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Just Like Jackie

LINDSEY STODDARD · HarperCollins
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Family is family, no matter what it looks like. Readers will cheer for this pitch-perfect story, just right for fans of such books as The Great Gilly Hopkins and Fish in a Tree.For as long as Robinson Hart can remember, it's just been her and Grandpa. He taught her about cars, baseball,...
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The Book of Boy

CATHERINE GILBERT MURDOCK · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A young outcast is swept up into a thrilling and perilous medieval treasure hunt in this literary page-turner by acclaimed bestselling author Catherine Gilbert Murdock.This epic and engrossing quest story is for fans of Adam Gidwitz's The Inquisitor's Tale and Grace Lin's Where the Mountain...
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The Ambrose Deception

Emily Ecton · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Melissa is a nobody. Wilf is a slacker. Bondi is a show-off. At least that's what their middle school teachers think. To everyone's surprise, they are the three students chosen to compete for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, solving clues that lead them to various locations around Chicago....
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The Art of the Swap

Kristine Carlson Asselin · Aladdin
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Freaky Friday meets Downton Abbey in this middle grade mystery that features a modern day twelve-year-old switching bodies with a Gilded Age heiress in order to solve a famous art heist.Hannah Jordan lives in a museum ... well, sort of. She is the daughter of the caretaker for mansion-turned-museum...
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Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire

John August · Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

[Children's Fiction (Ages 8-12) ]This is the first book in a spellbinding fantasy adventure series so believable you may wonder if it's happening in your own backyard.''As Arlo looked around, the walls of his room began to vanish, revealing a moonlit forest. Only his bed remained and the frame...
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Warrior Genius

MICHAEL DANTE DIMARTINO · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In Warrior Genius, author Michael Dante DiMartino delivers rich settings, memorable characters, and edge-of-your-seat action, just as he did in his hit animated show Avatar: The Last Airbender. Fans will be thrilled with this new adventure!For years, Supreme Creator Nerezza has used fear...
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Marabel and the Book of Fate

TRACY BARRETT · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Free-spirited Marabel must defy expectations to rescue her brother--and their kingdom--in this charming, action-packed, and magical story perfect for fans of Ella Enchanted and Dealing with Dragons.In Magikos, life is dictated by the Book of Fate's ancient predictions, including the birth...
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Baby Monkey, Private Eye

Brian Selznick · Scholastic Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Who is Baby Monkey?He is a baby.He is a monkey.He has a job.He is Baby Monkey, Private Eye!Lost jewels?Missing pizza?Stolen spaceship?Baby Monkey can help...if he can put on his pants!Baby Monkey's adventures come to life in an exciting blend of picture book, beginning reader, and graphic...
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I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888

Lauren Tarshis · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Children's Blizzard or the Great Blizzard of 1888, caught people completely by surprise and resulted in 235 fatalities, including several children in one-room schoolhouses. What made the storm so deadly was the timing, the suddenness, and the brief...
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