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Middle School Reads March 2020
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Story Studio: Fantastic Readers
Thursday, March 19, 3:30 PM
Meeting Room
Design your own mythical creature while discussing fantasy fiction. Sponsored by the Oak Park River Forest Youth Services
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Beach-loving surfer Alberta has been the only black girl in town for years. Alberta's best friend, Laramie, is the closest thing she has to a sister, but there are some things even Laramie can't understand. When the bed and breakfast across the street finds new owners, Alberta is ecstatic to learn the family is black-and they have a 12-year-old daughter just like her.
When the girls discover a box of old journals in Edie's attic, they team up to figure out exactly who's behind them and why they got left behind. Soon they discover shocking and painful secrets of the past and learn that nothing is quite what it seems.
MS FICTION COLBERT
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Ben Hardy believes he's cursed by potatoes. And now he's moved to Idaho, where the school's mascot is Steve the Spud! Yeah, this cannot be good.
After accidentally causing the mascot to sprain an ankle, Ben is sentenced to Spud duty for the final basketball games of the year. But if the other kids know he's the Spud, his plans for popularity are likely to be a big dud! Ben doesn't want to let the team down, so he lies to his friends to keep it a secret. No one will know it's him under the potato suit . . . right?
MS FICTION COSTNER
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The Chaos Curse by Sayantani DasguptaReturning to her hometown to rescue Prince Lal from her frenemy, Kiran navigates a troubling prophecy about her role in a brewing conflict before discovering that the Anti-Chaos Committee may be causing disruptions in the multiverse. MS FICTION DASGUPTA
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Wink by Rob HarrellAfter being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school. MS FICTION HARRELL
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The Queen Bee and Me by Gillian McDunnTwelve-year-old Meg is anxious about growing apart from her best friend Beatrix, but she is also interested in learning about the quirky new student Hazel and her backyard beehive. MS FICTION MCDUNN
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The Warrior's Curse by Jennifer A NielsenNewly crowned Simon attends to royal duties and secretly harbors a love for the exiled Kestra, who embraces her growing magic to help protect the kingdom from the evil Lord Endrick. MS FICTION NIELSEN
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Bloom by Kenneth OppelThe invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. They bloom--everywhere, unstoppable.
Or are they? Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. Anaya, Petra, Seth. They each have strange allergies--and yet not to these plants. What's their secret? Can they somehow be the key to beating back this invasion? They'd better figure it out fast, because it's starting to rain again.... MS FICTION OPPEL
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Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies.
MS FICTION PONTI
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Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz RyanGrowing up on legends about a mythical gatekeeper who assists worthy travelers, a young fútbol enthusiast from Santa Maria wonders about the mother he never met before uncovering a long-buried family secret involving an underground network that guides people to safety. MS FICTION RYAN
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Twilight Hauntings by Angie SageA debut installment in a planned duology finds a secret practitioner of forbidden magic and her little brother forced to flee in the wake of a betrayal before finding themselves targeted by mysterious magical predators. MS FICTION SAGE
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A Wish in the Dark by Christina SoontornvatEscaping from the prison where he was born, Pong discovers harrowing truths about the gap between the world’s privileged ruling class and impoverished laborers, while the prison warden’s daughter who is hunting him uncovers other daunting secrets. MS FICTION SOONTORNVAT
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In the Red by Christopher SwiedlerSuffering from panic attacks every time he puts on a space suit, a boy from a Mars colony takes a friend’s dare to prove his courage and ventures out in a stolen rover before becoming stranded hours from safety by a decimating solar flare. MS FICTION SWIEDLER
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Bad Best Friend by Rachel VailEighth-grader Niki's best friend, Ava, dumps her just as life at home is becoming more complicated by her brother Danny's behavior and her mother's refusal to admit Danny is on the autism spectrum. MS FICTION VAIL
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