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Middle School Reads February 2019
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I Heart Robots
Thursday, February 14, 3:30 pm
Meeting Room
The robots are coming! Drop on by and show your robot love in exploring Cubelets, Ozobots, Sphero, and more! Grades K -8.
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Bad Art Afternoon Challenge
Thursday, February 28, 3:30
Meeting Room
Bring out your tacky side and create the worst art to win a prize! Advanced registration required.
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The Last Life of Prince Alastor by Alexandra BrackenThree hundred years ago, fate bound Prosper Redding and Prince Alastor of the Third Realm together. Now the human boy and fiend heir to the demon kingdom must put aside a centuries-old blood feud to save everything they love. Alastor will guide Prosper through the demon realm-under one huge condition: Prosper must enter into a contract with the malefactor residing in him, promising eternal servitude in the afterlife. With Prosper's sister in the clutches of the evil queen Pyra, Prosper has no choice but to agree. MS FICTION BRACKEN
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Best Babysitters Ever by Caroline CalaMayhem ensues in their sleepy California beach town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business. MS FICTION CALA
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Game of stars by Sayantani DasGuptaMonths after Kiranmala's adventure in the Kingdom Beyond, a vision of the Demon Queen starts showing up in her bedroom, trying to tell Kiran something, but getting cutoff before she can finish; then she starts seeing an advertisement for an archery contest on her family's interdimensional television and Kiran realizes that she must return to her place of birth--where society is falling apart, a reality show is taking over, her friends are in danger, and she, once again, becomes the warrior princess she was meant to be. MS FICTION DASGUPTA
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The Shores Beyond Time by Kevin EmersonWith this third volume, Emerson concludes his acclaimed science fiction epic--a stunningly imagined journey deep into the heart of the origins of our universe, as humanity wages a desperate fight to save its future, once and for all. MS FICTION EMERSON
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How I Became a Spy : A Mystery of Wwii London by Deborah HopkinsonFrom the award-winning author of "The Great Trouble" comes a story of espionage, survival, and friendship during World War II that reminds readers that times of war call for bravery, brains, and teamwork from even the most unlikely heroes. MS FICTION HOPKINSON
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Klawde - Evil Alien Warlord Cat by Johnny MarcianoKlawde had everything. Sharp claws. Fine fur. And, being the High Commander of the planet Lyttyrboks, an entire world of warlike cats at his command. But when he is stripped of his feline throne, he is sentenced to the worst possible punishment- exile to a small planet in a quiet corner of the universe . . . named Earth. MS FICTION MARCIANO
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Dragon Ghosts by Lisa McMannDevastated by loss and hampered by war, Fifer struggles to regroup and continue the search for her twin. Meanwhile Thisbe, pounded by images of Grimere's dark history, contemplates her abandonment and considers leaving Rohan behind in a risky move that could take her home... or to her death. MS FICTION MCMANN
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The Traitor's Heart by Jennifer A NielsenNow firmly on the side of the Coracks, sixteen-year-old Kestra Dallisor plans to use the magic Olden Blade to kill the evil Lord Endrick, but when she fails, Endrick turns her into one of his Ironheart soldiers, without any memory of her rebellion, and bound to obey him, his spy within the Coracks; the rebel Simon is desperate to return her to the Kestra he loves, but he is reluctant to use the magic that might heal (or destroy) her--and neither Simon or Kestra is sure who they can trust among the rebels, because the whole rebellion is endangered by its increasingly murky politics. MS FICTION NIELSEN
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Born to Rock by James PattersonWhen her favorite rock band Lulu and the Handbags announces a contest, Georgia is determined the all-girl rock band she's in will win--even if she has to ask her brother Rafe for help. MS FICTION PATTERSON
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The Moon Within by Aida SalazarEleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about the approaching changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life. MS FICTION SALAZAR
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Stolen Girl : a novel by Marsha Forchuk SkrypuchWhen Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question: who is she, and where was she stolen from. MS FICTION SKRYPUCH
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To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg SloanUnhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through emails. MS FICTION SLOAN
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I Spy the Illuminati Eye : what's the big secret? by Sheila KeenanThis irreverent, illustrated guide takes a look with an all-seeing, skeptical eye at the history and mystery of the cultural phenomenon that's got middle-school kids flashing finger triangles and scrutinizing dollar bills for signs of the Illuminati. It's the first pop culture companion to the shadowy group behind everything from the French Revolution to Jay-Z's fabulous rise. How did an eighteenth-century philosophical society infiltrate governments, banks, the media, the military, Hollywood, and hip-hop? . . . Or did they? Kids everywhere want to know who's in, who's not, and what all those signs, symbols, and secret rituals are really about.Is it all really real? MS NF FYI SOCIAL KEE
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