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Girl of the Year 2018: American Girl

Erin Teagan · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Readers got to know American Girl's 2018 Girl of the Year in her first novel. The girl's exciting story moves forward in this second book.
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Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

Emma Carlson Berne · Capstone Press
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Tells the stories--in their own words--of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.
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JoJo's Guide to the Sweet Life: #PeaceOutHaterz

JoJo Siwa · Amulet Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

You might recognize firecracker JoJo Siwa from Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition, or maybe you fell in love with her on Dance Moms. JoJo's nonfiction middle-grade debut is the next generation's version of a real life Cinderella story: Nebraska girl becomes Hollywood's belle...
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Burj Khalifa

Amie Jane Leavitt · Purple Toad Pub Inc
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Find out how designers and engineers built the magnificent Burj Khalifah in Downtown Dubai to flourish in the extreme heat and sandstorms of its desert environment.
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Stef Soto, Taco Queen

Jennifer Torres · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A heartwarming and charming debut novel about family, friends, and finding your voice all wrapped up in a warm tortilla.Estefania "Stef" Soto is itching to shake off the onion-and-cilantro embrace of Tia Perla, her family's taco truck. She wants nothing more than for Papi to get a normal...
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Adventure Time/Regular Show

CONOR MCCREERY · KaBOOM!
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Finn and Jake find themselves traveling across different worlds in search of The Power -- turns out that Mordecai and Rigby might be able to help out...or make things worse. It's a crossover for the ages in this mash-up of two of our favorite Cartoon Network shows! When a powerful new villain...
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Nowhere Boy

KATHERINE MARSH · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Nowhere Boy is a timely, poignant tale of family, sacrifice and the friendship between a young Syrian refugee and an American boy living in Brussels.Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty...
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Finding Langston

Lesa Cline-Ransome · Holiday House
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes. When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known...
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Oddity

Sarah Cannon · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Join a tough eleven-year-old as she faces down zombie rabbits, alien mobs, and Puppet Cartels while trying to find her missing twin in Sarah Cannon's imaginative middle-grade debut, Oddity.Welcome to Oddity, New Mexico, where normal is odd and odd is normal. Ada Roundtree is no stranger...
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Neighborhood Cleanup

VIRGINIA LOH-HAGAN · 45th Parallel Press
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Neighborhood Cleanup guides students as they conceive and set up a neighborhood cleanup with their friends and community. The considerate text includes easy-to-follow lists and will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. Written with a high interest...
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Rob Gronkowski

Jon M Fishman · Lerner Pub Group
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Rob "Gronk" Gronkowski is a tight end for the New England Patriots. Learn more about Gronk's impressive record as tight end, along with his training regimen, what he does in his spare time, and more.
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Earth, Wind, Fire, and Rain: Real Tales of Temperamental Elements

Judy Dodge Cummings · Nomad Press
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

We might think humans have control over our environment, but Mother Nature has proven us wrong again and again. Earth, Wind, Fire, and Rain: Real Tales of Temperamental Elements tells the story of five of America's deadliest natural disasters that were made worse by human error, ignorance,...
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Zack and the Turkey Attack

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · Atheneum Children'S Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

A boy must outsmart a tormenting turkey and solve the mystery surrounding some missing jewelry in this feel-good middle grade novel from the Newbery Award winning author of the Shiloh series. Matthew has a problem. A turkey problem. A TOM turkey to be exact. Every weekend Matthew goes to his grandparents...
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Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane Code

Amy E Cherrix · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Ten million Americans live in hurricane danger zones, but how do we know if or when to evacuate? We must predict both when a storm will strike and how strong it will be. A daring NASA earth science mission may have finally found a way to crack this hurricane code.Dr. Scott Braun is the principal...
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Space Tech

MEGAN KOPP · Crabtree Publishing Company
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

From voyaging farther into the universe than ever before to the possibility of living on Mars, technological innovations are turning former dreams into reality. Space Tech explores these exciting advances through stunning photography, informative and engaging text, and a timeline of the historic...
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