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Always, Clementine

CARLIE SOROSIAK - Walker Books US
Format: Hardcover

From the author of I, Cosmo comes a humor-filled, heart-tugging tale of a genius mouse, secretly freed from a lab, who's in search of a real home - and a way to free her old friends. Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin....
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Anglerfish: The Seadevil of the Deep

Elaine M. Alexander - ‎Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Deep in the darkest part of the ocean, visit a primordial, fierce-toothed fish that draws in prey with its own bioluminescent lure.Dive thirteen thousand feet below the ocean's surface, where no ray of sunlight can penetrate. Resources are scarce, and fellow inhabitants scarcer. This...
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ChupaCarter

George Lopez - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

With his signature laugh-out-loud humor, world-famous comedian George Lopez launches a fantastical middle grade series inspired by his own colorful childhood and Latinx folklore. In this illustrated contemporary fantasy, twelve-year-old Jorge is lonely and resentful after being sent to live...
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Eat Your Woolly Mammoths!: Two Million Years of the World's Most Amazing Food Facts, from the Stone Age to the Future

James Solheim
Format: Hardcover

Food, glorious food!If there's one thing that transcends time, it's our love for food! But what did people generations ago consume? And what will we eat in the years ahead? James Solheim's Eat Your Woolly Mammoths! serves up the stories behind the world's most delicious,...
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Endlessly Ever After: Pick YOUR Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings!

Laurel Snyder - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

This funny, original choose-your-path picture book of fractured fairy tales will charm any young fan of the genre, putting the power of storytelling right in the reader's hands!Grab your basket and your coat. Put on some walking shoes.Turn the page and begin: Which story will you choose?Award-winning...
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Falling Short

Ernesto Cisneros - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Isaac and Marco already know sixth grade is going to change their lives. But it won’t change things at home—not without each other’s help.

This year, star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop...

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The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza

Mac Barnett
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling Mac Barnett and award-winning illustrator Shawn Harris turn their massively popular The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza live cartoon into an action-packed and hysterical graphic novel series - perfect for fans of Dav Pilkey, Raina Telgemeier, and Jeff Kinney. Something...
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Freestyle: A Graphic Novel

GALE GALLIGAN - Graphix
Format: Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Gale Galligan, a fun, high-energy graphic novel about friendship, family, and the last hurrahs of middle school.Cory's dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It's the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate...
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Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book

TONYA BOLDEN - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of Hidden Figures comes a nonfiction picture book about the Green Book, a travel guide by Victor Hugo Green, a Black postal worker from Harlem, made to help African Americans stay safe while traveling during segregation.As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey...
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Lia Park and the Missing Jewel

Jenna Yoon - ‎Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of the Storm Runner and Aru Shah series, this thrilling middle grade fantasy follows a young girl who must venture to the undersea kingdom of the Dragon King in Korea to save her parents from an evil diviner spirit.Twelve-year old Lia Park just wants to fit in. Her parents...
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Mr. Lemoncello's Very First Game

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

Before Mr. Lemoncello became everyone's favorite game maker, he was a kid who liked to roll the dice . . . Discover the origins of what James Patterson calls "the coolest library in the world" in this PREQUEL to the New York Times bestselling Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's...
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Once Upon a Tim

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

Tim is just a peasant, but he dreams big. He wants more out of life than to grow up to be a woodsman like his father. Unfortunately, the only route to success in the kingdom of Merryland is to be born a prince. Still, Tim is determined. He is brave and clever and always tries to do the right...
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Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring

MATTHEW LOUX - First Second
Format: Hardcover

From Time Museum creator Matt Loux comes a sweet and gently macabre graphic novel for young readers.There are whispers around the village that monsters are lurking outside the gates. Prunella doesn't pay this talk much mind -- until she unearths a strange skull-shaped ring in her garden....
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A Rover's Story

JASMINE WARGA - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

The One and Only Ivan meets The Wild Robot in this unique and deeply moving middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover, from the Newbery Honor-winning author of Other Words for Home.Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name.Res was built to explore...
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Shine On, Luz Vliz!

Rebecca Balcarcel - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful coming-of-age story for fans of Front Desk and Merci Surez Changes Gears, this book celebrates identity, language, heritage, family, and the determination to follow one's own inner light.Have you ever been the best at something . . . only to lose it allLuz Vliz is a soccer...
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Simon B. Rhymin'

Dwayne Reed - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes dreams of becoming a world-famous rapper that everyone calls Notorious D.O.G. But for now, he's just a Chicago fifth grader who's small for his age and afraid to use his voice.Simon prefers to lay low at school and at home, even though he's constantly...
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Two-Headed Chicken

TOM ANGLEBERGER - Walker Books US
Format: Hardcover

In a hilarious, absurdist romp by New York Times best-selling creator Tom Angleberger, a two-headed chicken races across the multiverse to escape a hungry moose. Anything is possible in the multiverse, including a madcap adventure starring a plucky two-headed chicken. But look out - there's...
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The Unforgettable Logan Foster #1

Shawn Peters - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover


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Zara's Rules for Record-Breaking Fun

Hena Khan - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved author of Amina's Voice comes the first book in a humor-filled middle grade series starring a young Muslim girl with an endless list of hobbies who searches for ways to maximize fun for her family and neighborhood friends. Meet Zara Saleem, the queen of the neighborhood....
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