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  Paint the Wind

  by Pam Munoz Ryan

  This epic horse story, in the tradition of BLACK STALLION, marks exciting new territory for one of our most treasured and celebrated novelists. A puzzling photograph, a box filled with faded toy horses, and a single fractured memory are all that Maya has left of her mother. In Grandmother house, she lives like a captive, tethered by rules... until a shocking event changes everything. A world away, in the rugged... (more)
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  The Sherlock Files: Book 1

  The 100-Year-Old Secret

  by Tracy Barrett

  Xena and Xander Holmes have just discovered they’re related to Sherlock Holmes and have inherited his unsolved casebook! The siblings set out to solve the cases their famous ancestor couldn’t, starting with the mystery of a prized painting that vanished more than a hundred years ago. Can two smart twenty-first-century kids succeed where Sherlock Holmes could not?   Modern technology meets the classic detective... (more)
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  Yes, I Know the Monkey Man

  by Dori Hillestad Butler

  Thirteen-year-old T.J. always believed that her twin sister and her mother were dead because that s what her father had told her. But Mom and Sam are very much alive. And now they want T.J. to be part of their family. Life with Joe, her troubled but well-intentioned father, is all T.J. has ever known. Joe s erratic lifestyle has meant lying to social workers and searching through garbage cans for food. But T.J.... (more)
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  Trading Faces

  by Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Rozines Roy

  On the first day of seventh grade, twin sisters Payton and Emma have been assigned entirely different schedules -- for the first time ever. Without telling anyone, the twins switch places: Cool Payton goes incognito as quiet Emma, while mathlete Emma impersonates fashionista Payton. No one -- from their new teachers to their clueless classmates -- realizes they've made a switch. The twins quickly find out that... (more)
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  A to Z Mysteries - Super Edition: Book 1

  Detective Camp

  by Ron Roy

  Dink, Josh, And Ruth Rose are back! This time, they’re off to a camp for detectives! The camp directors have set up a week of lessons in forensics and fun mysteries for the campers to solve. The kids are following the planned clues when they stumble upon a real crime. This exciting extension to the A to Z Mysteries chapter book series features favorite characters, a longer plot, alphabet clues, and a 26-letter... (more)
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  Baseball Card Adventures: Book 7

  Satch & Me

  by Dan Gutman

  "You wanna know who threw the fastest pitch ever ?" Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach, Flip Valentini, are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, they travel back to 1942 and watch Satch pitch to power hitter Josh Gibson in the Negro League World Series. They soon learn that everything about Satch is fast -- whether... (more)
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  The Mysterious Benedict Society: Book 1

  The Mysterious Benedict Society

  by Trenton Lee Stewart, Carson Ellis

  4 children succeed in some peculiar tests, and are to go on a secret mission. They have to defeat this evil machine, owned by Mr. Curtain, called the Whisperer. The Whisperer has the power to erase your memory and send messages. The kids, Reynie, Kate, Sticky and Constance spend a few days at the Institute, where Mr. Curtain and the Whisperer are.
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  Lost and Found

  by Andrew Clements

  The Grayson twins are moving to a new town. Again. Although it's a drag to be constantly mistaken for each other, in truth, during those first days at a new school, there's nothing better than having a twin brother there with you. But on day one of sixth grade, Ray stays home sick, and Jay is on his own. No big deal. It's a pretty nice school, good kids, too. But Jay quickly discovers a major mistake: No one... (more)
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  Diamond Willow

  by Helen Frost

  "There’s more to me than most people see."Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents’ house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But... (more)
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  The Missing: Book 1

  Found

  by Margaret Peterson Haddix

  Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adopted, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one of the missing." The second one says, "Beware! They're coming back to get you." Jonah, Chip, and Jonah's sister, Katherine, are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast... (more)
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  The True Meaning of Smekday

  by Adam Rex

  It all starts with a school essay. When twelve-year-old Gratuity ("Tip") Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The True Meaning of Smekday" for the National Time Capsule contest, she's not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended on the Earth and the... (more)
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  Stolen Children

  by Peg Kehret

  Amy learned a lot in her babysitting course, but not what to do if two thugs show up, intent on kidnapping. Armed with misinformation and a weapon, the men take Amy and little Kendra to a remote cabin in the woods. There they make videos of the girls and mail them to Kendra’s wealthy parents in an effort to get ransom money. After several of her escape attempts fail, Amy is forced to make one last, desperate move.... (more)
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  Marley

  A Dog Like No Other

  by John Grogan

  With an appetite for nearly anything he can get his mouth around, including couches and fine jewelry, Marley is always getting into trouble. But to his family, he is a dog like no other. In this adaptation of his #1 New York Times bestselling Marley & Me , John Grogan brings the Labrador retriever's heartwarming antics to life—and shows how one big, rambunctious dog can teach a family what really matters in... (more)
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  Have Another Cookie

  by Charles M. Schulz

  Offering inspiration and self-help in a nutshell, well, peanut shell, Peanut Wisdom gift books show favorite characters helping one another out in times of need, coping with--and learning to laugh at--stressful situations (exams, speeches, parents), waxing philosophical and, through the story of the chocolate chip cookes that literally call out of Snoopy, contemplating food as temptation, solace, and escape.... (more)
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  Miss Spitfire

  Reaching Helen Keller

  by Sarah Miller

  Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she'd taken on a seemingly impossible job -- teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as ferocious as any wild animal. But Helen Keller needed more than a teacher. She needed someone daring enough to work a miracle. And if anyone was a match for Helen, it was the girl they used to... (more)
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  Every Soul A Star

  by Wendy Mass

  At Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, thousands have gathered to catch a glimpse of a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun. It's also where three lives are about to be changed forever: Ally likes the simple things in life--labyrinths, star-gazing, and comet-hunting. Her home, the Moon Shadow campground, is a part of who she is, and she refuses to imagine it any other way. Popular and gorgeous... (more)
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  Hate That Cat

  by Sharon Creech

  Jack is in Room 204 and his teacher is—Miss Stretchberry on February 25 , Today the fat black cat went up in the tree by the bus stop dropped a nut on my head and thunk is what had happened then I yelled at it oh that dumb cat! And that fat black cat said Murr-mee-urrr in a nasty spiteful way. I hate that cat! This is the story of Jack's words sounds.
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  Swindle: Book 1

  Swindle

  by Gordon Korman

  After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way -- a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, and their general inability to drive -- but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's... (more)
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  Deep and Dark and Dangerous

  A Ghost Story

  by Mary Downing Hahn

  Just before summer begins, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph. She recognizes the two children. One's her mother, the other her aunt Dulcie…but who is the third person, the one who's been torn out of the picture? When she asked her mother, she doesn't answer. Ali is curious. She will have all summer to figure it out, since she's spending the summer with her aunt and her cousin in the same house her mom... (more)
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  How to Steal a Dog

  by Barbara O'Connor

  Half of me was thinking , Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking , Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it.   Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left and they were evicted from their apartment, her family has been living in their car. With her mama juggling two jobs and trying to make enough... (more)