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Books for 4th & 5th Graders Spring 2024
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Between Two Brothers
by Crystal Allen
When his older brother Seth is in a serious accident that he may never recover from, 13-year-old Isaiah chooses to help Seth recover in a way only he can: by trusting in their bond and undying love.
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We Still Belong
by Christine Day
Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.
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Never After: The Missing Sword
by Melissa De la Cruz
To free her mother from Olga's clutches, Filomena arrives in Camelot to find the sword of Excalibur but instead finds another story causing chaos in the realm - the Wizard of Oz, and in a land of illusions, she must find some way to thwart Olga's sinister plan.
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The liars society
by Alyson Gerber
"When the money for their school trip is stolen at their elite Boston School, Weatherby and Jack, each protecting secrets that could destroy their lives, are invited to solve this high-stakes mystery, which would guarantee their entrance into the oldest, most powerful society in the world. "
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Bumps in the Night
by Amalie Howard
Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.
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Bamboo Kingdom: The Dark Sun
by Erin Hunter
The Bamboo Kingdom is once again safely led by guidance of a real Dragon Speaker - three Dragon Speakers, in fact! But a troubling vision from the Great Dragon warns of a "Dark Sun" coming soon. And while Rain, Leaf, and Ghost argue amongst themselves about what it means, the monkeys are hatching a plan to use this moment of uncertainty to their best advantage... Unless the pandas learn to trust each other, their biggest challenges may still lurk on the horizon.
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Kairos Files: The School for Invisible Boys
by Shaun David Hutchinson
While at St. Lawrence's Catholic School for Boys, Hector Griggs, who has the ability to turn invisible, teams up with a mysterious new classmate to stop a terrifying creature preying on students' loneliness and fear and discovers that sometimes it takes disappearing to really be seen.
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The First State of Being
by Erin Entrada Kelly
When a teenage boy appears out of nowhere in 1999, claiming he's the world's first time-traveler and has a book outlining the events of the next 20 years, 12-year-old Michael wants to get his hands on the book and must decide how far he's willing to go to do so.
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Dread Detention
by Jennifer Killick
While in Saturday detention, Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira must work together to survive when unspeakable horrors emerge from the shadows and the evil grows stronger by the minute.
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Slugfest
by Gordon Korman
Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka “Slugfest,” in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget.
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In Search of Superpowers: A Fantasy Pin World Adventure
by Briana Lawrence
Four preteens receive mysterious enamel pins that grant them superpowers. Together, they must put aside their differences and embark on an epic journey to find the mysterious pin maker, discover the truth behind the new theme park, and of course, trade pins-all while learning how to navigate their new superhuman skills. This is an all-new illustrated adventure series that's about magic, friendship, queer identity, collecting, and tons of fun!
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Thousand Worlds: Fox Snare
by Yoon Ha Lee
When Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun are sent on a goodwill mission to prevent war from breaking out, they end up getting stranded on a death planet behind enemy lines.
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The Unbeatable Lily Hong
by Diana Ma
To save the Clarktown Community Center, which houses her parents' Chinese school, Lily and her fellow students must master a traditional Chinese dance in time for the center's first showcase and receive some unexpected help from her rival, Max Zhang.
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Medusa
by Katherine Marsh
A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever.
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Treasure Island: Runaway Gold
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Entrusted with a real treasure map, Zane, along with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop, arrives in Manhattan where he learns about the buried history of Black New Yorkers of centuries past, and the gold hidden in those stories, while eluding a vicious rival skateboard crew.
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Not Quite a Ghost
by Anne Ursu
The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart - whose family is about to move into the house - very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Everything seemed to be changing at once. But sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay. That is, until Violet sees her new room. The attic bedroom is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper covered with a faded tangle of twisting vines and sickly flowers. And then, after moving in, Violet falls ill-and does not get better.
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Mascot
by Charles Waters
Told from several perspectives, this timely novel follows six middle-schoolers, all with different backgrounds and beliefs, as they learn about identity, tradition and what it means to stand up for real change when their school's mascot is seen as racist.
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Shark Teeth
by Sherri Winston
Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
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Jawbreaker
by Christina Wyman
Forced to wear painful (and totally awkward) orthodontic headgear called "the jawbreaker,” Max Plink finds following her dreams of entering the journalism competition complicated by a required video component, which means showing her face to her classmates and possibly the whole city.
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The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum
by Lisa Yee
Dropped off at the strangest boarding school ever, Olive discovers the "reforming arts” academy isn't what it seems - and neither is she - as she joins an elite group of misfits who fight crime and need her help to stop the heist of the century.
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Area 51 Files: The Big Flush
by Julie Buxbaum
With Area 51 in danger from a hunk of space junk - a giant toilet - headed straight for the base, Sky Patel-Baum and her friends must expose a traitor in their midst to get out of this stinky situation.
