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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , Parts I & II

J.K. Rowling · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented...
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Counting Thyme

Melanie Conklin · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Newbery-winning Rules meets Counting by 7s in this affecting story of a girl's devotion to her brother and what it means to be homeWhen eleven-year-old Thyme Owens' little brother, Val, is accepted into a new cancer drug trial, it's just the second chance that he needs. But it also means...
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When Friendship Followed Me Home

Paul Griffin · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 247
Format: Print book

A boy's chance encounter with a scruffy dog leads to an unforgettable friendship in this deeply moving story about life, loss, and the meaning of family Ben Coffin has never been one for making friends. As a former foster kid, he knows people can up and leave without so much as a goodbye....
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Hour of the Bees

Lindsay Eagar · Candlewick Press
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

What does it mean to be fully alive? Magic blends with reality in a stunning coming-of-age novel about a girl, a grandfather, wanderlust, and reclaiming your roots.Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . . .While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties...
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Pax

Sara Pennypacker · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come.Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since...
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Paper wishes

Lois Sepahban · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 181
Format: Print book

Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join...
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Mayday

Karen Harrington · Little
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

A powerful coming-of-age story about the importance of finding your voiceWayne Kovok lives in a world of After. After his uncle in the army was killed overseas. After Wayne and his mother survived a plane crash while coming back from the funeral. After he lost his voice.Wayne has always...
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Soar

Joan Bauer · Viking
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Newbery Honor-winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation - and readers will cheer him on!Jeremiah is the world's biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport. So when...
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Click Here to Start

Denis Markell · Delacorte Press
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

Young fans of Ernie Cline's Ready Player One will love this classic video game inspired mystery filled with elements of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. What if playing video games was prepping you to solve an incredible real-world...
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Regan Barnhill · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk...
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Monster High: Ghoulfriends Forever

Gitty Daneshvari · Little Brown
Pages: 260
Format: Book

Robecca Steam, Rochelle Goyle and Venus Mcflytrap navigate a bewildering array of cute monster boys, established cliques and monster-themed classes when popular classmates Frankie Stein and Cleo de Nile begin acting strangely.
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How to Train Your Dragon: How to Twist a Dragon's Tale

Cressida Cowell · Little
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback

In the fifth adventure in the How to Train Your Dragon series, someone has stolen the Fire-Stone. Now the volcano on Volcano Island has become active and the tremors are hatching the eggs of the Exterminator dragons! Can Hiccup return the Fire-Stone to the Volcano, stop the Volcano from...
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The Land of Stories Book 5

Chris Colfer · Little
Pages: 438
Format: Print book

The fifth book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories!In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is inside his own short stories! When the twins and their...
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Theodore Boone: The Scandal

John Grisham · Dutton Children's Books
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in Strattenburg. He has even helped bring a fugitive to justice. But even a future star lawyer like Theo has to deal with statewide standardized testing. When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate...
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Knight Quest

Chris Blake · HarperCollins Children's Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Join Tom on an incredible treasure hunt through time and battle history's mightiest warriors. The second book in a new time-travelling series - perfect for fans of Beast Quest.When ten-year-old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he releases Isis, a young Egyptian mummy who has been...
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Gladiator Clash

Chris Blake · HarperCollins Children's Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Join Tom on an incredible treasure hunt through time and battle history's mightiest warriors. The first book in a new time-travelling series - perfect for fans of Beast Quest.When ten-year-old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he releases Isis, a young Egyptian mummy who has been...
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Pirate Mutiny

Chris Blake · HarperCollins Children's Books
Pages: 147
Format: Paperback

Join Tom on an incredible treasure hunt through time and battle history's mightiest warriors. The fifth book in a new time-travelling series - perfect for fans of Beast Quest.When ten-year-old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he releases Isis, a young Egyptian mummy who has been...
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Viking Raiders

Chris Blake · HarperCollins
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback

Join Tom on an incredible treasure hunt through time and battle history's mightiest warriors. The third book in a new time-travelling series - perfect for fans of Beast Quest.When ten-year-old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he releases Isis, a young Egyptian mummy who has been...
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Egyptian Curse

Chris Blake · HarperCollins Children's Books
Pages: 146
Format: Paperback

Join Tom on an incredible treasure hunt through time and battle history's mightiest warriors. The sixth book in a new time-travelling series - perfect for fans of Beast Quest.When ten-year-old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he releases Isis, a young Egyptian mummy who has been...
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Far-Flung Adventures: Hugo Pepper

