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Holly Goldberg Sloan · Dial Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this heartwarming, funny middle-grade novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s, Julia grows into herself while playing a Munchkin in a production of The Wizard of Oz Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll...
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Making Mistakes on Purpose

Elise Primavera · Dial
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Students at a whimsical school for children of busy parents learn silly lessons about manners, friendship, and going far in life, in book two of the series that's tailor-made for a new generation of Mary Poppins fans Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents is not your typical boarding...
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A Most Magical Girl

Karen Foxlee · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 297
Format: Print book

From the author of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy comes the story of a friendship between two girls set in Victorian England, with magical machines, wizards, witches, a mysterious underworld, and a race against time. Annabel Grey is primed for a proper life as a young lady in Victorian...
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Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil War

Debbie Levy · Disney Hyperion
Pages: 62
Format: Print book

Amid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onward by song. There were songs to wake them up and songs to call them to bed,Songs to ready them for battle and to signal their retreat,Songs to tell them that their side was right, and the other...
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Planet Fashion: 100 years of fashion history

Natasha Slee · Wide Eyed Editions
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

Hold onto your hats and lace up your boots; we're off on a fashion adventure! Travel through 25 scenes in fashion history, circling the globe with your two young stylish travel companions - one boy and one girl, dressed the part in every picture. Each lavishly illustrated scene captures...
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The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins

Gail Shepherd · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A storytelling wonder."--starred review, Kirkus ReviewsA one-of-a-kind voice lights up this witty, heartwarming debut set in 1985 Tennessee about the power of homespun wisdom (even when it's wrong) , the clash between appearances and secrets, and the barriers to getting help...
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The World's Greatest Detective

CAROLINE CARLSON · HarperCollins
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Caroline Carlson, author of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series, returns with The World's Greatest Detective, a story of crime, tricks, and hilarity for those who know that sometimes it takes a pair of junior sleuths to solve a slippery case.Detectives' Row is full of talented...
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Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer's Historic Boston Marathon

Kim Chaffee
Format: Hardcover

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The Mighty Dynamo

Kieran Crowley · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

More than anything, Noah Murphy wants to be a professional soccer player -- and participating in the Schools' World Cup qualifiers might be just what he needs to get scouted. But when he's suspiciously banned from his school team for something he didn't even do, all his dreams...
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Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat

Gary Paulsen · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

From three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen comes a laugh-out-loud novel about six wacky misfits who get stuck together in a school restroom and discover friendship.It seemed like a normal school day, until a horrible storm forced the very cautious school administration to make everyone...
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The Sound of Freedom

Kathy Kacer · Annick Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Anna and her family have only one hope left to escape certain doom.It's 1936 and life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow. As incidents of violence and persecution increase day by day, Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but he insists it's impossible. How could he give...
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The journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union soldier

Jim Murphy · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 173
Format: Book

James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today

Cynthia Levinson · Peachtree Publishers
Pages: 235
Format: Hardcover

Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution.Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced -- then they offer possible...
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Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble

ANNA MERIANO · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"A charming and delectably sweet debut. Mischief, friendship, and a whole lot of heart - Love Sugar Magic has it all." - Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of the Brooklyn Brujas seriesLeonora Logroño's family owns the most beloved bakery in Rose Hill, Texas, spending...
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Over the Moon

Natalie Lloyd · Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive.It wasn't always this way....
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