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Middle School and Other Disasters: Worst Broommate Ever!
by Wanda Coven
Starting a new boarding school that has secret classes for witches-in-training, Heidi Heckelbeck is super excited until she discovers her roommate is her old rival, Melanie Maplethorpe, who is also less than thrilled, which leads to an epic prank war and magical mayhem.
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Chronicles of Never After: The Broken Mirror
by Melissa De la Cruz
Filomena, along with her Snow Country pals, sets off to find The League of the Seven - a group of fearless warriors devoted to fighting the ogres at any cost - in a last ditch effort to save the land from Queen Olga's clutches.
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The Other Side of the River
by Alda P. Dobbs
Petra Luna (The Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna) is in America, having escaped the Mexican Revolution and the terror of the Federales. Now that they are safe, Petra and her family can begin again, in this country that promises so much. Still, twelve-year-old Petra knows that her abuelita, little sister, and baby brother depend on her to survive. She leads her family from a smallpox-stricken refugee camp on the Texas border to the buzzing city of San Antonio, where they work hard to build a new life. And for the first time ever, Petra has a chance to learn to read and write. Yet Petra wants more - isn't that what the revolution is about? Her strength and courage will be tested like never before as she fights for herself, her family, and her dreams.
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Dragons in a Bag: The Enchanted Bridge
by Zetta Elliott
On a mission to Palmara to help all magical creatures return to the human world, Jaxon and his friends must cross an enchanted bridge connecting the two realms that belongs to an unlikely ally they aren't sure they can trust.
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Wilderlore: The Ever Storms
by Amanda Foody
When mysterious, unnatural sandstorms start appearing around the Desert, Barclay and his fellow classmates at the University of Al Faradh search for answers in an exclusive, magical library that appears out of nowhere.
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Funjungle: Whale Done
by Stuart Gibbs
While in Malibu with his girlfriend Summer, Teddy Fitzroy helps the head vet from FunJungle investigate a blown-up whale and the theft of tons of beach sand, determined to uncover the truth in a glittering world where nothing is as it seems.
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Smartest Kid in the Universe: Evil Genius
by Chris Grabenstein
When his ingestible knowledge jellybeans go missing right before his training with the secret agency known as the Consortium is about to start, Jake McQuade, the smartest kid in the universe, must solve this mystery fast while thwarting a high-tech heist. Simultaneous eBook.
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Falling Out of Time
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In 2193, 12-year-old Zola wonders if she's been wrong about everything in her life when she receives a mysterious note that leads her to a shocking discovery and reveals her seemingly perfect utopian world is covering up a dark reality.
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Goddess Girls: Artemis the Hero
by Joan Holub
To retrieve a river nymph's precious cup, Artemis must beat the sneaky river god Alpheus at his own game and become the hero she is meant to be.
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Bamboo Kingdom: Journey to the Dragon Mountain
by Erin Hunter
To fulfill their destinies as Dragon Speakers, the panda triplets must find their way back to each other and face their greatest fears to stop Sunset's nefarious plans for taking over the Bamboo Kingdom.
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Pages & Co.:The Treehouse Library
by Anna James
To save his Uncle Horatio from an enchanted sleeping spell cast by the Alchemist, book smuggler Milo Bolt, ready to be the hero of his own story, ends up at the magical treehouse of the Alchemist's sworn enemy to find the cure.
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The Secret of Glendunny: The Searchers
by Kathryn Lasky
Embarking on a perilous journey to find their beloved mother, friend, and guardian, Elsinore the swan, who has disappeared, three brave beaver kits come to the rescue of innocent animals being held against their will for evil purposes.
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Battle Dragons: City of secrets
by Alex London
Cut off from his friends and banished to the desolate frontier town of Glassblower's Gulch, which is run by a ruthless sheriff who has banned dragons, Abel is determined to be a model citizen until he discovers a baby wyvern who won't survive without his help.
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Jacky Ha-Ha Gets the Last Laugh
by James Patterson
Arriving at theater camp and looking forward to putting her comedy skills to good use, Jacky Hart realizes she's way out of her depth, but with the help of some new friends, sets out to earn her place in the spotlight.
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Stuntboy, In-Between Time
by Jason Reynolds
Portico Reeves, or Stuntboy the greatest superhero people have never heard of, tries to manage his frets and navigate his new normal with divorced parents, bullies in his building, and a newfound friend.
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Cookie Chronicles: Ben Yokoyama and the Cookies of Chaos
by Matthew Swanson
While trying to track down the owner of a lost wallet, Ben Yokoyama seeks guidance from five perplexing fortune cookies while battling a librarian bent on revenge, a terrifying toilet and gaining a new appreciation for ducks, cardamom and his best friend, Janet.
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Gravebooks
by J. A. White
In this thrilling sequel to Nightbooks, Alex is forced to complete a scary story each night when the witch who held him captive enters his dreams in a new way, plunging him into a nightmare - literally.
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