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Katherine Arden · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Small Spaces. Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready...
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The Battle

Karuna Riazi · Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The game begins again in this gripping follow-up to The Gauntlet that's a futuristic middle eastern Zathura meets Ready Player One!Four years after the events of The Gauntlet, the evil game Architect is back with a new partner-in-crime - The MasterMind - and the pair aim to get revenge...
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The Taste of Rain

Monique Polak · Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

It is 1945, and thirteen-year-old Gwendolyn has been a prisoner at the Weihsien Internment Camp in northern China for nearly two and a half years. Gwendolyn is one of 140 children who were enrolled at a boarding school in Chefoo when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded China. Life in the camp...
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Some Places More Than Others

Renee Watson · Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Renée Watson comes a heartwarming and inspiring middle-grade novel about finding deep roots and exploring the past, the present, and the places that make us who we are. All Amara wants...
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Nevers

Sara Cassidy · Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Resourceful fourteen-year-old Odette is on the move again, traveling as a stowaway on a cheese cart with her hapless mother, Anneline. They are in Burgundy, France, in 1799, fleeing yet another calamity caused by Anneline (who is prone to killing people accidentally) . At dawn they find...
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The Magpie's Library

Kate Blair · DCB
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

When Silva and her family visit her grandfather,they find that his health has taken a bad turn. As they struggle with this news, Silva seeks escape in books at the local library. But she gets more than she bargained for when a magpie guides her to a magical room containing books that she can not only...
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Cash & Carrie Book 2: Summer Sleuths!

Shawn Pryor · Action Lab Entertainment
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Cash & Carrie return in all-new adventures! It's all fun and games at Summer Camp Sobol until strange things start happening. Campers go missing, Bigfoot might exist, and does anyone know what's really in the coleslaw? With no Wi-Fi and the mosquito repellent not cutting it, our detective...
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Judy Moody, Book Quiz Whiz

Megan McDonald · Candlewick
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Books, books, books! Judy's got books on the brain as she prepares for a totally RARE trivia competition. Has reading always been this exciting?Judy Moody is in it to win it. Win the Book Quiz Blowout, that is. Judy and her brother, Stink, are two-fifths of the Virginia Dare Bookworms,...
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Malamander

Thomas Taylor · Walker Books US
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A quirky, creepy fantasy set in Eerie-on-Sea finds a colorful cast of characters in hot pursuit of a sea monster thought to convey a surprising gift.It's winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel....
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Max Einstein: Rebels with a Cause

James Patterson · jimmy patterson
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

What Harry Potter did for magic, Max Einstein does for kids' imaginations in this #1 New York Times bestselling series!Max Einstein's typical day is not your average 12-year-old's. She...TEACHES classes at a New York collegeDodges KIDNAPPING attempts with her best friends Goes...
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Lumberjanes: Ghost Cabin

Mariko Tamaki · Amulet Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin - Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley - love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense...
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Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue

Paula Harrison · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Girl by day. Cat by night. Ready for an adventure. Meet Kitty, a charming chapter book character with catlike superpowers. With dramatic two-color art on every page and an emphasis on friendship, family, bravery, and building self-confidence, Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue is a perfect...
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Didi Dodo, Future Spy: Robo-Dodo Rumble

Tom Angleberger · Amulet Books
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

A chapter-book series spin-o from Inspector Flytrap by New York Times bestselling author Tom Angleberger! This hilarious chapter book mystery series stars Didi Dodo, the daring spy-in-training, and Koko Dodo, Didi's reluctant sidekick. In Robo-Dodo Rumble, Koko Dodo's cookie...
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AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet

Jon Scieszka · Chronicle Books
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover

HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY meets CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS in a funny, visually daring adventure series perfect for reluctant readers, teachers, and librarians alike.
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