November 2020 list by L. Buehler
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Best Kept Secrets
by Focus on the Family
Album 69 explores six stories on commitment and resolving conflict. Long-held secrets are uncovered and major revelations are made. Listeners have long wondered about Morrie Rydell’s plans for the kids in Odyssey. All will be revealed and questions will be answered in these episodes. Elsewhere, Jules’s mother suddenly arrives in Odyssey to take Jules back to California, maybe for good. What will happen to Jules, her newfound musical career, and her friends back in Odyssey?
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Chance: Escape from the Holocaust
by Uri Shulevitz
The Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator of The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship presents a heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from Nazi-occupied Warsaw to the Soviet Union, where he experienced his awakening as an artist.
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Curse of the Mystery Mutt
by James Patterson
Junior is loving his life with the Khatchadorian family. But his idyllic life soon turns to terror when a mysterious individual begins to make trouble in the neighborhood. It starts with a mysterious howling in the night. And when Junior's pooch pals realize their favorite toys are missing, things get serious. Junior thinks he knows what is happening. He's heard of a mysterious creature called the Howly Wiener that visits town once a year and fills the street with monsters. With only a few days until the Night of the Howly Wiener, can Junior come up with a plan to protect himself and his pooch pals and stop the mischief for good?
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Darkness Within
by Erin Hunter
Exiled after a battle that left all five Clans devastated, ThunderClan's deputy, Squirrelflight, reveals the identity of the fake Bramblestar and fights for the return of the real one.
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The Elephant
by Peter Carnavas
Seeing her widowed father’s deep depression as an oppressive elephant that follows him everywhere, young Olive turns to her grandfather and best friend for help and discovers the power of small everyday acts of kindness.
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The Ever Cruel Kingdom
by Rin Chupeco
After a treacherous journey and a life-shattering introduction to a twin neither knew she had, sisters Haidee and Odessa expected to emerge from the Great Abyss to a world set right. But though the planet is turning once again, the creatures of the abyss refuse to rest without another goddess’s sacrifice. To break the cycle, Haidee and Odessa need answers that lie beyond the seven gates of the underworld, within the Cruel Kingdom itself. The shadows of the underworld may hunger to tear them apart, but these two sisters are determined to heal their world, together.
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Mac Cracks the Code
by Mac Barnett
Preparing to face his archnemesis at the Video Game World Championships, Mac B. is challenged to break an almost impossible secret code that has been recovered from a KGB double agent.
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Mrs. Bacon is Fakin!
by Dan Gutman
The new music teacher must try to teach A.J. and the rest of his class to play well enough during their recital to impress crabby Dr. Carbles.
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The Paris Project
by Donna Gephart
Cleveland Rosebud Potts yearns to leave Sassafras, Florida for a rich and cultured life at The American School of Paris, but problems with family, friends, and finances stand in her way.
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Science Fair Sabotage
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Wanting to create a science fair project that makes an actual difference, Jessie decides to test a local creek for pollutants before her experiments are sabotaged by suspicious accidents.
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Sky Song
by Abi Elphinstone
Flint entered Winterfang Palace hoping to free his mother, but instead helps Eska escape and together they journey to the Never Cliffs intending to stop the evil Ice Queen's rule.
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A Thousand Questions
by Saadia Faruqi
Secretly searching for her long-absent father during a reluctant summer visit to Pakistan with the grandparents she has never met, Mimi bonds with cook’s daughter Sakina, who must choose between her education and helping support her struggling family.
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Through my Eyes
by Ruby Bridges
Provides the first-hand factual account of the six-year-old student who made history by having been one of the first black children to attend an all-white, segregated school in the 1960s.
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Trapped in Hitler's web
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Determined to protect her friend Nathan when her Nazi-occupied Ukrainian town becomes unsafe for Jewish residents, Maria flees with Nathan to Austria, where their efforts to hide in plain sight are complicated by their Reich-enforced separation.
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