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Ellie, Engineer

Jackson Pearce · Bloomsbury UK
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Ellie is an engineer. With a tool belt strapped over her favorite skirt (who says you can't wear a dress and have two kinds of screwdrivers handy, just in case? ) , she invents and builds amazing creations in her backyard workshop. Together with her best friend Kit, Ellie can make anything....
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Supergirl: Age of Atlantis

JO WHITTEMORE · Amulet Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Soar into action in this all-new original adventure based on the hit CW TV series, Supergirl! Supergirl (aka Kara Danvers) has been running across average citizens performing amazing feats all over National City. But that's not even the weirdest thing going on. The Department of Extranormal...
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Last Day on Mars

Kevin Emerson · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Last Day on Mars is thrillingly ambitious and imaginative. Like a lovechild of Gravity and The Martian, it's a rousing space opera for any age, meticulously researched and relentlessly paced, that balances action, science, humor, and most importantly, two compelling main characters...
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Different Days

Vicki Berger Erwin · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Rosie is fiercely proud to be an American, and has a happy life with her family in their comfortable home in sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. Then, on the morning of December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor is bombed and everything changes. Rosie's parents, both of German descent -- but American...
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In the Country of Queens

Cari Best · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Shirley Alice Burns lives with her domineering mother, Hurricane Anna, and loving Grandmother. One day she unexpectedly discovers that her beloved father isn't in Absentia as her family would have her believe, but dead. And she understands all too well why they haven't told...
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The Kindness Club: Designed by Lucy

Courtney Sheinmel · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Creative and fashion-forward Lucy Tanaka was thrilled when Chloe Silver moved to town. Together with Theo Barnes, they formed The Kindness Club, testing different acts of kindness on their friends, neighbors, and siblings. One day, Lucy learns that their classmate, Serena, recently lost...
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Spy Toys

Mark Powers · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The world's leading toy manufacturer gives each toy it creates a tiny, computerized brain and a unique personality making for some seriously awesome toys. But sometimes there's a faulty toy . . .Dan is a "Snugliffic Cuddlestar" bear--he should be perfect for hugging. But because...
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Bad Kitty Camp Daze

NICK BRUEL · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Kitty s life is really hard. Like really, REALLY hard. All she asks for is twenty-two hours a day to sleep and food to be delivered morning and night. But does she get it? No. And when Puppy and Baby get a little rambunctious during her naptime, Kitty gets bonked on the head and starts...
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The Magic Misfits

Neil Patrick Harris · Little
Pages: 253
Format: Print book

"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
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Mr. Gedrick and Me

PATRICK CARMAN · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Patrick Carman delivers a modern reimagining of the classic Mary Poppins tale in this story about family, grief, and healing - with a dash of magic! Stanley Darrow isn't sure what to expect when the mysterious Mr. Gedrick appears on his doorstep. He is certain,...
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Lily's Mountain

Hannah Moderow · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Lily refuses to believe what everyone else accepts to be true: that her father has died while climbing Denali, the highest mountain in North America. Lily has grown up hiking in the Alaskan wilderness with her dad. He's an expert climber. There's no way he would let something like this...
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Stella Diaz Has Something to Say

ANGELA DOMINGUEZ · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In her first middle-grade novel, award-winning picture book author and illustrator Angela Dominguez tells a heartwarming story based on her own experiences growing up Mexican-American. Stella Diaz loves marine animals, especially her betta fish, Pancho. But Stella Diaz is not a betta fish....
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How Oscar Indigo Broke the Universe

DAVID TEAGUE · HarperCollins
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover

"Suspend all disbelief and enjoy." - Kirkus (starred review) From David Teague, the coauthor of the critically acclaimed Saving Lucas Biggs, comes a funny and sweet story about learning to have courage even when it feels like the world is ending.Oscar Indigo has never been...
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Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker

SHELLEY JOHANNES · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover

Beatrice does her best thinking upside down.Hanging from trees by her knees, doing handstands . . . for Beatrice Zinker, upside down works every time. She was definitely upside down when she and her best friend, Lenny, agreed to wear matching ninja suits on the first day of third grade....
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MUTANT BUNNY ISLAND

OBERT SKYE · HarperCollins
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Obert Skye, author of the bestselling Leven Thumps series, delivers a delightful mixture of offbeat mystery and laugh-out-loud humor in this thoroughly inventive adventure complete with comic-style illustrations, the first in a trilogy.Ten-year-old Perry Owens has learned everything he needs...
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Flower Moon

GINA LINKO · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Tally Jo and Tempest Trimble are mirror twins, so alike they were almost born the same person. Inseparable, but more than that. Connected. That is, until this summer. The twins are traveling with Pa Charlie's carnival just like always, but there's a new distance between them. Tempest is so caught...
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My Dog Is Better Than Your Dog

Tommy Greenwald · Scholastic Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading comes a humorous and illustrated new series about a boy whose new dog may or may not be a crimefighting vampire.Jimmy Bishop loves doing 3 things:1) Laughing at funny dog videos online,2) watching his favorite show (Stop!...
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Creature Keepers and the Perilous Pyro-Paws

PETER NELSON · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An epically hilarious, fully illustrated adventure seriesAbbie, Jordan, and Eldon band together with their cryptid friends in an attempt to save the world in the final book in this fun series.As summer draws to an end, Jordan and Abbie Grimsley are moving with their parents from the city...
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Betty Before X

Ilyasah Shabazz · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty's house doesn't quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can't shake the feeling that her mother doesn't want her. Church helps those worries fade, if only for a little while. The singing, the preaching, the speeches from guest...
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The Lost Frost Girl

AMY WILSON · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A modern-day fairy tale full of frosty magic, Amy Wilson's stunning debut about a girl who discovers that she is Jack Frost's daughter will enchant fans of the Emily Windsnap series and Frozen."As magical as frost itself, The Lost Frost Girl is a truly special tale, told with gorgeous...
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