November 2020 list by K. Pearson
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Animal at Large
by Patricia Reilly Giff
A missing animal at the zoo and strange noises coming from her backyard can mean only one thing for Tori: she's got a mystery to solve! Tori loves living on Zoo Lane with her family. Who else gets to live at a zoo--and with her cousin Sumiko visiting from Tokyo soon, this is shaping up to be the best summer ever!
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Anya and the Nightingale
by Sofiya Pasternack
Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city.
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Don't Judge Me
by Lisa Schroeder
Hazel doesn't like to make waves. Middle school is hard enough without causing more trouble, right? She's happy just eating lunch in the library with her BFF, writing secret haikus, and taking care of an adorable rescue tortoise.
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The Fallen Hero
by Katie Zhao
Determined to prevent the war her brother Alex is provoking, twelve-year-old Faryn Liu and her half-dragon friend, Ren, seek help from the New Order, warriors based in Manhattan's Chinatown, and from the Monkey King.
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Fiends on the Other Side
by Vera Strange
A sequel to Part of Your Nightmare follows the experiences of a boy who turns into a shadow after striking a dark bargain with Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog.
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The Forbidden Lock
by Liesl Shurtliff
A high-action conclusion to the series by the best-selling author of Rump finds the Hudson kids scrambling to defeat notorious inventor Captain Vincent to prevent him from erasing people from history.
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Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow
by Jessica Townsend
When a frightening case of Hollowpox begins spreading throughout Nevermoor, turning infected Wunimals into mindlessly violent Unnimals, Morrigan Crow and her friends navigate their Wretched Arts skills to find a cure.
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How to Get Away With Myrtle
by Elizabeth C. Bunce
When someone commits robbery and murder aboard the luxurious train on which Myrtle Hardcastle, her Aunt Helena, her governess Miss Judson, and cat Peony are traveling, Myrtle is determined to find the culprit.
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Kondo & Kezumi Visit Giant Island
by David Goodner
Living on a fantastical island of berry trees, flitter-birds and fluffle-bunnies, big Kondo and little Kezumi discover a map in a bottle that has washed ashore before building a boat that takes them on remarkable adventures.
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The Last Mirror on the Left
by Lamar Giles
Unlike the majority of Logan County's residents, Missus Nedraw of the Rorrim Mirror Emporium remembers the time freeze from The Last Last-Day-of-Summer, and how Otto and Sheed took her mirrors without permission in order to fix their mess. Usually that’s an unforgivable offense, punishable by a million-year sentence. However, she’s willing to overlook the cousins’ misdeeds if they help her with a problem of her own.
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Lights, Camera, Danger
by Lin Oliver
Landing a role on a popular Hollywood sitcom, Buddy Burger catapults into stardom before his secret identity is further complicated by the arrival of a shape-shifting Squadron member from his home planet who arrives with a mission to bring him back by any means necessary.
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Meet the Crew at the Zoo
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Leaving behind his beloved abuelo when his father’s job relocates to New York, a shy young animal lover wonders about the owner of a mysterious zebra-printed box and embarks on a search to find a new friend.
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Minecraft: The Shipwreck
by C. B. Lee
When three kids discover a mystery in an abandoned Minecraft server, they must race against the clock to uncover its secrets. When three teenagers--Jake Thomas,Emily Quesada, and Thanh Vuong--are forced to clean up and sort through the items in their beloved community center before a developer demolishes the building, they discover an odd Minecraft server on one of the old computers.
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The Mouse Watch
by J. J. Gilbert
Living in the shadows under the direction of a famed mouse inventor, two recruits—a mouse with a score to settle and a sensitive rat with elite puzzle-solving skills—land at the center of an evil plot by a rogue animal society.
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Muffled
by Jennifer Gennari
When fifth-grader Amelia learns to cope with her noise sensitivity, she steps outside of her comfort zone and makes new friends. Includes information about noise sensitivity.
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Night Howl
by Benjamin Read
Now that Emily knows that her blood ties her to The Midnight Hour, she feels more connected to this frozen pocket of time than ever. But not only does she have to come to terms with her new identity as a Pooka, her parents also had to go and have another baby. And how weird is that? Life is feeling frustrating from all angles...
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The Oddlympics
by David Slavin
Oddonis and his misfit friends don’t exactly love competition and they aren’t exactly athletes. So they’re definitely NOT excited when their middle school gets challenged to a sports competition by the Roman middle school on the other side of Mount Olympus.
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The Popper Penguin Rescue
by Eliot Schrefer
It's been years and years since the Popper family lived in Stillwater, but the town is still riding high on its former penguin residents. Across the river, in Hillport, residents try to re-create the magic with penguin carnival rides and penguin petting zoos, pretending they're the Popper originals. As the years have gone by, fewer and fewer people have come, and the small attractions shuttered.
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Serena Says
by Tanita S. Davis
After her best friend, JC, has a kidney transplant, Serena feels that they are falling out of touch, especially as JC makes a new best friend in the hospital.
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The Sisters of Straygarden Place
by Hayley Chewins
Seven years after being ensconced in a magical house by parents who warned them never to leave, the Ballastian sisters grow up under the house’s care until one day the eldest ventures outside, transforming what they understand about their world.
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The Skywalker Saga
by Delilah S Dawson
A lavishly illustrated Star Wars treasury retells Episodes I-VIII from the perspectives of Anakin, Luke, Leia and Rey.
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Spy School Revolution
by Stuart Gibbs
Refusing to accept a CIA ruling that pins a bombing attack on spy-in-training Erica Hale, Ben Ripley investigates clues dating back to the American Revolution to prove Erica is being blackmailed by a fabled Colonial-era insurgent group.
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Willa the Wisp
by Jonathan Auxier
One day Auggie Pound, the caretaker of the rare animals in the Fabled Stables, ventures into the swamp to save a new rare creature, the wisp.
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