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Swimming into Trouble (Julia on the Go!)

Angela Ahn - Tundra Books
Format: Hardcover

Temporarily sidelined from her swim team by an earache, Julia won't be kept down in this buoyant illustrated novel for ages 7 to 10 by acclaimed writer Angela Ahn.. As a member of the Vipers Swim Team, Julia Nam's always in the pool. Mountainview Community Center is like her second...
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Last Laugh

K. R. Alexander - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

What's scarier than a collection of clown dolls in a secret locked room?How about... those clown dolls coming to life. And hunting you down.
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Dogtown

Katherine Applegate - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

From beloved authors Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko and with illustrations from Wallace West, Dogtown is at once an uplifting story and a page-turning adventure, sure to find a forever home in readers' hearts.Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded...
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Monster Escape (Diary of a Roblox Pro #1)

Ari Avatar - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

Ari Avatar is just your average Roblox kid living in a blocky world! Battle monsters and avoid disasters in a Roblox world -- all through the eyes of Ari and his friends. Diary of a Roblox Pro is a must-read for any kid who loves to play Roblox!Ari and his friends can't resist a challenge....
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Dragon Pet (Diary of a Roblox Pro #2)

Ari Avatar - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

Ari Avatar is just your average Roblox kid living in a blocky world! Battle monsters and avoid disasters in a Roblox world -- all through the eyes of Ari and his friends. Diary of a Roblox Pro is a must-read for any kid who loves to play Roblox!It's time for another field trip! Ari and his class...
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Obby Challenge (Diary of a Roblox Pro #3)

Ari Avatar - AFK
Format: Paperback

Ari Avatar is just your average Roblox kid living in a blocky world! Battle monsters and avoid disasters in a Roblox world -- all through the eyes of Ari and his friends. Diary of a Roblox Pro is a must-read for any kid who loves to play Roblox!It's time to escape the obby! Ari's...
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Lava Chase (Diary of a Roblox Pro #4: An AFK Book)

Ari Avatar - AFK
Format: Paperback

Ari Avatar is just your average Roblox kid living in a blocky world! Battle monsters and avoid disasters in a Roblox world -- all through the eyes of Ari and his friends. Diary of a Roblox Pro is a must-read for any kid who loves to game!Ari and his friends have to go on a boring geography...
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Zombie Invasion (Diary of a Roblox Pro #5: An AFK Book)

Ari Avatar - AFK
Format: Paperback

Ari Avatar is just your average Roblox kid living in a blocky world! Battle monsters and avoid disasters in a Roblox world -- all through the eyes of Ari and his friends. Diary of a Roblox Pro is a must-read for any kid who loves to game!Ari and his friends are on another adventure in the fifth...
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The Last Kids on Earth and the Monster Dimension

Max Brallier - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The highly-anticipated ninth book in the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling series, with over ten million copies in print!. The last kids may have escaped the forbidden fortress by the skin of their teeth, but there isn't much to celebrate. Thrull has what...
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The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot, 3)

Peter Brown - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland...
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Indigo and Ida

Heather Murphy Capps - Carolrhoda Books ®
Format: Hardcover

When eighth grader and aspiring journalist Indigo breaks an important story, exposing an unfair school policy, she's suddenly popular for the first time. The friends who've recently drifted away from her want to hang out again. Then Indigo notices that the school's disciplinary...
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Rick Riordan Presents: The Spirit Glass

Roshani Chokshi - Rick Riordan Presents
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a standalone quest adventure based on Filipino mythology by Roshani Chokshi, author of the best-selling Aru Shah series.. Corazon yearns to finally start training as a babaylan (a mystical healer and spirit guide) under her powerful guardian,...
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The Memory Thieves (The Marvellers, 2)

Dhonielle Clayton - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The action-packed sequel to the instant New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton! In The Memory Thieves, this fantasy adventure set in a global magic school in the sky, Ella, Jason, and Brigit return for their second year at the Arcanum Training institute.....
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Three Tasks for a Dragon

Eoin Colfer - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

With wit and gorgeous art, New York Times best-selling author Eoin Colfer and multi-award-winning illustrator P.J. Lynch team up again for a quest story of knights, dark magic, and a maiden with powers of her own. . Studious Prince Lir is next in line to become the Wolfhound King, but he can't...
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Biggest Secret Ever! (3) (Middle School and Other Disasters)

