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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 11

Jeff Kinney · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 217
Format: Audiobook

The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his "creative side." As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming...
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Orphan Island

LAUREL SNYDER · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover

"A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." - Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the MoonFor readers who loved Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about...
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The Real McCoys

Matthew Swanson · Imprint
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Her name's Moxie. Moxie McCoy.Bold, opinionated, and haplessly self-confident, the world's greatest fourth-grade detective faces her biggest challenge! When someone kidnaps beloved school mascot Eddie the Owl, Moxie is on the case -- but she's forced to fly solo now that her best friend...
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Dining With Dinosaurs: A Tasty Guide to Mesozoic Munching

Hannah Bonner · National Geographic Children's Books
Pages: 41
Format: Hardcover

Sure you know T-Rex was the meat-eating king and brontosaurus munched on leaves, but what else was on the dino dining menu during the Mesozoic era? Meet the 'vores: carnivores, piscivores, herbivores, insectivores, "trashivores," "sunivores," and omnivores like us. Readers...
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Moo

Sharon Creech · HarperCollins
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

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The Serpent's Secret

Sayantani DasGupta · Scholastic Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

MEET KIRANMALA:INTERDIMENSIONAL DEMON SLAYER(Only she doesn't know it yet.) On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala is just a regular sixth grader living in Parsippany, New Jersey . . . until her parents mysteriously vanish and a drooling rakkhosh demon slams through her kitchen,...
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Woundabout

Lev Rosen · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Woundabout, where routine rules and change is feared. But transformation is in the wind....
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The Rizzlerunk Club: Best Buds Under Frogs

LESLIE PATRICELLI · Candlewick
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In her first novel, illustrated in her inimitable style, Leslie Patricelli hits all the humorous ups and downs of being the new kid at school, navigating complicated friendships, and standing up to frenemies.For Lily, it's the worst first day of school ever. Who would want to be friends...
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The Initiation

Ridley Pearson · Harpercollins
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

"Will leave you dying to know more." - Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson seriesThe New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatchers and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the riveting first tale of the Lock and Key trilogy about the origins...
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Gnome-a-geddon

K A Holt · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Buck discovers that his favorite book series might be less fictional than he thought in this delightful middle grade adventure.Harry Potter. Percy Jackson. Custard the Gnome. Buck is a super fan of the book series, The Triumphant Gnome Syndicate. He knows all the trivia. The properties...
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Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd

Mary Losure · Candlewick
Pages: 163
Format: Hardcover

A surprising true story of Isaac Newton's boyhood suggests an intellectual development owing as much to magic as science.Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house,...
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Overboard!

Terry Lynn Johnson · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Eleven-year-old Travis and his family are on a whale watch off the coast of Washington when disaster strikes. The boat capsizes, throwing everyone into the ice-cold chaotic waves. Separated from their...
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The Hunt for the 100th Key

GERONIMO STILTON · SCHOLASTIC (US)
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

My sister, Thea, had discovered an enormouse old castle built by the founder of New Mouse City! She and Trap dragged me along with them to explore it. Inside, we found one hundred keys... but only ninety-nine doors to unlock. What mysterious room did the hundredth key open? It was up to us to find...
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The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding

ALEXANDRA BRACKEN · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"I would say it's a pleasure to meet thee, Prosperity Oceanus Redding, but truly, I only anticipate the delights of destroying thy happiness ."
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Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Kwame Alexander · Candlewick
Pages: 56
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller!A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory...
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