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Maggie and the Flying Horse
by E. D Baker
Seeing magical woodland creatures that nobody else seems to notice, 8-year-old Maggie encounters an injured flying horse and embarks on a dangerous journey to bring the horse to safety. Call Number: J BAKER
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The BFG
by Roald Dahl
The BFG--Big Friendly Giant--kidnaps Sophie from her bed in the orphanage and takes her back to Giantland where she becomes involved in a scheme to end the loathsome activities of nine evil giants. Call Number: J DAHL
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The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo
The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. Call Number: J DICAMILL
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The Familiars
by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson
When an alley cat named Aldwyn passes himself off as a magical companion to Jack, a wizard in training, Aldwyn and his fellow "familiars," a blue jay and tree frog, must save the kingdom after the queen of Vastia kidnaps Jack and two others. Call Number: J EPSTEIN
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Monsters Unleashed
by John Kloepfer
A debut entry in a new series by the author of the Zombie Chasers stories introduces the character of Freddie Liddle, who accidentally unleashes monsters on his community after bringing monster sketches to life with a 3D printer, a dilemma that challenges him to team up with the school bullies who inspired his artwork. Call Number: J KLOEPFER
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Bob
by Wendy Mass
Returning to her grandmother's home in Australia years after visiting as a younger child, Livy slowly remembers a magical, mysterious green being in a chicken suit who she befriended years earlier and who has been eagerly awaiting her return so that she can keep her promise to him. Call Number: J MASS
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Fairest of All
by Sarah Mlynowski
After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale. Call Number: J MLYNOWSK
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Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea
by Ben Clanton
A happy-go-lucky, waffle-loving narwhal and a cynical, no-nonsense jellyfish forge an unlikely friendship and share adventures while exploring the ocean together. Call Number: J CLANTON
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Cucumber Quest: The Doughnut Kingdom
by Gigi D. G.
All nerdy magician Cucumber wants is to go to school, but destiny has a different plan, sending Cucumber and his sister Almond on a quest to find the Dream Sword, the only weapon capable of defeating the Nightmare Knight. Call Number: J GIGI
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Hocus & Pocus: The Legend of Grimm's Woods
by Manuro
Siblings Hocus and Pocus, students at a magical school, investigate the strange disappearance of two children, in a book where the reader's decisions determine the end of the story. Call Number: J MANURO
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Dog Man
by Dav Pilkey
George and Harold create a new comic book hero in Dog Man, a crime fighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, who faces off against his arch nemesis Petey the cat. Call Number: J PILKEY
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Phoebe and Her Unicorn
by Dana Simpson
It all started when Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this led to Phoebe being granted one wish, and she used it to make the unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, her obligational best friend. But can a vain mythical beast and a 9-year-old daydreamer really forge a connection? Indeed they can. Call Number: J SIMPSON
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Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth
by Judd Winick
When a mysterious boy from outer space crash lands on the Earth with no memory of his identity, D.J. and his friend Gina help the boy try to unlock the secrets of his past. Call Number: J WINICK
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Secret Coders
by Gene Luen Yang
Attending an elite school where enterprising students are challenged to solve a variety of clues and puzzles using computer programming, Hopper and her friend, Eni, resolve to crack the school founder's most elusive mystery together. Call Number: J YANG
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Hero Pup of World War I
by Laurie Calkhoven
Taken in by a group of American soldiers, a stray pup becomes their regiment's official mascot during World War I and makes valuable contributions, from warning humans about a surprise gas attack to helping capture an enemy soldier. Call Number: J CALKHOVE
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The Lincoln Project
by Dan Gutman
Invited by billionaire Miss Z to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events, Luke, Isabel, David, and Julia are sent to the year 1863 to capture Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address. Call Number: J GUTMAN
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Unsinkable
by Gordon Korman
The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, the lives of four young passengers will be forever linked with its fate. Call Number: J KORMAN
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Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. Call Number: J LOWRY
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. Call Number: J MACLACHL
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I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944
by Lauren Tarshis
A latest installment in the best-selling series commemorates the 75th anniversary of D-Day in a high-interest story that imagines a young person's firsthand witness of the Normandy landings and the Allied victory in World War II. Call Number: J TARSHIS
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Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors. Call Number: J WILDER
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Bad Kitty Gets a Bath
by Nick Bruel
With bath time approaching, Kitty's owners do what they can to prepare themselves for the disaster they know it will become. Call Number: J BRUEL
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Mac Undercover
by Mac Barnett
This hilarious, fully illustrated new spy adventure series introduces Mac B., the queen of England’s newest secret agent, who travels around the globe in search of stolen treasures. Call Number: J BARNETT
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Miss Daisy is Crazy
by Dan Gutman
Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J. Call Number: J GUTMAN
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The Magic Misfits
by Neil Patrick Harris
A young New England street magician teams up with other talented street kids to protect their community from a greedy crime boss. Call Number: J HARRIS
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
by Stephan Pastis
Resolving to earn money for his mother's bills, eleven-year-old Timmy launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear. He soon finds their enterprise is challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl, whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge. Call Number: J PASTIS
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Spaceheadz
by Jon Scieszka
