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1-2-3-4, I Declare a Thumb War (Graveyard Girls)

Lisi Harrison - Union Square Kids
Format: Hardcover

Meet Whisper, Frannie, Sophie, Gemma, and Zuzu, five friends who tell eerie tales by night and navigate middle school drama by day. MISERY FALLS, OREGON, IS ABUZZ AS the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer, Silas Hoke, approaches. When a mysterious...
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Charlie Brown: Here We Go Again: A PEANUTS Collection

Charles M Schulz - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback

Join the Peanuts gang--Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, and Lucy--in this middle-grade cartoon collection!Will they never learn Sibling rivalries. Overzealous hall monitors. Un-kicked footballs. It's the Peanuts gang you know and love, and everyone's at it again. Lucy is offering...
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Adapted to Survive: Animals that Climb

Angela Royston - Raintree
Format: Book

Each book in the Adapted to Survive series looks at a selection of high-interest animals that share a common skill, examining how each animal has adapted to survive in its own particular environment. This book looks at animals that climb, and includes chapters on mountain goats, squirrels,...
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The Door at the End of the World

Caroline Carlson - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback

An otherworldly middle grade story perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and Stranger Things from the author of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series and the Agatha Award nominee The Worlds Greatest Detective.What begins as a rather unremarkable Tuesday quickly turns to disaster...
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The Last Grand Adventure

Rebecca Behrens - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Bea finds herself on a unique road-trip with her grandmother, as they search for her grandmother's long-lost sister - the legendary Amelia Earhart - in this charming novel from the author of When Audrey Met Alice and Summer of Lost and Found.It's 1967 and twelve-year-old...
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Zoobots: Wild Robots Inspired by Real Animals

Helaine Becker - Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover

Innovations in the world of robotics are multiplying, with many cutting-edge breakthroughs, and this exciting and timely new book for young readers explores one particularly intriguing area the world of robo-animals, or zoobots. In an attempt to design robots that can solve problems or perform...
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Portrait of an Artist: Frida Kahlo

Lucy Brownridge - Wide Eyed Editions
Format: Hardcover

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter and today is one of the world's favourite artists. As a child, she was badly affected by polio, and later suffered a terrible accident that left her disabled and in pain. Shortly after this accident, Kahlo took up painting, and through her surreal,...
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Cape

Kate Hannigan - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Hidden Figures meets Wonder Woman in this action-packed, comic-inspired adventure about a brilliant girl puzzler who discovers she's part of a superhero team!Josie O'Malley does a lot to help out Mam after her father goes off to fight the Nazis, but she wishes she could do more...
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The Jigsaw Jungle

Kristin Levine - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A mysterious treasure hunt helps to heal a broken family in critically acclaimed author Kristin Levine's first contemporary tale - perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Jennifer L. Holm Claudia Dalton's father has disappeared. What began as a late night at work has spiraled into a missing...
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Mark of the Thief

Jennifer A. Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more than gold and gemstones: He discovers an ancient bulla, an amulet that belonged to the great Caesar and is filled with a magic once reserved...
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