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Jinxed

Amy McCulloch · Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"I raced through this book...a little bit Golden Compassand all adventure." -- Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author The Golden Compass for the digital age! When a coding star enters an elite technology academy, she discovers a world of competition, intrigue, and family...
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Words on Fire

Jennifer A. Nielsen · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen transports readers to a corner of history with this inspiring story of a girl who discovers the strength of her people united in resisting oppression.Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying...
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Other Words for Home

Jasmine Warga · Balzer Bray
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean...
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Black Forest Burglary

Stilton, Thea · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on an adventure packed with mystery and friendship!The Thea Sisters are invited to the Festival of Time in Germany! They arrive in the Black Forest and find that a famouse clock has been stolen. The mouselets are on the case. Can they find the thief...
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Humanimal: Incredible Ways Animals Are Just Like Us!

Christopher Lloyd · What on Earth Books
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Fascinating and stunningly illustrated, Humanimal explores, and celebrates, the astonishing ways in which animals and humans are alike.So you think you're special? You think that just because people have built giant cities, invented pop-up toasters and put a person on the Moon that...
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Grumpy Unicorn: Why Me?

Scholastic · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

A hilarious new comic collection featuring the world's grumpiest unicorn!Not all unicorns are rainbows and sunshine. Meet one unicorn that isn't a sparkly, magical creature. In fact, he's downright grouchy.Learn all about Grumpy Unicorn's least-favorite things like seasons...
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Francesco Tirelli's Ice Cream Shop

Meir, Tamar · Kar-Ben Publishing ®
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Francesco Tirelli loved to eat gelato from his uncle's cart. So when he moves from Italy to Hungary, Francesco decides to open his own ice cream store. There young Peter learns to love ice cream as much as Francesco did. But when the war comes and Francesco closes his shop for the winter,...
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What's Drug Abuse?

Alexander, Richard · Kidhaven Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

As the opioid epidemic continues to spread throughout the United States, words such as "addiction" and "overdose" are often in the news. These words may be unfamiliar and frightening to young people, but readers are given the tools to better understand what they mean...
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Fing's War

Lindelauf, Benny · Enchanted Lion Books
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

The Boon family and their indefatigable gallows humor are back in Benny Lindelauf's follow-up to Nine Open Arms.Poised to win a scholarship to the nearby teachers college, Fing has high hopes. It's 1938 and her poor family of nine -- one father, four brothers, three sisters, and a grandmother...
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The Starspun Web

Sinead O'Hart · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy comes a thrilling adventure about a brave girl who finds a portal to parallel worlds, and must protect her secret from the evil forces trying to capture it.All her life, Tess has lived at Miss Ackerbee's orphanage with her friends and her pet tarantula,...
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