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The boy, the wolf, and the starsby Shivaun PlozzaDiscovering when his guardian is attacked by a giant wolf that the mythological tales of his childhood are true, 12-year-old Bo, his pet fox and a magical girl named Selene embark on a quest to prevent an evil Shadow Witch from removing the world’s good magic.
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Cleo Porter and the body electricby Jake BurtLike everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humansfrom the earth. The trade-off? They're alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival--Cleo is stuck.
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Closer to nowhereby Ellen HopkinsTold in two voices, sixth-grade cousins Hannah and Cal learn a lot about family when circumstances throw them together under one roof and Hannah's love of order clashes with Cal's chaotic behavior.
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Flooded : requiem for Johnstownby Ann E. BurgOn May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many others this is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam and the unnatural disaster which it caused.
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Friend meby Sheila M. AverbuchRoisin turns to Haley, her online friend, to escape the constant abuse from a school bully, but Roisin begins to suspect Haley isn't who she claims she is.
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No ordinary thing
by G. Z. Schmidt
A mysterious stranger brings to shy, orphaned, twelve-year-old Adam a magical snow globe that sends him on adventures through time, and then returns him to his uncle's New York City bakery
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Of salt and shore
by Annet Schaap
Every night Lampie, the lighthouse keeper's daughter lights the lantern which warns the ships away from the rocks, but when the light goes out one night, a ship is wrecked and Lampie is sent to the Admiral's Black House in disgrace--there she finds and befriends the Admiral's son, who was born with a tail, and together they are pulled into an adventure of mermen and pirates, and secret identities long concealed but soon to be revealed
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Distress signal
by Mary E. Lambert
Lavender and the rest of the sixth-graders are on a camping trip to the Chiricahua wilderness, but the trip seems cursed from the start, and when a flash flood splits the group up Lavender finds herself lost, together with her former best friend Marisol,mean-girl Rachelle, and a boy John who has been behaving like a surly jerk since the start--they have only one pack of supplies and only the most basic wilderness knowledge, but if they are to survive they need to put their differences aside and work as a team or all that will be left of them are their sun-bleached bones
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When life gives you mangos
by Kereen Getten
Living on an island that visitors call exotic, 12-year-old Clara struggles with her increasingly distant relationship with a best friend and her inability to clearly recall the traumatizing events that occurred during a hurricane a year earlier. Simultaneous eBook.
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