Publisher: Kids Can Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781554537709
ISBN-10: 1554537703
Call Number: E CAMPB

When Cousin Clara's house is destroyed by a crocodile, she moves in with Lester and his parents and proceeds to knit a series of increasingly hideous and ill-fitting sweaters, which she presents to Lester and his parents insist that he wear.

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780399255373
ISBN-10: 0399255370
Call Number: E DAYWA

When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.

Publisher: Orchard Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1990
ISBN-13: 9780531084939
ISBN-10: 0531084930
Call Number: AVI

As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.

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Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781596437654
ISBN-10: 1596437650
Call Number: BAKER

Using a bogus name, the League of Picklemakers, sixth-grader Ben and three recruits start a prank-pulling club that could possibly receive funding from their middle school's PTA.

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Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780062104892
ISBN-10: 0062104896
Call Number: CHAIN

Best friends Sophie (princess wannabe) and Agatha (witchy loner) are headed (via kidnapping) to the School for Good and Evil, but their assumed destinies are reversed: Sophie's dumped into the School for Evil for Uglification and Henchmen Training classes, while Agatha attends Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication at the School for Good, and when a certain prince charming (son of King Arthur) is thrown into the mix, anything can happen! 

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9780547684635
ISBN-10: 0547684630
Call Number: CHENG

A fully illustrated chapter book follows Anna, a young Asian-American girl, as she navigates relationships with family, friends and fourth grade while learning what it takes to make friends and what it means to be one.

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Publisher: Candlewick Pr
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780763660406
ISBN-10: 076366040X
Call Number: DICAM

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. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Tale of Despereaux.

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9780062118905
ISBN-10: 0062118900
Call Number: FAIRL

Sixth-graders Bud and Laurie race against time during a clue-filled scavenger hunt in search of a hidden treasure and the answer to a decades-old mystery about their school.

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780062224071
ISBN-10: 0062224077
Call Number: GAIMA

When a father runs out to buy milk for his children's breakfast cereal, the last thing he expects is to be abducted by aliens, and he soon finds himself transported through time and space on an extraordinary adventure, where the fate of the universe depends on him and the milk--but will his children believe his wild story? By a Newbery Medal-winning author.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781442457539
ISBN-10: 1442457538
Call Number: GIBBS

As almost 13-year-old Ben, a student at the CIA's academy for future intelligence agents, prepares to go to spy summer camp, he receives a death threat from the evil organization SPYDER.

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Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780375970894
ISBN-10: 0375970894
Call Number: GRABE

Twelve-year-old Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of 12 children chosen to stay in the new town library--designed by his hero, the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello--for an overnight of fun, food and games, but in the morning, the kids find all the doors still locked and must work together to solve secret puzzles in order to discover the hidden escape route.

Publisher: Disney Pr
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781423157564
ISBN-10: 1423157567
Call Number: HOLYO

Feeling more of a bond to her scientist mother's test-subject dolphins than her human peers, Nere discovers that she is a product of the "Neptune Project," one of a group of kids who have been genetically altered to survive in the ocean, where she is required to swim through untold dangers to reach the Neptune colony and evade the control of a tyrannical government.

Publisher: Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
ISBN-13: 9780152057343
ISBN-10: 015205734X
Call Number: KLISE

Informed by an agent of an organization called IMSPOOKY that, due to new safety regulations, he can no longer live in his mansion on Cemetery Road without parents, Ignatius tries to convince the agent to change his mind by introducing him to his roommate, the responsible ghost of Olive C. Spence.

Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780062071644
ISBN-10: 0062071645
Call Number: KROSO

Paired together after a veteran detective retires, platypus police squad members Rick Zengo, a hotshot rookie, and Corey O'Malley, a hard-nosed old-timer, struggle with their differences while tackling their first case involving a missing schoolteacher and a duffle bag filled with illegal fish. By the creator of the Lunch Lady series.

