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Amulet Keepers

Michael Northrop · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Library Binding

Strange things are happening in London. Red rain is flooding the streets. People are going missing. And someone's opening graves in Highgate Cemetery . . . Only Alex and his best friend, Ren, suspect the truth: a Death Walker, a powerful ancient Egyptian evil, is behind the chaos....
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The Kindness Club

Courtney Sheinmel · Bloomsbury Usa
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Rejected by the cool girls club, fifth-grader Chloe Silver, new in town after her parents' divorce, forms a different type of club, with offbeat Lucy Tanaka and nerdy Leo Barish, that tests out different acts of kindness on classmates.
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The Goldfish Boy

Lisa Thompson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Lisa Thompson's debut novel is a page-turning mystery with an emotionally-driven, complex character study at its core -- like Rear Window meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.Matthew Corbin suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. He hasn't been to school...
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Hermes and the Horse with Wings

Tracey West · Aladdin Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Zeus and the Olympians are tasked with finding a magical horse in this Heroes in Training adventure.When Zeus meets a young boy named Hermes, he claims to have their next quest from Pythia, the Oracle at Delphi. But he wants something for the information: Zeus must hand over the winged...
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The Forgetting Spell

Lauren Myracle · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The Forgetting Spell is beloved and bestselling author Lauren Myracle's second book in the unforgettable Wishing Day series, perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo and Ingrid Law.Most people in Willow Hill think Darya is the prickliest of the Blok sisters. What they don't realize is that...
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Effie Starr Zook Has One More Question

Martha Freeman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

City girl Effie Starr Zook is the opposite of excited about spending the summer on her aunt and uncle's farm in Nowheresville, Pennsylvania, until she stumbles across a mystery that leads her smack into an old family feud. Luckily, Effie isn't afraid to ask questions.A rich girl...
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Like Magic

Elaine Vickers · Harper
Pages: 261
Format: Print book

This sweet middle grade novel featuring a diverse cast of characters proves that friendship can be just around the corner.

For three ten-year-old girls, their once simple worlds are starting to feel too big. Painfully shy Grace dreads starting fifth grade now that her best friend...

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The Palace of Memory

Julian Sedgwick · Carolrhoda Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Danny Woo has just escaped from the jaws of death. But he's still haunted by the suspicious deaths of his parents, who were the star performers in a radical traveling circus, the Mysterium. When he discovers that the Mysterium is re-forming in Barcelonawithout himhe's devastated....
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