Wanda Coven - Simon Spotlight
Format: Hardcover

In this hilarious third book in the Middle School and Other Disasters series, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck struggles to keep a secret. Featuring black-and-white illustrations and doodles throughout and sparkly foil on the cover!. Heidi is making new friends at Broomsfield Academy...
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Which Way to Anywhere (Which Way to Anywhere, 1)

Cressida Cowell - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon and Wizards of Once comes an out-of-this-world adventure where magic and reality collide!. K2 O'Hero is a seemingly ordinary boy - after all, he and his twin sister, Izzabird, have been sworn to keep their family's...
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The Mystery of Locked Rooms

Lindsay Currie - Sourcebooks Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house.From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch and What Lives in the Woods comes a action-packed adventure novel about three friends who team up to find a hidden treasure in an abandoned 1950's funhouse.Twelve-year-old Sarah Greene...
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The Bridge Battle (The Lemonade War Series, 6)

Jacqueline Davies - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

In this gripping, funny addition to the bestselling Lemonade War series, both Jessie and her brother Evan find themselves unexpectedly cast as outsiders. How they find their way forward makes for a timeless story about the power of courage and kindness.Evan and Jessie Treski have waged...
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The (Super Secret) Octagon Valley Society

Melissa de la Cruz - Disney Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

This new series from #1 New York Times best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz is The Mysterious Benedict Society for reluctant readers, chockful of humor, adventure and mischief, and set at an exclusive, secluded, high-tech institute everyone wants to get into.. You only get in if you're...
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Mercy Watson Is Missing!: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Seven

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Every favorite character from Kate DiCamillo's New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books makes an appearance in this extended, riotously funny series crescendo.. When Mercy Watson the pig goes missing, all of Deckawoo Drive is in an uproar. The Watsons are inconsolable, and the local...
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Ferris

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

The masterful Kate DiCamillo has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up.. It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become...
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The Puppets of Spelhorst

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale - with enchanting illustrations by Julie Morstad - in which five puppets confront circumstances beyond their control with patience, cunning, and high spirits.. Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret,...
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Stella Díaz Leaps to the Future (Stella Diaz Book 5)

Angela Dominguez - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Angela Dominguez, the fifth and final novel about Stella Díaz, a Mexican-American girl who is now ready to be at top of her school - fifth grade!Stella is getting ready for her next big step.. This year, she's a fifth grader, which means she's not only...
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Stella Daz to the Rescue

Angela Dominguez - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

In her latest story, the beloved Stella Daz learns that sometimes the best way to help others is just to be there for them when times get tough.It's a new calendar year, and Stella is determined to make it her best one yet. Not only are Stella and her family finally becoming U.S. citizens,...
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Project F

Jeanne DuPrau - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The City of Ember comes a post-apocalyptic story set hundreds of years in the future, where life is simple and modern conveniences are a thing of the past until a boy enchanted by technology is forced to choose between doing the right thing for his community...
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The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Every and the illustrator behind the beloved picture book Her Right Foot comes an endearing and beautifully illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals.. Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea....
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Marya Khan and the Spectacular Fall Festival (Marya Khan #3)

Saadia Faruqi - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Ivy & Bean and Stella Diaz, Marya Khan and the Spectacular Fall Festival is the third stand-alone adventure in Saadia Faruqi and Ani Bushry's illustrated chapter book series about a Pakistani American third grader whose ambition sometimes gets away from her. Marya...
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The Partition Project

Saadia Faruqi - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

In this engaging and moving middle grade novel, Saadia Faruqi writes about a contemporary Pakistani American girl whose passion for journalism starts a conversation about her grandmother's experience of the Partition of India and Pakistan - and the bond that the two form as she helps...
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The Liars Society

Alyson Gerber - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

The Inheritance Games and One of Us is Lying for middle grade -- beloved author Alyson Gerber's new series is an unforgettable mystery featuring a secret society, a mysterious island, and dangerous family secrets.Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious...
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Spy School Goes North

Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the eleventh book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley goes on a rescue mission when one of his own is abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.. Ben Ripley and his friends are training in Alaska when Cyrus Hale is kidnapped by his old Russian nemesis....
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Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II (Operation Kinderspion)

Adam Gidwitz - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Max in the House of Spies is everything you could hope for in a book," -R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder, White Bird, and Pony. "Espionage! Secrets! Suspense! If you've ever dreamed of being a spy, this book is for you." -Alan Gratz,...
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Green

Alex Gino - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of MELISSA, a new book putting a non-binary kid named Green at center stage.Middle-grade superstar author Alex Gino returns to the world they began with MELISSA and RICK with GREEN, the story of a non-binary middle-schooler named Green who comes into their own in no small...
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Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Ghostly Photos (Mysteries of Trash and Treasure, 2)

Margaret Peterson Haddix - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling middle-grade thriller author Margaret Peterson Haddix returns to the Mysteries of Trash and Treasure series as Colin and Nevaeh unravel a mystery from the 1930s and explore the emotions associated with death and dying.Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things....
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The Princess in Black and the Prince in Pink

Shannon Hale - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

When plans for a ball runa-fowl, Princess Magnolia accepts the help of a valiant new hero to save her secret decorations - and the entire evening! Princess Magnolia is at the Flower Festival prepping for the evening ball when suddenly she hears a commotion. Oh no! She isn't prepared...
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Wrecker

Carl Hiaasen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas - just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida!. Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks...
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Ginny Off the Map

Caroline Hickey - Christy Ottaviano Books
Format: Hardcover

A heartfelt coming-of-age novel about trying to find one's place in the world perfect for fans of Judy Blume, The Fourteenth Goldfish, and The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl.. There are two things Ginny Pierce loves most in the world: geography facts and her father. But when her dad is deployed...
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Alebrijes

Donna Barba Higuera - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover

The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning The Last Cuentista. This is the story as it was told to me by Leandro the Mighty. . For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence...
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Slugfest

Gordon Korman - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

From Gordon Korman, the New York Times bestselling author of Restart, comes a hilarious new story about a group of underdogs who come together when they are forced to attend summer school - for failing PE.Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School - so good, in fact, that he's...
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Gigi Shin Is Not a Nerd

Lyla Lee - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

This first book in a sparkling middle grade series giving a fresh take on The Baby-Sitters Club follows a young Korean American girl who starts a business with her best friends to support her artistic dreams.Jiyoung "Gigi" Shin loves to create, from her zany outfits to self-executed...
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Tiger Daughter

Rebecca Lim - ‎Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter is an award-winning novel about finding your voice amidst the pressures of growing up in an immigrant home told from the perspective of a remarkable young Chinese girl.Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents....
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You Owe Me One, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe #2)

Chad Lucas - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Brian and Ezra's story continues in the moving sequel to Thanks a Lot, Universe, which New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone called "a glorious ode to the beauty of preteen friendship". Brian knows that anxiety and depression aren't things that are magically fixed...
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Nick and the Brick Builder Challenge (The Infinity Rainbow Club, 1)

Jen Malia - Beaming Books
Format: Hardcover

When the Infinity Rainbow Club at school competes in a brick builder challenge, Nick can't wait to participate! Until he learns he must have a partner--the new girl. Nick wants to work alone. But to win, he'll have to figure out how to be part of a team.A story about the universal...
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Violet and the Jurassic Land Exhibit (The Infinity Rainbow Club, 2)

Jen Malia - Beaming Books
Format: Hardcover

The Infinity Rainbow Club is volunteering at the local natural history museum where Violet's parents work. Violet loves setting up the new augmented reality exhibit, but she worries that something will go wrong. Her OCD has her repeatedly checking for errors. Can Violet find a way to trust...
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Beach Pug: A Branches Book (Diary of a Pug #10)

Kyla May - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

The tenth Branches early chapter book featuring the hilarious pug, Bub, and his human, Bella!Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced...
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Judy Moody and Friends: Stink and Webster Go to Mars

Megan McDonald - Candlewick
Format: Paperback

It's all systems go for a bedtime voyage to the stars and to Mars! Stink and his best friend, Webster, let their imaginations fly at their first-ever sleepover. . Three, two, one . . . sleepover! Stink can't wait for Webster to arrive and sleep over for the very first time. Big sister...
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Gone Wolf

