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Big Nate: Payback Time!

Lincoln Peirce · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

In this brand-new collection of the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING series Big Nate, everyone's favorite prankster takes on everything from epic snowball fights to sixth-grade crushes, with plenty of hilarious misadventures along the way.Look out, Big Nate fans - it's payback time!In...
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Merci Suárez Changes Gears

Meg Medina · Candlewick
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2019 Newbery MedalThoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different....
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Hazy Bloom and the Mystery Next Door

Jennifer Hamburg · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Summer has just begun, and Hazel "Hazy" Bloom is not a happy camper. In fact, she's not even an unhappy camper, because she's stuck at home while all of her friends spend their summers camping (okay, Elizabeth's is only day camp, but still) . But then her tomorrow...
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I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon

Miranda Paul · Millbrook Pr
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

When Tantoh Nforba was a child, his fellow students mocked him for his interest in gardening. Today he's an environmental hero, bringing clean water and bountiful gardens to the central African nation of Cameroon. Authors Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul share Farmer Tantoh's inspiring...
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No More Poems!: A Book in Verse That Just Gets Worse

Rhett Miller · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rhett Miller teams up with Caldecott Medalist and bestselling artist Dan Santat in a riotous collection of irreverent poems for modern families. In the tradition of Shel Silverstein, these poems bring a fresh new twist to the classic dilemmas of childhood as well...
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The Ice Garden

Guy Jones · Chicken House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Jess's imagination has always been her best friend. She's trained it to feel as real as it possibly can, especially in the stories she writes for Davie -- the young boy in a coma who is her only friend. But nothing is as real as the world she'll find.One night, tired of peeking...
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Girl with Brush and Canvas: Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist

Carolyn Meyer · Calkins Creek
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The life of artist Georgia O'Keeffe is revealed in this biographical novel -- from her childhood when she decided to be an artist, through her art education in Chicago and New York, to her eventual rise to fame in the American Southwest.At the age of 12, Georgia O'Keeffe announced...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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