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How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel
Jennifer Brown · Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover |
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Luke Abbott's school is the losing-est school in the history of losing. And that's just fine for him. He'd rather be at home playing video games and avoiding his older brother Rob and the Greatest Betrayal of All Time. But now he's being forced to join the robotics team,... |
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Took: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn · Clarion Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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"Folks say Old Auntie takes a girl and keeps her fifty years - then lets her go and takes another one." Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn't believe Brody Mason's crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster's Hill with Bloody Bones, her man-eating razorback... |
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A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket
Deborah Hopkinson · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 290
Format: Print book |
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From an award-winning author of historical fiction comes a story of survival, crime, adventure, and horses in the streets of 19th century New York City.Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he's sold to a padrone by his poverty-stricken... |
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Withering-by-Sea
Judith Rossell · Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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A stalwart orphan sets out on a spine-tingling adventure in this wildly imaginative and darkly funny Victorian middle grade novel.High on a cliff above the gloomy Victorian town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan... |
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Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter
Beth Fantaskey · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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It's 1920s Chicago - the guns-and-gangster era of Al Capone - and it's unusual for a girl to be selling the Tribune on the street corner. But ten-year-old Isabel Feeney is unusual . . . unusually obsessed with being a news reporter. She can't believe her luck when she stumbles not only... |
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Mission Mumbai: A Novel of Sacred Cows, Snakes, and Stolen Toilets
Mahtab Narsimhan · Scholastic Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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When aspiring photographer Dylan Moore is invited to join his best friend Rohit Lal on a family trip to India, he jumps at the chance to embark on an exciting journey just like their Lord of the Rings heroes, Frodo and Sam. But each boy comes to the trip with a problem: Rohit is desperate... |
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Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood
Liesl Shurtliff · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 243
Format: Print book |
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"Red is the most wonder-filled fairy tale of them all!" - Chris Grabenstein, New York Times Bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library. Red is not afraid of the big bad wolf. She's not afraid of anything . . . except magic. But when Red's granny falls ill, it seems... |
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A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans
Laurence Yep · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 152
Format: Print book |
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Fans of How to Train Your Dragon will love this whimsical tale, the first in a series, by a Newbery Honor winner, featuring charming illustrations and pet "training tips" in each chapter. Crusty dragon Miss Drake has a new pet human, precocious Winnie. Oddly enough, Winnie seems... |
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The Secrets to Ruling School
Neil Swaab · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover |
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It's the first week of middle school, i.e., the Worst Place in the Entire World. How do you survive in a place where there are tough kids twice your size, sadistic teachers, and restrictions that make jail look like a five-star resort? Easy: with the help of Max Corrigan, middle school... |
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Balthazar Fabuloso in the Lair of the Humbugs
I J Brindle · Holiday House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Magic, humor and high adventure are used to reaffirm fundamental family values in this debut novel.Balthazar Fabuloso's lovable and eccentric family performs a magic show. What makes the act so unusual is that all the Fabulosos actually have superhuman powers, except for Balthazar,... |
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Just My Luck
Cammie Mcgovern · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Critically acclaimed author Cammie McGovern's middle grade debut is a powerful and heartwarming story that will appeal to readers who loved R. J. Palacio's Wonder, Ann M. Martin's Rain Reign, and Holly Sloan's Counting by 7s.Fourth grade is not going at all how Benny Barrows hoped. He hasn't... |
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The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
Janet Fox · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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"Keep calm and carry on." That's what Katherine Bateson's father told her, and that's what she's trying to do: when her father goes off to the war, when her mother sends Kat and her brother and sister away from London to escape the incessant bombing, even when... |
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Ollie's Odyssey
William Joyce · Atheneum Children'S Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Can a beloved but lost stuffed rabbit save himself and other Losts from becoming the most feared designation of all: The Forgotten? Find out in this epic quest from the author of The Guardians series and the creative force behind The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.Oswald... |
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George
Alex Gino · Scholastic Press
Pages: 195
Format: Print book |
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BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really,... |
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The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs
Cylin Busby · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 263
Format: Print book |
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For fans of Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan comes the swashbuckling story of a little cat's adventures on the high seas Captain Natick does not want to take a kitten on board his ship when it sets sail in 1837, but his daughter convinces him that the scrawny yellow cat will... |
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EllRay Jakes Stands Tall
Sally Warner · Viking Children'S Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book |
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EllRay Jakes finally grows up (a little) by playing basketball in this ninth book in the series. There's a new game in town - basketball! Or in Ellray's case, pre-basketball. Coach Havens has all the third graders dribbling, passing, and shooting, and he's quick to compliment EllRay's... |
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Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat
Gary Paulsen · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 144
Format: Print book |
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From three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen comes a laugh-out-loud novel about six wacky misfits who get stuck together in a school restroom and discover friendship.It seemed like a normal school day, until a horrible storm forced the very cautious school administration to make everyone... |
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Hero two doors down : a story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend.
Sharon Robinson · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Based on the true story of a boy in Brooklyn who became neighbors and friends with his hero, Jackie Robinson. Steven Satlow is an eight-year-old boy living in Brooklyn, New York, which means he only cares about one thing-the Dodgers. Steve and his father spend hours reading the sports pages... |
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Our Teacher Is a Vampire and Other
Mary Amato · Holiday House
Pages: 160
Format: Print book |
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It all begins when Alexander H. Gory Jr. passes around a notebook in which he reveals a tantalizing secret: he has proof that their teacher, Mrs. Penrose, is a vampire. Soon the entire class is speculating and adding their opinions to the notebook until . . . it lands in Mrs. Penrose's... |
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Dead Air
Michelle Schusterman · Grosset & Dunlap, 2015.
Pages: 240
Format: Book |
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Kat didn't believe in ghosts - until now. . .
When Kat Sinclair's dad tells her his new job hosting the ghost-hunting TV show Passport to Paranormal means they'll be living on the road and visiting the world's most haunted places, Kat packs her bags without a second thought.... |
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