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Towers Falling
Jewell Parker Rhodes · Little
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window,... |
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Friday Barnes, Girl Detective
R A Spratt · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 265
Format: Print book |
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Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl!When Friday Barnes, girl genius, solves a bank robbery, she uses the reward money to send herself to Highcrest Academy, the most exclusive boarding school in the country -- and discovers it's a hotbed of crime!Soon she's investigating... |
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My Diary from the Edge of the World
Jodi Lynn Anderson · Aladdin
Pages: 419
Format: Print book |
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Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this playful and perceptive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice.Spirited, restless Gracie... |
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Argos: The Story of Odysseus as Told by His Loyal Dog
Ralph Hardy · Harper
Pages: 382
Format: Print book |
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From a compelling new voice in middle grade literature comes a reimagination of The Odyssey told from the point of view of Odysseus's loyal dog. Argos is a thrilling tale of loyalty, determination, and adventure.For twenty years, the great hero Odysseus struggles to return to Ithaka. After... |
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Shadow Magic
Joshua Khan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 321
Format: Print book |
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Thorn, an outlaw's son, wasn't supposed to be a slave. He's been sold to Tyburn, an executioner, and they're headed to Castle Gloom in Gehenna, the land of undead, where Thorn will probably be fed to a vampire. Lilith Shadow wasn't supposed to be ruler of Gehenna. But following the murder... |
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Dara Palmer's Major Drama
Emma Shevah · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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"'The lead role of Maria in The Sound of Music goes to ..."I could practically hear her say "Dara Palmer." This was going to be my big break! But what really came out of my teacher's mouth was "Ella Moss-Daniels."My heart went huuuuggggggghhhhht.Dara... |
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Max Helsing and the Thirteenth Curse
Curtis Jobling · Viking
Pages: 312
Format: Print book |
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Now the hunter has become the hunted ... bummer. Max is just your average kid growing up in Gallows Hill, a small town outside of Boston - well, except that he lives in a gothic mansion with an old former prizefighter, and his after-school job is carrying on the monster-hunting tradition... |
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The Inn Between
Marina Cohen · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Eleven-year-old Quinn has had some bad experiences lately. She was caught cheating in school, and then one day, her little sister Emma disappeared while walking home from school. She never returned.When Quinn's best friend Kara has to move away, she goes on one last trip with Kara... |
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What Elephants Know
Eric Dinerstein · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 273
Format: Print book |
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Abandoned in the jungle of the Nepalese Borderlands, two-year-old Nandu is found living under the protective watch of a pack of wild dogs. From his mysterious beginnings, fate delivers him to the King's elephant stable, where he is raised by unlikely parents-the wise head of the stable,... |
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Currents
Jane Petrlik Smolik · Charlesbridge
Pages: 326
Format: Print book |
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This middle-grade historical novel follows three young girls living very different lives who are connected by one bottle that makes two journeys across the ocean. It's 1854 and eleven-year-old Bones is a slave on a Virginia plantation. When she finds her name in the slave-record book, she rips... |
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Feathered
Deborah Kerbel · Kids Can Press
Pages: 144
Format: Book |
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"When I was three years old, Mom plucked a curly white feather out of my neck. If I get scared or the loneliness comes over me, I run my fingertip over the tiny scar and dream about the day the rest of my feathers will grow in. That's the day I'll fly away from here." For... |
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Sweet Home Alaska
Carole Estby Dagg · Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) , 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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This exciting pioneering story, based on actual events, introduces readers to a fascinating chapter in American history, when FDR set up a New Deal colony in Alaska to give loans and land to families struggling during the Great Depression. Trip can't wait to follow in Laura Ingalls Wilder's... |
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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
John Boyne · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 262
Format: Print book |
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From the author of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas "comes another extraordinary story of World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household.... |
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The Mysterious Moonstone
Eric Luper · Scholastic Press
Pages: 111
Format: Print book |
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Cleo and Evan have a secret. A collection of books so dangerous they are locked up tight. A friend has vanished inside the pages of one of them. It's up to them to find the key that will set her free. A PRICELESS DIAMOND...STOLEN! When Cleo and Evan go undercover to help a rookie detective... |
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Camp Rolling Hills: Book One
Stacy Davidowitz · Amulet Books
Pages: 229
Format: Print book |
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A hilarious and heartfelt series about the particular magic of summer camp - a place where reinvention is possible and friends are like family - from a sparkling debut talent. Finally, it's summer! Stephanie - aka Slimey - has been counting the days until she can return to her favorite... |
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