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The Guggenheim Mystery

Robin Stevens · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The adventure that began in Siobhan Dowd's popular and acclaimed novel The London Eye Mystery at long last continues with Ted, Kat, and their cousin Salim investigating a theft at the Guggenheim Museum that's been pinned on Salim's mother!When Ted and his big sister, Kat, take a trip to New York...
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The Season of Styx Malone

Kekla Magoon · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

This lively and diverse middle-grade story from the award-winning author of How It Went Down has the warmth of a modern-day The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their house in Sutton, Indiana....
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The Real McCoys: Two's a Crowd

Matthew Swanson · Imprint
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The sequel to the critically acclaimed The Real McCoys!When a baffling mystery strikes Tiddlywhump Elementary, sibling detectives and absolute opposites Moxie and Milton McCoy are on the case. She's the doer. He's the thinker. She's the heart. He's her heartburn.Moxie's friend Emily has received...
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Nettie and Nellie Crook: Orphan Train Sisters

E. F. Abbott · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Can you imagine being placed in an orphanage while your parents are still alive? That's what happens to Nettie and Nellie Crook, who are only five years old in 1910 when they are removed from their home in New York. No one tells Nettie and Nellie why their parents can no longer...
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Switched

Jen Calonita · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Things are changing at Fairy Tale Reform School.At least, that's what Gilly's heard through the Enchantasia rumor mill. Word is, notorious trickster Rumpelstiltskin has taken over management from Headmistress Flora, and he's locked down the school tighter than the Pied Piper's pants. Not that...
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Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground

TANYA MCKINNON · Candlewick
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A powerful fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood adventures explores the idea of collective memory and the lingering effects of slavery."History ain't in a book, especially when it comes to folks like us. History is in the lives we lived and the stories we tell...
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They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems

David Bowles · Cinco Puntos Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river. He's starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool. In Spanish, "Güero" is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make...
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