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  The Secret Series: Book 1

  The Name of This Book Is Secret

  by Pseudonymous Bosch

  This is the story about a secret...But it also contains a secret story. When adventurous detectives, Cass, an ever-vigilant survivalist, and Max-Ernest, a boy with two names that's driven by logic, discover the Symphony of Smells, a box filled with smelly vials of colorful ingredients, they accidentally stumble upon a mystery surrounding a dead magician's diary and the hunt for immortality. Filled with word... (more)
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  Someone Named Eva

  by Joan M. Wolf

  On the night Nazi soldiers come to her home in Czechoslovakia, Milada’s grandmother says, “Remember, Milada. Remember who you are. Always.” Milada promises, but she doesn’t understand her grandmother’s words. After all, she is Milada, who lives with her mama and papa, her brother and sister, and her beloved Babichka. Milada, eleven years old, the fastest runner in school. How could she ever forget? Then the Nazis... (more)
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  Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

  by Eleanor Coerr, Ronald Himler

  Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy... (more)
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  Elephant Run

  by Roland Smith

  In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in England is too unstable, Nick's mother sends him to live with his father in Burma, hoping he will be safer living on the family's teak plantation. But as soon as Nick arrives, trouble erupts in this remote Burmese elephant village. Japanese soldiers invade, and Nick's... (more)
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  The Animal Healer: Book 1

  The White Giraffe

  by Lauren St. John

  A thrilling adventure classic—in the making! The night Martine Allen turns eleven years old is the night her life changes completely. Martine’s parents are killed in a fire, so she must leave her home to live on an African wildlife reserve with a grandmother she never even knew she had. When Martine arrives, she hears tales of a mythical animal living there—a white giraffe. They say no one has ever seen the... (more)
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  The Naked Mole-Rat Letters

  by Mary Amato

  When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated e-mail letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship in this story about family, friendship, and growing up.
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  Knucklehead

  Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka

  by Jon Scieszka

  This book is a real story about the childhood Jon Scieszka. It has true facts about his child hood. It is a life memoir about him and his brothers.
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  Confetti Girl

  by Diana Lopez

  Apolonia "Lina" Flores is a sock enthusiast, a volleyball player, a science lover, and a girl who's just looking for answers. Even though her house is crammed full of books (her dad's a bibliophile), she's having trouble figuring out some very big questions, like why her dad seems to care about books more than her, why her best friend's divorced mom is obsessed with making cascarones (hollowed eggshells filled... (more)
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  The Thing About Georgie

  by Lisa Graff

  As far as Georgie is concerned, everyone has a "thing" The thing about poodles is that Georgie Bishop hates to walk them. The thing about Jeanie the Meanie is that she would rather write on her shoe than help Georgie with their Abraham Lincoln project. The thing about Andy's nonna is that she kisses Georgie's cheeks and doesn't speak one word of English. The thing about Georgie's mom is that she's... (more)
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  Rickshaw Girl

  by Mitali Perkins, Jamie Hogan

  Grade 2–5—Ten-year-old Naima longs to earn money to help her poor Bangladeshi family, but her talent in painting traditional patterns, or alpanas, is no use. While considering whether she could disguise herself as a boy and try to drive her father's rickshaw, she wrecks the vehicle and its painted tin sides on a test-drive, threatening the family's sole livelihood. Her solution is to steal away, disguised as a... (more)
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  More Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World

  by Arielle North Olson, Howard Schwartz

  Have you heard about the man who marries . . . a corpse? Or what about the magic school where one student in every class is never allowed to leave? Many of these tales go back hundreds of years and to the farthest corners of the earth, but as diverse as they are, they also reveal one important truth: everyone loves a scary story. The authors have dug deeply—from Egypt to Iceland—to find the spookiest stories that... (more)
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  Donavan's Double Trouble (Donavan)

  by Monalisa DeGross

  Donavan thought that fourth grade would be his best year ever. Instead, it's turning out to be nothing but trouble: 1. He's failing math class. 2. If his grades don't improve, his whiz-kid younger sister will have to tutor him! 3. When his beloved Uncle Vic returns from overseas combat as a paraplegic, everyone else is happy that he's safe at home. But all Donavan feels is uncomfortable and sad. ... (more)
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  American Girls Collection - Josefina, 1824: Book 1

  Meet Josefina

  An Amercian Girl

  by Valerie Tripp

  Josefina Montoya is growing up on her family's rancho near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1824. Ever since Mama died a year before, Josefina and her three sisters have been struggling to carry on without her. One bright autumn day, happy news arrives - their beloved grandfather is returning home after a long trading trip. Josefina knows that he will bring exciting stories and wonderful treasures from his journeys, just... (more)
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  Keeping the Night Watch

  by Hope Anita Smith

  So many unanswered questions weigh down thirteen-year-old C.J. as he struggles to understand why his father walked out. His father is back now, though C.J. is not as quick to forgive as the other members of his family. He still feels the weight of responsibility that fell on his shoulders when Daddy was gone, and he’s not prepared to give that up. But C.J.’s anger is making him a stranger in his own home, and... (more)
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  The Mozart Question

  by Michael Morpurgo

  This is a moving tale of secrets and survival bound together by the power of music, from a master storyteller.When Lesley is sent to Venice to interview world-renowned violinist Paulo Levi on his fiftieth birthday, she cannot believe her luck. She is told that she can ask him anything at all - except the Mozart question. But it is Paulo himself who decides that it is time for the truth to be told. And so follows... (more)
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  My Very Own Room/Mi propio cuartito

  by Amada Irma Pe?rez

  The young Mexican American girl at the center of this charming book loves her family — five younger brothers, her two parents, and several visiting relatives — but in such a crowded house, she can never seem to find a moment alone. Told in both English and Spanish, this boldly illustrated title delivers the inspiring story of a California family that pulled together to give a young girl her own corner of the... (more)
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  Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out

  by Various

  More than one hundred leading authors and illustrators donate their talents in a creative tour de force that is making history. Conceived and co-created by the National Children's Book and Literary Alliance, this incomparable collection of essays, personal accounts, historical fiction, and poetry melds with an equally stunning array of original art to offer a multifaceted look at America's history through the... (more)
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  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book 4

  Dog Days

  by Jeff Kinney

  It's summer vacation -- the weather's great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where's Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn.Greg, a self-confessed "indoor person," is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg's mom has a different vision for an ideal summer ... one packed with outdoor activities and "family... (more)
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  Savvy: Book 1

  Savvy

  by Ingrid Law

  The Beaumont clan is a very special family. Each member has their own power-their savvy. Members of this family receive their power on their thirteenth birthday. When Mississippi aka Mibs Beaumont turns thirteen, she will face tragic times and hopelessness. On a wild bus ride to save a loved one, Mibs discovers the meaning of friendship. Even though mibs misthought her savvy she still finds a way to help. Ingrid... (more)
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  Rapunzel and Jack: Book 1

  Rapunzel's Revenge

  by Nathan Hale, Dean Hale, Shannon Hale

  Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother. (Or the woman she thought was her mother.) Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she finally climbed to the top of the wall and looked... (more)