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Notorious

Gordon Korman · Balzer Bray
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.
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Beetle Battles: One Scientist's Journey of Adventure and Discovery

Emlen, Doug · ROARING BROOK PR

Join scientist Doug Emlen on his quest to find out why an elusive type of beetle grows weapons that are enormous for its body size.What does it take to be a scientist in the field? Doug Emlen is a scientist. He studies beetles.Specifically, he studies the evolution of beetle weapons--how...
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Karen's Witch

Ann M. Martin · Graphix
Pages: 144
Format: Library Binding

A fresh and fun graphic novel series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister!

Karen Brewer lives next door to Mrs. Porter, who wears long black robes and has wild gray hair. Mrs. Porter has a black cat named Midnight and always seems to be working...
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My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

Joshua M. Greene · Scholastic Press
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame.Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave...
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Jinxed

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

The Golden Compass for the digital age in this story of a coding star and her robotic companion that isn't what it seems.Lacey Chu has always dreamed of working as an engineer for MONCHA, the biggest tech firm in the world and the company behind the "baku" -- a customizable...
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Hollow Dolls

MarcyKate Connolly · Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

This series starter from the author of the Shadow Weaver duology is a tale of secrets, power, magic, and the long path to home.Simone is a mind-reader. She knows a great many things, but she can't seem to remember anything about her past. So when she gets the chance to search for her family,...
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Under the Milky Way: Traditions and Celebrations Beneath the Stars

Frane Lessac
Format: Hardcover


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I, Cosmo

Carlie Sorosiak · Walker Books US
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A golden retriever narrates a hilarious, heart-tugging tale of a dog and his humans as he tries to keep his family together while everything around them falls apart.

Ever since Cosmo became a big brother to Max ten years ago, he's known what his job was: to protect his boy and make...
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Marie Curie and Radioactivity

Jordi Bayarri · Graphic Universe TM
Pages: 40
Format: Library Binding

At the start of the twentieth century, Marie Curie, a Polish physicist and chemist, stunned the scientific world. Her research led to the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. She also examined the most unusual property of these elements: radioactivity. This graphic biography...
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