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• Amari and the Night Brothers

  Alston, B. B.

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  Thirteen-year-old Amari attends a private school where she is bullied for being poor and Black. One day, she gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.

• Tuck Everlasting

  Babbitt, Natalie

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  The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a 10-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents you from growing older.

• Tuck Everlasting

  the Graphic Novel

  Woodman-Maynard, K.,

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  Graphic novel version of "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt.

• Two Tribes

  Bowen Cohen, Emily

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  Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia thinks often about her Muscogee father living in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn’t want to talk about him, but Mia can’t help but miss him, so she plans to use her bat mitzvah money to visit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The War That Saved My Life

  Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

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  Ten-year-old Ada has never left her family’s one-room apartment. Her bitter mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. But when her little brother Jamie is going to be shipped out of London to escape World War II, Ada sneaks…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wild Robot

  Brown, Peter, 1979-

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  Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island’s hostile inhabitants.

• The Storm Runner

  Cervantes, J. C. (Jennifer C.)

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  To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, 13-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swim Team

  Christmas, Johnnie

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  Bree is excited about her new middle school, until she’s stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, Swim 101, which forces her to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spy School

  Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-

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  Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA’s highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.

• The Inquisitor's Tale

  Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

  Gidwitz, Adam,

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  Crossing paths at an inn, thirteenth-century travelers impart the tales of a monastery oblate, a Jewish refugee and a psychic peasant girl with a loyal greyhound, the three of whom join forces on a chase through France to escape persecution.

• When Stars Are Scattered

  Jamieson, Victoria

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  Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp. When an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother.

• The Phantom Tollbooth

  Juster, Norton, 1929-2021

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  For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wonder

  Palacio, R. J.

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  Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, where he must endure the taunting of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roll With It

  Sumner, Jamie

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  Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s Disease.

• One Crazy Summer

  Williams-Garcia, Rita

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  In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to spend a month with the mother they barely know, 11-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive in Oakland, California to discover that their mother is resentful of their intrusion and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Crazy Summer

  the Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Newbery Honor Book

  Williams-Garcia, Rita,

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  Graphic Novel adaptation of One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

• Front Desk

  Yang, Kelly

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  Ten-year-old Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, she manages the front desk of a motel and tends to its guests. She wants to be a writer, but her mom thinks she should stick to math. It will take…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mighty Miss Malone

  Curtis, Christopher Paul

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  With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family, " twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.

• Because of Winn-Dixie

  DiCamillo, Kate

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  Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

• Out of the Dust

  Hesse, Karen

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  In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.