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Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging, and Being Yourself

Matthew Gray Gubler · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover

A charming and inspiring story about embracing your weird, written and illustrated by Criminal Minds actor/director, Matthew Gray Gubler.Rumple Buttercup has five crooked teeth, three strands of hair, green skin, and his left foot is slightly bigger than his right.He is weird.Join him and Candy...
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Sorry for Your Loss

Jessie Ann Foley · HarperTeen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Printz Honor winner and Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes a comitragic YA novel that will appeal to fans of Jandy Nelson and Jeff Zentner. As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. His lets...
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Within These Lines

Stephanie Morrill · Blink
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From Stephanie Morrill, author of The Lost Girl of Astor Street, comes Within These Lines, the love story of a girl and boy torn apart by racism during World War II.Evalina Cassano's life in an Italian-American family living in San Francisco in 1941 is quiet and ordinary until she falls...
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Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II

Andrea Warren · Margaret Ferguson Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

It's 1941 and ten-year-old Norman Mineta is a carefree fourth grader in San Jose, California, who loves baseball, hot dogs, and Cub Scouts. But when Japanese forces attack Pearl Harbor, Norm's world is turned upside down.One by one, things that he and his Japanese American family...
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Whisper

Lynette Noni · Kids Can Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For two and a half years, Subject 684 "Jane Doe" has been locked underground in a secret government facility, enduring tests and torture. In that time, she hasn't uttered a single word. Not even her real name. Jane chooses to remain silent rather than risk losing control over...
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Duel at Araluen

John Flanagan · Philomel Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author John Flanagan returns to world of Ranger's Apprentice in this new installment of the Royal Ranger series starring Maddie, Will Treaty's fearless young apprentice.King Duncan and Princess Cassandra are trapped in the south tower of Castle Araluen...
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There's Something about Sweetie

Sandhya Menon · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The irresistible companion novel to the New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met Rishi, which follows Rishi's brother, Ashish, and a confident fat athlete named Sweetie as they both discover what love means to them.Ashish Patel didn't know love could be so ... sucky. After being...
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Trail of Crumbs

Lisa J. Lawrence
Format: Paperback

After moving into a dank and drafty basement suite in West Edmonton with her truck-?driving father, nasty stepmother and taciturn twin brother, Ash, seventeen-year-old Greta doesn't have high expectations for her last year of high school. When she blacks out at a party and is told...
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Her Royal Highness

Rachel Hawkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Regal romance abounds in this flirty, laugh-out-loud companion novel to Royals, by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins. Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. Heartbroken and ready for a change...
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Stepsister

Jennifer Donnelly · Scholastic Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Don't just fracture the fairy tale. Shatter it. Isabelle should be blissfully happy - she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who's cut off her toes...
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