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Best of 2023 Favorite Chapter Books
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The Enchanted Life of Valentina Mejía
by Alexandra Alessandri
Dragged along on another magical creature hunt with their father, 12-year-old Valentina, who loves to draw the world around her, and her younger brother Julián are transported to an alternate Colombia where the legends are real.
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Something Like Home
by Andrea Beatriz Arango
When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.
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The Eyes & the Impossible
by Dave Eggers
From the award-winning author of The Every and the illustrator behind the beloved picture book Her Right Foot comes an endearing and beautifully illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals.
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The Probability of Everything
by Sarah Everett
When an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth in four days, 11-year-old Kemi, who loves scientific facts and probability, assembles a time capsule to capture her family's truth as she tries to come to terms with saying goodbye. A shocking plot twist involving her family's experiences as African Americans in a mostly White neighborhood continues the exploration of racism, mortality, and grief in this emotional novel.
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Wrecker
by Carl Hiaasen
When some men in a sailboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat pay him to forget he ever saw them, Wrecker is happy to oblige, but when he keeps seeing these men all over Key West, he discovers they want more than just his silence.
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The Swifts: a Dictionary of Scoundrels
by Beth Lincoln
Shenanigan attends the Swift family reunion, where each family member's name is a defining characteristic, but when a member is murdered, Shenanigan decides her name is not her definition and is determined to catch the killer.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
by Rick Riordan
In order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation from Mount Olympus for college, senior Percy Jackson must complete three quests - the first of which is to help Zeus' cup-bearer retrieve his goblet before it falls into the wrong hands. For fans and those new to the series.
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The Winterton Deception: Final Word
by Janet Sumner Johnson
Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known.
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Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy
by Angie Thomas
When her dad, a great Manifestor, is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, twelve-year-old Nic Blake, along with her hellhound and two friends, hunts for a powerful magical tool that could save him in this suspenseful new contemporary fantasy inspired by African American history and folklore by the author of The Hate U Give.
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Mascot
by Charles Waters
Told from several perspectives, this timely novel follows six middle-schoolers, all with different backgrounds and beliefs, as they learn about identity, tradition and what it means to stand up for real change when their school's mascot is seen as racist.
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