January 2019 list by L. Buehler
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Baseball Genius
by Tim Green
An everyday kid with a talent for predicting baseball pitches is caught stealing baseballs from his favorite New York Yankees player, who agrees not to press charges if the boy will help him recover from a difficult batting slump.
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The Bicycle Spy
by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Dreaming of competing in the Tour de France, which has been canceled ever since Germany's occupation of France two years earlier, avid young cyclist Marcel discovers secrets that place his friend's family in danger and compel Marcel to pass covert information at the risk of his own safety.
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Blended
by Sharon M. Draper
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
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Call of the Wraith
by Kevin Sands
Waking up shipwrecked in Devonshire with no memory of his identity, Christopher Rowe links a series of child abductions to a local legend about a malevolent ghost.
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Disney Junior Storybook Collection
by Disney Book Group
A sumptuously illustrated treasury of stories featuring favorite Disney Junior characters invites young fans to help care for toys with Doc in her backyard clinic, share royal fun with Sofia, visit Minnie Bow-tique and more.
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The Epic Adventures of Huggie & Stick
by Drew Daywalt
When a grumpy stuffed bunny and a happy-go-lucky stick fall out of their boy's backpack, they embark on an odyssey that takes them all around the world, experiencing one crazy adventure after another.
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The Fall of the Readers
by Django Wexler
A conclusion to the popular fantasy adventure series finds Alice risking her life to rescue an untrustworthy cat as part of a desperate plan to end threats against the creatures she promised to help.
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I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967
by Lauren Tarshis
A latest entry in the best-selling series is inspired by the 1967 bear attack in Glacier National Park and offers insight into how the tragedy influenced the fate of the grizzly in the continental United States.
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The Last Kids on Earth: The Monster Box
by Max Brallier
Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Zombies and Winged Wretches and Vine Thingies, and especially not for the eerily intelligent monster known only as Blarg. So Jack builds a team: his dorky best friend, Quint; the reformed middle school bully, Dirk; Jack's loyal pet monster, Rover; and Jack's crush, June. With their help, Jack is going to slay Blarg, achieve the ultimate Feat of Apocalyptic Success, and be average no longer! Can he do it?
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Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment
by James Patterson
A first children's book series officially approved by the Albert Einstein Archives introduces 12-year-old orphan Max Einstein, a genius hacker, inventor and chess player who is recruited into a mysterious organization that uses science to solve world problems.
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