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Microsaurs: Follow that Tiny-Dactyl

Dustin Hansen · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 215
Format: Hardcover

Danny and Lin never say no to adventure, so when Danny's spy camera captures a tiny dinosaur crashing into Lin's helmet during her skateboarding tryouts they know they have to investigate. But even they weren't prepared for a secret laboratory filled with amazing inventions (including the Shrink-a-Fier...
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The Matchstick Castle

Keir Graff · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

A wild and whimsical adventure story, perfect for fans of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's LibraryBrian can think of a few places he'd rather spend his summer than with his aunt and uncle in Boring, Illinois. Jail, for example. Or an earplug factory. Anything would be better than doing summer...
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Secret Origins

James Riley · Aladdin
Pages: 372
Format: Print book

Bethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves - which was called a "fast-paced, action-packed tale" by School Library Journal - from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.Owen and Bethany...
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Long Live the Queen: Magnificent Tales of Misadventure

Gerry Swallow · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For Elspeth Pule, life is dull and lonely in the real world, where she misses her good friends, Humpty Dumpty, Bo Peep, and Rodney, a giant talking wheel of cheese. So when she gets a surprise visit and a desperate plea for help from Georgie Porgie and Gene the blabbermouth stick, Elspeth...
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The Homework Strike

Gregory K Pincus · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Gregory K. has too much homework.Middle school is hard work, and Gregory tries to be a good student. He participates in class, he studies for his tests -- he and his friends even help each other with their assignments. But no matter what he does, there's never enough time to finish all his homework....
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Midnight Without a Moon

Linda Williams Jackson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

It's Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and thirteen-year-old Rose Lee Carter can't wait to move north. But for now, she's living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man's cotton plantation.       Then, one town over, a fourteen-year-old African American boy, Emmett...
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Revenge of the Green Banana

Jim Murphy · Clarion Books
Pages: 214
Format: Print book

Jimmy Murphy's sixth grade teacher, Sister Angelica Rose, is out to get him. She humiliates him in class and punishes him when he hasn't done anything wrong. She even forces him to perform onstage with second-graders, wearing a giant green banana costume. A classic underachiever with a talent...
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The Wizard's Dog

Eric Kahn Gale · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

"A magical story full of humor and heart." - Katherine Applegate, Newbery-winning author of The One and Only Ivan For fans of The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom comes an offbeat, comedic spin on the Excalibur legend told from the point of view of a talking dog who wants...
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The Wearle

Chris D'Lacey · Scholastic Press
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

A Wearle of dragons set out on an expedition from their home planet and was never heard from again. Now, a new Wearle, determined to find the first, has come to the place its creatures call Erth. Gabrial, who still has the blue scales of a young dragon, is eager to prove himself, and to find...
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The Warden's Daughter

Jerry Spinelli · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 343
Format: Print book

From Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee, Stargirl) comes the "moving and memorable" (Kirkus Reviews, starred) story of a girl searching for happiness inside the walls of a prison. Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison--not as a prisoner, she's the warden's...
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Sea Change: A TOON Graphic

Frank Viva · TOON Books
Pages: 115
Format: Print book

Publishers Weekly BEST Books for Summer 2016"Sea Change is like a dip in cold Canadian waters: just step inside, and soon you're completely swept away, finding yourself overwhelmed and breathless, entranced by this whirlwind of a book. Bravo, Frank Viva. And glub, glub, glub."...
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The Impossible Clue

Sarah Rubin · Chicken House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Math whiz Alice Jones has already cracked a mystery or two. She's smart and she's fearless, so who else would her classmates turn to? But when a famous local scientist vanishes from a locked room, Alice and her detective skills graduate to the big leagues.Dr. Learner had been working on a top-secret...
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The Ethan I Was Before

Ali Standish · Harpercollins
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Life can be transformed in one moment, but does that one moment define you for life?Lost in the Sun meets The Thing About Jellyfish in Ali Standish's breathtaking debut. A poignant middle grade novel of friendship and forgiveness, The Ethan I Was Before is a classic in the making.Ethan...
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Star Darlings Stealing Starlight

Disney Book Group · Disney Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A girl on Earth has made a terrible wish. And it's one that could hurt her best friend. Now Vivica, Starling Academy's mean girl, is on her way to help grant it. The Star Darlings must stop her--otherwise Rancora's evil power will be restored. But will they be able to change...
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