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The moon within
by Aida Salazar
A modern tale of early adolescence finds Celi navigating questions about her changing body, first attraction and a best friend's genderfluid explorations while resisting her mother's embarrassing plans for an ancestral Mexica moon ceremony to celebrate her first period.
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Look both ways : a tale told in ten blocks
by Jason Reynolds
A whimsical exploration of the role detours play in life follows a group of students who become so engaged in everyday activities while taking 10 different routes home from school that they fail to notice a school bus that has dropped from the sky. By the award-winning author of Ghost. 200,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky
by Kwame Mbalia
Haunted by the bus accident that ended his best friend’s life, seventh grader Tristan Strong dreads a visit to his grandparents’ Alabama farm before a bizarre living doll snatches away his friend’s notebook and draws him into a world of burning seas, iron monsters and exhausted black folk heroes. 75,000 first printing.
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More to the story
by Hena Khan
A tale inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women follows the experiences of a Muslim-American writer whose ambition to win a national media contest is complicated by her family’s relocation overseas and her sister’s dangerous illness. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Stargazing
by Jen Wang
Chinese-American student Christine is devastated when her artistic best friend, Moon, falls dangerously ill amid revelations that she has been having visions about celestial beings telling her she does not really belong on Earth. Simultaneous. Illustrations.
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Roll with it
by Jamie Sumner
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease
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Wildfire : a novel
by W. R. Philbrick
Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for his life, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp--finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only logging roads and the deadly crown fire is everywhere
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Mya's strategy to save the world
by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
In order to convince her parents to give her a phone, Mya Parsons launches a campaign to prove herself reliable and deserving, but it is a real-life accident that helps her realize how much she has grown
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Summer of a thousand pies
by Margaret Dilloway
Sent to live with the aunt she didn't know after a homeless childhood with her father in San Diego, 12-year-old Cady is challenged to help save her aunt's failing pie shop just as she is beginning to feel like she belongs. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Sweeping up the heart
by Kevin Henkes
"After an eventful spring break, seventh-grader Amelia Albright's life changes forever"
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The bridge home
by Padma Venkatraman
Facing daunting prospects on the streets of Chennai, two runaway sisters finds shelter and friendship on an abandoned bridge with two homeless boys before an illness forces them to choose between survival and freedom. Simultaneous eBook.
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Bernard Pepperlin
by Cara Hoffman
After the Dormouse from Wonderland is transported to modern-day New York, he uncovers a plot by some bad weasels who intend to stop time, so he enlists the help of his new friends to stop the weasels and save the city
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Douglas
by Randy Cecil
A four-act, visually arresting follow-up to Lucy depicts the adventures of a brave movie-theater mouse who stows away in the pocket of a young moviegoer before navigating around hungry cats, broom-wielding humans and tall rooftops in order to return home. Illustrations.
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Frank and Bean
by Jamie Michalak
A laugh-out-loud ode to the power of friendship finds quiet writer Frank considering whether to share his secret words with a noisy, music-playing Bean, who does not have a talent for lyrics. By the author of the Joe and Sparky series and the illustrator of AlphaOops! Illustrations.
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Penny and her sled
by Kevin Henkes
The mouse heroine of the Geisel Honor-winning Penny and Her Marble discovers creative ways to enjoy her beautiful new sled when there is no snow, in a five-chapter story by the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of Kitten’s First Full Moon. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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