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Name That Book, Grades 3-8 2024-2025 |
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Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better
by Glenda Armand
Spotlighting a little-known visionary, this inspiring picture book biography tells the story of African American entrepreneur Augustus Jackson, aka “the father of ice cream,” who, in the 1800s, created this frozen treat during his time as a White House cook.
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Odder
by Katherine Applegate
Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself - and about the humans who hope to save her.
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Dogtown
by Katherine Applegate
In Dogtown, a shelter for unwanted canine and robot dogs, an extraordinary bond develops between Chance, a longing three-legged dog, Metalhead, an empathetic robot, and Mouse, their friendly ally, as they strive to find forever homes.
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Daybreak at Raven Island
by Fleur Bradley
While on a seventh-grade class field trip to Raven Island prison, three students stumble upon a dead body, miss the last ferry back home and are forced to spend the night in a place where they must work together to survive.
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The Cursed Moon
by Angela Cervantes
Rafael Fuentes isn't easily scared and loves entertaining his friends with terrifying tales. He has come up against enough real-life scary situations that fictional hauntings seem like no big deal. His incarcerated mom is being released soon, and coming to live with him, his sister, and their grandparents. For the first time in a while, Rafa feels a pit of fear growing in his stomach. To take his mind off his mom's return, Rafa crafts the scariest ghost story he's ever told. The Caretaker is an evil ghost who lures unsuspecting kids into the neighborhood pond... and they don't ever come out. Rafa is proud of his latest creation, until strange things start to happen around him. With a sinking feeling, Rafa realizes the Caretaker is real. Rafa has brought the ghost to life - and only he can stop him.
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Ferris
by Kate DiCamillo
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost - one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans. By the two-time Newbery Medalist and former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
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Shermy & Shake, the Not-so-Nice Neighbor
by Kirby Larson
Shermy finds his plans for a quiet, relaxing summer upended by the arrival of Shake, who moves in next door, and as they are forced to spend more and more time together, these polar opposites must learn how to get along.
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The Secret Library
by Kekla Magoon
Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she "checks out” adventure after adventure.
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New Dragon City
by Mari Mancusi
Three years after the world was decimated by dragons, Noah follows his heart to find out if peace between humans and dragons is possible when a chance encounter with a young dragon forces him to question everything he thought he knew.
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How to Stay Invisible
by Maggie Rudd
Abandoned by his parents, Raymond makes his home in a cramped hollow tree in the woods near his school, keeping it a secret until his survival depends not only on his wilderness skills but on the people and animals he chooses to trust.
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Legends of Lotus Island: The Guardian Test
by Christina Soontornvat
Accepted to the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island, a place where kids transform into magical creatures sworn to protect the natural world, young Plum finds herself struggling and might be forced to leave school if she cannot embrace her inner animal soon.
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The Ghost of Spruce Point
by Nancy Tandon
To save his family's beloved Maine motel, 12-year-old Parker and his best friend Frankie must break a curse amid spooky things that are happening, leading them to seek help from a year-rounder with supernatural abilities.
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A Rover's Story
by Jasmine Warga
Built to explore Mars, Resilience, aka Res, learns new things from the NASA scientists and begins to develop human-like feelings, especially when he arrives on the planet, where he is tested in ways that go beyond space exploration.
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Mayor Good Boy
by Dave Scheidt
A small town elects a dog mayor and, even with foes trying to put a stop to his campaign of fun, Mayor Good Boy helps Greenwood become a town filled with kindness.
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Meesh the Bad Demon
by Michelle Lam
A “bad” demon, meaning she always sees the good in those around her. 12-year-old Meesh, bullied by the other demons, must save her world when disaster strikes, making surprising new friends and learning to love herself as she searches for her place in the underworld.
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Two Tribes
by Emily Bowen Cohen
Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan to use the gifts from her bat mitzvah to take a bus to Oklahoma - without telling her mom - to visit her dad and find the connection to her Muscogee side she knows is just as important as her Jewish side.
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Caves
by Nell Cross Beckerman
Urging children to explore one of nature's most curious ecosystems, this eye-opening book uses powerful, poetic text to guide readers through different caves around the world while nonfiction text allows for deeper understanding.
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You Are Here: Connecting Flights
by Ellen Oh
Twelve award-winning Asian American authors explore contemporary East and Southeast Asian American identity through interconnected stories set in a Chicago airport where an incident at a TSA security checkpoint sets in motion a chain of events that affects the lives of 12 young Asian Americans..
