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A graphic novel rendering of the first entry in the early chapter book spin-off of the best-selling series is told from the perspective of Kristy’s younger stepsister, Karen, who becomes suspicious of a neighbor who has gray hair and a black cat.
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Babymouse : bad babysitter
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Jennifer L. Holm
Believing that she will become wealthy through her expert babysitting talents, Babymouse encounters more trouble than anticipated while caring for mischievous triplets. Simultaneous.
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Ivy + Bean take care of the babysitter
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Annie Barrows
When Bean's parents leave her in the care of her older sister Nancy for the afternoon, she enlists her neighbor and best friend Ivy to come over and teach Nancy how to be a really good babysitter
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Star Scouts
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Mike Lawrence
Accidentally abducted by an alien named Mabel, Avani joins Mabel at Camp Andromeda, a camp for Star Scouts where she has the adventure of a lifetime
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When Phoebe accidentially hits a unicorn in the face with a rock, she is granted one wish, which she uses to make the unicorn, named Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, her best friend
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Best babysitters ever by Caroline Cala Inspired by the example of The Babysitters Club, three 12-year-old friends start a babysitting club to earn money for an epic birthday bash only to be confronted by the unexpected realities of the job. 60,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida
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President of the whole fifth grade
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Sherri Winston
To gain leadership skills needed to run a cupcake-baking empire when she grows up, Brianna runs for president of the fifth grade, expecting little competition until a new girl enters the race.
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Camp Shady Crook
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Lee Gjertsen Malone
Budding con artists Archie and Vivien spend a summer at a dilapidated, mismanaged Vermont camp competing to get whatever they want from their fellow campers
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Lemons
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Melissa Savage
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator
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Frazzled : everyday disasters and impending doom
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Booki Vivat
Struggling with a family that does not understand her and a cafeteria full of corrupt lunch ladies, drama-prone Abbie Wu throws freak-out tantrums in her struggle to figure out who she is, where she belongs and how she is supposed to survive the everyday disasters of growing up. Simultaneous eBook. 100,000 first printing.
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The dirt diary
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Anna Staniszewski
After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets
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Be prepared
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Vera Brosgol
Believing Russian summer camp will be the place she finally fits in, Vera jumps at the chance to sign up, but very quickly discovers that camp is nothing like she imagined
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Smile
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Raina Telgemeier
In this coming-of-age true story, Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader, but one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear and even a retainer with fake teeth attached--on top of all that, there's a major earthquake, boy confusion and friends who turn out to be not so friendly. Simultaneous.
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Awkward
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Svetlana Chmakova
After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member
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Real friends
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Shannon Hale
When her best friend Adrienne starts hanging out with the most popular girl in class, Shannon questions with whether she and Adrienne will stay friends, and if she is part of the clique
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Lumberjanes : the shape of friendship
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Lilah Sturges
A graphic novel follow-up to The Infernal Compass finds Jo, Mal, Molly, April and Ripley discovering the hiding place of a group of magical creatures who reveal that they are plotting to take over the camp by impersonating the Lumberjanes. 50,000 first printing. Illustrations. Original.
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Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy : a graphic novel
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Rey Terciero
Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Alcott's classic, a graphic-novel rendering of Little Women reimagines the four sisters as members of a blended multicultural family in modern-day New York City. 10,000 first printing. Simultaneous and eBook
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El Deafo
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Cece Bell
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
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Funny girl : funniest. stories. ever.
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Betsy Bird
From a pet advice column, to a babysitting horror story, to a series of letters demanding that Grandpa hand over $1,000 in small, unmarked bills, this anthology of humorous short stories, personal essays, comics, poems and more, written by 25 of the funniest, most talented women writing for kids today, offers a smorgasbord of silliness that will have middle-grade readers rolling with laughter. Simultaneous eBook.
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Invisible Emmie
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Terri Libenson
The lives of two middle school girls, one a quiet artist, the other a popular overachiever, intersect on a day shaped by a misdelivered note, crushes, humiliations, boredom and drama. A first graphic novel. Simultaneous and eBook. 20,000 first printing.
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Roller girl
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Victoria Jamieson
"A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart"
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Click
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Kayla Miller
When a school variety show leaves Olive stranded without an act to join, she wonders why all of her friends have already formed their own groups without her
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Nat enough
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Maria Scrivan
When Natalie enters middle school, her former best friend Lily shuns her for the popular crowd, and Natalie must focus on her true self and natural talents to survive the school year
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Black Canary : ignite
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Meg Cabot
Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance is in a rock band with her two best friends and has a good relationship with her mom, but when a mysterious figure threatens her friends and family, she learns more about herself and her mother's secret past
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The first rule of punk
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Celia C. Pérez
After María Luisa O'Neill-Morales moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago, she violates her school's dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurns the school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded friends
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