March 2019 list by L. Buehler
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Best Babysitters Ever
by Caroline Cala
Inspired by the example of The Babysitters Club, three 12-year-old friends start a babysitting club to earn money for an epic birthday bash only to be confronted by the unexpected realities of the job.
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Charlie Hernández & the League of Shadows
by Ryan Calejo
Inspired by Latin-American folklore, a debut novel follows the story of a pragmatic boy who disregards his abuela's stories about Iberian Peninsula monsters before he undergoes an astonishing transformation and discovers his heritage as a protector of the Land of the Living.
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Max & the Midknights
by Lincoln Peirce
Aspiring knight Max teams up with a band of brave adventurers, the Midknights, on a madcap quest to save a kidnapped relative from a cruel king who is driving all the happiness out of the realm of Byjovia.
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To Night Owl from Dogfish
by Holly Goldberg Sloan
A laugh-out-loud tale of friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters, follows the experiences of two 12-year-old girls--one bookish and fearful, the other fearless and adventuresome--who are sent to camp to bond when their fathers fall in love.
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The Unteachables
by Gordon Korman
A notorious class of misfits, delinquents and academic underachievers, isolated away from the rest of their school, embark on a year of unexpected changes with a burned-out teacher who has been shattered by a cheating scandal.
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Warriors in Winter
by Mary Pope Osborne
When Jack and Annie arrive at a Roman camp on a mission to learn how to be a fierce Roman warrior, their assignment is complicated by a mysterious man on a black horse.
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Watch Hollow
by Gregory Funaro
Journeying to an isolated small town to help their father repair a mysterious cuckoo clock in a once-grand manor, Lucy and Oliver discover that the magic within the house, and the animal guardians charged with protecting it, are in dire need of help.
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Wed Wabbit
by Lissa Evans
A "down the rabbit hole" adventure by the author of Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms places readers in the role of an 11-year-old protagonist who is accompanied by three eccentric companions on a quest to defeat a stuffed-animal dictator and an army of wacky monsters.
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