September 2019 list by K. Pearson
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The 117-Story Treehouse: Dots, Plots & Daring Escapes!
by Andy Griffiths
Andy and Terry live in a 117-story treehouse. (It used to be a 104-story treehouse, but it just keeps growing!) It now has a pajama-party room, a water-ski park filled with flesh-eating piranhas, an Underpants Museum, a giant-fighting-robot arena, and the Door of Doom (don’t open it or you’ll be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY DOOMED!).
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The Bookwanderers
by Anna James
Tilly Pages, who has found comfort in her grandparents' bookshop since her mother's disappearance, now learns that she can bookwander into any stories, and decides to seek her mother.
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Crumbled!
by Lisa Harkrader
Unhappy royal dung farmer Nobbin Swill discovers the king’s lost ring only to find himself teaming up with a hapless royal to solve a mystery involving the disappearance of the local woodcutter’s children, Hansel and Gretel.
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Dead Voices
by Katherine Arden
A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Small Spaces finds best friends Ollie, Coco and Brian spending winter break at a down-on-its-heels ski resort before the ghost of the resort's late co-owner reaches out for help solving his murder.
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The Dog Who Lost His Bark
by Eoin Colfer
Patrick has been desperate for a dog of his own for as long as he can remember, and this summer, with his father away, he longs for a canine friend more than ever. Meanwhile, in his short doggy life, Oz has suffered at the hands of bad people. Somewhere out there, he believes, is an awesome boy — his boy. And maybe, when they find each other, Oz will learn to bark again.
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Emmy in the Key of Code
by Aimee Lucido
In a new city, at a new school, Emmy has never felt more out of tune. Things start to look up when she takes her first coding class, unexpectedly connecting with the material—and Abigail, a new friend—through a shared language: music. But when Emmy gets bad news about their computer teacher, and finds out Abigail isn’t being entirely honest about their friendship, she feels like her new life is screeching to a halt.
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The Good Thieves
by Katherine Rundell
In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
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How to Win the Science Fair When You're Dead
by Paul Noth
To battle giant robots and stop his evil grandmother from destroying Earth, Hap Conklin, Jr. will need the help of his family, friends, and some very unlikely allies.
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Island of Dragons: Geronimo's Twelfth Adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy
by Geronimo Stilton
Once again Geronimo is summoned to the Kingdom of Fantasy, and this time he must rescue five princesses of The Kingdom of Lotus Flowers who have been kidnapped by a terrible witch--but first he must journey to the Island of Dragons to find the bravest, the wisest, the silliest, and wittiest, and the most sincere dragons who prophecy says will aid him in his mission.
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Liferaft
by Aditi Khorana
After weeks of terror and heartbreak, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers to their ordeal... and perhaps a way home.
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The Little Grey Girl
by Celine Kiernan
The old queen and her raggedy witches have fled Witches Borough, and Mup’s family has moved into the cold, newly empty castle. But the queen’s legacy lingers in the fear and mistrust of her former subjects and in the memories that live in the castle’s very walls. While Mup’s mam tries to restore balance to a formerly oppressed world, Mup herself tries to settle into her strange new home with her dad, Tipper, and Crow.
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Malamander
by Thomas Taylor
Assisting a fearless girl in an investigation into the mysterious loss of her parents years earlier, Herbert Lemon learns that some of his fellow townspeople are hunting a sea monster that is believed to convey a surprising gift.
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Marion and the Girls Getaway
by Callie Barkley
Marion has planned the ultimate girls’ getaway. There will be skiing, a trip to the spa, and of course, hot chocolate! What Marion didn’t plan was a snow bunny sighting! As members of the Critter Club, she and her friends are so excited to find the most adorable bunny. But when Marion’s kitten, Ollie, scares the bunnies away, Marion scolds him. That’s when she notices he’s been acting a little strange the whole time. What’s wrong with Ollie? And will the girls get to see the bunnies again?
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More to the Story
by Hena Khan
A tale inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women follows the experiences of a Muslim-American writer whose ambition to win a national media contest is complicated by her family’s relocation overseas and her sister’s dangerous illness.
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Planet of the Penguins
by David LaRochelle
Lamar and Lexie head off on another math-related adventure to help their new space alien friend, Fooz! It seems Fooz's planet has been overrun with penguins—and the inhabitants are terrified of these adorable creatures. In fact, they’re so frightened they turn to stone whenever they see even the tiniest baby penguin.
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The Squatchicorns
by Ellen Potter
When a tribe of Sasquatches flee from a mysterious curse, they take refuge in Hugo’s home, Widdershins Cavern. These new Sasquatches look a bit . . . odd. For example, they all have unicorn horns on their heads! Always open to meeting new creatures, Hugo befriends one of these strange squidges, Nobb.
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Top-Secret Smackdown
by Mac Barnett
Ravens have been stolen from the Tower of London! Mac B.'s top-secret mission? Travel to Iceland and retrieve the ravens... or Britain is ruined!
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Tunnel of Bones
by Victoria Schwab
Now in Paris with her parents who are filming their TV show about the world's haunted cities, Cassidy Blake (who can see ghosts) and her friend Jacob (who is a ghost) are alert for trouble, especially when the filming takes them into the underground Catacombs, the empire of the dead, where Cassidy accidentally awakens a powerful poltergeist spirit--one whose mystery she must solve before his power in unleashed on the whole city.
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Wildfire
by W. R. Philbrick
Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for his life, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp--finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only logging roads and the deadly crown fire is everywhere.
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The World Ends in April
by Stacy McAnulty
Eleanor Dross knows a thing or two about the end of the world, thanks to a survivalist grandfather who stockpiles freeze-dried food and supplies--just in case. So when she reads about a Harvard scientist's prediction that an asteroid will strike Earth in April, Eleanor knows her family will be prepared. Her classmates? They're on their own!
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