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All Summer Long by Hope LarsonWhen her best friend, Austin, goes to soccer camp over the summer, thirteen-year-old Bina finds an unlikely companion in Austin's older sister, Charlie.
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Breakout by Kate MessnerNora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek--two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes.
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| Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker RhodesOne minute, 12-year-old Jerome is messing around with his friend's toy gun; the next, he's been shot by a white police officer, and he joins the ghosts of Emmett Till and other black boys who now spend their afterlives seeking justice and healing. |
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| Hurricane Child by Kheryn CallenderCaroline finds her first friend (and first crush) in new classmate Kalinda, who joins Caroline's search for answers about her mother, as well as the truth about the spirit who stalks her. |
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| Rebound by Kwame AlexanderIn the summer of 1988, 12-year-old Charlie Bell is grieving the sudden death of his dad while visiting with his tough-love grandparents and getting schooled on the basketball court by his cousin Roxie. |
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Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-GarciaFeeling most alive when he plays music with his grandfather, aspiring bluesman Clayton Byrd is devastated when his grandfather passes away and his mother forbids him from playing the blues, losses that compel him to run away in the hope of joining other bluesmen on the road.
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How to Rock Braces and Glasses : A Novel by Meg HastonWhen popular middle schooler Kacey Simon gets glasses and braces and is rejected by her crowd, she befriends a boy who is in a punk rock band and discovers some things about friendship, relationships and herself.
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Pieces of Why by K. L. GoingTwelve-year-old Tia lives in a rundown neighborhood in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend. When practice is interrupted one day by a fatal shooting outside the church, Tia finds that she cannot sing.
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The Rising Star of Rusty Nail by Lesley M. M. BlumeBelieving she has learned all she can from the town's only piano teacher, ten-year-old piano prodigy Franny Hansen yearns to get out of her nowhere community in rural Minnesota, when a mysterious Russian woman suddenly arrives.
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The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. WintersSpurred on by a special project from her social studies teacher, seventh-grader Bethesda Fielding uncovers the secret identity of her music teacher, which leads to a most unusual concert performance and tutoring assignment.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 10-13!
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