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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
Author
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he's spending the summer is the testing ground of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat-- Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's...
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Language
English
Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.
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Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Language
English
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Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
6) After Eli
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living.
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Andy and Terry try to solve the mystery of: What happened to Mr. Big Nose? After all, it's hard to turn in your next book when your publisher has vanished.
Author
Language
English
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Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Indigenous Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Historical [Middle School]
Indigenous Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Historical [Middle School]
Description
When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Alice can go anywhere in the magical pages of her favorite book. So when it flaps its pages and invites her in, she is swept away to a world of wonder and adventure. But at the end of her imaginative journey, she yearns for the place she loves best of all."--
10) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
11) Cave Dada
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A cave father, tired after a long day of hunting and gathering, copes with his young child who wants to be read to before going to sleep.
12) Inkheart
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
15) Inkspell
Author
Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.
16) Look! A book!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Easy-to-read, rhyming text invites the reader to search for items on a different theme on each page, while celebrating the wonder of a picture book.
Author
Series
Bella and Ben volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When her dog disappears into the gutter of the book, Bella calls for help. But when the helpers disappear too, Bella realizes it will take more than a tug on the leash to put things right"--
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