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The Someday Birds
The Someday Birds

Sally J Pla · Harpercollins
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The Someday Birds is a debut middle grade novel perfect for fans of Counting by 7s and Fish in a Tree, filled with humor, heart, and chicken nuggets.Charlie's perfectly ordinary life has been unraveling ever since his war journalist father was injured in Afghanistan. When his father heads...
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Fuzzy
Fuzzy

Tom Angleberger · Amulet Books
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

From the minds of Tom Angleberger, the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Origami Yoda series, and Paul Dellinger, an adult science-fiction writer, comes a funny middle school story with a memorable robot title character. Reluctant readers and robot lovers in elementary...
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Patrick Griffin's Last Breakfast on Earth
Patrick Griffin's Last Breakfast on Earth

Ned Rust · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"Part Narnia. Part Home Alone. It wouldn't have shocked me to learn the book had been written by some guy named Lemony Vonnegut." -- James Patterson, New York Times bestselling authorWhen Patrick Griffin passes out after a chemistry experiment gone bad, he wakes up in a strange...
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Children of Exile
Children of Exile

Margaret Peterson Haddix · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
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Secret Origins
Secret Origins

James Riley · Aladdin
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Bethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves - which was called a "fast-paced, action-packed tale" by School Library Journal - from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.Owen and Bethany...
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark
Knights of the Borrowed Dark

Dave Rudden · Random House
Pages: 377
Format: Print book

This imaginative new fantasy will charm fans of the Ranger's Apprentice and Rick Riordan. Denizen Hardwick is an orphan, and his life is, well, normal. Sure, in storybooks orphans are rescued from drudgery when they discover they are a wizard or a warrior or a prophesized king. But this...
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Some Kind of Happiness
Some Kind of Happiness

Claire Legrand · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Reality and fantasy collide in this heartfelt and mysterious novel for fans of Counting by 7s and Bridge to Terabithia, about a girl who must save a magical make-believe world in order to save herself.Things Finley Hart doesn't want to talk about: -Her parents, who are having problems....
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The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
The Charming Life of Izzy Malone

Jenny Lundquist · Aladdin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Izzy Malone, a spunky girl who wants to be part of an elite rowing club, must first attend a very unique charm school in this first novel of a brand-new duology from the author of Seeing Cinderella and Plastic Polly.Izzy Malone isn't your typical sixth grader. She wears camouflage combat...
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The Voyage to Magical North
The Voyage to Magical North

Claire Fayers · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne is a girl with a past--if only she could remember what it is. Found alone in a rowboat as a child, clutching a shard of the rare starshell needed for spell-casting, she's spent the past years keeping house for an irritable magician and his obnoxious apprentice,...
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Not As We Know It
Not As We Know It

Tom Avery · Schwartz & Wade Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

For fans of David Almond's Skellig and Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls, here is a lyrical, atmospheric, and deeply emotional middle-grade novel with a touch of magical realism. Twins Jamie and Ned do everything together, from watching their favorite show, Star Trek, to riding...
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Furthermore
Furthermore

Tahereh Mafi · Dutton Children's Books
Pages: 401
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of the Shatter Me series takes readers beyond the limits of their imagination in this captivating new middle grade adventure that reads like a modern day fairy tale. New York Times bestsellerRecently featured on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" Inspired by her childhood...
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The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill

Megan Shepherd · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"Magical, terrifying, and full of heart. Open these pages, and ride true."-Kathi Appelt, Newbery Honor-winning author of The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp"A remarkable book. Astonishing!"-Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse There are winged horses that live...
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Brightwood
Brightwood

Tania Unsworth · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Daisy Fitzjohn knows there are two worlds: the outside world and the world of Brightwood Hall, her home--and the only place she's ever been. Daisy and her mother have everything they need within its magnificent, half-ruined walls. They may not have a computer or phone, but Daisy has all the friends...
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Me and Marvin Gardens
Me and Marvin Gardens

A S King · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Obe Devlin has problems. His family's farmland has been taken over by developers. His best friend Tommy abandoned him for the development kids. And he keeps getting nosebleeds, because of that thing he doesn't like to talk about. So Obe hangs out at the creek by his house, in the last...
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Dog Man: From the Creator of Captain Underpants
Dog Man: From the Creator of Captain Underpants

Dav Pilkey · Graphix
Format: Print book

George and Harold create a new comic book hero in Dog Man, a crimefighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, who faces off against his archnemesis Petey the cat.
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