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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile!
Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem...2) Freewater
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Middle Grade
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2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Middle Grade
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Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail....
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Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Fantasy [High School Readers]
Noname Book Club's Picks
Return of Magic
TAB 2020 : High School
Noname Book Club's Picks
Return of Magic
TAB 2020 : High School
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"Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie...
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Folk of the air volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished....
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Ember in the ashes volume 1
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Fantasy [High School Readers]
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Teens
High School TAB Top Picks in E-Book and E-Audio
TAB 2016 : High School
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Teens
High School TAB Top Picks in E-Book and E-Audio
TAB 2016 : High School
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"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--
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Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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"Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about"--
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Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 3
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English
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After thirteen-year-old Conner returns to the Land of Stories and reunites with his twin sister, Alex, who is training to become the next Fairy Godmother, war breaks out in the fairy-tale world.
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English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Historical [Middle School Readers]
Odyssey Award Winners
Schneider Family Book Award
YS eNewsletter Spotlight: Audio books for the Whole Family
Odyssey Award Winners
Schneider Family Book Award
YS eNewsletter Spotlight: Audio books for the Whole Family
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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
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Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 2
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English
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Against the will of their grandmother, twins Alex and Conner must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it has ever faced--the return of the Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty.
11) Dark places
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English
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Libby Day was just seven years old when her Satan-worshipping older brother massacred her entire family while she hid in a cupboard. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for over twenty years on the proceeds of the 'Libby Day fund'. But now people have moved on, the money is running out and Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance at a club, she feels she has to accept. But this is no ordinary club - the Kill...
12) Superfudge
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Fudge books volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sometimes life in the Hatcher household is enough to make twelve-year-old Peter think about running away. His worst problem is still his younger brother, Fudge, who hasn't changed a bit since his crazy capers in "Tales of a fourth grade nothing". If you ask Peter, Fudge is just an older, and bigger, pain. Then Peter learns that his mom is going to have a baby and the whole family is moving to Princeton for a year. It will be bad enough starting sixth...
13) The red pyramid
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Series
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English
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After their father's "research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
14) The lemonade war
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Series
Lemonade war series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.
16) Legend
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Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
17) Worlds collide
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Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
With all of the fairy tale characters occupying the same world, Conner and Alex face their biggest challenge to date of restoring order to the human and fairy tale realms.
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Series
Lemonade war series volume 2
Language
English
Description
When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.
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Series
Ember in the ashes volume 2
Language
English
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After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.
Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.
But dark forces, human...
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