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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse inspired by the author's experience follows H�a and her family, refugees from the Vietnam War, as they move to Texas for a new job, and despite not wanting to start over again, H�a discovers unwanted change can bring a good opportunity.
2) Dear Mothman
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
Halfway through sixth grade, Noah's best friend and the only other trans boy in his school, Lewis, passes away in a car accident. Feeling lost and alone, Noah starts writing letters to Mothman, Lewis' favorite...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
James Henry hasn’t been the same since that fateful night at the lighthouse when his momma went into the sea. Now months later, he is barely able to leave the house without having a panic attack, and talking to people, well, that’s just too hard. His feisty twin sister Hattie intervenes on his behalf again and again—protecting him from neighborhood bullies and an uncle who just wants him to snap out of it.
But it's 1939, and without a local...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Laura Rodriguez Colon has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kids at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space.
So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help...
5) Lolo's Light
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
220 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a truth about growing up.
Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking.
For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies--unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably--on the night Millie babysits.
There's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen year old Clementine Merlyn lives with her mom, her aunts, and her cousin Mirabelle at Number 15 Pendragon Road. The Merlyns are a family of witches, but because of an ancient falling-out with the other branch of the family, the Morgans, they only have powers for a single month of the year--October.
And this October is special, because it could be the October that Clemmie is gifted with magic. It should be exciting, except that magic is the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raymond is used to being alone.
Twelve-year-old Raymond Hurley has never had a place to call home. His freewheeling parents move their family from town to town, and they're living in a trailer in a brand-new state when one day they just up and abandon him. All alone with nothing but a duffel bag full of clothes and Rosie, his reliable pup, Raymond is forced to live in the woods behind his middle school.
With a fishing pole in hand and a survival...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
267 pages : 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's been two years since a mysterious cloud rolled through their home and swept Ewan's dad away with it. Certain that his father wouldn't have left willingly, the normally timid Ewan decides to take destiny into his own hands.
Along with his little sister, Flora, and his new friend, Mr. So-and-So, Ewan departs on a journey that will test his belief in himself and unravel secrets of his father's disappearance.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
What if you switched places with your cat?
After falling prey to her friends' bullying one too many times, Poppy makes a wish for an easier life--and it comes true in a very unexpected way: she swaps bodies with her cat, Mitten Man.
Mayhem ensures as Poppy attempts to navigate the wilds of the wilderness as a cat. Now not only can she understand all animals--grasshoppers speak in rhyming couplets that only foretell doom--but she has to rescue a turtle...
Author
Series
Fireborn volume Book 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Armed with her newfound powers, fully fledged hunter Phoenix and her friends travel to Icegaard, the home of a long-lost witch clan, to help them combat the mysterious darkness there--one that grows stronger each day.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
309 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Any Zhou is used to being what people need him to be: the good kid for his parents, and now grandparents visiting from Shanghai, or the helpful sidekick for his best friend Cindy's rebellious plans and schemes.
So when Cindy decides they should try out for Movement after school on the first day of sixth grade, how can Andy say no? But between feeling out of place with the dancers, being hassled by his new science partner Jameel, and sensing tension...
12) Gone Wolf
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
348 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined--to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is known as a Blue, for the color of her sadness. She lives in a small room with her dog, who is going wolf--he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf, too. She wants to know what is beyond her room.
In the present, Imogen lives outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. The...
13) Stuck
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
135 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
If Austin picked a color to describe his life, it would be tumbleweed brown. Austin doesn't like standing out. He moves a lot, so he's always the new kid, and there's no hiding his size. Plus, Austin has a secret... one he's become an expert at hiding.
Then Austin meets Bertie, who is razzmatazz. Everything about Bertie is bursting! But the best part of Austin's newest school is the Safety Squad, with their laser lemon vests. Their cool confidence...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Swept into Engkantos, the land of gods and spirits, ten-year-old Marikit embarks on a quest to save her family from a sinister shadow god.
Author
Publisher
The Collective Book Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten year old Amelia has always had Calvin, her chinchilla friend, to talk about her problems.
But Calvin is no longer in his cage, and her parents just say he's in a "better place." When Amelia and her best friend, Camila, disagree, and Amelia later misses the school talent show, she doesn't know what to do. Without Calvin, who does she talk to about her disappointments at school? And who does she talk to about missing Calvin?
Just when Amelia thinks...
16) Forget Me Not
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
330 pages : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different. Only Calliope's neighbor, who is also the popular student body president, sees her as she truly is--an interesting person and a good friend. But is he brave enough to take their friendship...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vivan Lantz is cursed. Every year, terrible things happen on her first day of school--and her first day of eighth grade makes the rest of them look like child's play. Her family's house floods in a rainstorm. She ruins her perfect outfit before she even walks through the school doors. She almost kills her teacher's fish. And if all of that weren't upsetting enough, she gets her first period in the middle of the school cafeteria. Vivian can't wait...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, Prince Lir is tricked into embarking on a perilous quest to rescue a maiden from a dragon. The studious young prince is no warrior, but he uses his brains to make himself indispensable to the ill-tempered dragon. However, neither prince nor dragon has bargained on the dark magic that manipulates them both--and it may be left to the maiden herself to save them all.
A clever prince, an unsuspectingly powerful young woman,...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz and Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
172 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alvin, an Asian American second grader, is afraid of everything—elevators, tunnels, girls, and, most of all, school. He’s so afraid of school that, while he’ s there, he never, ever, says a word. But at home, Alvin is a very loud superhero named Firecracker Man, a brother to Calvin and Anibelly, and a gentleman-in-training, just like his dad. With the help of his family, can Alvin take on the outside world without letting his fears get the best...
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 2
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a forest monster shows up looking for help with an embarrassing problem, Zoey is sure it will be a simple fix. But her first two tries at helping him fail and she has a sobbing monster on her hands! Will Zoey and Sassafras solve the problem in time for Gorp to go to the annual Monster Ball?