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The Glass Town Game

CATHERYNNE M VALENTE · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this adventurous and fiercely intelligent novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.Inside a small Yorkshire...
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The Unicorn in the Barn

Jacqueline K Ogburn · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For years people have claimed to see a mysterious white deer in the woods around Chinaberry Creek. It always gets away. One evening, Eric Harper thinks he spots it. But a deer doesn't have a coat that shimmers like a pearl. And a deer certainly isn't born with an ivory horn curling...
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Marty Frye, Private Eye: The Case of the Missing Action Figure

Janet Tashjian · Henry Holt
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Marty Frye is not your ordinary private eye. Marty Frye is "the poet detective"--he solves petty crimes by turning rhymes. In the course of a busy day, Marty tracks down his friend Emma's lost diary, finds a box of toys missing from Mr. Lipsky's store; and locates a bag of disappearing...
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Restart

GORDON KORMAN · Scholastic Press
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He knows...
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Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen

Debbi Michiko Florence · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

The first book in a new chapter book series featuring a spunky Japanese-American heroine!Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi is a flamingo fan, tree climber, and top-notch mess-maker! She's also tired of her big sister, Sophie, always getting to do things first. For once, Jasmine wishes SHE could...
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The Storm Dragon

Paula Harrison · Aladdin
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

A group of friends set out to save magical creatures from a cruel queen and her wicked soldiers in the first book in the brand-new Secret Rescuers chapter book series.When Sophy finds a little lost dragon named Cloudy, she knows he's in danger. It will take all the courage she can muster...
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The Great Treehouse War

Lisa Graff · Philomel Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Kids vs. parents! An epic treehouse sleepover! An awesome group of friends! An exciting new book from National Book Award finalist Lisa Graff.Winnie's last day of fourth grade ended with a pretty life-changing surprise. That was the day Winnie's parents got divorced, the day they decided...
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Mort Ziff Is Not Dead

Christine Fagan · Puffin Canada
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A humorous coming-of-age middle-grade novel set in 1960s Florida. Battling obxious siblings, sunburns, and a corporate millionaire, Norman is determined to help an old comedian save his career.It's the winter of 1965. Norman Fishbein is enduring not only a cold winter but also the usual...
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The Apprentice Witch

JAMES NICOL · Chicken House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A special middle grade debut of magic and courage in a world of witches, written with the charm and enchantment of Circus Mirandus and The Apothecary.Arianwyn has flunked her witch's assessment: She's doomed. Declared an apprentice and sent to the town of Lull in disgrace, she may never...
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Hyacinth and the Secrets Beneath

Jacob Sager Weinstein · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For fans of the Mapmakers trilogy and anyone who likes a little history along with their fantasy, here's a quirky new series! Magic is real. History is a big, fat lie. Before Hyacinth Hayward moves from Illinois to London, she reads up on the city's history. Too bad for her. Because...
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