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Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 1
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
207 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cruz leaves his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become the next generation of great explorers. But for Cruz, there's more at stake. No sooner has he arrived at the Academy than he discovers that his family has a mysterious past with the organization that could jeopardize his future. In the midst of codebreaking and cool classes, new friends...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the living legend and award-winning author of Hatchet comes a laugh-out-loud middle-grade romp about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down"--
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 1
Language
English
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Description
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
204 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
Author
Series
Coyote Sunrise volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus to save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 3
Language
English
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Description
When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Presents the final installment in the fantasy series about the adventures of the Grace kids, as they battle dwarves and goblins in a desperate fight to free their mom from the clutches of the evil ogre, Mulgarath"--NovelListPlus.
12) Air
Author
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels; she has been in a wheelchair all her life, and is just fine getting around without help, but it seems that since her mother was killed in an accident everyone (father, grandparents, teachers, and classmates) have started treating her differently: urging...
14) Ralph S. Mouse
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.
15) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
When timid Elizabeth's father takes her and her fearless friend, Zenobia, to his family home, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost there, and then Elizabeth learns she had an aunt who disappeared from the house years ago.
18) Shine!
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Piper's father is hired by Chumley Prep, a school where every student seems to be the best at everything, she gets the chance to compete for the prestigious Excelsior Award.
19) On the come up
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip-hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Brie pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral... for all the...
20) Almost paradise
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life changes the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly imprisoned for assisting in the crime. Ruby Clyde and her pet pig, Bunny, hide out during the robbery, and then afterward, terrified and very much alone, they find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is an ornery, solitary nun living in the midst of a peach orchard on Paradise Ranch, and...
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