August 2020 list by K. Pearson
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After the Worst Thing Happens
by Audrey Vernick
Army feels like her life has been blown to bits when the worst thing imaginable happens--her beloved dog dies. It was an accident, but it was also Army's fault. But then Army sees Madison, the little girl who moved in across the way, climbing a tree and walking down the street unsupervised. Her family is not neglectful, just overwhelmed. Army finds herself overcome with the need to help Madison's family to make sure another worst thing doesn't happen--which becomes even more challenging when a big storm threatens her town.
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The Amelia Six: An Amelia Earhart Mystery
by Kristin L. Gray
Accepting the opportunity of a lifetime when she is invited to a sleepover at the preserved childhood home of Amelia Earhart, a pilot’s daughter meets five other girls before finding herself on a race to recover a pair of the famed aviatrix’s historical goggles.
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City of Gold
by Will Hobbs
Witnessing the theft of their mules by Butch Cassidy’s wild gang, a Colorado farm youth teams up with unlikely helpers on a trek over the mountains that is aided by a notorious marshal.
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Curtain Call
by Jennifer L Holm
Jumping at a chance to participate in the middle school play, Babymouse scrambles to memorize the line she is given while helping build sets and learn stage directions, before a major glitch complicates the production and Babymouse’s newfound skills.
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Diana and the Island of No Return
by Aisha Saeed
Twelve-year-old Diana's much-anticipated visit with her best friend, Princess Sakina, turns into an adventure as they face a booby-trapped island, a forbidden visitor, and a demon.
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The Dog Squad
by Andrew Clover
Rory Banagan is a detective and he eats bad guys for breakfast--well, not actually. But someone is stealing dogs, and Rory's own dog and best friend in the world, Wilkins Welkin, is in danger. It's up to Rory and his sidekick, Cassidy Corrigan, to get to the bottom of this mystery in a dog-eat-dog world, before it's too late.
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Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror
by Natasha Farrant
When an enchantress flings a magic mirror into the human world, princesses everywhere are revealed to have ambitions that are anything but submissive or merely pretty, in a collection of stories featuring empowered heroines who rescue themselves, help others and prioritize kindness first.
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Jake the Fake Keeps His Cool
by Craig Robinson
Music and Arts academy comedian Jake finds his resolve to put an end to his fakester boasting tested when he tries to impress a new girl at school by pretending to be a master chef and world-renowned barber, claims that are complicated by his mother’s unexpected news.
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Julieta and the Diamond Enigma
by Luisana Duarte Armendáriz
When a diamond goes missing from the Louvre, it is up to Julieta to identify the thief, exonerate her father, and return home to Boston before her baby brother is born.
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The Last Lie
by Patricia Forde
A conclusion to the story that began with The List finds Wordsmith Letta and her fellow rebels rising up against an evil new ruler who would eliminate language from the human race, rendering it impossible for anyone to express themselves.
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The Lumberjanes BEASTiary
by Mariko Tamaki
Over the years, there have been countless magical creatures spotted at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types: mermaids, moon mice, griffins, Cloudies-you name it, the campers have seen it! But there's only one group of Lumberjanes equipped to catalog all the strange happenings at the camp: Roanoke cabin.
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The Missing
by Kate O'Hearn
Traveling to Nesso’s jungle home to seek allies in the fight against the Mimics, Astrea, Zephyr and their team encounter a world of voracious dinosaurs and a blistering sun before an unanticipated injury launches a desperate search for healing ambrosia.
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Part of Your Nightmare
by Vera Strange
Switching schools in the aftermath of her parents’ divorce, an 11-year-old competitive swimmer struggles to fit in before discovering a mysterious nautilus shell that summons the infamous sea witch Ursula, who offers to make her popular, with unexpected consequences.
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The Prettiest
by Brigit Young
THE PRETTIEST: It’s the last thing Eve Hoffmann expected to be, the only thing Sophie Kane wants to be, and something Nessa Flores-Brady knows she’ll never be . . . until a list appears online, ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade.
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The Princess Rules
by Philippa Gregory
Princess Florizella was friends with some of the princesses who had studied the Princess Rules, and behaved just as the Rules said they should. Florizella thought their hair was lovely: so golden and so very long. And their clothes were nice: so richly embroidered. And their shoes were delightful: so tiny and handmade in silk. But their days bored her to death…Instead, Princess Florizella rides her horse, Jellybean, all over the kingdom, having adventures of her own…
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Quintessence
by Jess Redman
Struggling with panic attacks after moving to a new town, Alma uses an old telescope to track the course of a falling star into her backyard before teaming up with unlikely new friends and using scientific insights to help the star return to its home in the sky.
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Seekers of the Wild Realm
by Alexandra Ott
A first entry in a planned duology finds an aspiring Seeker pursuing a way around a master’s edict against female trainees by helping a former rival care for a baby dragon in exchange for Seeker instruction, an arrangement that is complicated by mysteries involving an enemy clan.
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The Stepmom Shake-Up
by Niki Lenz
Loving the family of two she shares with her father in the aftermath of her mother’s death, a girl teams up with a best friend to sabotage their church’s efforts to help her father start dating again.
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The Time of Green Magic
by Hilary McKay
Rendered a middle child in her newly blended family, Abi escapes into books to ignore the creepy phenomena occurring in her new home, while her two stepbrothers encounter a mysterious guest and unexpected romance.
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The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez
by Adrianna Cuevas
All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad’s latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn’t want to anyone find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals.
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The Unadoptables
by Hana Tooke
Spending all their young lives at the Little Tulip orphanage, five clever kids plot a daring escape from a conscripting sea captain before the search for one orphan’s mysterious origins leads them through back roads, alleys and canals to an old windmill housing an abandoned puppet theater.
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War is Over
by David Almond
Informed by his teacher that even children become involved in war, a World War I soldier’s child experiences dreamlike encounters with a German boy in an alternate reality where they can be friends and build a better world together.
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The Way to Rio Luna
by Zoraida Córdova
Holding fast to the belief that his runaway older sister is waiting for him in the enchanted fairy-tale realm of their childhood, an 11-year-old foster child begins losing faith before discovering a mysterious library book that provides a direct map to his imaginary world.
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Zeus, Dog of Chaos
by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
A specially trained diabetes alert dog struggles to protect a shy young musician whose talent complicates their relationship and garners unwanted attention.
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