Michael K. is going to a new school, and the other two new kids are really weird. As it turns out, Bob and Jennifer (and the class hamster) are aliens. Call Number: J SCIESZKA
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Inspector Flytrap
by Tom Angleberger
Hoping to become the greatest detective that ever grew, Inspector Flytrap, a Venus Flytrap, and his assistant, Nina the Goat, investigate "big deal" mysteries at an art museum, a cookie shop, and a garden. Call Number: J ANGLEBER
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Masterpiece
by Elise Broach
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Dürer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Call Number: J BROACH
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We the Children
by Andrew Clements
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed. Call Number: J CLEMENTS
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The Misfits Club
by Kieran Mark Crowley
While the Misfit Club has never found any adventure or solved any mysteries before, they persuade new club member Amelia to investigate a spooky old house, and they unexpectedly discover stolen goods. Call Number: J CROWLEY
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The Fenway Foul-Up
by David A. Kelly
Cousins Mike and Kate are at Fenway Park when the lucky baseball bat of a star Boston Red Sox player is stolen. Can they find the missing bat before the game is over? Call Number: J KELLY
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The Law of Finders Keepers
by Sheila Turnage
A conclusion to the popular series finds Tupelo Landing affected by pirate fever when an opportunistic treasure hunter arrives with claims about Blackbeard's local hoard, prompting the Desperado Detectives to investigate clues about Mo's long-lost Upstream Mother. Call Number: J TURNAGE
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Legend of the Star Runner
by J. I. Wagner
In an effort to save a dear friend, Timmi Tobbson and his cohorts follow the clues concealed within a centuries-old family legacy and unravel the legend of a long-lost pirate ship, buried somewhere deep beneath the city streets, but their search awakens a mystical dark power. Call Number: J WAGNER
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No Talking
by Andrew Clements
With the boys and girls of Laketon Elementary at definite odds, Dave's single insult to Lynsey is the final straw that leads to a competition of silence between the two groups, causing a quiet chaos within the school and a confused principal who has no idea how to get things back to normal. Call Number: J CLEMENTS
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Bink and Gollie
by Kate DiCamillo
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion. Call Number: J DICAMILL
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Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
by Kate DiCamillo
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. Call Number: J DICAMILL
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The Year of Billy Miller
by Kevin Henkes
Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries. But by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons. Call Number: J HENKES
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The Haunted Library
by Dori Hillestad Butler
When his haunted house is torn down, and he is separated from his ghost family, Kaz the ghost befriends a human named Claire. She has the ability to see ghosts, and helps he helps her investigate a haunting at the local library. Call Number: J BUTLER
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The School is Alive
by Jack Chabert
Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is alive and plotting against the students. As hall monitor, it is his job to protect them, but he will need some help from his friends. Call Number: J CHABERT
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Rise of the Balloon Goons
by Troy Cummings
Discovering an old notebook after moving to a new hometown, Alexander reads top-secret information about monsters while tackling a wacky band of arm-waving, balloon-wielding brutes. Call Number: J CUMMINGS
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Dying to Meet You
by Kate Klise
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author I. B. Grumply gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer and it turns out to be haunted. Call Number: J KLISE
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My Haunted House
by Angie Sage
Araminta Spookie enlists the help of several ghosts and a haunted suit of armor named Sir Horace in an attempt to stop her Aunt Tabby from selling Spook House. Call Number: J SAGE
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The Shadows
by Jacqueline West
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats. Call Number: J WEST
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Play Ball
by Matt Christopher
Eleven-year-old cousins catcher Liam McCarthy and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together. Their team is now on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: The Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match they must first beat their number one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face on their road to the championships. Call Number: J CHRISTOP
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The Missing Baseball
by Mike Lupica
There's nothing eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe Walker love more than playing sports and solving mysteries. So when a baseball signed by Zach's favorite major league player suddenly goes missing--the search is on. Luckily, amateur sleuths Zach and Zoe are on the case. Can they solve the mystery and find the ball before it's lost for good? Call Number: J LUPICA
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Lacrosse Laser
by Jake Maddox
Now that he has new glasses, fourteen-year-old Jaylin is anxious to put his speed and accurate shot to use on offense, but his lacrosse team has always relied on his stellar defense, and without it too many goals are ending up in their net--so the team needs to come up with a strategy to balance both halves of his game. Call Number: J MADDOX
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King of the Bench: No Fear!
by Steve Moore
A debut entry in a series by the nationally syndicated cartoonist of In the Bleachers follows the experiences of benchwarmer Steve, who struggles to conquer his fear of getting hit with a baseball before his first year on the school team is ruined. Call Number: J MOORE
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Saving the Team
by Alex Morgan
After moving to California, seventh-grader Devin is afraid she will not make the soccer team but finds, instead, a team is so bad that she is compelled to take the lead and turn it into something the players and coach can all be proud of. Call Number: J MORGAN
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The Aurora County All-Stars
by Deborah Wiles
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant. After the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher, House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything. Call Number: J WILES
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Sports
by Dan Gutman
A treasury of sports facts includes entries about the NFL touchdown thrown by a quarterback to himself, the only sport ever played on the moon, and the metal that is really used to make Olympic gold medals. Call Number: J 796 GUT
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