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The House With Chicken Legs
by Sophie Anderson
Twelve-year-old Marinka lives in a house on chicken legs and is being trained to be a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife, but when she breaks the rules to try and make a new friend, the consequences are devastating.
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Two Roads
by Joseph Bruchac
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
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So Done
by Paula Chase
Reunited after a summer apart, best friends Tai and Mila find their bond tested by secrets, middle-school dynamics and upcoming dance auditions for a new talented-and-gifted program.
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Monstrous Devices
by Damien Love
Alex, nearly thirteen, flees with his grandfather across snowy Europe to escape the human and mechanical assassins that pursue them, trying to retrieve a powerful object.
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Tight
by Torrey Maldonado
Admiring the superheroes he reads about in comic books but avoiding the dysfunctions that overshadow his community, Bryan is pressured by his father and a friend to cultivate a bad-guy reputation and engage in risky activities before resolving to stand up for what he feels is right. By the author of Secret Saturdays.
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The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone
by Jaclyn Moriarty
Bronte is ten years old when she receives a letter saying that her long-absent parents have been killed by pirates, and the lawyers tell her that their will (reinforced with serious magic) requires her to deliver gifts to her ten other aunts (not Aunt Isabelle, whom she lives with), and to start the trip immediately and alone--but as she travels the kingdoms, she begins to suspect that there is more to this journey than delivering treasures, and that her parents had more secrets than she ever realized.
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Astrid the Unstoppable
by Maria Parr
An adventurous young girl spends her days singing and sledding down the hillside of her Norwegian mountain village to visit her curmudgeonly septuagenarian godfather before befriending a new family and a mysterious woman with an unexpected identity.
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No Fixed Address
by Susin Nielsen-Fernlund
Hiding his homeless state so that he will not be taken away from his mom, a tween trivia enthusiast auditions for his favorite game show in the hope of winning a big cash prize that turns out rather differently than expected.
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The Mona Lisa Key
by Liesl Shurtliff
Breaking their family rule against riding the subway without their parents, three siblings travel through time and space to 1911 Paris, where they become entangled in a notorious art heist at the same time they try to solve the mystery of their teleportation.
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The Heart and Mind of Frances Pauley
by April Stevens
A young nature lover who longs to follow in the footsteps of her idol, the anthropologist Margaret Mead, struggles to remain true to herself while making connections with others, including a sister who is changing in ways she does not understand. By the author of Edwin Speaks Up.
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