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Ivy + Bean: Book 1
Ivy and Bean
by Annie Barrows
The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn't be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to hide quick Ivy comes to the rescue, proving that sometimes the best of friends are people never meant to like each other. Vibrant characters and lots of humor make this a charming and addictive introduction to Ivy and Bean.
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Al Capone Does My Shirts: Book 1
Al Capone Does My Shirts
by Gennifer Choldenko
Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average, friendly neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It’s 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that’s home to criminals like notorious escapee Roy Gardner, Machine Gun Kelly, and of course, the notorious Al Capone. Now Moose has to try to fit in at his new school, avoid getting... (more)
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Gunslinger
by Connie Mason
Rugged gunslinger Desperado Jones is hired by Chloe Sommers to protect her herd, but unbeknownst to Chloe, Desperado has a hidden agenda that involves revenge and capturing her heart.
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Dark: Book 3
Dark Gold
by Christine Feehan
They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light ...Was he a man...or a miracle?Alexandria Houton would sacrifice anything--even her life--to protect her orphaned little brother. But when both encountered unspeakable evil in the swirling San Francisco mists, Alex could only cry to heaven for their deliverance .. .And out of the darkness swooped... (more)
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Emma-Jean Lazarus: Book 1
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
by Lauren Tarshis
Emma-Jean has always been a little different. Her seventh grade classmates have never really understood her. But one afternoon, all that changes when she sees Colleen Pomerantz crying in the girl’s room. When she trys to help Colleen out, at first, it works fine, but soon it turns into a huge mess. And what she finds will send her tumbling out of a tree and questioning why she ever got involved in the first place. (more)
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Travel Team
by Mike Lupica
Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court, but no one has a bigger love of the game, or a better sense of how to hit the open player with the perfect pass. Then the local travel team—the same travel team Danny’s dad, Richie Walker, led to the national championship on ESPN when he was a kid— cuts Danny because of his height. But Danny isn’t about to give up on basketball. It turns out that... (more)
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Does My Head Look Big In This?
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full- time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street. But she stands by her decision to embrace her faith and all that it is, even if it does make her a little different from everyone else. Can she handle the taunts of "nappy head," the prejudice of her classmates, and still attract the cutest boy... (more)
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To Dance
A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
by Siena Cherson Siegel, Mark Siegel
Dancers are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six -- and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance class in Boston, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet. To Dance tells and shows the fullness of her dreams and her rhapsodic life they led to. Part family history, part backstage drama,... (more)
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The Wednesday Wars
by Gary D. Schmidt
Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero in THE WEDNESDAY WARS—a wonderfully witty and compelling novel about a teenage boy's mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967–68 school year. Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn't like... (more)
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Quade: Book 3
Princess Annie
by Linda Lael Miller
A visit with Bavia's royal family was supposed to be the stuff dreams were made of for Annie Trevarren, an American girl abroad. Instead it was turning into a disaster. First Annie impetuously crawled onto a castle roof and had to be rescued by Crown Prince Rafael St. James himself. Then her dearest friend, the prince's sister, Phaedra, balks at an arranged wedding. The peasants rebel. The throne totters. Worst of... (more)
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Scientists in the Field
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo
An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
by Sy Montgomery, Nic Bishop
It looks like a bear, but isn’t one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey— but isn’t a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but what’s a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschie’s tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea’s cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.
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Night Riders (Leigh Greenwood): Book 3
Born to Love
by Leigh Greenwood
Holt Price had come to Galveston in search of the woman he loved. After the pain, the heartbreak, the terrible devastation of war, he was ready to settle down with the green-eyed beauty he'd pledged to marry. Instead, he found himself gazing into a pair of vulnerable brown eyes that made him long to heal the hurt inside, to bury himself in the softness of a girl who was not his to take.Her mother had... (more)
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The McLains (Jodi Thomas): Book 3
To Wed in Texas
by Jodi Thomas
If any town needed guidance on the path to peace it was wild and dangerous Jefferson, Texas. Delivering it was the widowed Reverend Daniel McLain's calling. Unfortunately, Daniel's own serenity is disrupted when his young daughters' nanny abandons her job, leaving the widower to appeal to his late wife's family for help... But instead of the elderly aunt he's expecting, he's greeted by Karlee Whitworth,... (more)
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Lunchbox and the Aliens
by Bryan W. Fields
Beware—the fate of the world just might rest in the paws of a basset hound and a pair of clueless aliens! Lunchbox is your average basset hound: round, floppy, and not too bright . . . until he’s abducted by aliens. Then he suddenly becomes a lean, mean, garbage-machine-making, uh, machine. Frazz and Grunfloz, the hapless aliens who abducted Lunchbox, have set him the task of converting Earth’s trash into... (more)
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The Log Cabin Wedding
by Ellen Howard
It's been some time since her mam passed away, but Elvirey misses her more than ever during the first harvest without her. So when Pap forms a friendship and an arrangement with the widow Aiken—the family helps her with her harvesting duties, while she helps take care of them and their household—Elviery's not sure she likes the idea of someone trying to replace Mam one bit. But when the widow begins to teach... (more)
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The Swan Maiden
by Heather Tomlinson
In the quiet hour before dawn, anything can happen. A third daughter can dream of being a creature of flight and magic, of wearing a swan-skin like her sisters. But Doucette must run the castle household while her older sisters learn to weave spells. Her dream of flying is exactly that—until the day she discovers her own hidden birthright. Sudden, soaring freedom—it is a wish come true. Yet it comes with a price.... (more)
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Border Lord
by Haywood Smith
Haywood DESCRIPTION: Bastard son of an English father and Scots mother, Duncan Maxwell is as untamed as the Scottish borderlands he defends.Proud and stubborn, he has a fierce hatred for his father's kin, but with seven motherless children to feed, he can't afford to turn away the half-drowned English woman brought to his doorstep. Her fine rings and clothes tell this powerful, fearsome warrior that she will... (more)
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The Lord Trilogy: Book 1
The Pirate Lord
by Sabrina Jeffries
A Splendid OpportunityA shipload of women--theirs for the taking! Pirate captain Gideon Horn couldn't be more delighted. His men are tired of wandering the high seas and want to settle down with wives on the uncharted island paradise they've discovered. And the women are bound to be grateful to be rescued from the life of drudgery awaiting them in New South Wales.. Lord, he's so clever!A... (more)
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Max's Words
by Kate Banks
Max’s brothers have grand collections that everyone makes a big fuss over. Benjamin collects stamps and Karl collects coins, and neither one will share with their little brother. So Max decides to start a collection of his own. He’s going to collect words. He starts with small words that he cuts out of newspapers and magazines, but soon his collection has spilled out into the hall. All the while, his brothers are... (more)
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The Journey That Saved Curious George
The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey
by Louise Borden
In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children’s book manuscripts among their few possessions. Louise Borden combed primary resources, including Hans Rey’s pocket diaries, to tell this dramatic true story. Archival materials introduce readers to the world of Hans and Margret Rey while Allan... (more)

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