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Waiting for Augusta

Jessica Lawson · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 329
Format: Print book

With a fresh, funny voice, lots of adventure, and a healthy dose of magic, from the author of The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher and Nooks & Crannies - which School Library Journal called "original, engaging, and funny" in a starred review - comes a profound...
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Moo

Sharon Creech · Harpercollins
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Fans of Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's Love That Dog and Hate That Cat will love her newest tween novel, Moo. This uplifting tale reminds us that if we're open to new experiences, life is full of surprises. Following one family's momentous move from the city to rural Maine, an unexpected...
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The Bicycle Spy

Yona Zeldis McDonough · Scholastic Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Marcel loves riding his bicycle, whether he's racing through the streets of his small town in France or making bread deliveries for his parents' bakery. He dreams of someday competing in the Tour de France, the greatest bicycle race. But ever since Germany's occupation of France...
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The Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price

Jennifer Maschari · Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A heartfelt, beautifully written novel of love, loss, and math - perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Sharon M. Draper. Ever since twelve-year-old Charlie Price's mom died, he feels like his world has been split into two parts. Before included stargazing and Mathletes and Saturday...
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The Great Shelby Holmes

Elizabeth Eulberg · Bloomsbury
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Shelby Holmes is not your average sixth grader. She's nine years old, barely four feet tall, and the best detective her Harlem neighborhood has ever seen-always using logic and a bit of pluck (which yes, some might call "bossiness") to solve the toughest crimes. When eleven-year-old...
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The Secret Sea

Barry Lyga · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Twelve-year-old Zak Killian is hearing a voice. Could it be a guardian angel? A ghost? No, that's crazy. But sometimes the voice is so real. . . . It warns him of danger.One day Zak is standing on the subway platform when the tunnel starts to fill with water. He sees it before anyone...
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The Bone Sparrow

Zana Fraillon · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE 2016Subhi is a refugee. He was born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, and the center is the only world he knows. But every night, the faraway whales sing...
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The Left-Handed Fate

Kate Milford · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 372
Format: Print book

Return to Nagspeake for a new fantasy adventure from the bestselling author of National Book Award nominee Greenglass House.Lucy Bluecrowne and Maxwell Ault are on a mission: find the three pieces of a strange and arcane engine they believe can stop the endless war raging between their...
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The Forgetting Machine

Pete Hautman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

People all over Flinkwater are losing their memories - and it's up to Ginger to figure out what's going on - in this sequel to the "quirky, dryly funny" (Booklist) The Flinkwater Factor from National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman.Absentmindedness in Flinkwater,...
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The Trouble with Twins

Kathryn Siebel · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Kate DiCamillo meets Lemony Snicket in this darkly comic novel about two sisters who learn they are each others' most important friend. Imagine two twin sisters, Arabella and Henrietta - nearly identical yet with nothing in common. They're the best of friends . . . until one day they...
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The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes

Wade Albert White · Little
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A thrilling debut novel where fantasy and science fiction meet, dragons aren't as innocent as they look, and nothing is quite what it seems. Anne has spent most of her thirteen years dreaming of the day she and her best friend Penelope will finally leave Saint Lupin's Institute for Perpetually...
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A Most Magical Girl

Karen Foxlee · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 297
Format: Print book

From the author of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy comes the story of a friendship between two girls set in Victorian England, with magical machines, wizards, witches, a mysterious underworld, and a race against time. Annabel Grey is primed for a proper life as a young lady in Victorian...
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Gertie's Leap to Greatness

Kate Beasley · Farrar
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

"Meet the new Ramona Quimby!" -- Entertainment WeeklyGertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides...
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Somewhat True Adventures of Sammy Shine, The

Henry Cole · Peachtree Publishers
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

When Sammy Shine s plane takes off unexpectedly, he ends up in a whole new world; no longer does he live in comfort in his shoebox in Hank's room. Now he's lost in the woods, with no way to get home and a dangerous new enemy. Fortunately, a group of new friends, including a mouse,...
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The Invisible Kingdom

Rob Ryan · Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2015.
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Gorgeous words and stunning illustrations combine in a beautiful tale, the first in a trilogy, by the Prince of Papercuts, Rob Ryan This is a story about a prince. He lived in a palace that seemed to have been specially designed to make someone who already felt small feel even smaller....
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