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Ban This Book
In Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, a fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don’t mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books that will make you laugh and pump your fists as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every single book in the library to make a point, and take a stand against censorship.
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Ben Franklin's In My Bathroom
Benjamin Franklin is mysteriously summoned into the modern day world by a crystal radio set found on Nolan and Olive’s front porch. The siblings and Franklin go on adventures around town and find themselves studying “modern marvels” that Ben claims to have invented. These include the public library, fire department and various kitchen appliances.
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Blended
This story is about an eleven year old girl from a blended family. Her mother is white and her father is black. Already feeling different is not helped when her parents divorce. She feels like she is always half of something instead of whole. A great read for kids living in a blended family or for kids who don’t understand what it is like to grow up in a blended family.
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Front Desk
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets: 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they’ve been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language? It will take all of Mia’s courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year.
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Game Face: Sports Report
Maya Esposito has just won the coveted junior internship for the local newspaper. Everyone seems to be happy for her, except Bobby, and his new attitude stings. Maya loves writing about sports, but doubt clouds her judgment. Can Maya stay true to her passion and prove she's just as strong as any boy, no matter what her critics say
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Granted
Ophelia is a wish granting fairy that is not quite like the other fairies. She is finally able to go on her first assignment to grant her first wish as a Granter. It’s not as easy as it may seem, especially with a magic supply shortage these days. With so many obstacles in the human world, will Ophelia be able to grant the little girl’s wish for a new bicycle?
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How I Became a Spy
Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes. But when a young woman goes missing, leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve the mystery.
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Love Sugar Magic - A Dash of Trouble
Leonora "Leo" Logroño is tired of being the baby of the family: her four older sisters all speak Spanish and get to help out at the family bakery, especially as they prepare for Diá de los Muertos. Then Leo discovers that her mother and sisters are actually brujas, able to bake magic spells into their pastries. "Our power comes from the magic of sweetness," explains one sister. "Sweetness from love and sweetness from sugar." Leo will be initiated at age 15, but she can't wait to try her hand at magic, resulting in a love spell that goes horribly wrong.
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Nightbooks
Alex’s original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping the witch Natacha happy, but soon he’ll run out of pages to read from and be trapped forever. He’s loved scary stories his whole life, and he knows most don’t have a happily ever after. Now that Alex is trapped in a true terrifying tale, he’s desperate for a different ending—and a way out of this twisted place.
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Sal & Gabi Break the Universe
Such a fun read! Set in a Miami middle school for the arts, two kids meet in the principal’s office and their lives are never the same. One of the characters has the ability to reach into time and space and get anything he wants...including his dead mother. This sci-fi book tackles the question of whether you should do something just because you can.
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Saving Winslow
Winslow is a sweet premature donkey. Louie is determined to save Winslow. Despite the odds. No one believed that Winslow would even make it through the night when he was born. This is a delightful story about a boy and his donkey!
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Shouting at the Rain
Delsie, obsessed with the weather, lives with her grandmother on the coast, and summers on the coast are always special. But this summer feels different; her best friend seems distant and a new kid in town, Ronan, is confusingly magnetic.
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Small Spaces
After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price.
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Sunny
Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could take them to the state championships. They all have a lot to lose, but they all have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Sunny is the main character in this novel, the third of four books in Jason Reynold’s electrifying middle grade series.
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The Friendship War
Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes?
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Wed Wabbit
Ten-year-old Fidge has been dealt a lot in her short life, including her energetic little sister who constantly demands that Fidge read her favorite book, The Land of the Wimbley Woos. When one day, a horrible accident lands her sister in the hospital, Fidge can't help but feel responsible. In a whirlwind of frustration and guilt, a terrible storm transports her to another world that she soon realizes is the setting of The Land of the Wimbley Woos brought to life, populated by her sister's toys.
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The Last
Byx’s family and pack are killed. She believes she is the last dairne in Nedarra. She sets off on a quest to find if the legends of dairnes living in far off places is true. Along the way she befriends different creature, and together they uncover secrets threaten all the creatures in their world.
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The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade
Surviving their first winter after the Monster Apocalypse was no easy feat, yet Jack and his buddies waste no time springing to action against some of the nastiest, most evil monsters around. When Jack discovers his Louisville Slicer has new, otherworldly powers, he's thrown into epic training to find out what kind of destruction the blade can wield. But between fighting off zombies, fleeing from strange, glowy Vine-Thingies erupting from the ground, and squeezing in a video game session or two, there's barely time left to figure out what's wrong with their buddy, Dirk, who's been acting weird any time he's around the undead. When an unexpected villain appears, can Jack and his friends save themselves--and the rest of the world--from cosmic domination?
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The Lifters
12 year old Granite “Gran” Flowerpetal and his family move from the sunny coast to Carousel. The town is a hilly inland town full of trouble and mystery. He feels unheard at home and invisible at school--and then there's the issue of the many buildings in town collapsing into the earth. There is an underground world that threatens their own world. He has no clue that a dangerous secret lies below the town. His intriguing but difficult-to-please classmate Catalina Catalan knows what to do, but she avoids Gran like the plague. Will she reveal what happens underground?
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The Night Diary
It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore.
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