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Big Foot and Little Foot

ELLEN POTTER · Amulet Books
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Hugo is a young Sasquatch who longs for adventure. Boone is young boy who longs to see a Sasquatch. When their worlds collide, they become the unlikeliest pair of best friends. At the Academy for Curious Squidges, Hugo learns all manner of Sneaking - after all, the most important part...
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Dragons in a Bag

Zetta Elliott · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author!When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she's not his grandmother--but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical...
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Game Changer

Tom Greenwald · Amulet Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery - and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident. Was this an inevitable result of playing...
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The Guggenheim Mystery

Robin Stevens · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The adventure that began in Siobhan Dowd's popular and acclaimed novel The London Eye Mystery at long last continues with Ted, Kat, and their cousin Salim investigating a theft at the Guggenheim Museum that's been pinned on Salim's mother!When Ted and his big sister, Kat, take...
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Louisiana's Way Home

CANDLEWICK PRESS. · Candlewick
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are - and deciding who you want to be.When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately,...
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Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective of Pharaoh's Court

Amy Butler Greenfield · Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

Starring an egotistical royal cat and his scarab-beetle sidekick, this hilarious illustrated novel reads like Laurel and Hardy crossed with The Egypt Game.Ra relishes his role as Pharaoh's beloved--and outrageously spoiled--cat. So when an amulet goes missing from the palace, Ra has no interest...
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Small Spaces

Katherine Arden · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story in the tradition of R. L. Stine destined to become a classic. When eleven-year-old Ollie lost her mother in a plane crash, she sought solace in her books. So when...
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You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

ALEX GINO · Scholastic Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister Emma is born Deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. A big fantasy reader, Jilly connects with another fan, Derek, who is a Deaf Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for advice but doesn't always know the best way to ask for it and makes...
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