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Grayling's Song
Karen Cushman · Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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"Like all Karen Cushman's gorgeous novels, Grayling's Song delves into the past to let us know what we must ask of our future." - Lena Dunham It's time for Grayling to be a hero. Her mother, a "wise woman" - a sort of witch - has been turned into a tree... |
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When Mischief Came to Town
Katrina Nannestad · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 179
Format: Print book |
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In the tradition of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES and PIPPI LONGSTOCKING comes a heart-warming novel about love, family, grief, joy and the power of laughter and imagination. When Inge Maria arrives on the tiny island of Bornholm in Denmark to live with her grandmother, she's not sure what to expect.... |
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Jacky Ha-Ha
James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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James Patterson introduces his hilarious new heroine, Jacky Ha-Ha, a class clown who makes people laugh with her so they can't laugh at her.With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation--even when she really, really shouldn't--twelve-year-old Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people... |
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Summerlost
Ally Condie · Dutton Children's Books
Pages: 249
Format: Print book |
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A tender and compelling contemporary novel for young readers about facing loss and finding friendship, from Ally Condie, international bestselling author of the Matched series. "Kids are awesome. And they are diverse. There are children with different abilities and backgrounds and experiences,... |
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The Apple Tart of Hope
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald · Holiday House
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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With Oscar as my friend, mused Meg, everything made sense. Fourteen-year-old Oscar Dunleavy is missing, presumed dead. His bike was found at sea, out past the end of the pier, and everyone in town seems to have accepted this as a teenage tragedy. But Oscar s best friend Meg knows he isn t dead.... |
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Oona finds an egg
Adele Griffin · Scholastic Press, 2016.
Format: Print book |
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Oona finds a giant egg and brings it back to West Wog to care for it, and see what hatches--but others in the cave want to claim her egg, particularly the nasty kid Bruce Brute, and when the baby stegosaurus hatches it will have to choose who it wants to live with. |
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Connect the Stars
Marisa de los Santos · HarperCollins
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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From Saving Lucas Biggs authors Marisa de los Santos and David Teague comes a heartwarming middle grade adventure about two misfits discovering the importance of just being themselves.When thirteen-year-olds Aaron and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks... |
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Under Their Skin
Margaret Peterson Haddix · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 311
Format: Print book |
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From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes the first book in a brand-new thrilling series about twins who are on a quest to discover the secrets being kept by their new family.Nick and Eryn's mom is getting remarried, and the twelve-year-old twins are skeptical... |
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas · Clarion Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block . . . for the fourth time. California's Newport Beach is her family's latest perch, and she's determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name - Cindy. It's the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes... |
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Paper wishes
Lois Sepahban · Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2016.
Format: Print book |
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Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens. |
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Bridget Wilder: Spy-in-Training
Jonathan Bernstein · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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Middle school meets Mission Impossible in this hilarious spy series for fans of Chris Rylander, Stuart Gibbs, and Ally Carter about a girl whose life is turned upside down when she discovers her father is a superspy.Up until Bridget's birthday the most exciting moment in her life was when... |
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Maybe a Fox
Kathi Appelt · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 262
Format: Print book |
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Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when... |
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Audacity Jones to the Rescue
Kirby Larson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 209
Format: Print book |
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Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan who aches for adventure, a challenge to break up the monotony of her life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls. Life as a wayward girl isn't so bad; Audie has the best of friends, a clever cat companion, and plenty of books to read. Still,... |
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Waylon! One Awesome Thing
Sara Pennypacker · Disney-Hyperion, 2016.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Waylon has lots of ideas for making life more awesome through science, like teleportation, human gills, and attracting cupcakes by controlling gravity. But it's impossible for him to concentrate on his inventions when he's experiencing his own personal Big Bang. Arlo Brody is dividing the fourth... |
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The Deadly 7
Garth Jennings · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 344
Format: Print book |
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When eleven-year-old Nelson's beloved older sister goes missing, he is devastated. She's his only friend and means the world to him. Then his parents join the search and leave Nelson in the care of his crazy uncle Pogo, a plumber who is working at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. There in a dusty... |
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From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess: Royal Wedding Disaster
Meg Cabot · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 282
Format: Print book |
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You are invited to a Genovian Royal Wedding in this second book pulled FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF A MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCESS, a Princess Diaries spin-off series, written and illustrated by New York Times-bestselling author Meg Cabot.Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison still finds it hard... |
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Child of Spring
F Zia · Peachtree Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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Engaging writing and a delightful protagonist bring life in a contemporary Indian village to life. Basanta longs for the beautiful ring worn by her young mistress, but when it comes into her possession, she realizes that it's not the wonderful possession she expected. Increasingly aware... |
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March of the Mini Beasts
Ada Hopper · Little Simon
Pages: 125
Format: Print book |
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Danger! Action! Trouble! Adventure! Introducing The DATA Set, a brand-new chapter book series for young readers.What would happen if your next-door neighbor were a mad scientist? Gabe, Laura, and Cesar live on a quiet cul-de-sac. They are the whiz kids of Newtonburg Elementary and each... |
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Far from Fair
Elana K Arnold · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Odette Zyskowski has a list: Things That Aren't Fair. At the top of the list is her parents' decision to take the family on the road in an ugly RV they've nicknamed the Coach. There's nothing fair about leaving California and living in the cramped Coach with her parents... |
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The Secret Destiny of Pixie Piper
Annabelle Fisher · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Pixie Piper, an ordinary fifth grader, discovers she is a direct descendant of Mother Goose - and she has the magical ability and poetry power to prove it! A lively and funny twist on a classic character for fans of the Clementine books, Wendy Mass, and Lisa Graff. This is the first of two books... |
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