July 2020 list by K. Pearson
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American as Paneer Pie
by Supriya Kelkar
Feeling like she lives two lives as the only Indian American girl in her school, Lekha Divekar is excited to meet a Desi newcomer only to discover that her proud new friend has just relocated to America and is not content to be quiet about bullying.
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And Then I Turned Into a Mermaid
by Laura Kirkpatrick
While concentrating on her goal of becoming popular, including hiding her eccentric family from the cool crowd, thirteen-year-old Molly discovers that she and her older sisters are half human, half mermaid.
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Catalyst
by Sarah Beth Durst
When her tiny kitten, Pipsqueak, grows bigger than a horse and begins to talk, Zoe flees into the woods to protect her giant pet from online notoriety and teams up with a best friend to figure out the truth behind the kitten’s mysterious growth.
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The Chaos Loop
by Peter Lerangis
A sequel to Throwback finds Corey going too far with his history-changing meddling when he inadvertently allows a band of Nazis to evade capture and relocate to South America to reignite World War II.
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The Colt of the Clouds
by K. George
Returning to Mount Olympus when she learns that the gods have disappeared and the winged horses have been stolen, Pippa and her beloved horse, Zephyr, are accompanied by Hercules’ descendent, Hero, on a dangerous quest to the fire stables of the underworld.
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Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox
by Michael Buckley
Possessing a tricky lunchbox that opens wormholes to distant parts of the galaxy, Finn Foley inadvertently captures the attention of a race of gigantic bugs who want to reclaim a mysterious device that has emerged from the lunchbox.
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Gargantis
by Thomas Taylor
When a giant storm reveals the awakening of a mythical sea monster, Herbert and Violet team up for answers about a stolen treasure and a suspicious cache of lost-and-found items at the local Grand Nautilus Hotel.
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Lila and Hadley
by Kody Keplinger
Avoiding people and her fellow canines at a rescue shelter, an abandoned dog is fostered by a teen with failing eyesight who resists her cane and wonders if the dog is too broken to rehabilitate.
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The Lost Fairy Tales
by Anna James
A sequel to The Bookwanderers finds Tilly and her best friend, Oskar, visiting wintry Paris before wandering into a book of fairy tales where they are challenged to unscramble mixed-up stories and characters.
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The Middler
by Kirsty Applebaum
Invisible and forgotten even by her family in an isolated community cut off from the deceitful outside world, the 11-year-old sister of a military hero finds her perspectives transformed by a chance encounter with a stranger who reveals the truth about her community’s xenophobic existence.
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Moon
by Aaron Ehasz
A middle grade expansion of the events of Season 1 of the hit Netflix show follows the experiences of three young heroes from opposing sides of a terrible conflict, who join forces against an evil mage to return a royal dragon egg to the magical land of Xadia.
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Nevertell
by Katharine Orton
Escaping from the Stalinist labor camp where she was born in an effort to reunite with a long-lost relative in Moscow, 12-year-old Lina races across the frigid Siberian wilds while pursued by the shadow wolves of a powerful witch.
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The Next Great Jane
by K. L. Going
Aspiring to become a famous author like her role model, Jane Austen, a teen seeks the advice of a visiting writer before her world is upended by a hurricane, an unlikely new friendship and her mother’s sudden plans.
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Night of the Living Ted
by Barry Hutchison
Horrified when their new teddy bears come to life after a visit to the Create-A-Ted store, Lisa-Marie and her older brother, Vernon, discover zombie, ghost, alien and other monster teddies wreaking havoc throughout the world and organizing an evil teddy-bear army.
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One Last Shot
by John David Anderson
Struggling with debilitating insecurity that is complicated by his parents’ constant bickering, Malcolm discovers the geometrical puzzle challenges of miniature golf only to have his promising initial steps overshadowed by his father’s competitive nature.
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Sal & Gabi Fix the Universe
by Carlos Alberto Hernandez
A follow-up to Sal and Gabi Break the Universe finds Sal struggling to prevent his cautious Papi from closing Sal’s wormholes to other universes, before a rogue Gabi from an apocalyptic alternate dimension starts wreaking havoc amid a classmate’s disappearance.
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Sara and the Search for Normal
by Wesley King
Sara wants one thing: to be normal. What she has instead are multiple diagnoses from Dr. Ring. Sara’s constant battle with False Alarm—what she calls panic attacks—and other episodes cause her to isolate herself. She rarely speaks, especially not at school, and so she doesn’t have any friends. But when she starts group therapy she meets someone new. Talkative and outgoing Erin doesn’t believe in “normal,” and Sara finds herself in unfamiliar territory.
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Spark and the League of Ursus
by Robert Repino
A teddy bear named Spark, together with a league of toy allies, stages a rescue mission after a human child is kidnapped by an interdimensional monster.
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TBH, You Know What I Mean
by Lisa Greenwald
Told entirely in text messages, emojis and passed notes, a latest series entry finds Cece organizing a successful awareness campaign only to become overwhelmed by unrelenting requests for her management assistance.
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Tornado Brain
by Cat Patrick
When her former best friend abruptly disappears, a neurodiverse seventh grader who struggles with sensory limits and routine changes attempts to follow clues to find the missing girl before it is too late.
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Turtle Boy
by M. Evan Wolkenstein
A seventh grader struggles through a new school year marked by bullying, his teacher’s insistence that he return captured turtles to the wild and a bar mitzvah community service project that requires him to spend time visiting a terminally ill boy in the hospital.
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The Unbelievable Oliver and the Sawed-in-Half Dads
by Pseudonymous Bosch
Hired to perform at a rehearsal brunch for Teenie and Bea’s fathers’ wedding, magical arts novice Oliver invites one of the grooms to volunteer for a classic sawed-in-half trick that leads to an unexpected disappearance.
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Unicorn Society: The Madre de Aguas of Cuba
by Adam Gidwitz
Traveling to Cuba to rescue a mythical water serpent that is believed to protect the local water supply, Uchenna, Elliot and Professor Fauna find the mission complicated by the creature’s violent behavior and the polluting activities of the Schmoke Brothers.
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We Dream of Space
by Erin Entrada Kelly
Joining their fellow seventh graders to watch the 1986 Challenger launch, three siblings struggle with respective difficulties including falling grades, an out-of-control temper and depressed NASA ambitions.
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