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The Palace of Glass: The Forbidden Library: Volume 3

Django Wexler · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

An action-packed middle-grade fantasy with classic writing, a resourceful heroine, a host of magical creatures, and no shortage of narrow escapes - for fans of Story Thieves, Inkheart, Coraline, and Harry Potter.For Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well as out. Having...
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Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl

Rachel Renée Russell · Aladdin
Pages: 279
Format: Print book

Rachel Renee Russell's sequel to "Dork Diaries" is packed with adorable art and tons of laughs. Recipe for disaster: 4 parties. Add 2 friends and 1 crush. Divide by 1 mean girl out to RUIN Nikki. Mix well, put fingers over eyes, and CRINGE Settled in at her new school and flanked...
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Alamo All-Stars

Nathan Hale · Amulet Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

From Nathan Hale, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List maker, comes the definitive graphic novel about the Alamo. Hale relays the facts, politics, military actions, and prominent personalities that defined the Texas Revolution in factual yet humorous...
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Voyagers: Omega Rising

Patrick Carman · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The action is on the page, on your device, and out of this world! This multiplatform series is part sci-fi, all action-adventure. And you don't have long to wait - six books are coming all in one year! Earth is in danger! The only things that can save our planet are six essential elements...
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Once Upon the End

James Riley · Aladdin; Reprint edition

Will there be happily ever after? Dont miss the fractured-fairy tale conclusion to the action-packed and humor-filled Half Upon a Time trilogy! Jack and May have gone their separate ways, and each is now set on course to fulfill their destinyor are they? Nothing is ever quite as it seems...
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Twice Upon a Time

James Riley · Aladdin; Reprint edition

Pirates and mermaids face off in this fractured-fairy tale sequel to Half Upon a Time!Jack and May are back for another adventure in the world of fairy tales with a twist. Now that they know about May's grandmother's real intentions, they're on the hunt to learn May's true...
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Princess Juniper of the Anju

Ammi-Joan Paquette · Philomel Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Juniper may have secured her kingdom, but danger - and adventure - are far from over. The land known as Queen's Basin is securely under Juniper's rule, and the time has come to focus on saving her father's kingdom. But before she can return to Torr, Juniper must find her subjects'...
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Under Their Skin

Margaret Peterson Haddix · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 311
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes the first book in a brand-new thrilling series about twins who are on a quest to discover the secrets being kept by their new family.Nick and Eryn's mom is getting remarried, and the twelve-year-old twins are skeptical...
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Save Me a Seat

Sarah Weeks · Scholastic Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL. Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own. Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding...
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Shadow Magic

Joshua Khan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Thorn, an outlaw's son, wasn't supposed to be a slave. He's been sold to Tyburn, an executioner, and they're headed to Castle Gloom in Gehenna, the land of undead, where Thorn will probably be fed to a vampire.
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Summer of Lost and Found

Rebecca Behrens · Aladdin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the author of When Audrey Met Alice comes a sweeping middle grade novel about a city girl forced to spend her summer in North Carolina, where she becomes involved in a centuries-old mystery, turning her once boring vacation into an adventure she never could have imagined.Nell Dare...
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A Clatter of Jars

Lisa Graff · Philomel Books
Pages: 217
Format: Print book

One of the finest novelists of her generation, National Book Award nominee Lisa Graff returns readers to the world of A Tangle of Knots, where a camp for Talented kids just might be a recipe for disaster.In this magical companion to the National Book Award nominee A Tangle of Knots, it's...
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Return to the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel

Melissa de la Cruz · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The sequel to the #1 New York Times best seller The Isle of the Lost
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Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All

Mary Amato · Holiday House
Pages: 151
Format: Book

Move over, Captain Underpants, a couple of new pranksters are in town. Narrated by fifth-grader Wilbur and featuring his third-grade brother, Orville, this hilarious story follows the antics of two boys with overactive imaginations and a comfortable sibling relationship. The action is divided...
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Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Rick Riordan · Disney Pr
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your...
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Waylon! One Awesome Thing

Sara Pennypacker · Disney-Hyperion, 2016.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Waylon has lots of ideas for making life more awesome through science, like teleportation, human gills, and attracting cupcakes by controlling gravity. But it's impossible for him to concentrate on his inventions when he's experiencing his own personal Big Bang. Arlo Brody is dividing the fourth...
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Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun

Liz Kessler · Candlewick

The New York Times best-selling series continues with the half-mermaid embarking on an icy and perilous journey to the Land of the Midnight Sun.Strange storms are blowing up from the ocean, caused by the nightmares of Neptune, King of the Sea. Convinced that his dreams herald an approaching...
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