting for Unicorns
Beth Hautala - Philomel Books
Format: Book
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When twelve-year-old Talia - still reeling from the recent death of her mother - is forced to travel with her emotionally and physically distant whale-researcher father to the Arctic for the summer, she begins to wonder if the broken pieces inside of her will ever begin to heal. Like her jar of wishes,... |
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Astrotwins -- Project Blastoff
Mark Kelly - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Book
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It's a long, hot summer and Scott and Mark are in big trouble for taking apart (aka destroying) their dad's calculator. As a punishment, they're sent to their grandfather's house, where there's no TV and they have to do chores. And Grandpa is less tolerant of the twins'... |
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Genuine Sweet
Faith Harkey - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Genuine Sweet, of tiny Sass, Georgia, can grant any wish . . . except her own. It's a peculiar predicament, considering how much she could use a few wishes. New friends help Genuine give her family a boost - and then she takes her gift global! Life finally seems to be on the mend.... |
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Tyme #1: Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel
Megan Morrison - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In all of Tyme, from the Redlands to the Grey, no one is as lucky as Rapunzel. She lives in a magic tower that obeys her every wish; she reads wonderful books starring herself as the heroine; her hair is the longest, most glorious thing in the world. And she knows this because Witch tells... |
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The Tapper Twins Go to War
Geoff Rodkey - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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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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Tyme #1: Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel
Megan Morrison - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In all of Tyme, from the Redlands to the Grey, no one is as lucky as Rapunzel. She lives in a magic tower that obeys her every wish; she reads wonderful books starring herself as the heroine; her hair is the longest, most glorious thing in the world. And she knows this because Witch tells... |
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Omega City
Diana Peterfreund - Balzer + Bray
Format: Book
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Gillian Seagret doesn't listen to people who say her father's a crackpot. His conspiracy theories about the lost technology of Cold War-era rocket scientist Dr. Aloysius Underberg may have cost him his job and forced them to move to the middle of nowhere, but Gillian knows he's... |
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The Dirt Diary By Anna Staniszewski
Anna Staniszewski - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Paperback
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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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Atlantis Rising
T. A. Barron - Philomel Books
Format: Book
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In a magical land called Ellegandia, a young boy named Promi scrapes by, stealing pies, cakes and sweets to survive. But little does he know that his country is a pawn in an ages-old war between good and evil, battled both in the spirit realm and in the human world. Harboring secrets of his own,... |
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Genuine Sweet
Faith Harkey - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Genuine Sweet, of tiny Sass, Georgia, can grant any wish . . . except her own. It's a peculiar predicament, considering how much she could use a few wishes. New friends help Genuine give her family a boost - and then she takes her gift global! Life finally seems to be on the mend.... |
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The Dirt Diary By Anna Staniszewski
Anna Staniszewski - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Paperback
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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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Loot How To Steal A Fortune
Jude Watson - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: "Find jewels."But March learns that... |
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The Doldrums
Nicholas Gannon - Greenwillow Books
Format: Book
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Archer B. Helmsley wants an adventure. No, he needs an adventure. His grandparents were famous explorers . . . until they got stuck on an iceberg. Now Archer's mother barely lets him out of the house. As if that would stop a true Helmsley. Archer enlists Adelaide - the girl who, according... |
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Wish Girl
Nikki Loftin - Razorbill
Format: Book
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Peter Stone's parents and siblings are extroverts, musicians, and yellers - and the louder they get, the less Peter talks, or even moves, until he practically fits his last name. When his family moves to the Texas Hill Country, though, Peter finds a tranquil, natural valley where he can,... |
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