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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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Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble

ANNA MERIANO · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"A charming and delectably sweet debut. Mischief, friendship, and a whole lot of heart - Love Sugar Magic has it all." - Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of the Brooklyn Brujas seriesLeonora Logroño's family owns the most beloved bakery in Rose Hill, Texas, spending...
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Tito the Bonecrusher

Melissa Thomson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In Melissa Thomson's first standalone middle-grade novel, the beloved author of the Keena Ford chapter book series delivers a funny yet moving story about fathers, sons, and criminal justice. Oliver "Spaghetti-O" Jones's dad is about to be jailed for a crime he didn't commit,...
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Wings of Olympus

Kallie George · HarperCollins
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Take flight with Pippa and her winged horse in this heartfelt two-book series about a young girl who must win the hardest race in ancient Greece in order to stay with her closest friend.This new series from acclaimed author Kallie George is perfect for horse lovers and fans of Greek myths...
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Other Words for Home

Jasmine Warga · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems...
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Resistance

Jennifer A Nielsen · Scholastic Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference....
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SQUIRM

CARL HIAASEN · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Newbery Honor-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen--beloved for his modern classics like Hoot and Chomp--delivers a wildly entertaining novel involving snakes, grizzlies, a missing dad, a menacing drone, and more!Some facts about Billy Dickens: * He once saw a biker...
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Charlie Hernandez & the League of Shadows

Ryan Calejo · Aladdin
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Lightning Thief meets the Story Thieves series in this middle grade fantasy inspired by Hispanic folklore, legends, and myths from the Iberian Peninsula and Central and South America.Charlie Hernandez has always been proud of his Latin American heritage. He loves the culture, the art,...
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle

Leslie Connor · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 336
Format: eBook

A 2018 National Book Award Finalist! From the critically acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Leslie Connor, comes a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope.Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest...
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