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Children of the Red King volume 1
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Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking.
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Maze cutter trilogy volume 2
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In the second book of The Maze Cutter Trilogy ... Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil forever. One person's God is another person's Devil.--Publisher....
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"Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai's friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby's...
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In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
5) Remember us
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AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2023
Mock Newbery 2023 - Anderson's
October Buzzworthy Books Kids
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Mock Newbery 2023 - Anderson's
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"It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that each day, feels further and further away from her. But it's...
7) Wrecker
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Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas--just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida! Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't...
8) Cut loose!
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Chance to fly volume 2
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2024 FPPL Disability Pride Children's Selections
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
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Thirteen-year-old Nat jumps at the chance to participate in the middle school regional theater competition where the winner gets to perform on Broadway, but when stressful rehearsals negatively impact her friendships, she starts to wonder if it is worth doing theater at all.
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I survived volume 23
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It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
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GPLD 2023 Winter Favorites: Chapter Books/Graphic Novels
2024 Youth Media Award Winners
GPLD 2023 Winter Favorites: Chapter Books/Graphic Novels
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Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
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"Herc Beal knows who he's named after--a mythical hero--but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod, and not a single Hydra in sight. Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc...
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"Maudie McGinn has a secret. It's a big, scary one. And right before Maudie, who's autistic, travels to spend the summer with her dad, her mom makes her promise not to reveal it. As Mom puts it: "A promise is a promise, and must be kept." When a wildfire forces Maudie and her dad to flee to the small beach town where her dad grew up, Maudie's summer is turned upside down. Yet she becomes captivated by the surfers she sees each morning. And as Maudie...
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Fly Guy volume 14
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Fly Guy has learned a lot of new tricks, but when he shows off at dinner time he and Buzz get into trouble -- though later they prove useful.
15) The Calder game
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When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village-- along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn-- his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
16) Grounded
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Told in alternating points of view, at Hurston Airport, four unlikely kids' lives are changed forever when their flight is grounded by weather following a Muslim convention.
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Children of the Red King volume 4
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Charlie and his magically gifted friends and relatives work together to rescue Billy Raven, a young orphan, from a mysterious and dangerous couple who have adopted him.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 38
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"When the magic tree house returns it whisks Jack and Annie away to the Galapagos Islands where they become World Turtle Experts and must save a tortoise in danger of an erupting volcano"--
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The moving story starring the Questioneers' teacher is all about kindness, learning to face your fears, and the profound difference one brilliant educator can make! When Lila, a worrier, moves to a new town, the what ifs only grow, and she feels alone and invisible until her teacher finds a creative and kind way to make Lila feel welcome and open to new experiences, a lesson that will stay with her long after second grade.
20) Ferris
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Uncle Ted moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
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