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Bright Island
Written by Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrated by Lynd Ward
Trade Paperback
Born and raised on Bright Island off the Maine coast, Thankful Curtis is more like her sea captain grandfather than any of her older brothers are. Nothing suits her better than sailing and helping her father with the farm. But when her dreaded sisters-in-law suggest that Thankful get some proper schooling... Read More
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The Magic Cake Shop
Written by Meika Hashimoto
Illustrated by Josee Masse
Trade Paperback
Emma Burblee couldn't be more different from her parents if she tried. She'd rather dig for treasure in a park than try on the latest fashions or discuss her vain parents' favorite subject: themselves. When Emma mortifies her parents at a dinner party, her punishment is immediate. She must spend the... Read More
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The Dead Gentleman
Written by Matthew Cody
Trade Paperback
The Dead Gentleman is a wild ride between parallel New York City timestreams—1901 and today. Eleven-year-old Tommy Learner is a street orphan and an unlikely protege to the Explorers, a secret group dedicated to exploring portals—the hidden doorways to other worlds. But while investigating an attercop (man-eating spider) in the basement... Read More
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Moon Pie
Written by Simon Mason
Trade Paperback
Tidy the house. Make tea. Put Tug to bed.
Ever since her mum died, 11-year-old Martha has gotten used to being the one in charge. Her brother, Tug, is too small. Her friend Marcus is too obsessed with Hollywood movies. And Dad is just too strange.
When Dad falls off the roof, it's... Read More
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My Name Is Mina
Written by David Almond
Trade Paperback
Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes out the window. In the stillness, she can even hear her own heart beating. This is when Mina feels that anything is possible and her imagination is set free.
A blank notebook lies on the table. It has... Read More
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Sky High
Written by Patricia Reilly Giff
Trade Paperback
Charlie has lots of ideas. Need something to go sky high? Ah-ha! The zinger-winger! Need to launch a cheese popper into soup? The amazing popper-upper! But the zinger-winger zings more than wings and the popper-upper plops. Charlie isn't allowed to invent for a week. Meanwhile, the afterschool invention fair is coming... Read More
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The Winter Pony
Written by Iain Lawrence
Trade Paperback
In the forests of Siberia, in the first years of the twentieth century, a white pony runs free with his herd. But his life chages forever when he's captured by men. Years of hard work and cruelty wear him out. When he is chosen to be one of 20 ponies to... Read More
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Century #3: City of Wind
Written by Pierdomenico Baccalario
Translated by Leah D. Janeczko
Trade Paperback
In the third installment of the Century Quartet, Italian author P. D. Baccalario continues the mystery that will take four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve.
PARIS, JUNE 20.
A meeting with an archaeologist friend of Harvey's dad brings Mistral, Elettra, Harvey, and Sheng together again in Paris. The friend gives them... Read More
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Trade Paperback
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, in the most touching Alvin Ho book to date. In this fourth book in the Alvin Ho series, Alvin is facing something truly scary: the idea that someone he loves might die. When Alvin's GungGung loses his best friend, Alvin (gulp) volunteers to go... Read More
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The Aviary
Written by Kathleen O'Dell
Trade Paperback
Twelve-year-old Clara Dooley has spent her whole life in the crumbling Glendoveer mansion, home to a magician's widow, a cage full of exotic birds, and a decades-old mystery. Clara loves old Mrs. Glendoveer, but the birds in the aviary frighten her—they always seem to screech and squall whenever she's near. And... Read More
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Bigger than a Bread Box
Written by Laurel Snyder
Trade Paperback
A magical breadbox that delivers whatever you wish for—as long as it fits inside? It's too good to be true! Twelve-year-old Rebecca is struggling with her parents' separation, as well as a sudden move to her gran's house in another state. For a while, the magic bread box, discovered in the... Read More
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Calvin Coconut: Kung Fooey
Written by Graham Salisbury
Illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers
Trade Paperback
Calvin Coconut's fourth-grade class meets Benni Obi, a weird and likable new kid. Benny brags about knowing kung fu, eats worms, crickets, and chocolate-covered scorpions, and says all the wrong things to bully Tito. Uh-oh. Meanwhile, neighborhood kids and pets clear the road—Calvin's babysitter Stella is learning how to drive. She's... Read More
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City of Lies
Written by Lian Tanner
Trade Paperback
Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilled liar. Along with her friend Toadspit, she's supposed to be one of the Keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt. But although she desperately wants to be a Keeper, she will not leave her sick parents to do so.