Amber McBride - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

In middle-grade debut, Gone Wolf, award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America.. In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called...
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Wonka

Sibéal Pounder - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

. Based on the major motion picture - an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, all told with fabulous heart and humor - Wonka introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time . . . proving...
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Time After Time (Best Wishes #3)

Sarah Mlynowski - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling series!Pass the magic on! This enchanting multi-author series is like American Girl with magic.In this book, written by bestselling author Sarah Mlynowski and three-time Newbery Honor recipient Christina Soontornvat, the magic bracelet comes to a girl in Texas,...
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Uprising

Jennifer A. Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Iceberg, Jennifer A. Nielsen inspires readers with a brand-new thriller based on the remarkable true story of a young Polish girl who bravely fought, participating in the Warsaw city uprising, and took a stand in the name of freedom.Twelve-year-old...
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First Day, Worst Day (The Very Worst Ever Book 1)

Andy Nonamus - Little Simon
Format: Hardcover

A very unlucky kid navigates the many challenges of the first day of school in the first book in The Very Worst Ever chapter book series!. [REDACTED] keeps his name and school secret - even hiding his appearance behind stickers. Why? Because his bad luck is super embarrassing! It's...
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Looking Up

Stephan Pastis - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Timmy Failure series comes a quirky and heartwarming middle grade novel about a girl struggling with loneliness and the curveballs of life - featuring black and white illustrations throughout!. Living alone with her mother in a poorer part...
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)

Rick Riordan - Disney Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

The original heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest challenge yet: getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way.. After saving the world multiple times, Percy Jackson is hoping to have a normal senior year. Unfortunately, the gods aren't quite...
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Penny Draws a School Play

Sara Shepard - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the humorous, heartfelt, highly illustrated series about a girl who doodles to cope with her anxiety, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sara Shepard.. Halfway through the fifth grade, Penny Lowry is discovering that things are actually going . . . okay! With her friends...
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The Chance to Fly

Ali Stroker - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

A heartfelt middle-grade novel about a theater-loving girl who uses a wheelchair for mobility and her quest to defy expectations - and gravity - from Tony award-winning actress Ali Stroker and Stacy Davidowitz. Thirteen-year-old Nat Beacon loves a lot of things: her dog Warbucks, her best...
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Hannah Sharpe, Cartoon Detective

Janet Tashjian - Christy Ottaviano Books
Format: Hardcover

From the creators of the bestselling My Life series comes a colorfully illustrated mystery adventure about Hannah Sharpe, an observant young cartoonist on the autism spectrum and her cartoon alter ego in this colorfully illustrated adventure.. Young cartoonist Hannah Sharpe has many strengths:...
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Free Period

Ali Terese - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

This middle-grade Moxie centering period equity is Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret for the next generation!Helen and Gracie are pranking their way through middle school when a stinky stunt lands them in the front office -- again. Because nothing else has curbed their chaos, the principal...
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Mascot

Charles Waters - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade novel in verse, two best-selling BIPOC authors tackle this hot-button issue.. In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday...
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Ways to Build Dreams (A Ryan Hart Story)

Renée Watson - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Renée Watson continues her bestselling young middle grade series starring Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit and sunshine.. Middle school is just around the corner for Ryan Hart, which means it's time to start thinking about the future--and...
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Remember Us

Jacqueline Woodson - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life's burning questions about time and memory and what we take with us into the future.. It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade....
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Jawbreaker

Christina Wyman - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile, a refreshingly honest middle-grade debut novel about toxic sibling rivalry, socioeconomic disparity, and dental drama.. Max Plink's life is complicated. Her parents aren't getting along. The school bullies are relentless -- and her own sister...
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Finally Heard

Kelly Yang - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes the sequel to Finally Seen in which Lina gets a phone and tries to navigate social media, only to discover not everything online is what it seems.. When ten-year-old Lina Gao sees her mom's video on social media take off,...
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The Misfits #1: A Royal Conundrum

Lisa Yee - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!) - who're you gonna call? An elite team of crime-fighting underdogs, that's who! The Misfits are on the case in this hilarious illustrated series from Newbery Honoree Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist...
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