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The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: The Wall of Fame Game

Crystal Allen · Balzer Bray
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The most fabulous nine-year-old cowgirl in Texas is back in this heartwarming and hilarious sequel to The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit Week Showdown! Perfect for fans of Clementine and Ivy and Bean. Nine-year-old Mya Tibbs is in a triple heap of trouble. As the Tibbs household prepares...
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Refugee

ALAN GRATZ · Scholastic Press
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . . ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft,...
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Disney Fairies #20

TEA ORSI · PAPERCUTZ
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Tinker Bell and her friends, Fawn, Iridessa, Rosetta, Silvermist, and Vidia have fallen prey to Zarina's new spell -- their unique talents have been switched around in order to distract them from the task at hand! Will the fairies learn their new abilities in time to prevent Zarina...
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Escape from Aleppo

N. H. Senzai · Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Nadia's family is forced to flee their home in Aleppo, Syria, when the Arab Spring sparks a civil war in this timely coming-of-age novel from award-winning author N.H. Senzai.Silver and gold balloons. A birthday cake covered in pink roses. A new dress. Nadia stands at the center of attention...
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Rebellion of Thieves

Kekla Magoon · Bloomsbury Usa
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Robyn Loxley can't rest now that she's the #1 Most Wanted Fugitive, Robyn Hoodlum. The harsh Nott City governor, Ignomus Crown, may have increased the reward for her capture, but this won't stop Robyn from masterminding her biggest mission yet: infiltrating the governor's mansion to rescue...
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I Am Drums

Mike Grosso · Clarion Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"This book is the song of my middle-school heart." - Michelle Schusterman, author of the I Heart Band! series Sam knows she wants to be a drummer. But she doesn't know how to afford a drum kit, or why budget cuts end her school's music program, or why her parents argue...
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The Muddily-Puddily Show

Valerie Tripp · American Girl Publishing Inc
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

The WellieWishers are putting on a show, and Emerson is in charge! There are lots of good ideas - but some need work. Ashlyn can't see inside her pumpkin costume, Willa has a touch of stage-fright, and Kendall has no idea how to make weather effects onstage! Will Emerson learn to take...
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Mighty Jack and the Goblin King

BEN HATKE · FIRST SECOND BOOKS
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone -- carried into another realm by an ogre.When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy's captor through the portal, they are ready for anything . . . except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds....
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The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine

MARK TWAIN · Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

A never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children's story is brought to life by Caldecott Medal winners Philip Stead and Erin Stead. In a hotel in Paris one evening in 1879, Mark Twain sat with his young daughters, who begged their father for a story. Twain began telling...
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Plants vs. Zombies: Grown Sweet Home

Paul Tobin · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 71
Format: Print book

A new story arc begins! A group of young plants--led by Fred the Sunflower, Jeff the Bloomerang, and Grrawrr-Bear the Bonk Choy--move out of Crazy Dave's garage and into his huge family mansion in Neighborville. Nate and Patrice head over with them to make sure they don't accidentally destroy...
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