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Ultraball #1: Lunar Blitz

Jeff Chen · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Enter the exhilarating game of Ultraball - fly over pass rushers and explode into slingshot zones - through Jeff Chen's dazzling future world on the moon. Here Ultraball is life, and survival is all that matters. Perfect for sci-fi and sports fans alike. Strike Sazaki loves defying gravity...
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Survivors: The Gathering Darkness #6: The Final Battle

Erin Hunter · HarperCollins
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The time has come for a traitor to fall. Don't miss the action-packed final adventure in the Survivors: The Gathering Darkness series!From Erin Hunter, #1 nationally bestselling author of Warriors, Survivors is full of "wild and wonderful adventure" (Kirkus; starred review) that...
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The Storm Keeper's Island

Catherine Doyle · Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An evocative tale of ancient magic, bravery, and family bonds."Fans of Harry Potter or Percy Jackson can add Fionn Boyle as a generous and brave hero from the Emerald Isle." - School Library ConnectionFionn Boyle comes from a long line of brave seafarers, people with the ocean...
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Middle School: Born to Rock

JAMES PATTERSON · jimmy patterson
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the next book in James Patterson's bestselling Middle School series, Rafe Khatchadorian's hilarious little sister, Georgia, is back for another rollicking adventure! This time, she's vying to be crowned winner of the Battle of the Bands--if she doesn't die of embarrassment first!It's...
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Winnie's Great War

Lindsay Mattick · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times} From the creative team behind the bestselling, Caldecott Medal--winning Finding Winnie comes an extraordinary wartime adventure seen through the eyes of the world's most beloved bear.Here is a heartwarming imagining of the real...
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Pay Attention, Carter Jones

Gary D. Schmidt · Clarion Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Gary D. Schmidt tells a coming-of-age story with the light touch of The Wednesday Wars, the heart of Okay for Now, and the unique presence of a wise and witty butler. Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all,...
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The Impossible Crime

MAC BARNETT · Orchard Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The Crown Jewels are in danger... again! When the jewels go missing from inside a locked room, Mac's spy skills are put to the test. How did the thief break in? Where did the jewels go? And will Mac be able to solve this locked room mystery before the thief escapes? This mystery isn't just...
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Watch Hollow

Gregory Funaro · HarperCollins
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Gregory Funaro brings us into a world where magic exists, monsters roam in the shadows, and wooden animals come to life.Deep within the enchanted woods in the town of Watch Hollow stands the once-grand Blackford House, whose halls hold a magical secret:...
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Tight

TORREY MALDONADO · Nancy Paulsen Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Tight: Lately, Bryan's been feeling it in all kinds of ways . . .Bryan knows what's tight for him--reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama is every day where he's from, and that gets him tight, wound up.And now Bryan's friend Mike pressures him with...
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The Shores Beyond Time

Kevin Emerson · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The conclusion to Kevin Emerson's epic, which Tui Sutherland, New York Times bestselling author of the Wings of Fire series, has called "perfect science fiction."It is Earth year 2256 - but the fate of the few who even remember Earth is perilously in doubt. Mina Saunders-Chang...
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A Perilous Journey of Danger and Mayhem #1: A Dastardly Plot

Christopher Healy · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A rip-roaring, hilarious alternate-history adventure starring the world's most famous inventors - and its most forgotten. From the author of the beloved Hero's Guide series, Christopher Healy.It's 1883 - the Age of Invention! A time when great men like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell,...
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One-Third Nerd

Gennifer Choldenko · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A funny, fast-paced, and heartfelt story from the Newbery Honor-winning author of the Al Capone series.Fifth grade is not for amateurs, according to Liam. Luckily, he knows that being more than one-third nerd is not cool. Liam lives in the Bay area near San Francisco with his mom and two younger...
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Escape from the Palace

SANTA MONTEFIORE · Aladdin
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Mission Impossible and James Bond have nothing on this wily bunch of rabbits who are pledged to protect the Queen of England - and the President of the United States - from a dastardly plot in this charming second novel of the Royal Rabbits of London series.Life is an adventure. Anything...
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Two Dogs in a Trench Coat Start a Club by Accident

