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The Infinity Year of Avalon James

Dana Middleton · Feiwel and Friends
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Avalon James and Atticus Brightwell have a secret--one that they aren't allowed to discuss with anyone. This secret is shared between two best friends. When you and your best friend turn ten years old magical things are said to happen. You both will receive some kind of magical power....
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A bird watcher's guide to sparrows

Grace Vail · Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

There are many kinds of songbirds that are called sparrows across North America. The song sparrow in particular is a melodious, yet secretive creature. Young bird watchers will love learning how to lure these sparrows to feeders, so they can observe them more closely. Theyll also learn...
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Littlest bigfoot

Jennifer Weiner · Aladdin
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling of Hungry Heart Jennifer Weiner comes a laugh-out-loud funny and painstakingly real tale of friendship, furry creatures, and finding the place where you belong.

Alice Mayfair, twelve years old, slips through the world unseen and unnoticed....
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Lock and Key: The Downward Spiral

RIDLEY PEARSON · HarperCollins
Pages: 419
Format: Hardcover

"Will leave you dying to know more." - Rick Riordan, author of the #1 bestselling Percy Jackson series

The New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatcher and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the second riveting tale in the Lock and Key trilogy.

This...

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Wedgie & Gizmo

SUZANNE SELFORS · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Stick Dog and My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish will love Suzanne Selfors's hilarious new illustrated series about the growing pains of blended families and the secret rivalry of pets.

"A delightfully fun read that will leave you in stitches!" - Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat

When...

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Pompom Problems

Julie Bowe · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 148
Format: Library Binding

Now that Victoria Torres is in middle school, being popular is more important than ever, and Victoria is positive being a cheerleader is the best way to secure her popularity. Her best friend Bea agrees to try out with her, but Victoria is going to need a lot more than Bea's support to make...
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Miss Ellicott's School for the Magically Minded

Sage Blackwood · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 361
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed Jinx trilogy comes a spellbinding fantasy, perfect for fans of the School for Good and Evil series, about a young heroine fighting to save a world that would dare to tame her.

Chantel would much rather focus on her magic than on curtsying, which...

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The Dragon's Eye

Sarwat Chadda · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan are prisoners. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, the four young Greencloaks have been captured by the ruthless Oathbound.

Rather than facing trial with the rest of their order, the friends and their spirit animals find themselves smuggled to a remote...
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Smarty Marty Steps up Her Game

AMY GUTIERREZ · CAMERON & CO
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Smarty Marty, and her little brother Mikey, are back in the first in a series of illustrated chapter books, about a girl who loves baseball, written by San Francisco Giants in-game reporter Amy Gutierrez. Smarty Marty is the official scorekeeper for her little brother's Little League team....
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The Collector

K R ALEXANDER · Scholastic Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Josie always liked visiting her grandmother in the countryside. But when her mother loses her job in the city and they're forced to relocate along with Josie's sister, Annie, she realizes she doesn't like the country that much. Especially because Grandma Jeannie has some strange...
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Nez Perce

Sarah Tieck · Big Buddy Books
Format: Hardcover

32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 x 24 cm.
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The World's Greatest Detective

CAROLINE CARLSON · HarperCollins
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Caroline Carlson, author of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series, returns with The World's Greatest Detective, a story of crime, tricks, and hilarity for those who know that sometimes it takes a pair of junior sleuths to solve a slippery case.

Detectives' Row is full...

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Laurie Hernandez

NOT AVAILABLE. · BIG BUDDY Books
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Meet Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez Hernandez's life story is examined from her childhood in New Jersey where she began gymnastics at age five, to the 2015 US Junior Titleon the way to being chosen for the women's gymnastics team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where...
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Isabel's War

Lila Perl · Lizzie Skurnick Books
Format: Hardcover

In a stunning new novel completed just before her death in 2013, award-winning author Lila Perl introduces us to Isabel Brandt, a French-phrase-dropping twelve-year-old New Yorker who's more interested in boys and bobbing her nose than the distant war across the Pacific—the one her parents...
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Confronting the Dragon: Book Three in the Gameknight999 Series: An Unofficial Minecrafter's Adventure

Mark Cheverton · Sky Pony Press
Format: Print book

An evil army threatens to destroy all of Minecraft in the third Gameknight999 adventure!The ghast king Malacoda and the terrible enderman Erebus have led their monster army to the server that houses the Source, with plans to destroy Minecraft and all the digital lives on its servers before...
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