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Show Me a Sign

Ann Clare LeZotte

Show Me a Sign

Ann Clare LeZotte

It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life.

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One Time

Sharon Creech

One Time

Sharon Creech

Imaginative, eleven-year-old Gina, her mysterious new neighbor, Antonio, and their classmates are inspired by an unusual young teacher to see who they are and envision who they are meant to become.

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Spies, Lies, and Disguise...

Jennifer Swanson

Spies, Lies, and Disguise: The Daring Tricks and Deeds That Won World War II

Jennifer Swanson

In the late 1930s, times were desperate. The world found itself at war again, hardly more than twenty years after the First World War had ended - and the stakes were never higher. The leaders of every country involved were left without a choice. They had to try to end the war as fast as possible, using whatever means they could.

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Any Day With You

Mae Respicio

Any Day With You

Mae Respicio

During the summer before seventh grade, Kaia, who enjoys living in Southern California, visiting the beach with her family, and creating movie make-up effects, makes a film with her friends to win a contest and hopefullly prevent her beloved great-grandtather from moving back to the Philippines.

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Bloom

Kenneth Oppel

Bloom

Kenneth Oppel

The first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that's part Hatchet, part Little Shop of Horrors! The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere.

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Where Are You From?

Yamile Saied Méndez

Where Are You From?

Yamile Saied Méndez

When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects.

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When Life Gives You Mangos

Kereen Getten

When Life Gives You Mangos

Kereen Getten

Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah--even though lately she's not acting like a best friend. The only th

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Tristan Strong Destroys t...

Kwame Mbalia

Tristan Strong Destroys the World

Kwame Mbalia

Seventh-grader Tristan must return to Alke and enlist the help of African gods and black folktale heroes when Nana is abducted from the Strong family farm in Alabama.

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The Willoughbys Return

Lois Lowry

The Willoughbys Return

Lois Lowry

Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.

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The Line Tender

Kate Allen

The Line Tender

Kate Allen

Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier.

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Tito the Bonecrusher

Melissa Thomson

Tito the Bonecrusher

Melissa Thomson

In Melissa Thomson's first standalone middle-grade novel, the beloved author of the Keena Ford chapter book series delivers a funny yet moving story about fathers, sons, and criminal justice.

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The Lost Girl

Ann Ursu

The Lost Girl

Ann Ursu

When you’re an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant—and from their first moments in the world together, they’ve never left each other’s side.

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The Remarkable Journey of...

Dan Gemeinhart

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

Dan Gemeinhart

Five years. That's how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash.

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Shouting at the Rain

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Shouting at the Rain

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Acompelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have. Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family."

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Genesis Begins Again

Alicia D. Williams

Genesis Begins Again

Alicia D. Williams

This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself.

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Right As Rain

Lindsey Stoddard

Right As Rain

Lindsey Stoddard

It’s been almost a year since Rain’s brother Guthrie died, and her parents still don’t know it was all Rain’s fault. In fact, no one does—Rain buried her secret deep, no matter how heavy it weighs on her heart.

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The Willoughbys

Lois Lowry

The Willoughbys

Lois Lowry

In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.

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Orphan Island

Laurel Snyder

Orphan Island

Laurel Snyder

On an island where one child is delivered each year while the eldest is taken away, nine children live under the leadership of new elder Jinny, who trains the latest newcomer and wonders what will happen when her own departure occurs.

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