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World of glass : the art of Dale Chihuly
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Jan Greenberg
The award-winning authors of Ballet for Martha trace half a century of art by glassblowing master Dale Chihuly, drawing on exclusive interviews to outline the remarkable steps of his artistic process.
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Turtle boy
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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.
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Itch
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Polly Farquhar
Beginning the sixth grade in the wake of a tornado and his mother’s extended business trip, Itch navigates painful disadvantages through school friendships that are tested by a scary incident involving a swapped lunch.
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Finn and the intergalactic lunchbox
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Michael Buckley
Possessing a tricky lunchbox that opens wormholes to distant parts of the galaxy, Finn Foley inadvertently captures the attention of a race of gigantic bugs who want to reclaim a mysterious device that has emerged from the lunchbox. By the best-selling author of the NERDS series.
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Becoming Kid Quixote : A True Story of Belonging in America
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Sarah Sierra
The true story of Sarah Sierra, a 10-year-old member of a traveling, performing group from Brooklyn, New York. Mexican American Sarah loves playing the lead role of Kid Quixote because, just like Don Quixote, she wants to make the world a better place. Through this memoir, adapted from the adult companion book written by Sarah's teacher, she lets readers into her world, gathering inspiration from her family, friends, and community as she develops her character in her performances.
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My life as a potato
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Arianne Costner
Believing himself to be cursed by potatoes, Ben moves to a formidable potato-laden community in Idaho, where an accident leads him to become his school’s secret potato mascot.
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The Roanoke Colony : America's First Mystery
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Chris Schweizer
A graphic-novel introduction to the mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Colony describes how a century before the Pilgrims, the first English settlers established the colony only to go missing in 1590, in an account by the creators of Science Comics that invites readers to draw informed conclusions.
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The ship we built
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Lexie Bean
Ostracized at school and abused at home for being different, a trans teen writes his secrets in letters that he attaches to balloons and releases into the skies before making a trustworthy friend who understands how it feels to be lonely and scared.
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How to make friends with the sea
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Tanya Guerrero
Relocating to the politically charged Philippines for his father’s zoology work, a homesick 12-year-old boy navigates anxiety and changing perceptions of identity while helping his mother care for an orphaned child with special needs.
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