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Séance tea party
by Reimena Yee
Dreading the idea of growing up to become an adult who can never have fun, play outdoors or use her imagination, young Lora reconnects with an imaginary friend who she discovers is a ghost in her house, before realizing that she cannot stay a child herself forever.
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The longest night of Charlie Noon
by Christopher Edge
Becoming lost in a nightmarish wood in the aftermath of a prank, Charlie Noon and Dizzy Heron are forced to team up with their nemesis, Johnny Baines, to navigate unforeseen dangers and hazardous puzzles to find their way back home. By the award-winning author of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright.
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Tune it out
by Jamie Sumner
Separated from her mother by child services, a girl with a sensory processing disorder struggles to start over at an elite private school, where the support of new friends, a helpful counselor, family members and her evolving relationship with music help her find her voice.
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Crabapple Trouble
by Kaeti Vandorn
When all of her friends enter the community’s annual harvest contest, apple-headed Callaway is overwhelmed by requests for her clever ideas before teaming up with a helpful fairy, Thistle, to organize the festival and give their friends the assistance they require.
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Pine Island home
by Polly Horvath
Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors
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The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel
by Sheela Chari
A high-tech adventure based on the award-winning podcast finds the intrepid Mars Patel and his outcast friends investigating the disappearances of kids from their school before stumbling across an enigmatic billionaire’s dark conspiracy. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Vanished.
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How to be a girl in the world
by Caela Carter
Struggling to come to terms with adolescent body changes that have attracted unwanted attention, a tween begins wearing layers and escaping into horror novels before moving to a dilapidated new home, where she discovers a book of spells. 50,000 first p.
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Jo : An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of)
by Kathleen Gros
A graphic-novel adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic follows the story of Jo, a modern eighth grader who writes a blog and worries about her sister’s leukemia while their father is deployed overseas, before a neighbor’s declaration challenges her to evaluate her growing feelings for a girl on the school paper.
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Lights on Wonder Rock
by David Litchfield
A girl who wants to go to outer space more than anything believes that her dreams have come true when she befriends a space alien who lands in her backyard and stays for a wonderful visit before offering to take her along. By the award-winning creator of The Bear and the Piano. 3
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Everything sad is untrue : (a true story)
by Daniel Nayeri
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. But Khosrou's stories are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the refugee camps of Italy, and further back to Isfahan."
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 8-11!
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