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Children's New Fiction BooksSEPTEMBER 2017
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Beanstalker and other hilarious scary tales
by Kiersten White
A wacky collection of fractured fairy tales by the best-selling author of the Paranormalcy trilogy features characters who prove less than virtuous in the face of spooky, hilarious and often icky challenges, from a girl who emerges from the forest as a zombie to a prince whose efforts to find a wife pit him against furry vampires.
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Stick Dog craves candy
by Tom Watson
Hunting for food with his canine gang when he spots children dressed up like spooky monsters and carrying strange orange buckets, Stick Dog learns that the children are collecting candy, a discovery that leads to a delicious scavenger hunt through scary houses.
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Battlesong
by Lian Tanner
A conclusion to the trilogy that includes Sunker's Deep finds Gwin endeavoring to rescue Papa from the devious Brother Poosk, while the crew of the Oyster and the Sunkers fight against the ruthless Devouts without their Sleeping Captain.
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Sunker's deep
by Lian Tanner
While Sharkey struggles to overcome the lie on which his charmed life is based in order to meet the challenges of a tragedy, Petrel, Fin and the crew of the Oyster confront the Devouts to restore lost knowledge to the world.
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Darkness of dragons
by Tui Sutherland
When a young NightWing has a prophecy about an earth-shaking, ground-scorching force that will cause the destruction of Jade Mountain unless the lost city of night can be found, the five young dragons once again become Pyrrhia's defenders against the return of a devastating adversary.
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Cliff-hanger : a mystery in Mesa Verde National Park
by Gloria Skurzynski
Twelve-year-old Jack and his younger sister visit Mesa Verde National Park, where they delve into the park's history while gradually uncovering the mysterious past of their family's teenage foster child Lucky
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Buried alive : A Mystery in Denali National Park
by Gloria Skurzynski
While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche
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Almost paradise
by Corabel Shofner
When her mother is wrongly imprisoned for a crime committed by her boyfriend, 12-year-old Ruby and her pet pig are sent to Ruby's estranged Aunt Eleanor's home on a peach orchard where she endeavors to heal family wounds and clear her mother's name. A first novel.
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A house without mirrors
by Mårten Sandén
Enduring months in a dusty ancestral house where her elderly aunt is slowly dying while her father withdraws into grief, Thomasine and her youngest cousin discover a wardrobe filled with magical mirrors. By the author of the Petrini Detectives series.
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Jake the fake keeps it real
by Craig Robinson
Faking his way into a prestigious music and art academy in spite of his complete lack of musical and artistic skills, jokester Jake endeavors to meet the demands of a composition assignment before he is declared a fraud, in a first entry in a collaboration by three acclaimed comedic artists.
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The house of Hades
by Rick Riordan
A latest entry in the best-selling series finds the Greek and Roman demigods from the Prophesy of Seven working together to seal the Doors of Death while helping Percy and Annabeth escape the Underworld. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
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The first rule of punk
by Celia C. Pérez
When her first day at a new school is overshadowed by a clash with a queen bee and her dress code violating punk-rock clothes, 12-year-old Malú listens to her faraway dad's advice and resolves to be herself by pursuing the interests she loves and standing up to an anti-punk administration.
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Big Nate goes for broke
by Lincoln Peirce
In book four, daredevil Nate's quest to achieve greatness lands him in the hospital with a broken bone, and while his family and friends are eager to help him cope, they soon tire of his increasingly ridiculous demands.
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Middle school, get me out of here!
by James Patterson
After Rafe is happily accepted into art school in a big city, he discovers more academic rigor and competition than he expected, compelling him to find inspiration in other exciting activities
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My big fat zombie goldfish
by Mo O'Hara
A first entry in a new chapter book series finds Tom's goldfish horrifically transformed after his evil scientist big brother's experiment goes wrong, an accident that imbues the goldfish with hypnotic powers and a thirst for revenge.
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The apprentice witch
by James Nicol
Sent away in disgrace after failing her witch's assessment, Arianwyn learns that the remote community where she works as a magic apprentice is under the shadow of a dark hex infestation, a situation that is further complicated by a spiteful rival and mysterious dark elements that affect her magic.
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Beyond the doors
by David Neilsen
When a family disaster causes the four Rothbaum siblings to relocate to the home of their aunt Gladys, their immediate encounters with their new home's scary qualities, from a four-story drawbridge to endless boxes of silly cereal, give way to revelations about their aunt's secret activities.
