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  Everest: Book 3

  The Summit

  by Gordon Korman

  Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. But they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. Supplies are low. Conditions are extreme. One of the kids is trying to sabotage the others. And then the storm hits...
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  Toad: Book 1

  Toad Rage

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Limpy’s family reckons humans don’t hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise. He’s spotted the signs: the cross looks, the unkind comments, the way they squash cane toads with their cars. Limpy is desperate to save his species from ending up as pancakes. Somehow he must make humans see how fabulous cane toads really are. Risking everything, he sets off on a wart-tinglingly dangerous and daring journey to . . .... (more)
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  Everest: Book 2

  The Climb

  by Gordon Korman

  Four kids. One mountain. They come from all across America to be the youngest kid ever to climb Everest. But only one will reach the top first. The competition is fierce. The preparation is intense. The challenge is breathtaking. When the final four reach the higher peaks, disaster strikes--and all that separates the living from the dead is chance, bravery, and action.
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  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book 1

  Diary of a Wimpy Kid

  A Novel in Cartoons

  by Jeff Kinney

  "This is a journal, not a diary!" Boys don’t keep diaries...or do they? The launch of an exciting and innovatively illustrated new series narrated by an unforgettable kid every family can relate to. It’s a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where small weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards... (more)
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  The Willoughbys

  by Lois Lowry

  Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, Jane, attempt to fulfill their roles as good oldfashioned children. Following the models set in lauded tales from A Christmas Carol to Mary Poppins, the four Willoughbys hope to attain their proscribed happy ending too, or at least a satisfyingly maudlin one. However, it is an... (more)
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  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book 2

  Rodrick Rules

  by Jeff Kinney

  Whatever you do, don't ask Greg Heffley how he spent his summer vacation, because he definitely doesn't want to talk about it.As Greg enters the new school year, he's eager to put the past three months behind him and one event in particular.Unfortunately for Greg, his older brother, Rodrick, knows all about the incident Greg wants to keep under wraps. But secrets have a way of getting out ...... (more)
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  Ravenmaster's Secret

  by Elvira Woodruff

  The eleven-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there.
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  I Was a Rat!

  or The Scarlet Slippers

  by Philip Pullman

  “I Was a Rat!” So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it’s true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A victim of “Rodent Delusion”? The hospital nurse says yes. A lucrative fairground freak? He is to Mr. Tapscrew. A champion wriggler and a budding thief? That’s what Billy thinks. Or just an ordinary small boy, though a little ratty in his... (more)
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  The Moffat Series: Book 1

  The Moffats

  by Eleanor Estes

  Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and-most days, at least-the responsible one; Joey, who though only twelve, is the man of the house...sometimes; Janey, who has a terrific upside-down way of looking at the world; and Rufus, who may be the littlest, but always gets in the biggest trouble. Even the most ordinary Moffat day is packed with extraordinary fun. Only a Moffat could get locked... (more)
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  The Sisters Grimm: Book 1

  The Fairy-Tale Detectives

  by Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson

  The Sisters Grimm take readers to a world where fairy tales are fact and not everyone is who they see to be. In book one of this bestselling series, sisters Sabrina and Daphne are sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm. The sisters learn they are descendants of the Brothers Grimm, whose famous book of fairy tales is actually a collection of case files. The girls are the latest in a long line... (more)
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  The Moffat Series: Book 3

  Rufus M.

  by Eleanor Estes

  You've never met anyone quite like Rufus Moffat. He gets things done, but he gets them done his way. When he wants to check out library books, Rufus teaches himself to write...even though he doesn't yet know how to read. When food is scarce, he plants some special "Rufus beans" that actually grow...despite his digging them up every day to check on them. And Rufus has friends that other people... (more)
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  Little House: Book 3

  Farmer Boy

  by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Here Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town.... (more)
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  Time Quintet: Book 3

  A Swiftly Tilting Planet

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry, whom readers first met in A Wrinkle in Time, has a little task he must accomplish. In 24 hours, a mad dictator will destroy the universe by declaring nuclear war--unless Charles Wallace can go back in time to change one of the many Might-Have-Beens in history. In an intricately layered and suspenseful journey through time, this extraordinary young man psychically enters four... (more)
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  My Side of the Mountain: Book 1

  My Side of the Mountain

  by Jean Craighead George

  Terribly unhappy in his family’s crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude, and danger of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.
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  The Wanderer

  by Sharon Creech

  The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in. Thirteen-year-old Sophie is the only girl amongst the surly crew of The Wanderer made up of her three uncles and two cousins. They sail across the Atlantic toward England, the land of Bompie, her grandfather. The sea calls to Sophie -- promising adventure and the chance to explore and discover. But the personal journey... (more)
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  Ramona the Pest: Book 4

  Ramona and Her Father

  by Beverly Cleary

  Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter. Not surprisingly, Ramona takes an active hand in the problems that develop.... (more)