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The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic
by Jennifer Thermes
Bringing a formidable landscape and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration to life, this picture book tells the incredible true stories of explorer Tom Crean and his many adventures on the Discovery, Terra Nova and Endurance expeditions.
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Ketanji: Justice Jackson's Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court
by Kekla Magoon
This inspiring picture book biography traces the life of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is making history as the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, showing her incredible achievements as she fights for justice and equality.
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The Door of No Return
by Kwame Alexander
When his brother represents Upper Kwanta in a wrestling contest, resulting in the unthinkable, 11-year-old Kofi finds himself fighting for his life, which sends him on a dangerous journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves.
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Plotting the Stars: Moongarden
by Michelle A. Barry
Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
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Free Throws, Friendship, and Other Things We Fouled Up
by Jenn Bishop
New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship
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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.
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Heroes
by Alan Gratz
Aboard the battleship the USS Utah with their Navy pilot fathers during WWII when the ship is attacked by the Japanese, Frank and Stanley find their friendship?—?and dreams?—?in jeopardy when Stanley is seen as the“enemy” because his mother is Japanese American. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Dinged
by Tommy Greenwald
When his dad, a former NFL Superstar and now the town celebrity, starts exhibiting strange behavior, up-and-coming freshman quarterback Caleb Springer must make a tough decision when he realizes the sport he loves may be the cause.
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The Lost Year
by Katherine Marsh
When his great-grandmother comes to stay with them during the pandemic, 13-year-old Matthew discovers a photo in her belongings that reveals a life-shattering family secret, in this brilliant survival story set in alternating timelines that connects the present day to 1930s Soviet Ukraine.
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Ghosts Come Rising
by Adam Perry
Hiding their gifts while staying at a Spiritualist commune in Pennsylvania, 12-year-old Liza Carroll and her 10-year-old brother, John, learn that they are at a Thin Place between the worlds of the living and the spirits—one that is threatening to break.
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The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
by Sally J. Pla
Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.
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A Seed in the Sun
by Aida Salazar
While working under dangerous conditions, taking care of her younger siblings and her mother, and avoiding her father's volatile temper, farm-working Lula Viramontes joins the 1965 protest for migrant workers' rights along with activist Dolores Huerta.
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The Labors of Hercules Beal
by Gary D. Schmidt
Given an assignment to duplicate the mythical feats of Hercules in real life, Herc Beal, the smallest kid in his class, figures out how to take his first steps and discovers that, unlike his namesake, he doesn't have to go it alone.
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What Happened to Rachel Riley?
by Claire Swinarski
New at East Middle School, Anna's curiosity is piqued when one of the most popular girls in school, Rachel Riley, becomes a social outcast but no one will tell Anna why, compelling her to put her fact-seeking skills to good use.
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A Rover's Story
by Jasmine Warga
Built to explore Mars, Resilience, aka Res, learns new things from the NASA scientists and begins to develop human-like feelings, especially when he arrives on the planet, where he is tested in ways that go beyond space exploration.
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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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Between Monsters and Marvels
by Alysa Wishingrad
Discovering evidence that monsters still exist, Dare Coates questions everything she's always known, including the line between good and evil, as she searches for the truth about what happened to her father.
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Finally Seen
by Kelly Yang
Arriving in America to live with her parents and sister after five years apart, 10-year-old Lina Gao struggles to fit in with her family and at her new school until she learns about the power of friendship, family and being finally seen.
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You Are Here: Connecting Flights
by Ellen Oh
Twelve award-winning Asian American authors explore contemporary East and Southeast Asian American identity through interconnected stories set in a Chicago airport where an incident at a TSA security checkpoint sets in motion a chain of events that affects the lives of 12 young Asian Americans..
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Breaking the Mold: Changing the Face of Climate Science
by Dana Alison Levy
Drawing on extensive interviews and featuring infographics and personal photos, a celebrated author profiles 16 scientists, from analytical chemists and volcanologists to global experts and recent graduates, who defy stereotypes as they work to make life better for future generations.
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Mexikid
by Pedro Martin
Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir.
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A First Time for Everything
by Dan Santat
In this feel-good coming-of-age memoir, the best-selling author and Caldecott Medalist shares his life-changing middle school trip to Europe during which he experiences a series of firsts, including first love.
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