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The Crossroads by Chris GrabensteinWhen the family moves back to his father's hometown, Zack is told the story of the crazed killer and the accident at the crossroads that took forty lives, causing Zack to believe in the rumor of the evil spirit that lives in the tree and whose reign of terror is not yet over.
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The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by L. R. GilesWhen two adventurous cousins accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they discover that the secrets they find hidden between the unmoving seconds, minutes and hours are not as much fun as expected.
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Chirp
by Kate Messner
Moving to Vermont after breaking her arm in seventh grade, Mia makes new friends and spends time with a beloved grandparent, a stroke patient who is experiencing progressive impairments. By the award-winning author of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
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The Parker Inheritance by Varian JohnsonSpending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, Candice discovers the letter that sent her grandmother on a treasure hunt, and with her new friend Brandon, sets off to expose the injustice once committed against a local African American family.
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Charlie & Frog : A Mystery by Karen KaneWhile staying with his grandparents in Castle-on-the-Hudson, Charlie stumbles upon a mystery but must learn American Sign Language to keep up with Frog, a deaf girl who wants to help solve it.
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Dragons and Marshmallows by Asia CitroAfter discovering that injured animals come to the barn in her backyard for help, it is up to Zoey and her cat Sassafras to help new arrival Marshmallow, a sick baby dragon.
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Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian SelznickThe Caldecott Medal-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret blends the styles of a picture book, beginning reader and graphic novel in a story for younger audiences that conveys the imaginative adventures of Baby Monkey, Private Eye, who searches for lost jewels, sniffs out a missing pizza and tracks down a stolen spaceship.
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The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley SnyderA group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor of the local junk shop.
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Winterhouse by Ben GutersonA first entry in a planned trilogy set in a magical hotel filled with secrets finds orphan Elizabeth Somers shipped away by her malevolent guardians to a mysterious hotel, where she discovers a magic book of puzzles with ties to her host's sinister family and a fateful curse.
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The In-Between by Rebecca K. S. AnsariPresents a dark, twisty adventure about the forgotten among us, and what it means to be seen.
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Liar & Spy by Rebecca SteadMoving into an apartment when his father loses his job, Georges befriends Safer, a twelve-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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The Shrunken Head by Lauren OliverGrowing up with fellow sideshow performers at an oddities museum, three orphans with unusual superhuman abilities are joined by a fourth child, a knife-thrower, with whom they search for the museum's stolen Amazonian shrunken head.
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Bunnicula : A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah HoweThough scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
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