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Magical Realism Middle School
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Merrow
by Ananda Braxton-Smith
Enduring whispers about her absent mother's alleged merrow origins after her father drowns, 12-year-old Neen questions her identity as she becomes increasingly torn between the worlds of the sea and her island home.
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The hawkweed prophecy
by Irena Brignull
Brought together by an ancient prophecy, outsiders Poppy and Ember's friendship is tested when they learn of their true identities and a homeless boy with a painful past befriends them.
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Nightfall
by Jake Halpern
Accidentally left behind on an island where the sun only rises once every several years, three children discover that they are not alone and flee through an alien landscape of deadly hazards, unexpected transformations, and dark truths.
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The gallery of unfinished girls
by Lauren Karcz
Struggling with creative blocks in the wake of her abuela's coma and her unrequited feelings for her best friend, Mercedes is invited to join a mysterious artist neighbor at the latter's estate, where she taps her creativity in unprecedented ways but remains unable to reconnect with her art in the outside world.
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Dreamology
by Lucy Keating
Experiencing dreams about her soulmate all of her life, Alice meets the real boy, Max, when she moves to a new school and finds that their real relationship is more complicated than their dream one.
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The secret of a heart note
by Stacey Lee
A rare aroma expert embarks on what she fears will be a life of solitude and dreams of a normal high school existence before an accident leads to an unexpected forbidden romance. By the author of Under a Painted Sky.
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The weight of feathers
by Anna-Marie McLemore
Working for rival traveling performance troupes in a magical world, Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau unexpectedly fall in love when disaster strikes in the village where their families have been staging their latest shows.
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Silent
by David Mellon
When her twin brothers are kidnapped, Adi must solve the riddle of a watch left behind by the kidnapper to save all of their lives while making her way from India to Europe during World War I.
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A monster calls : a novel
by Patrick Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill, but an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
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The shadows we know by heart
by Jennifer Park
Hiding her witness to the activities of a trio of sasquatches who have been living in the woods behind her home for years, Leah, a girl from a troubled family, discovers a teen boy living with the sasquatches who has no memory of his past.
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Rocks fall, everyone dies
by Lindsay Ribar
Possessing the ability to reach inside people and steal their innermost fears, memories, even love, Aspen Quick, a boy from a magical family that for centuries has secretly kept the cliff above their small town from collapsing, discovers over the course of a summer the extent of his family's collective strength. By the author of The Art of Wishing.
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Klickitat
by Peter Rock
Looking for signs that her runaway sister will return, Vivian receives strange messages in a blank notebook before her sister arrives in the company of a strange man who encourages them to live in wilderness survival mode away from civilization. A first young adult novel by the award-winning author of My Abandonment.
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A song to take the world apart
by Zan Romanoff
Listening to music for the first time after being raised by a strict grandmother, Lorelei hangs out with a boy in a band and increasingly longs to sing before discovering that the women in her family possess astonishing vocal powers.
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As you wish
by Chelsea Sedoti
In Madison, a small town in the Mojave Desert, everyone gets one wish that will come true on his or her eighteenth birthday, and Eldon takes his very seriously.
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The heartbeats of Wing Jones
by Katherine Webber
Loving her golden-boy football star brother all of her life, misfit Wing is devastated by a car accident that ends two lives and leaves her brother, who was drinking and driving, in a coma, a situation that places the family in financial peril and prompts Wing to discover her own athletic talents.
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