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| The Dog, Ray by Linda CogginFollowing her untimely end in a car crash, 12-year-old Daisy is reborn into the body of a puppy named Misty. When she runs away in search of her human parents, Daisy finds homeless 14-year-old Pip instead, who adopts her and renames her Ray as he searches for his own lost family. |
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A Clatter of Jars
by Lisa Graff
This follow-up to "A Tangle of Knots" finds the Talented kids spending the summer at a talent show-themed camp where a director hides a mysterious agenda, and Talent jars dropped and broken in the lake cause Talents and memories to become mixed up.
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The Lost Property Office
by James R. Hannibal
When Jack travels to London with his family to find his missing father, it leads him to a secret society of detectives who share his superhuman ability for finding things. Suddenly Jack is targeted by the villainous Clockmaker, who challenges Jack to a quest to find his father.
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As Brave As You
by Jason Reynolds
Leaving Brooklyn for the first time to visit their grandparents in the Virginia countryside, Genie and his big brother, Ernie, discover that their grandfather is blind and ask countless questions about how he copes before realizing that he never leaves the house.
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The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes
by Wade Albert White
Dreaming of leaving her oppressive school, Saint Lupin's Institute for Perpetually Wicked and Hideously Unattractive Children, Anne is catapulted by a series of curious events into an epic, riddle-solving quest that takes her and friends Penelope and Hiro to strange locales.
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Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
by Kelly Jones
Feeling like a fish out of water when her family moves from Los Angeles to a recently inherited chicken farm, 12-year-old Sophie encounters a telekinetic chicken and her equally unusual flockmates, who are endangered by a thieving farmer.
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A Snicker of Magic
by Natalie Lloyd
Arriving in a town where magic has been driven away by a curse, 12-year-old Felicity, a girl who possesses a supernatural ability to see words around the people and places she visits, befriends mysterious do-gooder Jonah, who her break the curse.
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The Lightning Queen
by Laura Resau
Esma puts "the spark of life" back into grieving Teo. Though Esma's fortune-teller grandmother predicts that their friendship will be lifelong, even lasting into the lives of their grandchildren, they lose touch. Can their grandchildren figure out how to reunite them?
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When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
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