But when Toadspit's sister... Read More
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De como tia Lola termino empezando otra vez
Written by Julia Alvarez
Trade Paperback
Welcome to Tía Lola's bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tía Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Tía Lola and the children soon realize that running a B &... Read More
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De como tia Lola termino empezando otra vez
Written by Julia Alvarez
eBook
Welcome to Tía Lola's bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tía Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Tía Lola and the children soon realize that running a B &... Read More
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The Death of Yorik Mortwell
Written by Stephen Messer
Illustrated by Gris Grimly
Trade Paperback
Inspired by the artwork of Edward Gorey, Windblowne author Stephen Messer delivers a mock-Gothic tale about poor Yorik (alas!), who meets an untimely demise—in Chapter One.
Worry not, Dear Reader, for Yorik returns in ghostly form, intent on revenge. In the course of his hauntings of venerable Ravenby Manor, Yorik discovers that... Read More
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A Girl Named Faithful Plum
Written by Richard Bernstein
Trade Paperback
In 1977, when Zhongmei Lei was 11 years old, she learned that the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy was having open auditions. She'd already taken dance lessons, but everyone said a poor country girl would never get into the academy, especially without any connections in the Communist Party of the 1970s. But... Read More
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How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over
Written by Julia Alvarez
Trade Paperback
Welcome to Tía Lola's bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tía Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Tía Lola and the children soon realize that running a B &... Read More
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Melonhead and the Undercover Operation
Written by Katy Kelly
Illustrated by Gillian Johnson
Trade Paperback
Melonhead here—with more rules?! I already have the Remind-O-Rama list from my mom, which reminds me what I shouldn't do. Now my dad has created the Melon Family Guidelines for Life to remind me what I should do. And even though all these rules are so simple even a worm could... Read More
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The Only Ones
Written by Aaron Starmer
Trade Paperback
"Call it coincidence, call it fate. This is the place you come. There's no one else. This is the entire world."
These words welcome Martin Maple to the village of Xibalba. Like the other children who've journeyed there, he faces an awful truth.
He was forgotten.
When families and friends all disappeared one... Read More
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The Tanglewood Terror
Written by Kurtis Scaletta
Trade Paperback
When 13-year-old Eric Parrish comes across glowing mushrooms in the woods behind his house, he's sure there's a scientific explanation. But when they start encroaching on the town—covering the football field and popping up from beneath the floorboards—Eric knows something's seriously wrong. Not that much else is going right: his parents... Read More
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The Black Heart Crypt
Written by Chris Grabenstein
Trade Paperback
Halloween is near, the one day of the year when the ghostly plane is close enough to the human plane to allow mischief and mayhem. But the ghosts who have their eye on Zack aren't thinking mischief, they are thinking murder.
In the fourth volume of Chris Grabenstein's popular Haunted Mysteries series... Read More
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Here Lies Linc
Written by Delia Ray
Trade Paperback
When 12-year-old Linc Crenshaw decides he wants to go to public school, his professor mom isn't so happy with the idea. He's convinced it will be the ticket to a new social life. Instead, it's a disaster when his mom shows up at their field trip to the local cemetery to... Read More
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Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull
Written by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Trade Paperback
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and high-stacking around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and delivering it to the local schoolmaster, Barnaby thinks he's... Read More
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Super Surprise
Written by Patricia Reilly Giff
Trade Paperback
This week the kids at the Zigzag Afternoon Center are being creative, and trying new things. But that's not so easy for Destiny. All of her ideas turn into disasters—until she finds out what a good poet she is.
The sixth book in award-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff's Zigzag Kids series captures... Read More
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