Publisher: Bloomsbury
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781599907505
ISBN-10: 159990750X
Call Number: MACDO

Sent to the French countryside after her father is interred in a Nazi labor camp, Odette Meyer, a Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied Paris, attends church and pretends to be a peasant while wondering if she will be able to resume her Jewish life after the war, in a tale inspired by the story of the author's mother. By the author of The Little Piano Girl.

Publisher: Bloomsbury
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781599909158
ISBN-10: 1599909154
Call Number: MACK

When their two worlds collide in seventh grade, fraternal twins and opposites Owen and Russell find themselves in direct competition at school, on the court and at home.

Publisher: Atheneum
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1991
ISBN-13: 9780689316142
ISBN-10: 0689316143
Call Number: NAYLO

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

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Publisher: Crowell
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1977
ISBN-13: 9780690013597
ISBN-10: 0690013590
Call Number: PATER

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

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Publisher: Aladdin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781442441293
ISBN-10: 1442441291
Call Number: PONTI

Seventh-grader Molly has always been an outsider, even at New York City's elite Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology, but that changes when she is recruited to join the Omegas, a secret group that polices and protects zombies.

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Publisher: Disney/Hyperion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781423145394
ISBN-10: 1423145399
Call Number: RANSO

Working to save enough money to attend a summer camp for aspiring paleontologists, Rebel McKenzie hopes to win a local beauty pageant in spite of her atypical mannerisms and prepares herself for the talent competition by practicing a dramatic reading about life in the Pleistocene era. By the author of Iva Honeysuckle Discovers the World.

Publisher: A.A. Levine Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1998
ISBN-13: 9780590353403
ISBN-10: 0590353403
Call Number: ROWLI

A winner of England's National Book Award, the acclaimed debut novel tells the outrageously funny, fantastic adventure story of Harry Potter, who escapes a hideous foster home thanks to a scholarship to The Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780307977939
ISBN-10: 0307977935
Call Number: SHURT

When his mother dies without revealing his full name, Rump endures teasing for his half-name until he discovers his ability to spin gold, a talent that entangles him in a dire curse and prompts a fantastical quest to discover his true identity.

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780803738553
ISBN-10: 0803738552
Call Number: SLOAN

Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

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Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9780385737432
ISBN-10: 0385737432
Call Number: STEAD

Moving into an apartment when his father loses his job, Georges befriends Safer, a 12-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy, who recruits Georges into the world of espionage so that they can investigate a mysterious neighbor who lives on the top floor.

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Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2007
ISBN-13: 9780316057776
ISBN-10: 0316057770
Call Number: STEWA

As the only four children to pass the series of tests provided, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are asked to go on a secret mission as undercover agents at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and quickly realize they will have to use their collective wit to get their important task complete.

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Publisher: McSweeney's McMullens
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781938073069
ISBN-10: 1938073061
Call Number: TAYLO

After an explorer with a clockwork hand gives Kit West an old book from his father, he and his siblings must evade government agents while solving the puzzle their father sent.

Publisher: Scholastic
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1994
ISBN-13: 9780590458092
ISBN-10: 0590458094
Call Number: 796.357 M

A history of the Negro Leagues features extensive player profiles, a baseball history timeline, and photographs.

Publisher: WordSong
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781590789254
ISBN-10: 1590789253
Call Number: 811,54 L

The current U.S. Children's Poet Laureate and award-winning author of If You Were a Chocolate Mustache presents a wryly whimsical collection of poetry that introduces 14 eccentric Face Bug Museum exhibits that are observed by a mischievous pair of beetles, in a volume complemented by photographs and engaging insect facts.

Publisher: Amulet Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781419703966
ISBN-10: 141970396X
Call Number: 973.3 H

Each of the books in the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series has elements of the strange but true and is presented in an engaging format, highlighting the larger-than-life characters that pop up in real history.

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781596435292
ISBN-10: 1596435291
Call Number: B M313S

A visual profile of the iconic mime combines lyrical text with sumptuous artwork by a three-time Society of Illustrators Gold Medal winner to offer insight into the man behind his famous "Bip the Clown" character and the artistry that enabled him to communicate wordlessly and vibrantly.