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No Rules: A Friday Barnes Mystery

R A Spratt · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

No Rules, the fourth book of the hilarious Friday Barnes Mystery series, brings even more trouble for this genius girl detective. Friday Barnes has been deported to Switzerland . . . but we need her back! With their go-to detective gone, Highcrest Academy has descended into chaos. Someone's...
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Antarctica

Wil Mara · Children's Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Located at the far southern point of the globe, Antarctica is an enormous landmass covered almost entirely in ice. Due to its extreme climate, this continent is home to very few plants, animals, or permanent human settlements. However, Antarctica is far from empty. Readers will learn about...
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Archie Greene and the Alchemists' Curse

D D Everest · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In Archie Greene and the Magician's Secret, Archie became one of the Flame Keepers, a secret group devoted to finding and preserving magical books that are literally portals into other places and times.In the action-packed sequel, the Golden Circle - a symbol that hasn't been seen...
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Absolutely Almost

Lisa Graff · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 7
Format: Book

From the author of the National Book Award nominee A Tangle of Knots comes an inspiring novel about figuring out who you are and doing what you love.Albie has never been the smartest kid in his class. He has never been the tallest. Or the best at gym. Or the greatest artist. Or the most...
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Panda-monium

Stuart Gibbs · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle's resident sleuth when the zoo's newest addition goes missing - before she even arrives! - in Panda-monium, the latest novel in Stuart Gibbs's FunJungle series.FunJungle is frenzied, awaiting the arrival of its most thrilling animal yet - Li Ping...
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Talons of Power

Tui T Sutherland · Scholastic Press
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

The war is over. The false prophecy has been fulfilled. But the dragonets still have enemies. A dark evil, buried for centuries, is stirring.And a young NightWing may have had the first true prophecy in generations . . .Something is coming to shake the earthSomething is coming to scorch...
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House of Robots: Robot Revolution

James Patterson · Jimmy Patterson
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover

Robots on strike Sammy's underappreciated mechanical helpers are causing chaos in book 3 of the bestselling House of Robots series. After a few early glitches in their relationship, Sammy and his "bro-bot" E are now fast friends. In fact, E is such a valued member of the family...
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Stef Soto, Taco Queen

Jennifer Torres · Little
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

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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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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Fish Finelli

E.S. Farber · Chronicle Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Whooping Hollow bully, Bryce Billings, dares Fish Finelli and his friends to enter the one-legged whaler's long-abandoned haunted house on the night of a full moon. As they prepare for entry, they discover that if an heir to the house doesn't come forward by the end of the week, Bryce's...
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Revealed

Margaret Peterson Haddix · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

After a mysterious cameo from Charles Lindbergh, it's up to Jonah to save his town in the seventh book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls "plenty of fun and great for history teachers as well."It's morning as usual at the Skidmore...
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Middle School: Just My Rotten Luck

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Pages: 301
Format: Print book

TOUCHDOWN! James Patterson will have kids busting out laughing as they follow lovable bad-boy Rafe's struggles to score big on the field--and in the social scene! In this seventh Middle School episode, Rafe heads back to the place his misadventures began: the dreaded Hills Village Middle...
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Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog

Tom Watson · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

In Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog, Tom Watsons hilarious sequel to Stick Dog, Stick Dog returns with the same crew of friends, and theyre hungrier than ever. As the dogs embark on their quest for hot dogs, they learn theyre not the only ones on a mission—a band of raccoons are following close...
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Forever, or a Long, Long Time

Caela Carter · HarperCollins
Pages: 343
Format: Hardcover

From rising new talent Caela Carter, author of My Life with the Liars, comes an achingly beautiful and endearing story about two foster children who want desperately to believe that they've found their forever home. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me, Leslie Connor's...
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Professor Astro Cat's atomic adventure : a journey through physics

Dominic Walliman · Nobrow Press
Pages: 61
Format: Print book

Class is in session, and the subject is physics. Your teacher? Why, he's the smartest cat in the galaxy!In this brilliant follow up to Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space, our trusty feline returns to take you on a journey through the incredible world of physics. Learn about energy,...
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