November 2019 list by K. Pearson
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August Isle
by Ali Standish
Sent by her mysteriously estranged parents to stay with friends in the coastal town where her mother spent her childhood summers, Miranda forges unexpected friendships, including a bond with an enigmatic seafarer, before stumbling on redemptive family secrets.
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Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
by Jennifer Donnelly
Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue.
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The Becket List: A Blackberry Farm story
by Adele Griffin
Moving with her family to her Gran's farm, young Becket tries to make sense of new routines and haphazardly applies her city smarts while selling too-sour lemonade, feeding hostile chickens and befriending a new neighbor.
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Beneath the Weeping Clouds
by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
Storm Herd will have to join forces with the humans they have long-feared to save Rahkki and defeat the giants.
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Best Babysitters Ever
by Caroline Cala
Inspired by the example of The Babysitters Club, three 12-year-old friends start a babysitting club to earn money for an epic birthday bash only to be confronted by the unexpected realities of the job.
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The Bridge Home
by Padma Venkatraman
Facing daunting prospects on the streets of Chennai, two runaway sisters finds shelter and friendship on an abandoned bridge with two homeless boys before an illness forces them to choose between survival and freedom.
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Buns of Steel
by Obert Skye
Perry’s return to Bunny Island just isn’t going as planned at all. His uncle Zeke is tied up at his new job, and his best friends Juliet and Rain are too busy to notice the island’s sudden spike in really angry rabbits.
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Camp Average
by Craig Battle
When a new camp director, who is obsessed with winning, pushes Mack and his friends into a high-stakes baseball tournament and an intense training schedule, the boys come up with a plan of their own.
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Caterpillar Summer
by Gillian McDunn
Helping to care for her beloved special-needs brother in the years after their father's passing, Cat suffers a personal setback that prompts her to visit the home of the grandparents she has never met, where she finds renewal in simply being able to be a kid.
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The Door at the End of the World
by Caroline Carlson
Discovering that her boss has gone missing, that the doorway between her world and other dimensions is broken and that it all might be her fault, Gatekeeper's deputy Lucy breaks the rules for the first time during a quest through seven worlds involving new friends and a swarm of magical bees.
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Dream Within a Dream
by Patricia MacLachlan
Reluctantly staying with her grandparents for the summer in spite of preferring to travel the world with her globetrotting ornithographer parents, Louisa forges an unexpected friendship with George, a boy who helps her see her grandparents' tiny island home in a new light.
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A Drop of Hope
by Keith Calabrese
When an old well in their struggling community suddenly starts granting wishes, three sixth-graders who are the only ones who know what is really happening struggle to keep the well's secret while embracing respective views about kindness and hope.
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Emily Out of Focus
by Miriam Spitzer Franklin
When Emily flies with her parents to China to bring home a new baby sister, she meets Katherine, a Chinese-American girl who wants Emily to help find her birth mother.
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The Forgotten Girl
by India Hill Brown
When Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery getthe recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it seems that if Avery gets everything she wants Iris will join her as a ghost, best friends forever.
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The Ghost in Apartment 2R
by Denis Markell
Discovering that a ghost is haunting the bedroom recently vacated by his college-age brother, Danny and his friends learn about cultural spirits from the members of their Brooklyn neighborhood, before his bubbe teaches him about the dybbuk Jewish mythological ghost.
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Notorious
by Gordon Korman
Keenan has lived all over the world but nowhere quite as strange as Centerlight Island, which is split between the United States and Canada. The only thing weirder than Centerlight itself is his neighbor Zarabeth, aka ZeeBee.
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The Princess Who Flew With Dragons
by Stephanie Burgis
Princess Sofia of Drachenheim enjoys freedom from her sister's manipulations during a diplomatic mission to far-off Villenne, until she and her dragon friend, Jasper, are forced to face ice giants.
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Race to the Sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse
Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns out he's Mr. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company, and he's alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Nizhoni knows he's a threat, but her father won't believe her. When Dad disappears the next day, leaving behind a message that says "Run!", the siblings and Nizhoni's best friend, Davery, are thrust into a rescue mission that can only be accomplished with the help of Diné Holy People, all disguised as quirky characters.
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Stuffed
by Liz Braswell
Welcome, little one. You have been chosen to join us, in the dark and in the light, in love and in cloth, in safety and in danger. You join us. Everyone thinks that Clark is too old to still play with stuffed animals. He's almost eleven! Bullies target him at school while his mother tries increasingly un-subtle ways to wean him off his toys and introduce more "normal" interests. But Clark can't shake the feeling that his stuffed friends are important, even necessary.
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The Treacherous Seas
by Christopher Healy
A sequel to A Dastardly Plot finds Molly, Emmett and Molly’s mother competing in a high-profile race to become the first people to reach the South Pole, a formidable journey that is assisted by a determined young Nellie Bly.
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Voyage of the Frostheart
by Jamie Littler
In a snow-covered land where monsters rule the icy tundra, only song weavers hold the power to control these vicious giants. But for centuries song weavers have been the subject of suspicion--how can those who hold so much power be trusted?
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