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Scritch scratch
by Lindsay Currie
Reluctantly assisting her father’s latest ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, an avid young scientist glimpses a mysterious, sad-eyed boy in the back of the bus who disappears before she starts hearing and seeing bizarre phenomena.
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The summer we found the baby
by Amy Hest
Told from three viewpoints, a brisk historical tale follows the experiences of two sisters who discover an abandoned baby on the library steps, while their estranged friend, racing to complete an important errand for his World War II soldier brother, jumps to the wrong conclusion.
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Class act
by Jerry Craft
Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together.
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Fighting words
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother’s boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life.
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Never and forever
by Cressida Cowell
A series conclusion finds Xar and Wish teaming up against the Kingwish to flee the Mine of Happiness and its starved Magical creatures, including a grotesque Tazzelwurm monster that blocks their escape. By the best-selling author of the How to Train Your Dragon series.
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When you trap a tiger
by Tae Keller
Moving with her parents into the home of her sick grandmother, young Lily forges a complicated pact with a magical tiger, in a story inspired by Korean folktales. By the author of The Science of Unbreakable Things.
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What lane?
by Torrey Maldonado
Biracial sixth grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and tries to navigate his life in a racially split world.
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The magnificent monsters of Cedar Street
by Lauren Oliver
Helping to protect the remarkable creatures that her neighbors in late 19th-century Boston call “monsters,” Cordelia teams up with human and fantastical friends when her beloved father and several of the creatures in his care go missing.
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The only black girls in town
by Brandy Colbert
Ecstatic to hear that another African American family has moved into town, surfer Alberta attempts to make friends with homesick newcomer Edie, who helps her uncover painful local secrets in a box of old journals.
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A wish in the dark
by Christina Soontornvat
Escaping 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.
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Twilight hauntings
by Angie Sage
A 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.
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