November 2018 list by L. Buehler
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The Collectors
by Jacqueline West
Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
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Eleanor Roosevelt's in My Garage!
by Candace Fleming
In this hilarious follow-up to Ben Franklin's in My Bathroom!, history and hijinks collide once more when Eleanor Roosevelt accidentally time travels to a ten-year-old's home in 21st century America!
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The Girl in the Locked Room
by Mary Downing Hahn
Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.
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Let Sleeping Dragons Lie
by Garth Nix
Sir Odo and Sir Eleanor still think of themselves as unlikely knights. But when their kingdom is threatened by forces of significant nefariousness, they and their talking swords join a bold quest to rescue a monarch, vanquish deadly beasts, confound a prophecy, and avoid stepping on the tail of a very powerful dragon. |
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The Perfect Secret
by Rob Buyea
Told from different viewpoints, five seventh-graders, who face their own personal challenges, are also determined as a group to help two very special people reconcile a long-standing dispute.
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This is War
by Margaret Stohl
The longstanding and galaxy-spanning war between cats and robots escalates when each learns of inventions designed to extend their lives, and the potential of the devices is revealed when two kittens come into the lives of twin siblings on Earth.
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