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NIDHI CHANANI · First Second
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions -- the topic of India is permanently closed.For...
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Ariol #10: Opera

EMMANUEL GUIBERT · NBM/Papercutz
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

It's "Dancing with the Steers" as Ariol and his friends trip the light fantastic.Dance class is in session for donkeys and pigs. Who is all hooves and who has the beat? Ariol's teacher, Mr. Blunt, joins the dance floor, too, and earns the name "Mad Dog." Will...
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Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls

Beth McMullen · Aladdin
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A girl discovers her boarding school is actually an elite spy-training program, and she must learn the skills of the trade in order to find her mother in this action-packed middle grade debut.After a botched escape plan from her boarding school, Abigail is stunned to discover the school...
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Love and Chicken Nuggets

Annie Kelsey · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Meet Pippa Morgan, a small girl with a BIG imagination.Pippa's class has just been given a project all about "love"-gross! Luckily, there are lots of things she loves-like chicken nuggets and TV detectives, and her best friend forever, Catie Brown. But now that her mom is single,...
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Olive and the Backstage Ghost

Michelle Schusterman · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 209
Format: Hardcover

A ghost story with a literary heart for fans of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and The Graveyard Book. Theater kids and ghost-story readers alike will find new meaning in the term stage fright. All great theaters have their ghosts. . . . After Olive Preiss freezes during a theater camp audition,...
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Dream Magic

Joshua Khan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In Book 2 of a three book series, things are dire for the inhabitants of Castle Gloom and the surrounding villages. The undead are leaving their graves in droves, a troll army is on the march from the north, and people are mysteriously disappearing from their homes. The people of Gehenna...
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One Wish

Michelle Harrison · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Tanya Fairchild may look like an ordinary twelve-year-old, but her life is anything but ordinary. After all, Tanya can see fairies. And real fairies are nothing like the ones in books....When Tanya and her mother arrive in the bustling seaside town of Spinney Wicket, they have no idea what's...
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Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World

Laurie Lawlor · Holiday House
Pages: 48

Profiles of six amazing women who defied prejudice to succeed in the sciences using genius, ambition, and perseverance! Laurie Lawlor deftly paints portraits of each of these pioneers who refused to take no for an answer, pursuing their passions through fieldwork, observations, laboratories...
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The Wild Robot Escapes

Peter Brown · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown
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The Bad Guys in Attack of the Zittens

Aaron Blabey

It's a zombie kitten apocalypse!Can the Bad Guys save the world from evil Dr. Marmalade's meowing monsters?!? They'll need help from foxy Agent Fox, a swampy secret zombie antidote, and the feistiest, toothiest, hungriest granny around. Get ready to watch the fur fly!
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