March 2019 list by L. Buehler
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Best Family Ever
by Karen Kingsbury
Distinguishing themselves with respective talents, sisters Brooke, Kari and Ashley discover the importance of supporting each other and relying on their faith when they have to move, in a first entry of a series about growing up in the Baxter family.
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Dragons in a Bag
by Zetta Elliott
A witch neighbor enlists young Jaxon and his friends to help deliver a clutch of baby dragons to the safe magical world where they belong, a quest that is thrown into chaos by the trio's inability to follow strict dragon-care rules.
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The Friendship War
by Andrew Clements
When Grace takes boxes of old buttons from a building her grandfather bought, she starts a fad at school that draws her closer to one friend, but further from another.
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Inkling
by Kenneth Oppel
A boy from a family overshadowed by grief and creative blocks rediscovers his imagination when an ink blot from his artist father's sketchbook comes to life and helps the family figure out what they truly need.
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The Lost Girl
by Anne Ursu
Separated for the first time since birth when they are put into different fifth-grade classes, identical twins Iris and Lark struggle with insecurities over their individual identities at the same time things begin to go missing in their city.
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Monstrous Devices
by Damien Love
Receiving a mysterious tin robot in the mail from his grandfather, 12-year-old Alex begins observing strange occurrences in his town before he is pulled into a magical race across snowy Europe to outwit human and mechanical assailants.
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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
by Dan Gemeinhart
Living on the road in an old school bus with her dad after losing her mother and sisters, 12-year-old Coyote devises an elaborate plan to convince her father to make a first trip home to Washington state in five years, a journey marked by an eclectic group of passengers they meet along the way.
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The Secrets of Winterhouse
by Ben Guterson
Continuing their investigations into the mysterious artifacts left behind at Winterhouse hotel, holiday visitors Elizabeth and Freddy attract the attention of a suspicious new hotel guest, who may be part of a plot to revive the spirit of the evil Gracella Winters.
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The Unteachables
by Gordon Korman
A notorious class of misfits, delinquents and academic underachievers, isolated away from the rest of their school, embark on a year of unexpected changes with a burned-out teacher who has been shattered by a cheating scandal.
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Warriors in Winter
by Mary Pope Osborne
When Jack and Annie arrive at a Roman camp on a mission to learn how to be a fierce Roman warrior, their assignment is complicated by a mysterious man on a black horse.
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Watch Hollow
by Gregory Funaro
Journeying to an isolated small town to help their father repair a mysterious cuckoo clock in a once-grand manor, Lucy and Oliver discover that the magic within the house, and the animal guardians charged with protecting it, are in dire need of help.
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