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Shiloh season
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Although Shiloh rightfully belongs to Marty, Shiloh's former owner, Judd Travers, has some remaining issues, and when Judd begins to drink again, Marty's family fears what may result from one of his drunken rages.
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Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls
by Beth McMullen
Discovering, in the aftermath of a botched escape attempt, that her boarding school is actually an elite training academy for young spies, Abigail embarks on a crash course alongside a former nemesis when her mother, the program's top agent, goes missing.
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Neil Armstrong is my uncle : & other lies Muscle Man McGinty told me
by Nan Marino
Frustrated with ten-year-old Muscle Man McGinty constantly telling lies, Tamara dreams of the day when it all catches up to him and the entire town sees him for who he is, but when an incredible event takes place in the summer of 1969, Tamara gains a new sense of spirit towards her fellow man that alters her outlook on life in the most surprising way.
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Girls who code : Learn to Code and Change the World
by Reshma Saujani
The founder of the Girls Who Code nonprofit organization presents a graphically illustrated introduction to the relevance of coding that shares down-to-earth explanations about coding principles and real-life stories of women programmers who work at such places as Pixar and NASA.
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Lights, camera, middle school!
by Jennifer L Holm
Unsure who to count among her friends and enemies in middle school, Babymouse elects to stand out among zombie peers, who crave everything from fashionable sandals to cool lip gloss, by joining the film club, an endeavor that proves to be more challenging than anticipated.
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Just Grace and the double surprise
by Charise Mericle Harper
While Grace and her best friend Mimi are waiting for the arrival of the baby sister Mimi's family plans to adopt, Grace gets a big surprise
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Found
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
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The Lincoln project
by Dan Gutman
Invited by the enigmatic billionaire Miss Z to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events, Luke, Isabel, David and Julia are sent to the year 1863 to capture Abraham Lincoln delivering his famous Gettysburg Address.
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11 Before 12
by Lisa Greenwald
Best friends Kaylan and Arianna kick-start middle school with a list of 11 things they want to do to transform themselves, from makeovers and making guy friends to sharing candid conversations with their moms and helping humanity, before their shared 12th birthday party.
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The list
by Patricia Forde
A Wordsmith's apprentice responsible for safeguarding forbidden language in a neo-medieval world where all but 500 sanctioned words are strictly censored uncovers a sinister plan to suppress all remaining language by robbing everyday citizens of their ability to speak, in a U.S. release of an award-winning book from Ireland.
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You may already be a winner
by Ann Dee Ellis
Determined to win a sweepstakes prize that will allow her family to leave their trailer-park home, 12-year-old Olivia makes ambitious plans involving caring for her younger sibling, tracking down her absent father and petitioning her community to organize a preschool. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Friendship Code
by Stacia Deutsch
Looking forward to joining the new coding club at school so that she can develop her app idea, Lucy is disappointed by the lukewarm reception she gets from the club's other members, who work with her to decipher mysterious coding notes that she starts receiving. By author of Mean Ghouls.
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The Land of Stories : worlds collide
by Chris Colfer
A highly anticipated conclusion to the epic series finds Conner and Alex preparing to wage their biggest battle yet when the heroes and villains from the Land of Stories escape into New York.
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The Losers Club
by Andrew Clements
Made an example of by a strict principal who forbids reading in classes that require attentive participation, Alec starts a club of one, intending to devote whatever time he can to his favorite books, before he is unexpectedly joined by a crush and an ex-best friend turned bully.
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Rookie of the year
by Phil Bildner
Rip and Red find that fifth grade continues to challenge them in brand-new ways and discover that sometimes radical change is nothing to be afraid of
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Serafina and the splintered heart
by Robert Beatty
Awakening in the aftermath of a devastating battle only to find that life at Biltmore Estate has changed in unimaginable ways, Serafina fights to harness strange new powers in the days before a mysterious adversary creates violent storms that endanger her home and loved ones. Simultaneous eBook.
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Serafina and the twisted staff
by Robert Beatty
A follow-up to Serafina and the Black Cloak finds Serafina studying the ways of the catamount while struggling to find a place for herself in two disparate cultures before a series of mysterious animal attacks test her role as the Biltmore Estate's protector. 100,000 first printing.
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School of the dead
by Avi
Unexpectedly befriending the supernatural-enthusiast uncle he previously found eccentric, Tony is devastated when his uncle dies suddenly and appears to him in ghost form at Tony's new school, where rumors are circulating about a missing student. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of Crispin. Simultaneous eBook. 75,000 first printing.
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