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The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
by Kathi Appelt
Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, ancient Sugar Man, and raccoon Swamp Scouts Bingo and J'miah try to save Bayou Tourterelle from feral pigs Clydine and Buzzie, greedy Sonny Boy Beaucoup and world-class alligator wrestler and would-be land developer Jaeger Stitch. Call Number: J APPELT
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The Warriors
by Joseph Bruchac
As a member of the lacrosse team who is of Iroquois heritage, Jake knows how sacred the game is. When he moves to a boarding school and plays for their team, he finds that Coach Scott is feeding untruths to his team about the game. Call Number: J BRUCHAC
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Matilda
by Roald Dahl
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. Call Number: J DAHL
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MVP*: *Magellan Voyage Project
by Douglas Evans
Twelve-year-old Adam Story is challenged by the deposed ruler of Babababad and his mongoose companion to become the first youngster to travel around the world in forty days without an adult. Call Number: J EVANS
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Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
by Helen Frost
A novel in verse about two 12-year-old boys—a Miami tribe member and the son of traders—explores how their early 19th-century friendship was tested by rising tensions between Fort Wayne armies and Native Americans who sought to protect their homeland. Call Number: J FROST
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Winter Sky
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Almost 12-year-old Siria, who chases fire trucks in the middle of the night to ensure her firefighter dad's safety, learns about bravery one winter as she tries to mend a broken friendship. Call Number: J GIFF
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
by Chris Grabenstein
Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with his friends to solve puzzles in order to escape. Call Number: J GRABENST
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Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers
by Chris Grabenstein
Eleven-year-old Riley Mack and his friends, Briana, Mongo, Jake, and Jamal, outwit the school bully, solve the mystery of who stole the goldendoodle named Poodle, and get evidence to help the FBI catch bank robbers. Call Number: J GRABENST
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The Thing about Georgie: A Novel
by Lisa Graff
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up. Call Number: J GRAFF
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The Million Dollar Shot
by Dan Gutman
Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals. Call Number: J GUTMAN
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Breathing Room
by Marsha Hayles
In 1940, thirteen-year-old Evvy Hoffmeister and her newfound friends struggle to get well at Loon Lake Sanatorium, where they are being treated for tuberculosis. Call Number: J HAYLES
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The Worm Whisperer
by Betty Hicks
Ellis Coffey, a lonely fifth-grader, discovers he might have the special gift of talking to bugs and decides to use his ability to win his town's annual Woolly Worm Race. Call Number: J HICKS
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Bo at Ballard Creek
by Kirkpatrick Hill
Winning the hearts of two tough gold miners who raise her near an Eskimo village in 1920s Alaska, young orphan Bo thrives amid the daily activities of both cultures before seeing a first airplane, encountering a bear and meeting a mysterious lost little boy. Call Number: J HILL
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Never Say Die
by Will Hobbs
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine. Call Number: J HOBBS
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The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eelby Deborah HopkinsonA tale set against a backdrop of the mid-19th-century London cholera epidemic follows the survival efforts of a young orphan who supports himself by selling scavenged items from a polluted River Thames and who helps a pioneering doctor identify the source of the virulent disease. Call Number: J HOPKINSO
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One Dog and His Boy
by Eva Ibbotson
When lonely 10-year-old Hal learns that his wealthy but neglectful parents only rented Fleck, the dog he always wanted, he and new friend Pippa take Fleck and four other dogs from the rental agency on a trek from London to Scotland, where Hal's grandparents live. Call Number: J IBBOTSON
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Ungifted
by Gordon Korman
When one of Donovan's thoughtless pranks accidentally destroys the school gym during the Big Game he knows he's in for it. But through a strange chain of events, his name gets put on the list for the local school for gifted students. Donovan knows he's not a genius, but he can't miss this chance to escape. Now, he has to figure out a way to stay at ASD and fit in with the kids there. Call Number: J KORMAN
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The Adventures of a South Pole Pig
by Chris Kurtz
In a fresh and funny middle-grade novel, Flora the pig ditches the sedentary life on the farm for an adventure in Antarctica, where she escapes the knife and lives her dream of pulling a sled with a team of dogs. Call Number: J KURTZ
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Duke
by Kirby Larson
In 1944, Hobie Hanson's father is flying B-24s in Europe, so Hobie decides to donate his beloved German shepherd, Duke, to Dogs for Defense in the hope that it will help end the war sooner--but when he learns that Duke is being trained for combat he is shocked, frightened and determined to get his dog back. Call Number: J LARSON
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A Dog Called Homeless
by Sarah Lean
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates. Call Number: J LEAN
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Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her. Call Number: J/YA LEVINE
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Hana's Suitcase
by Karen Levine
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her. Call Number: J 921 BRA
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One White Dolphin
by Gill Lewis
When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing hopeful Felix and English schoolgirl Kara work with veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the dolphin with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save the reef from the environmental effects of proposed dredging. Call Number: J LEWIS
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A Snicker of Magic
by Natalie Lloyd
Arriving in a town where magic has been driven away by a curse, 12-year-old Felicity, a girl who possesses a supernatural ability to see words around the people and places she visits, is befriended by mysterious do-gooder Jonah, who introduces shimmering new words while helping her break the curse. Call Number: J LLOYD
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Half a Chance
by Cynthia Lord
Moving to an old house on a lake that she struggles to view artistically in accordance with her photographer father's teachings, Lucy, fearing the pictures she takes will never meet his high standards, anonymously enters a photo contest that he is judging. Call Number: J LORD
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Numbed!
