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I, Cosmo

Carlie Sorosiak · Walker Books US
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A golden retriever narrates a hilarious, heart-tugging tale of a dog and his humans as he tries to keep his family together while everything around them falls apart.

Ever since Cosmo became a big brother to Max ten years ago, he's known what his job was: to protect his boy and make...
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The World Ends in April

Stacy McAnulty · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Is middle school drama scarier than an asteroid heading for Earth? Find out in this smart and funny novel by the author of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl.

Every day in middle school can feel like the end of the world.

Eleanor Dross knows a thing or two about...
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Cape

Kate Hannigan · Aladdin
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Hidden Figures meets Wonder Woman in this action-packed, comic-inspired adventure about a brilliant girl puzzler who discovers she's part of a superhero team!

Josie O'Malley does a lot to help out Mam after her father goes off to fight the Nazis, but she wishes she could...
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Not If I Can Help It

Carolyn Mackler · Scholastic Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning Carolyn Mackler, the story of Willa, who has been living with Sensory Processing Disorder but is thrown for a BIG loop when her dad announces he's dating Willa's best friend's mom.

Willa likes certain things to be certain ways. Her socks have to be soft . . . and definitely...
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Anya and the Dragon

Sofiya Pasternack · Versify
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Handpicked by Amazon kids' books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box - a children's subscription that inspires a love of reading.This lush tale of magic and dragons is a gem for any adventure-seeking middle grader and perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the End of Time.

Anya...
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Tree of Dreams

Laura Resau · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Dear Coco and Leo,
I miss you! We all miss you! The whole forest misses you! I hear their thanks and wishes in my dreams. I hope you do, too.


Prepare for a journey into a world filled with what so many crave -- the sweet savoring of a chocolate drop. A drop that can melt...
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The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story

MARY DOWNING HAHN · Clarion Books
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine-chilling yarn of a girl imprisoned for more than a century, the terrifying events that put her there, and a friendship that crosses the boundary between past and present.

A family moves into an old, abandoned house....
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On Snowden Mountain

Jeri Watts · Candlewick
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Ellen learns the quiet strength of family when her mother's deep depression prompts her to ask an estranged aunt for help.

Ellen's mother has struggled with depression before, but not like this. With her father away fighting in World War II and her mother unable to care...
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Broken Strings

Eric Walters · Puffin Canada
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A violin and a middle-school musical unleash a dark family secret in this moving story by an award-winning author duo. For fans of The Devil's Arithmetic and Hana's Suitcase.

It's 2002. In the aftermath of the twin towers -- and the death of her beloved grandmother...
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The Turnaway Girls

Hayley Chewins · Candlewick
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Delphernia Undersea wants to sing. But everyone on Blightsend knows music belongs to the Masters - and girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea.

On the strange, stormy island of Blightsend, twelve-year-old Delphernia Undersea has spent her whole life in the cloister...
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Inspector Flytrap

Tom Angleberger · Amulet Books
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

From husband-and-wife team Tom Angleberger, creator of the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series, and Cece Bell, author/illustrator of the Newbery Honor graphic novel El Deafo, comes the start to a funny and clever illustrated chapter-book series about a mystery-solving...
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Midsummer's Mayhem

Rajani LaRocca · Yellow Jacket
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary-fantasy retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson comes from a big Indian American family: Dad's a renowned food writer, Mom's a successful businesswoman, and her three...
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