Julie Falatko · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Sassy and Waldo love school! Everything smells like meat and dirty socks! And they love being able to help Stewart.When Stewart has to stay late after school for a Junior Office Supply Enthusiasts meeting, Sassy and Waldo are left alone to raid the cafeteria's refrigerator. As Sassy and Waldo's...
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Fangs for Everything

Tommy Greenwald · Scholastic Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The CrimeBiters gang got its start with help from my crime-fighting vampire dog, Abby. But now, I'm starting to wonder if she's really a vampire at all. . .That's mystery I'm going to have to solve on my own. The rest of the Crime-biters are pretty busy with their own stuff. Irwin's planning...
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Digging Up Danger

Story Pirates · Rodale Kids
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Eliza isn't thrilled about spending the summer helping her mom research plants -- she'd much rather go ghost hunting instead. But when a rare and exotic plant from the store goes missing without explanation, she finds herself mixed up in a sinister plot involving forces that seem beyond...
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Ready for Action

Brian Lynch · Scholastic Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Grumbolt is majoring in action!He's finally getting to follow his dreams at Toy Academy, from learning daring maneuvers, to getting paired up with a sidekick! Grumbolt can't wait to find out who his sidekick is... until it turns out that he's the sidekick. And to school bully Rex Everything,...
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Yay for Vaycay!

Flora Ahn · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

The pugs are packing their bags!Sunny and Rosy's human is going on vacation and it's NO DOGS ALLOWED. But they don't mind -- they're headed to Grandma and Grandpa's house for unlimited snuggles and as many pug snacks as they can eat.But when a mystery animal destroys Grandma's garden, the pugs...
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Freya & Zoose

Emily Butler · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan will treasure this timeless tale about a magnificent adventure to the North Pole and the even more astounding feat of true friendship. A perfect purchase for animal and adventure lovers alike.Freya has always craved--and feared--adventure....
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Sasquatch and the Muckleshoot

ADAM GIDWITZ · DUTTON
Format: Hardcover

The third book in the fully illustrated, globe-trotting new middle grade fantasy-adventure series about mythical creatures and their cultures of origin, from the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Inquisitor's Tale. Elliot and Uchenna, along with Jersey, are back for their next adventure...
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Best Babysitters Ever

Caroline Cala · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A funny new middle grade series about three 12-year-old best friends who start a babysitting club in their small California town. Perfect for fans of series like Whatever After and the Dork Diaries. Once upon a time, a girl named Kristy Thomas had a great idea: to form The Baby-Sitters...
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Dragon Ghosts

Lisa McMann · Aladdin
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Ten years after Alex and Aaron Stowe brought peace to Quill and Artimé, their younger twin sisters journey beyond Artimé in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling sequel series to The Unwanteds, which Kirkus Reviews called "The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter."Devastated...
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My So-Called Superpowers: Mixed Emotions

Heather Nuhfer · Imprint
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the heartfelt, hilarious, and acclaimed series, where middle-school student Veronica's superpowers will ruin everything -- if she doesn't beat them to it. Veronica has worked hard to get her feelings under control. Sure, sometimes a strong emotion turns into a superpower...
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Swap'd

Tamara Ireland Stone · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

After her Click'd catastrophe, Allie Navarro is determined to redeem herself. So when the class gets an assignment to create a mobile game from recycled code, Allie pairs up with Courtney, her best friend from CodeGirls camp, to create the perfect app: Swap'd. Kids buy, sell, and trade...
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Prosper Redding The Last Life of Prince Alastor

Alexandra Bracken · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Three hundred years ago, fate bound Prosper Redding and Prince Alastor of the Third Realm together. Now the human boy and fiend heir to the demon kingdom must put aside a centuries-old blood feud to save everything they love. Alastor will guide Prosper through the demon realm-under one huge...
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