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Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance...
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Ghosts of Weirdwood

Christian McKay Heidicker
Format: Hardcover

Fresh off of heroically saving their city from nightmarish monsters, 12-year-old reformed thieves Arthur and Wally are determined to join the Wardens of Weirdwood -- defenders of the border between the Real and Imaginary worlds.Their mission: defeat the Order of Eldar, a shadowy group that...
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Sugar and Spite

Gail Villanueva · Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Jolina can't take Claudine's bullying any longer! The taunts and teasing are too much. Though Jolina knows she's still in-training to use her grandfather's arbularyo magic, she sneaks into his potions lab to get her revenge. Jolina brews a batch of gayuma, a powerful love...
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The Last Windwitch

Jennifer Adam · HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Shannon Hale and Kelly Barnhill will delight in this charming and richly imagined middle grade fantasy debut, featuring a wicked queen, magical animals, a henchman with a golden heart, and a small girl with a great destiny.Many years ago, in the kingdom of Fenwood Reach, there was a powerful...
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The Accidental Apprentice

Amanda Foody
Format: Hardcover

The last thing Barclay Thorne ever wanted was an adventure. Thankfully, as an apprentice to the town's mushroom farmer, Barclay need only work hard and follow the rules to one day become the head mushroom farmer himself. No danger required. But then Barclay accidentally breaks his town's...
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The Anti-Book

Raphael Simon · Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Mickey is angry all the time: at his divorced parents, at his sister, and at his two new stepmoms, both named Charlie. And so he can't resist the ad inside his pack of gum: "Do you ever wish everyone would go away? Buy The Anti-Book! Satisfaction guaranteed." He orders the book,...
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Thornwood

Leah Cypess
Format: Hardcover

For years, Briony has lived in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Rosalin, and the curse that has haunted her from birth--that on the day of her sixteenth birthday she would prick her finger on a spindle and cause everyone in the castle to fall into a 100-year sleep. When the day the curse...
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The Boy Who Lived with Dragons

Andy Shepherd · Yellow Jacket
Format: Hardcover

Having your own dragon is magical, but Tomas is also about to find out what living with a dragon is REALLY like. When the fire-breathing kicks in and you get singed every five seconds, it's like having an unpredictable volcano in your pocket. Learning to train the dragons and keep them...
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Where We Used to Roam

Jenn Bishop · Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

When Emma starts sixth grade, things finally begin to change. She may still be in the shadow of her older brother, Austin, the popular high school quarterback, but she's made artsy new friends who get her way more than her bookish best friend, Becca. But things are changing for Austin,...
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Doggo and Pupper

Katherine Applegate · Feiwel & Friends; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

Doggo is used to things being a certain way in his family. He likes routine. Cat says he's become boring. That is, until Pupper shows up! Pupper is playful and messy, and turns the house upside down. Soon, the humans realize that Pupper needs some training, and off he goes to puppy...
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The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst

Jaclyn Moriarty · Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover


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The 130-Story Treehouse

Andy Griffiths · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling team Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton invite readers to come hang out with them in their 130-Story Treehouse -- the tenth book in the illustrated chapter book series filled with Andy and Terry's signature slapstick humor!Andy and Terry live in a 130-story treehouse....
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The Year I Flew Away

Marie Arnold
Format: Hardcover

It's 1985 and ten-year-old Gabrielle is excited to be moving from Haiti to America. Unfortunately, her parents won't be able to join her yet and she'll be living in a place called Brooklyn, New York, with relatives she has never met. She promises her parents that she will behave,...
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Dog Diaries: Ruffing It: A Middle School Story

James Patterson · jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover

Junior is so excited---his human family is going on vacation and this time they're taking him with them. And they're going to the most magical place in the world---THE WOODS! All the sticks you could possible want! Endless raccoons to chase! A lake to doggy-paddle in! It's a canine...
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Camp Average: Away Games

Craig Battle · Owlkids
Format: Hardcover

It's another summer at Camp Avalon -- also known as Camp Average to its campers -- only this year, things are anything but normal. Mack and Andre are spending the summer at rival Camp Killington, where the competitive campers seem intent on making them suffer. Meanwhile, at Camp Average,...
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Fighting Words

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · Dial Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A candid and fierce middle grade novel about sisterhood and sexual abuse, by Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times best seller Kimberly Brubaker Bradley"Fighting Words is raw, it is real, it is necessary, a must-read for children and their adults--a total triumph in all ways."...
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The Clone Catastrophe: Emperor of the Universe

David Lubar · Starscape
Format: Hardcover

In The Clone Catastrophe, Nicholas, Jeef, and Henrietta are back in another laugh-out-loud intergalactic adventure in this rollicking sequel to Emperor of the Universe. Before Nicholas V. Landrew can enjoy more than a few weeks in his new role as emperor of the universe, his world begins...
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Leonard

Carlie Sorosiak · Walker Books US
Format: Hardcover

The cat that Olive rescues from a flood has a secret: he's not really a cat at all, but an alien who crashed to Earth on a beam of light. The cat, whom Olive names Leonard, was prepared to visit the planet as a human - but something went wrong. Now Leonard may never know what it's...
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Twelve Nights

Andrew Zurcher
Format: Hardcover

.Kay's father has gone missing on Christmas Eve! And when Kay and her sister Ell go to his office, everyone he works with claims never to have heard of him. So later that evening, when Kay wakes up to find two mysterious strangers outside her bedroom window, talking about her father...
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Closer to Nowhere

Ellen Hopkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins's poignant middle grade novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging.For the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. She has two supportive parents, she's popular at school, and she's...
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Cathedral of Bones

A. J. Steiger · HarperCollins
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A stunningly imagined world, page-turning thrills, and a pair of unlikely heroes on an epic quest make this unique and immersive dark fantasy - from acclaimed author A. J. Steiger - perfect for fans of Holly Black and Kelly Barnhill. Simon Frost lives in a curious place, where magic is used...
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Almost There and Almost Not

Linda Urban · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

California Poppy has been dropped off, yet again, with an unsuspecting relative. This time it's her eccentric Great-Aunt Monica, a woman she's never even met. Aunt Monica has no idea what to do with an eleven-year-old, so she puts California to work researching their ancestor, the once-famous...
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Fearless

Mandy Gonzalez · Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

The Ethel Merman Theater is cursed. No one is sure how or why, but the evidence speaks for itself. Show after show has flopped and the theater is about to close. Enter twelve-year-old Monica Garcia, who has been cast to star in a Broadway musical revival of The Goonies, the theater's...
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Spark and the Grand Sleuth: A Novel

Robert Repino · Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover

Spark may be a cute and cuddly teddy bear, but she's also a fierce protector. Weeks after rescuing her human owner - a budding young filmmaker named Loretta - from a hideous monster, everything seems to be returning to normal. But then Spark is summoned before the mysterious Grand Sleuth,...
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The Last Rabbit

Shelley Moore Thomas
Format: Hardcover

On the magical island of Hybrasil there lives a Magician and four enchanted rabbit sisters. One by one, the rabbits have been leaving the island, accompanied by a Boy and his boat. He takes them wherever they choose. When the rabbits leave the island, they can turn back into girls. The last...
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