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More to the Story
Hena Khan · Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the critically acclaimed author of Amina's Voice comes a new story inspired by Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic, Little Women, featuring four sisters from a modern American Muslim family living in Georgia.
When Jameela Mirza is picked to be feature editor of her middle... |
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Charlie Hernandez & the League of Shadows
Ryan Calejo · Aladdin
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The Lightning Thief meets the Story Thieves series in this middle grade fantasy inspired by Hispanic folklore, legends, and myths from the Iberian Peninsula and Central and South America.
Charlie Hernández has always been proud of his Latin American heritage. He loves the culture,... |
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Marc's Mission: Way of the Warrior Kid
JOCKO WILLINK · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times-bestselling author Jocko Willink delivers a second powerful and empowering Way of the Warrior Kid book about finding your inner strength and being the best you can be, even in the face of adversity in Marc's Mission. |
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Friend or Fiction
Abby Cooper · Charlesbridge
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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One creative middle-schooler discovers that the best friend a girl can have is the one she makes herself in this charming magical realism read.
Jade's life hasn't exactly been normal lately, especially since her dad's cancer diagnosis. Jade wishes her family could leave their no-name... |
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Monster Club: Hunters for Hire
Gavin Brown · Scholastic Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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There is only one thing seventh graders Tommy Wainwright, Colleen "Spike" Hernandez, and Karim Khalil want to do -- go on adventures and catch monsters! And in a world where monsters -- big and small -- roam, someone has to keep these creatures in check, right? Luckily, this is the iPhone... |
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Dog Diaries: Happy Howlidays: A Middle School Story
James Patterson · jimmy patterson
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Dog Diaries is the first book written by a dog AND a #1 New York Times bestseller! When mischievous mutt, Junior, causes a Turkey Day disaster, getting out of the doghouse will take a Christmas miracle!
Are you ready for a festive adventure? Join me, Junior on the most... |
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The Friendship Lie
Rebecca Donnelly · Capstone Editions
Pages: 272
Format: Library Binding
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Cora Davis's life is garbage. Literally. Her professor parents study what happens to trash after it gets thrown away, and Cora knows exactly how it feels--to be thrown away. Between her mom and dad separating and a fallout with her best friend, fifth grade for Cora has been a year of feeling... |
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Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers
Celia C. Perez · Kokila
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk comes the story of four kids who form an alternative Scout troop that shakes up their sleepy Florida town.
"Writing with wry restraint that's reminiscent of Kate DiCamillo... a beautiful tale of the value of friendship... |
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The Gift of Dark Hollow
Kieran Larwood · Clarion Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The Longburrow series is Middle-earth for middle graders as readers are drawn deeper and deeper into the story of the young rabbit Podkin One-Ear fighting to save his land from evil.
Hiding with fellow refugees, Podkin, Paz, and Pook are temporarily safe in Dark Hollow Warren. But their... |
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Tangled in Time 2: The Burning Queen
Kathryn Lasky · HarperCollins
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of the Royal Diaries series and of Gail Carson Levine, here is the second adventure in a middle grade time travel series from Newbery Honor-winning Kathryn Lasky! In book 2, newly orphaned Rose finds herself time-traveling between present day and the court of the two most... |
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The Wizards of Once: Twice Magic
CRESSIDA COWELL · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon comes an exciting high-adventure series--set in a magical time, full of Wizards, Warriors, Giants and Sprites.
This was once the story of a young boy Wizard and a young girl Warrior who had been taught since birth to hate... |
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Legacy
Shannon Messenger · Aladdin
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover
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Illusions shatter - and Sophie and her friends face impossible choices - in this astonishing eighth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series.
Sophie Foster wants answers. But after a lifetime of lies, sometimes the truth... |
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The Miraculous
Jess Redman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of heartwrenching and hopeful middle grade novels such as Bridge to Terabithia comes Jess Redman's stunning debut about a young boy who must regain his faith in miracles after a tragedy changes his world.Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis collects miracles. In a journal... |
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A Slip of a Girl
Patricia Reilly Giff · Holiday House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A heart-wrenching novel in verse about a poor girl surviving the Irish Land Wars, by a two-time Newbery Honor-winning author.
For Anna, the family farm has always been home... But now, things are changing.
Anna's mother has died, and her older siblings have emigrated, leaving... |
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Stay
Bobbie Pyron · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Fans of Pax and A Dog's Way Home will love this heartwarming story of a girl living in a shelter and the homeless dog she's determined to reunite with his family. Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house,... |
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House Without Walls
Ching Yeung Russell · Yellow Jacket
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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For most people, home is a place with four walls. It's a place to eat, sleep, rest, and live. For a refugee, the concept of home is ever-changing, ever-moving, ever-wavering. And often, it doesn't have any walls at all.
Eleven-year-old Lam escapes from Vietnam with Dee Dee during... |
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Level 13
Gordon Korman · Scholastic Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Swindle, Restart, and Slacker is another hilarious story about an underachiever who learns to go above and beyond.
Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience... |
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Let Me Fix That for You
Janice Erlbaum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Janice Erlbaum's Let Me Fix That for You is a quirky, touching, and laugh-out-loud middle-grade novel about a girl capable of fixing everything but her own life. Twelve-year-old Gladys Burke may not have many friends, but at least she has her empire. From her table at the back... |
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For Black Girls Like Me
Mariama J. Lockington · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda... |
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Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray
Jess Keating · Scholastic Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Let the official record show that, I, Nikki Tesla, did not intend to destroy the world."
There are only so many times a kid can invent an instrument of global destruction without getting grounded. So when Nikki's death ray accidentally blows up her bedroom (if you can call... |
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The Bone Garden
Heather Kassner · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A spooky and adventurous debut illustrated fantasy novel about a girl made of dust and bone and imagination who seeks the truth about the magic that brought her to life.
Featuring illustrations by Matt Saunders!
"This magical story -- and the brave girl in its pages... |
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Storm Blown
Nick Courage · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A Junior Library Guild Selection
"Beautiful, vivid writing and a power-packed plot . . . I truly loved it." --Lauren Tarshis, bestselling author of the I SURVIVED series "Fans of Lauren Tarshis's I SURVIVED series who are ready to move on to lengthier selections will... |
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The 47 People You'll Meet in Middle School
Kristin Mahoney · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Getting ready to start middle school? Well, you'll need to know what to expect. Get to know every person you'll meet and how they can help (and who to stay away from!) .
"Mahoney authentically captures the universal indignities... |
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Each Tiny Spark
Pablo Cartaya · Kokila
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning author Pablo Cartaya comes a deeply moving middle grade novel about a daughter and father finding their way back to each other in the face of their changing family and community.
Emilia Torres has a wandering mind. It's hard for her to follow along at school, and sometimes... |
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Emperor of the Universe
David Lubar · Starscape
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The launch of a madcap space adventure trilogy for young readers by David Lubar, author of the popular Weenies Tales! When seventh grader Nicholas V. Landrew, his beloved pet gerbil Henrietta, and a package of ground beef are beamed aboard an alien space ship, they soon... |
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