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TodHunter Moon, Book Two: SandRider

Angie Sage · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 461
Format: Print book

Tod's story races on in this second book in the TodHunter Moon trilogy, a spinoff of the popular Septimus Heap series. Fans of Septimus as well as fantasy readers new to the world of Magyk will enjoy this next installment in the series ALA BOOKLIST calls "warm and inventive."...
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 2 The Hammer of Thor

Rick Riordan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal...
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Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls

Liz Kessler · Candlewick Press, 2015.
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

Emily Windsnap finds herself caught between worlds in a dramatic new episode of the New York Times best-selling series.A field trip to a mysterious island quickly turns into an adventure when Emily Windsnap and Aaron discover a secret lookout point from which they spot a ghostly ship that...
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Ultimate Oceanpedia: The Most Complete Ocean Reference Ever

Christina Wilsdon · Natl Geographic
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From tsunamis and sea turtles to riptides and reefs, learn all about the creatures, science, and ecology of our oceans, which cover more of the planet than all the continents and are just as important! Travel through all parts of the ocean to learn how it affects of our world, including...
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The Enchanted Files: Diary of a Mad Brownie

Bruce Coville · Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

Introducing The Enchanted Files! Told in diary entries and other "documents," this magical, modern-day new comedy series by the master of funny fantasy, Bruce Coville is filled with laugh-out-loud humor and heart. In the first hilarious Enchanted Files, Angus is a brownie. No, not the kind...
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New Jersey

Nelson Yomtov · Childrens Pr
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

Though small in size, New Jersey is a state rich in history and natural beauty. Readers will get to experience both of these things and more as they tour the Garden State. They will find out which sports are most popular in New Jersey, how the state government is organized, what its natural...
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

Firoozeh Dumas · Clarion Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block . . . for the fourth time. California's Newport Beach is her family's latest perch, and she's determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name - Cindy. It's the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes...
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Rise of the Robot Army

Robert Venditti · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Rob Venditti comes the second book in the Miles Taylor and the Golden Cape series, about an eighth grader who finds himself unexpectedly thrust into the role of real-life superhero. His latest mission: to defeat an army of robots designed to destroy...
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Beautiful Blue World

Suzanne M LaFleur · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Beautiful Blue World is a thrilling and moving story of children who become the key to winning a war. Sofarende is at war. For twelve-year-old Mathilde, it means food shortages, feuding neighbors, and bombings. Even so, as long as she and her best friend, Megs, are together, they'll...
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Awkward

Svetlana Chmakova · Yen Press
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover

Cardinal rule #1 for surviving school: Don't get noticed by the mean kids.
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The Blood Guard

Carter Roy · Two Lions
Pages: 279
Format: Print book

When thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove s seemingly ordinary mom snatches him from school, then sets off on a high speed car chase, Ronan is shocked. His quiet, nerdy dad has been kidnapped? And the kidnappers are after him, too? His mom, he quickly learns, is anything but ordinary. In fact,...
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My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

Mo O'Hara · Square Fish
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback

When Tom's big brother decides to become an Evil Scientist, his first experiment involves dunking Frankie the goldfish into toxic green gunk. Tom knows that there is only one thing to do: Zap the fish with a battery and bring him back to life! But there's something weird about the new Frankie....
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Far from Fair

Elana K Arnold · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Odette Zyskowski has a list: Things That Aren't Fair. At the top of the list is her parents' decision to take the family on the road in an ugly RV they've nicknamed the Coach. There's nothing fair about leaving California and living in the cramped Coach with her par­ents...
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Absolutely Truly: A Pumpkin Falls Mystery

Heather Vogel Frederick · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 355
Format: Hardcover

An unsent letter in a first edition copy of Charlotte's Web leads to a hunt for treasure in this heartwarming middle grade mystery from the author of The Mother-Daughter Book Club.Now that Truly Lovejoy's father has been injured by an IED in Afghanistan and is having trouble finding work...
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Orphan Island

LAUREL SNYDER · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover

"A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." - Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the MoonFor readers who loved Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about...
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