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Blazing Courage

Kelly Milner Halls · Darby Creek
Pages: 87
Format: Print book

Since getting a job at Top Tier stables, Annie has had her mind set on just one thing: earning enough money to buy a horse of her own. When she reaches her savings goal, she bids on a horse at an auction and buys Poco, a four-year-old buckskin mare that Annie couldn't love more. But someone...
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Nerd Camp 2.0

Elissa Brent Weissman · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

Gabe's happily headed back to Nerd Camp - but can he handle a cool-kid invasion?For Gabe, the equation for ideal summer bliss equals six glorious weeks of vigorous learning immersion at the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment - aka, Nerd Camp. Last year was amazing, and this summer...
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The Ultimate Book of Randomly Awesome Facts

Inc Scholastic · Scholastic US
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Hundreds of lists--thousands of facts There's a new online sensibility, and kids are encountering it every day. It's the "flipped" world of facts--facts presented as instant, cool, unexpected. And in this world of BuzzFeed and YouTube, a big focus of the new factual sensibility...
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Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins?

Liz Kessler · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author Liz Kessler comes the magical tale of a (sometimes invisible) teen - and her truly super friends.Jessica Jenkins has always been a perfectly ordinary girl - until one day part of her arm vanishes in the middle of geography class! Jessica's friends...
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The Clue in the Papyrus Scroll

Gertrude Chandler Warner · ALBERT WHITMAN
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

In this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations -- all around the world! The Aldens arrive in Egypt but the agent they're supposed to meet has gone missing! With the help...
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The Land of Stories Book 5

Chris Colfer · Little
Pages: 438
Format: Print book

The fifth book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories!In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is inside his own short stories! When the twins and their...
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My Diary from the Edge of the World

Jodi Lynn Anderson · Aladdin
Pages: 419
Format: Print book

Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this playful and perceptive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice.Spirited, restless Gracie...
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The Guardian Herd: Stormbound

Jennifer Lynn Alvarez · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of the Warriors, Survivors, and Guardians of Gahoole series, this sequel to The Guardian Herd Starfire, which Peter Lerangis called an epic tale, will have readers eagerly turning the pages.When Star received his powers on his first birthday, he became the most powerful...
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The Fearless Travelers' Guide to Wicked Places

Peter Begler · Capstone Young Readers
Pages: 377
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Nell Perkins knows there is magic at work that she can't yet understand. Her mother has been taken by witches and turned into a bird. Nell must journey to get her mother back, even if it takes her deep into the Wicked Places -- the frightening realm where Nightmares resides....
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Scar: A Revolutionary War Tale

Jennifer Ann Mann · Calkins Creek Books
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Noah Daniels wants nothing more than to fight in George Washington's Continental Army, but an accident as a child left him maimed and unable to enlist. He is forced to watch the Revolution from his family's hard scrabble farm in Upstate New York - until a violent...
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Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

Katherine Rundell · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can’t prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this lovely and lyrical novel from the author of Rooftoppers, which Booklist called “a glorious adventure.”Wilhelmina Silver’s world is golden. Living...
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

Kate Dicamillo · Candlewick Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal-winning tale.Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called...
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My Life as a Cartoonist

Janet Tashjian · Holt & Company
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover

There's a new kid in Derek Fallon's class. His name is Umberto and he uses a wheelchair. Derek's family is still fostering Frank the monkey, and Derek thinks it would be great to train Frank to assist Umberto. But Derek quickly realizes that Umberto is definitely not looking for any help....
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Wombats

Margo Gates · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

How do you measure the success of a wombat? Count how many warrens it has! This busy burrower digs several underground homes, or warrens, complete with tunnels, sleeping chambers, and multiple entrances. Discover how the wombats unique build facilitates the construction of subterranean...
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Siamese Cats

Meredith Dash · Abdo Kids
Format: Print book

Siamese Cats is a super introduction to one of your favorite, fluffy felines. Complete with a More Facts section and bolded glossary terms. Young readers will gather basic information about Siamese cats through easy-to-read, simple text alongside stunning full-bleed photography. Aligned...
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