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Sara and the search for normal
by Wesley King
A prequel to the Edgar Award-winning OCDaniel shares the story of fan-favorite character Sara, whose pursuit of a “normal” life is shaped by a talkative and outgoing new friend’s painful secrets.
Available on Cloud Library.
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Silver Batal and the water dragon races
by Kristin Halbrook
A young desert-dweller's dream of becoming a water dragon racer comes true when she befriends a rare dragon that can both swim and fly, in a fantasy adventure inspired by Middle Eastern culture.
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Storm Dog
by Laura Malone Elliott
Feeling like an outsider in a Blue Ridge Mountains community that values her sister’s beauty over her own high intelligence, Ariel, the sister of a soldier serving in Afghanistan, bonds with a former Army K-9 handler and her dog during a dangerous storm.
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Before the ever after
by Jacqueline Woodson
The son of an idolized pro-football star begins noticing the contrast between his father’s angry, forgetful behavior and his superhero reputation before adjusting to a new reality involving difficult symptoms stemming from his father’s numerous head injuries. By the National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming.
Available on Overdrive and Cloud Library.
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Turtle boy
by M. Evan Wolkenstein
A seventh grader struggles through a new school year marked by bullying, his teacher’s insistence that he return captured turtles to the wild and a bar mitzvah community service project that requires him to spend time visiting a terminally ill boy in the hospital. A first novel.
Available on Cloud Library.
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The explorer's code
by Allison K. Hymas
The winner of a puzzle contest, his reluctant sister and the daughter of parents on a secret mission team up in a decades-abandoned manor house where they follow clues to unlock the property’s mysterious link to a famous woman explorer.
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Mystery & mayhem : twelve deliciously intriguing mysteries
by Susie Day
Twelve mysteries. Twelve authors. One challenge: can you solve the crimes before the heroes of the stories? This title features twelve short stories from twelve of the best children's crime writers writing today. It is suitable for fans of crime fiction and detection, especially the Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, and, The Roman Mysteries.
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Book scavenger
by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Delightedly moving to San Francisco, 12-year-old Emily longs to meet a favorite author who lives nearby and who is savagely attacked just before the release of his latest online puzzle series. A first novel.
Available on Cloud Library.
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The case of the missing marquess : The Case of the Missing Marquess
by Serena Blasco
After her mother disappears, Enola Holmes, younger sister of Sherlock, journeys in disguise to London and finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a marquess, as she tries to find her mother and evade the efforts of her brother to track her down.
Available on Cloud Library.
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The Westing game
by Ellen Raskin
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
Available on Overdrive and Cloud Library.
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