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I Am a Super Girl!: An Acorn Book (Princess Truly #1)

Kelly Greenawalt · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback

Princess Truly to the rescue!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading...
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The Magic Mirror: A Branches Book

Anna Staniszewski · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Magic, friendship, and adventure are the perfect ingredients for a new twisted fairy tales Branches series from Anna Staniszewski!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text,...
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Beneath the Bed and Other Scary Stories: An Acorn Book

Max Brallier · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Max Brallier's easy-to-read scary stories are perfect for beginning readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format,...
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The Fire Keeper

J.C. Cervantes · Rick Riordan Presents
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Zane Obispo's new life on a beautiful secluded tropical island, complete with his family and closest friends, should be perfect. But he can't control his newfound fire skills yet (inherited from his father, the Maya god Hurakan) ; there's a painful rift between him and his dog ever...
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The Star Shepherd

Dan Haring · Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Neil Gaiman meets How to Train Your Dragon in this beautifully illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy, his trusted dog, and his best friend, as they race to save the stars before their light is extinguished for good.When the world first formed, the night was black and filled with dark...
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Mean

Justin Sayre · Penguin Workshop
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In Justin Sayre's third adjective-busting novel, Ellen discovers why it matters to be true to oneself, no matter what people might say or think about her.Set in the same world as Justin Sayre's previous books, Husky and Pretty, Mean explores the private and public life of Ellen, who is confident,...
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Moonlocket

Peter Bunzl · North Star Editions
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Its hard to escape the secrets from the past. Storm clouds gather over Lily and Roberts summer when criminal mastermind the Jack of Diamonds appears. Jack is searching for the mysterious Moonlocketbut thats not the only thing hes after. Suddenly, dark secrets from Roberts past plunge him into...
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Guest: A Changeling Tale

Mary Downing Hahn · Clarion Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From the master of spookiness, Mary Downing Hahn. When malicious sprites called the Kinde Folke snatch Mollie's baby brother and replace him with a hideous changeling, Mollie travels through eerie, perilous lands to save him. When her adorable baby brother is replaced by an ugly, ill-tempered...
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Rachel's Roses

Ferida Wolff · Holiday House
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Rachel Berger needs twenty-five cents to make her dream come true. But for Rachel, twenty-five cents is a fortune--and she's running out of time.Third-grader Rachel Berger longs to be different. At the very least, she'd like to be set apart from her copycat little sister, Hannah. The second...
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More to the Story

Hena Khan · Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Amina's Voice comes a new story inspired by Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic, Little Women, featuring four sisters from a modern American Muslim family living in Georgia.When Jameela Mirza is picked to be feature editor of her middle school newspaper,...
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The Little Grey Girl (The Wild Magic Trilogy, Book Two)

Celine Kiernan · Candlewick
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In the second book of the Wild Magic trilogy, courageous young Mup and her family are trying to heal and restore the kingdom when they uncover an ancient and powerful anger.The old queen and her raggedy witches have fled Witches Borough, and Mup's family has moved into the cold, newly empty...
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Last Meeting of the Gorilla Club

Sara Nickerson · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A moving new middle grade novel about childhood anxiety and grief, from the author of The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose, and Me. Eleven-year-old Josh Duncan has never had much luck making friends--not the real kind, anyway. Moving to a new town is supposed to be a chance to leave...
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Lalani of the Distant Sea

Erin Entrada Kelly · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

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