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The lost children.
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When twelve-year-old Josephine falls through a worm-hole in her
garden shed into another time and place, she realizes the troubles she has at
home are minor compared to what she has to tackle now in the world where she has
landed.
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Unfamiliar magic.
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Twelve-year-old witch Desi secretly uses her mother's spellbook with
unexpected results, including meeting her warlock father for the first time and
becoming like sisters with Cat, who was once her mother's familiar.
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Tell us we're home.
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Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and
become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found
domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is
accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
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Crunch.
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The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be
the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's
bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his
siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
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Fever crumb.
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although
females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational
thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn
startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
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Breakaway.
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When seventh-grade soccer star LJ befriends Tabitha, who could not
be more different from her, LJ learns to curb her competitive nature, which has
been slowly alienating her friends.
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How to survive middle school.
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When thirteen-year-old David Greenberg's best friend makes the start
of middle school even worse than he feared it could be, David becomes friends
with Sophie, who shares his love of television shows and posts one of their
skits on YouTube, making them wildly popular --online, at least.
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The reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt.
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On her first day of boarding school, a thirteen-year-old girl who
feels boring and invisible decides to change her personality to match her
unusual name.
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Seaglass summer.
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While spending a month on an island off the coast of Washington
helping in her Uncle Sanjay's veterinary clinic, eleven-year-old Poppy Ray soon
questions her decision to follow in her uncle's footsteps.
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The accidental adventures of India McAllister.
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India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town
Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother,
strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help her to accept the man
for whom her father moved away.
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Shakespeare makes the playoffs.
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Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland, poet and first baseman, is torn
between his cute girlfriend Mira and Amy, who is funny, plays Chopin on the
piano, and is also a poet.
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Emily's fortune.
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While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach,
quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and
troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's
inheritance.
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Layla, Queen of hearts.
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Even though she loves the family of her best friend, Griffin Silk,
especially grandmother Nell, Layla Elliott, who no longer has a grandmother,
determines, despite many difficulties, to find an old person of her own to bring
to the school's Senior Citizens' Day.
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Present tense of Prinny Murphy.
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"An alcoholic mother, a distracted father, a best friend who spends
all his time with his new 'girlfriend,' and three relentless schoolyard bullies:
Prinny Murphy's past, present, and future certainly are 'tense' Adding to her
misery, she is in grade six and still can't read well enough to escape from
remedial lessons with the dour Mrs. Dooks. But when a kindly substitute teacher
introduces her to LaVaughn's inner-city world in the free verse novel, Make
Lemonade, Prinny discovers that life can be full of possibilities-and poetry." -
-From the publisher.
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Too many fairies : a Celtic tale.
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An old woman complains about all the housework she has to do, but
when some fairies come to help her she finds that they are more trouble than
they are worth.
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The shadows.
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When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an
old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving
some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three
talking cats.
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Eighth-grade superzero.
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After half-heartedly joining his church youth group's project at a
homeless shelter near his Brooklyn middle school, eighth-grade "loser" Reggie
McKnight is inspired to run for school office on a platform of making a real
difference in the community.
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Noodle pie.
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Andy's father is a former refugee from Vietnam. 15-year old Andy
and his father go to Vietnam and meet relatives who speak a different language,
seem to be greedy and impatient and run a pretty crummy restaurant. For Andy
Vietnam becomes a place for learning how to see things in a whole new way.
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Zombiekins.
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Stanley Nudelman buys a weird stuffed animal at the yard sale of a
woman rumored to be a witch, and soon he and his friend Miranda are trying to
save their schoolmates from becoming zombies.
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Imaginalis.
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Devastated that her favorite fantasy book series will not be
completed, twelve-year-old Mehera discovers that only her belief, imagination,
and courage will save the land of Imaginalis and its inhabitants from being lost
forever.
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The shadow hunt.
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Wolf, on the run from the oppressive monastery where he was raised,
rescues a strange child on Devil's Edge, home of ghosts and demons. He takes her
to a grand castle hoping to win the favor of its ruler and strikes up an
unlikely friendship with a girl named Nest, thinking he's finally found a place
to call home. But dark forces are conspiring against Wolf and Nest, and a
sinister enemy is looming closer than they could ever realize.
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Tumbleweed skies.
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Ellie's grandmother doesn't want her around the farm, but times are
tough, and her salesman father can't take her on the road. Ellie's challenge is
to break through her grandmother's isolation and find kinship among strangers.
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Magic below stairs.
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Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a
household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy
wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's
apprentice.
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I survived the sinking of the Titanic, 1912.
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Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-
year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin
when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
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City dog, country frog.
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Through the seasons, whenever City Dog visits the country he runs
straight for Country Frog's rock to play games with him, but during the winter
things change for them both.
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Too pickley!
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A child rejects a number of foods before settling on one that is
just right.
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Miss Brooks loves books! (and I don't).
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A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her
school librarians' efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one
that might change her mind.
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Once upon a baby brother.
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Lizzie, who loves to tell and write stories, is surprised to
discover that much of her storytelling inspiration comes from her messy baby
brother.
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Firehouse!
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Edward and his cousin Judy come for a visit to the firehouse and
learn how everything works with some unexpected results.
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Wrapped in love.
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When strange noises disturb Snoozer during the night, his mother and
father assure him that he is safe.
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