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Book Scavenger
by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
After Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to figure out the secrets of an odd book they find before the men who attacked Emily's hero solve the mystery or come after the friends. Call Number: J BERTMAN
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Drowned City : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
by Don Brown
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage -- and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Call Number: 976.335064 BRO
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Awkward
by Svetlana Chmakova
After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member. Call Number: J CHMAKOVA (graphic novel)
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All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
by Leslie Connor
Secretly being raised in prison so that he can be with his inmate mother, 11-year-old Perry is discovered by an ambitious new district attorney and brought to the outside world, where he desperately seeks to reunite with his mother while learning the truth about why she is in jail. Call Number: J CONNOR
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Hour of the Bees
by Lindsay Eagar
Spending a summer in New Mexico helping her family move her aging grandfather to an assisted living home, 12-year-old Carol avoids her prickly grandfather before she is captivated by his astonishing magical stories. Call Number: YA EAGAR
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I Will Always Write Back : How One Letter Changed Two Lives
by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
Chronicles the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from Zimbabwe, discussing how a class assignment was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives. Call Number: 305.2350968 ALI
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Full Cicada Moon
by Marilyn Hilton
A novel-in-verse follows the cultural identity struggles of an ambitious half-black, half-Japanese teen who moves to a predominantly white community in 1969 Vermont. Call Number: J HILTON
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House Arrest
by K. A Holt
While under house arrest for one year for stealing a wallet, young Timothy keeps free-verse notes on his life in a court-ordered journal as he deals with having a sick brother and tries to stay out of trouble. Call Number: YA HOLT
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Roller Girl
by Victoria Jamieson
In this graphic novel, a girl discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart. Call Number: J JAMIESON (graphic novel)
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Listen, Slowly
by Thanhha Lai
Assisting her grandmother's investigation of her grandfather's fate during the Vietnam War, Mai struggles to adapt to an unfamiliar culture while redefining her sense of family. Call Number: J LAI
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A Night Divided
by Jennifer A Nielsen
When her family is abruptly divided by the rise of the Berlin Wall, 12-year-old Gerta harbors forbidden thoughts about freedom and reuniting with her loved ones before a coded message from her father inspires a daring plan. Call Number: J NIELSEN
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The Seventh Most Important Thing
by Shelley Pearsall
After he throws a brick at the neighborhood Junk Man's head, Arthur Owens is sentenced to community service helping him, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Call Number: J PEARSALL
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I Am Princess X
by Cherie Priest
Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic car accident, 16-year-old Libby is shocked to see stickers, patches and graffiti images of the superheroine appearing all over town. Call Number: YA PRIEST
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Fuzzy Mud
by Louis Sachar
Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world. Call Number: J SACHAR
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Orbiting Jupiter
by Gary D Schmidt
Twelve-year-old Jack narrates the story of foster teen Joseph, who after serving time in a juvenile facility has been placed with a family on a rural Maine farm and who resolves to track down the daughter he has never met. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Call Number: YA SCHMIDT
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Beneath
by Roland Smith
After receiving a package with a cryptic message from his older brother who ran away from home the year before, Pat O'Toole sets out on a strange and dangerous journey to the mysterious Community living beneath the streets of New York. Call Number: YA SMITH
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Goodbye Stranger
by Rebecca Stead
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?" Call Number: J STEAD
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The Bitter Side of Sweet
by Tara Sullivan
Frantically working to escape punishment by their overseers, Ivory Coast child slaves Amadou and Seydou befriend a slave newcomer whose constant attempts to escape compel the brothers to plan their own flight. Call Number: YA SULLIVAN
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Last in a Long Line of Rebels
by Lisa Lewis Tyre
When the county announces that it is taking her house, Lou and her best friend, Benzer, endeavor to save the house by solving a mystery about a cache of Civil War gold stolen by her notorious ancestor. Call Number: J TYRE
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