Paul Stewart · Yearling Book
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Hugo Pepper was raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders. His parents were eaten by polar bears when he was just a baby, but Hugo discovers that the sled they arrived in has an unusual compass - one that can be set to "Home." And so Hugo arrives in Firefly Square - to discover...
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The Wild Robot

Peter Brown · Little
Pages: 279
Format: Print book

"Can a robot survive in the wilderness? " When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping...
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Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls

Liz Kessler · Candlewick Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Emily Windsnap finds herself caught between worlds in a dramatic new episode of the New York Times best-selling series.A field trip to a mysterious island quickly turns into an adventure when Emily Windsnap and Aaron discover a secret lookout point from which they spot a ghostly ship that...
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Vacation Dreams #2

Sue Bentley · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 119
Format: Print book

Becky's vacation isn't at all what she expected, and she is feeling lonely. But when she meets magical bunny Arrow, her summer starts looking up.
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The Rat Prince

Bridget Hodder · Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A new take on the Cinderella story, told from her point of view as well as that of a royal rat turned coachman.
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The Trials of Apollo Book One The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four thousand year old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain...
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Mark of the Plague

Kevin Sands · Aladdin
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

Christopher Rowe is back and there are more puzzles, riddles, and secrets to uncover in this follow-up to the Indie Next pick The Blackthorn Key, which was called a "spectacular debut" by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.The Black Death has returned to London, spreading disease...
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Umbrella Summer

Lisa Graff · Harper
Pages: 235
Format: Paperback

Annie Richards knows there are a million things to look out for - bicycle accidents, chicken pox, runaway zoo animals. That's why being careful is so important, even if it does mean giving up some of her favorite things, like bike races with her best friend and hot dogs on the Fourth of July....
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Platypus Police Squad: Never Say Narwhal

Jarrett J Krosoczka · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

From Jarrett J. Krosoczka comes Never Say Narwhal, the final installment in the hilarious, high-action illustrated middle grade series featuring two platypus detectives, perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Big Nate, and Jarrett's own Lunch Lady series.Frank Pandini Jr. is the mayor...
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Magic Reindeer: a Christmas Wish

Sue Bentley · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 119
Format: Book

When lonely Marie moves from Poland to a new school, all she wants to do is make a friend. So when Starshine, a fluffy little reindeer, appears, it seems that Marie's biggest Christmas wish really could come true.
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Everyday Angel #2: Second Chances

Victoria Schwab · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 200
Format: Book

Meet a guardian angel like no other, from a writer like no other. Bold, rising star Victoria Schwab returns with the second book in this whimsical, inspiring, and clever middle-grade series.There's more to Aria than meets the eye. She's a guardian angel. And to earn her wings, she'll have...
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Everyday Angel #3: Last Wishes

Victoria Schwab · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 195
Format: Print book

Meet a guardian angel like no other, from a writer like no other. Bold, rising star Victoria Schwab returns with the third book in this whimsical, inspiring, and clever middle-grade series.At first glance, Aria seems like your average twelve-year-old girl. But there's much more to her than...
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The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

Laura Shovan · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

Laura Shovan's engaging, big-hearted debut is a time capsule of one class's poems during a transformative school year. Families change and new friendships form as these terrific kids grow up and move on in this whimsical novel-in-verse about finding your voice and making sure others hear...
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Slacker

Gordon Korman · Scholastic Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours in his basement. It's not too hard for him to get away with it . . . until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down around him. Oops. It's...
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What Elephants Know

Eric Dinerstein · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 273
Format: Print book

Abandoned in the jungle of the Nepalese Borderlands, two-year-old Nandu is found living under the protective watch of a pack of wild dogs. From his mysterious beginnings, fate delivers him to the King's elephant stable, where he is raised by unlikely parents-the wise head of the stable,...
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The Haunting of Falcon House

Eugene Yelchin · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A long undisturbed bedroom. A startling likeness. A mysterious friend.When twelve-year-old Prince Lev Lvov goes to live with his aunt at Falcon House, he takes his rightful place as heir to the Lvov family estate. Prince Lev dreams of becoming a hero of Russia like his great ancestors....
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Grayling's Song

Karen Cushman · Clarion Books
Pages: 213
Format: Print book

"Like all Karen Cushman's gorgeous novels, Grayling's Song delves into the past to let us know what we must ask of our future." - Lena Dunham It's time for Grayling to be a hero. Her mother, a "wise woman" - a sort of witch - has been turned into a tree by evil forces....
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