Winter 2016 list by L. Buehler
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Cody Harmon, King of Pets
by Claudia Mills
Disliking all the subjects in his third-grade class, Cody, a boy growing up on a farm with his beloved pets and farm animals, finds an opportunity to shine when his class hosts a pet-show fund raiser, an event that requires a high entrance fee that challenges Cody to figure out a different way to enter all of his pets.
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Fala
by Kate Klimo
A story based on the life of the 32nd president's loyal Scottish terrier describes his squirrel-chasing puppyhood, adulthood spent teasing world dignitaries and observations about Roosevelt's private struggles with life in a wheelchair.
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The Galactic B.U.R.P.
by Wendy Mass
Outer space taxi driver's son Archie Morningstar is taken to the criminal organization B.U.R.P.'s mothership, where he is challenged to outwit an evil mastermind.
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The Odds of Getting Even
by Sheila Turnage
A follow-up to Three Times Lucky finds Mo and Dale testifying against Dale's kidnapper father, who has plotted a retaliation that threatens Dale's brother's life.
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The Phantom Virus: An Unofficial Minecrafter's Adventure
by Mark Cheverton
The peace and happiness throughout the servers of Minecraft are once again thrown into chaos when a final game crafted by a defeated Herobrine is unleashed, turning critters into monsters and devastating villages with programmed disasters.
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Raymie Nightingale
by Kate DiCamillo
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds while outmaneuvering a drama queen and a saboteur who become her unlikely friends and allies during a painful challenge.
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Soar
by Joan Bauer
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
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Unhooked
by Lisa Maxwell
Hoping to escape her mother's delusions during a summer in London, Gwen is kidnapped by brutal monsters and taken to a Neverland filled with shadowy creatures, flesh-eating sea hags and dangerous fey, a world that forces her to choose between a charming hero and a captivating pirate.
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