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Case Closed: Mystery in the Mansion

Lauren Magaziner · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Choose-your-own-adventure and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the first book in Lauren Magaziner's new hilarious and high-stakes middle grade series in which the reader must help Carlos and his friends put together the clues to save his mom's detective agency. In this wildly entertaining...
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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile

Sharlee Glenn · Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pages: 56
Format: Hardcover

If you can't bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man. Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852-1932) was always looking for ways to improve her library. As librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland, Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people...
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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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Halfway Normal

BARBARA DEE · Aladdin
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A cancer survivor must readjust to "normal" middle school life in this hopeful novel from the author of Star-Crossed and Truth or Dare.Norah Levy has just completed two years of treatment for leukemia and is ready to go back to the "real world" of middle school. The hospital...
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Dog Tags #1: Semper Fido

C Alexander London · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 219
Format: Paperback

Man's best friend goes to war.When Gus Dempsey joins the US Marine Corps, he knows without a doubt that he will make a great dog handler. He's always been good with dogs. In fact, he's often better with dogs than he is with people.But Loki is not the dog that Gus was expecting....
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Hurricane Heroes in Texas

Mary Pope Osborne · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Jack and Annie are caught out in the rain in the most dangerous Magic Tree House mission yet!Jack and Annie are on a mission! When the magic tree house whisks them back to Galveston, Texas, in 1900, they find out that a big storm is coming. But even though there is rain and wind, no one believes...
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Resistance

Jennifer A Nielsen · Scholastic Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference....
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She Loves You

ANN HOOD · Penguin Workshop
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Ann Hood tells the story of a girl swept up in the heart of 1960s Beatlemania. Written in her signature prose, Hood weaves a tale of four misfit friends who set off to see the Beatles' final world tour, each harboring a secret hope. What emerges is a sincere and funny...
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The Unicorn Quest

Kamilla Benko · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An enchanting, exciting fantasy about a real-world girl searching for her sister in a land full of magic and strange creatures, blending the timeless feel of The Last Unicorn and Wildwood with Frozen's powerful themes of identity, enchantment, and sisterhood.Claire Martinson still worries...
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The Legend of Greg

Chris Rylander · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A boy discovers his destiny could totally stink in this riotously funny fantasy-adventureRisk-averse Greg Belmont is content with being ordinary. He's got a friend--that's right, just one--at his fancy prep school, and a pretty cool dad (even if he is obsessed with organic soaps that smell...
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Applewhites Coast to Coast

Stephanie S Tolan · HarperCollins
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This third story about the madcap family introduced in Stephanie Tolan's Newbery Honor Book Surviving the Applewhites features even more outlandish adventures and will appeal to fans of the Applewhites and those meeting them for the first time.E.D. and Jake are doing their best to forget...
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Amulet Keepers

Michael Northrop · Scholastic Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Strange things are happening in London. Red rain is flooding the streets. People are going missing. And someone's opening graves in Highgate Cemetery . . . Only Alex and his best friend, Ren, suspect the truth: a Death Walker, a powerful ancient Egyptian evil, is behind the chaos....
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The Genius Files #4: From Texas with Love

Dan Gutman · HarperCollins
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The wackiest road trip in history continues in book four of the New York Times bestselling Genius Files series, following twins Coke and Pepsi as they dodge villains and visit weird-but-true landmarks from Texas all the way to Roswell, New Mexico!After their explosive escape at Graceland,...
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Nightbooks

J A WHITE · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling contemporary fantasy from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of the Thickety series, brings to life the magic and craft of storytelling.Alex's original hair-raising tales are the only...
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