by David Lubar
When a robot at the math museum zaps their math skills, sixth-grader Logan and his mischievous friend, Benedict, must pass a series of math challenges to retrieve their knowledge. Call Number: J LUBAR
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Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace
by Nan Marino
When musical prodigy Elvis Ruby completely freezes up on television, he is forced to hide out in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where he spends the summer working with his aunt and cousin at Piney Pete's Pancake Palace, the perfect place to remain anonymous until he meets Cecilia, a girl who can't seem to help blurting out whatever's on her mind. Call Number: J MARINO
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The Candymakers
by Wendy Mass
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process. Call Number: J MASS
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Pi in the Sky
by Wendy Mass
Relegated to the humble duty of delivering pies due to his lack of motivation, young Joss, a seventh son of a prestigious family of overachievers, is tasked with recovering a suddenly missing Earth with the assistance of an outspoken Earth girl. Call Number: J MASS
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Wanderville
by Wendy McClure
Torn from their home in New York and sent to Kansas on an orphan train, Jack, Frances and Frances' younger brother, Harold, hear terrible rumors about the life awaiting them and decide to jump off the train, where they meet a boy in the woods who changes their lives forever. Call Number: J MCCLURE
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Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller
by Doreen Rappaport
A narrative portrait of the inspirational blind and deaf American woman traces her life and legacy while considering how her advocacy for innovation and progress changed the world, in a volume complemented by poignant illustrations and evocative quotes. Call Number: J 921 KEL
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Sugar
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Living on a Mississippi sugar plantation in the years after Emancipation, 10-year-old Sugar shares a forbidden friendship with the plantation owner's son and bonds with Chinese laborers who introduce her to their beautiful cultural traditions. Call Number: J/YA RHODES
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The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
by Joanne Rocklin
As ten-year-old Oona and younger brother Fred conspire to break their sick cat Zook out of the veterinary clinic, Oona tells the story of Zook's previous lives. Call Number: J ROCKLIN
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What the Moon Said
by Gayle Rosengren
Moving to a Depression-era farm when her father loses his job, young Esther, excited by the chance to be a pioneer, helps her family with ideas about how to manage bad weather and a tight budget until her superstitious mother forbids her to spend time with a new friend. Call Number: J ROSENGRE
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Parrots over Puerto Rico
by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
A combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, highlighting current efforts to save the Puerto Rican parrot by protecting and managing this endangered species. Call Number: J 598.71 ROT
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The Egypt Game
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor of the local junk shop. Call Number: J SNYDER
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Three Times Lucky
by Sheila Turnage
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder. Call Number: J TURNAGE
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The Short Seller
by Elissa Brent Weissman
While seventh-grader Lindy Sachs is recovering from mononucleosis, her father gives her access to his etrading account as a way to pass the time and she discovers that she has a knack for buying and selling stocks. Call Number: J WEISSMAN
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Each Little Bird That Sings
by Deborah Wiles
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto. Call Number: J WILES
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Leepike Ridge
by Nathan D. Wilson
While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom Hammond, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor and a dog, and pursued by murderous treasure-hunters. Call Number: J WILSON
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