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Pavi Sharma's Guide to Going Home

Bridget Farr · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The Fosters meets The Great Gilly Hopkins in this moving novel, featuring foster kid Pavi Sharma as she sets off on an important mission to save a fellow foster kid from the home that still haunts her nightmares....
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Top-Secret Smackdown

Mac Barnett · Orchard Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Mac B. is back on another madcap adventure -- this time a stolen raven threatens to topple the Queen and it's up to Mac to smackdown his KGB rival once and for all!Get the latest in the New York Times bestselling series, MAC B., KID SPY!Ravens have been stolen from the Tower of London!...
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Kondo & Kezumi Visit Giant Island

David Goodner · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Kondo is big. Kezumi is little. They lived on an island with fruit trees and berry bushes and flitter-birds and fluffle-bunnies.When a surprise bottle washes ashore, they discover a map with a mysterious message: WE ARE NOT ALONE. Kezumi wants to follow the map and explore the world. Kondo...
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The Space We're In

Katya Balen · Margaret Ferguson Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Ten-year-old Frank has trouble navigating his relationship with his younger brother Max who is autistic.Frank loves soccer, codes, riding his bike, and playing with his friends. His brother Max is five. Max only eats foods that are beige or white, hates baths, and if he has to wear a t-shirt...
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Lily's Story: A Puppy Tale

W. Bruce Cameron · Starscape
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Lily's Story is a new standalone story in the bestselling A Dog's Purpose Puppy Tales middle grade series by New York Times bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron!A rescue dog to the rescue!Lily is the smallest puppy in her litter and the only girl. Her brothers are bigger and stronger...
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The Creakers

Tom Fletcher · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

At night, this mischievous bunch peeks out from under your bed. When you hear that creak . . . creak . . . THE CREAKERS are there! Discover a hilarious and eerie middle-grade story by a UK star.What would you do if you woke up to a world with no grown-ups?When all the parents in the world...
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The Ghost Collector

Allison Mills · Annick Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Ghosts aren't meant to stick around forever ... Shelly and her grandmother catch ghosts. In their hair. Just like all the women in their family, they can see souls who haven't transitioned yet; it's their job to help the ghosts along their journey. When Shelly's mom dies...
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Under the Broken Sky

Mariko Nagai · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully told middle-grade novel-in-verse about a Japanese orphan's experience in occupied rural Manchuria during World War II.Twelve-year-old Natsu and her family live a quiet farm life in Manchuria, near the border of the Soviet Union. But the life they've known begins to unravel...
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