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Allergic: A Graphic Novel

Megan Wagner Lloyd
Format: Hardcover

At home, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with getting ready for a new baby, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Maggie loves animals and thinks a new puppy to call her own is the answer, but when she goes to select one on her birthday,...
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Batpig: When Pigs Fly

Rob Harrell - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Gary Yorkshire was your perfectly average, fuzzy pink pig who loved tasty sandwiches, video games, mud baths, and hanging out with his friends Carl the fish and Brooklyn the bat. Until one day . . . a radioactive bat bite gives him powers he never would have dreamed of! Inspired by his old Crimson...
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Bedhead Ted

Scott SanGiacomo - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Hilo and Lunch Lady, this charming and funny young middle grade graphic novel follows one boy as he discovers that his perceived flaw - wild, red hair - may just be what saves the day. Ten-year-old Ted just wants to fit in. But his wild, red hair is a target for school...
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Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom

Matthew Swanson - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Live each day as if it were your last.When Ben reads his fortune-cookie fortune, he's alarmed and inspired. Immediately, he begins drafting a bucket list of unfinished tasks and lifelong dreams (finish his 1000-piece model of the Taj Mahal, eat an entire cake, etc....) . As Ben marches...
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Dog Squad

Chris Grabenstein - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When trouble calls . . . it's DOG SQUAD to the rescue!Duke is not your average dog. Along with his crew, he fights crime and goes on claw-biting adventures helping dogs in peril in the hit streaming sensation--DOG SQUAD! Fred is a pretty average dog. He's scrappy. He's loveable....
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The Elephant in the Room

HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN - ‎Dial Books
Format: Paperback

"Sloan captures the importance of compassion and bravery when facing life's challenges" (Kirkus) in this touching novel by the critically acclaimed author of Counting by 7s.It's been almost a year since Sila's mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping...
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Unsolved Case Files: Escape at 10,000 Feet: D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money

Tom Sullivan - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the U.S. CASE NO. 001: NORJAK NOVEMBER 24, 1971 PORTLAND, OREGON 2:00 P.M. A man in his mid-forties, wearing a suit and overcoat,...
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Franklin Endicott and the Third Key: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Six

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Welcome back to Deckawoo Drive for a sixth endearing installment in the companion series to Kate DiCamillo's New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books. Frank Endicott is a worrier. He worries about lions, submarines, black holes, leprosy, and armadillos. He lists his worries alphabetically...
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The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem

Colleen Paeff - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

It's the summer of 1858, and London's River Thames STINKS. What is creating this revolting smell? The answer is gross: the river is full of poop. But the smell isn't the worst problem. Every few years, cholera breaks out, and thousands of people die. Could there be a connection...
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The Hiddenseek

Nate Cernosek - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"You hid. But you were not found. You thought you were playing a harmless game. You were wrong."After Holly and Hector Thorn are left behind during a simple game of hide-and-seek, they find themselves transported to a gloomy, magical world seemingly trapped in time--the Hiddenseek....
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Katie the Catsitter

Colleen AF Venable - Random House Books for Young Readers; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback

and Real Friends (not to mention anyone who loves cats!) Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead while her best friends are all away at camp--something that's way out of Katie and her mom's budget, UNLESS Katie can figure out a way earn the money for camp herself. But when Katie...
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Maya and the Robot

Eve L. Ewing - Kokila
Format: Hardcover

Maya's nervous about fifth grade. She tries to keep calm by reminding herself she knows what to expect. But then she learns that this year won't be anything like the last. For the first time since kindergarten, her best friends Jada and MJ are placed in a different class without...
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Miles Morales: Shock Waves

Justin A. Reynolds - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Miles Morales is a normal kid who happens to juggle school at Brooklyn Visions Academy while swinging through the streets of Brooklyn as Spider-Man. After a disastrous earthquake strikes his mother's birthplace of Puerto Rico, Miles springs into action to help set up a fundraiser for the devastated...
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Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued

Peter Sís - Norton Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Ss honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia -- a story he never told and that remained unknown until...
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Strangeville School Is Totally Normal

Darcy Miller - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Harvey Hill just wants other kids to think he's normal. So he's happy to start fresh as the newest kid at Strangeville Middle School. Except Strangeville is anything but normal. Something sinister swims in the drinking fountain, the cafeteria could swallow you whole, and a giant...
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The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid

Matt Wallace - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover


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Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Jeff Gottesfeld
Format: Hardcover

Keeping vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Arlington National Cemetery, are the sentinel guards, whose every step, every turn, honors and remembers America's fallen. They protect fellow soldiers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, making sure they are never alone. To stand...
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What Comes Next

Rob Buyea - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Thea and her family are moving to a new town for a fresh start--her parents' bright idea. To Thea, it feels like running away. She lost her best friend, Charlie, in a tragic accident, and in the painful aftermath, she has gone mute. Her two younger sisters, however,...
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Willodeen

Katherine Applegate - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you must remember . . .Eleven-year-old Willodeen adores creatures of all kinds, but her favorites are the most unlovable beasts in the land: strange beasts known as "screechers." The villagers of Perchance call them pests, even...
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The Year I Flew Away

Marie Arnold
Format: Hardcover

It's 1985 and ten-year-old Gabrielle is excited to be moving from Haiti to America. Unfortunately, her parents won't be able to join her yet and she'll be living in a place called Brooklyn, New York, with relatives she has never met. She promises her parents that she will behave,...
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