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21) The Ring of five
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Series
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English
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Kidnapped on his way to boarding school, Danny Caulfield, who has one blue eye and one brown eye, ends up at a mysterious academy of spies, where he is to be trained in the art of espionage in an effort to keep the Upper and Lower worlds from colliding.
22) Barack Obama
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Series
Language
English
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Presents the life of Barack Obama, including his childhood in the United States and abroad, careers as a community organizer and lawyer, and his election as the forty-four president in 2009.
23) The bell bandit
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Series
Lemonade war ; 3
Language
English
Description
Siblings Evan and Jessie must solve the mystery of a missing cherished family treasure while coming to terms with their beloved grandmother's unsettling behavior.
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
The New York Times bestselling series is now a graphic novel — Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length comic stories that will keep even the bravest player up at night . . .
Oscar, ever the miniature grown-up his mom needs him to be, decides to take something he wants . . . even though he knows it's wrong. Stanley is newly dumped, stuck in a dead-end job for a mysterious
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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Nazir, his father, and older brother live in Myanmar, a country that has experienced many years of violence. As a part of the Rohingya minority group, the family is considered unwelcome in their homeland. Nazir and his father flee by boat to a refugee camp, eventually escaping as refugees to the United States. Interspersed with facts about Myanmar and its people, this narrative tells a story common to many refugees fleeing the country. Readers will...
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Series
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Esther, an ordinary middle child, returns to school after a quiet summer to discover that her friends haven't returned and the mountains surrounding the school, usually alive with Faeries, have become dark and threatening with Shadow Mages, and it's up to Esther to do something extraordinary." --
27) I am Kavi
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War, one Sinhalese girl must adapt to a new school, a new city, and new friends, while always staying true to herself"--
29) Call Me Adnan
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
20230613
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Adnan dreams of making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis championship, but when tragedy strikes his family, Adnan loses his passion for table tennis and must learn to channel his grief and heal.
32) Eggs over Evie
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Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Evie feels unsettled and sad after her parents divorce, her father remarries and takes the family dog, and his new wife becomes pregnant, but a cooking class and helping the elderly lady next door with her cat give Evie a way to cope with the changes in her life. Includes recipes.
33) Quicksand Pond
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Echoing the themes and tone of Lisle{u2019}s Newbery Honor{u2013}winning Afternoon of the Elves, this loss-of-innocence novel traces the delicate friendship built between two girls from different backgrounds. Irritated with everyone in her family, 12-year-old Jessie Kettel is in a 2separatist mood3 when she arrives at a rented Rhode Island cottage for summer vacation. While her father and siblings find other ways to occupy their time, she goes off...
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Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress--even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly...
35) Seeing red
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling series is now a graphic novel series! Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length comic stories that will keep even the bravest player up at night . . .
Pete lashes out at his younger brother in the wake of his parents' divorce, falling prey to a gruesome curse. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who
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Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It's the morning of Maisie's tenth birthday, and she can't wait to open her presents. Maisie is not a typical kid. What she wants most for her birthday are the things she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. But she wakes to an empty house, and outside the front door is nothing but an unsettling, all-consuming blackness--a shifted reality. Even for super-smart Maisie, these puzzling circumstances seem out of her control... or are they?"--Page...
38) The spider ring
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Inheriting a spider-shaped ring from her grandmother, Maria discovers her very useful ability to communicate with and control spiders before catching the attention of the magic-hungry Black Widow.
39) The ash house
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"When eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster. The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name like theirs. They show him the dorms and tell him about the wonderful oasis that the Headmaster has created for them. But the new boy already has a name....
40) John Diamond
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Unsettling words from his dying father set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where, in the course of searching for his father's mysterious business partner, he encounters an odd assortment of characters, some of whom seem determined to kill him.
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