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Battle of the Books Grades 4 & 5
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Because of the Rabbit by Cynthia LordAccompanying her game warden father on a routine call on the last night of summer before she ends homeschooling and starts public school for the first time, young Emma finds herself caring for a baby bunny while navigating a project with an animal-loving boy who does not quite fit in.
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Bob by Wendy MassVisiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
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Cosmic by Frank Cottrell BoyceLiam Digby is so unusually tall that people think he should act like an adult, which leads him to compete against adults for a chance to go into space
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The Lincoln Project by Dan GutmanInvited by billionaire Miss Z to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events, Luke, Isabel, David, and Julia are sent to the year 1863 to capture Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address.
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamilloAmerica's beloved storyteller, Newbery Award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Kate DiCamillo's classic stories have been refreshed with compelling new cover treatments, updated back matter, and discussion questions.
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-GarciaAfter traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, Delphine and her two sisters discover that their mother, a dedicated poet, wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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One-Third Nerd by Gennifer CholdenkoTen-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
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Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary D SchmidtWhen a mysterious English butler appears one morning and stays to help his troubled family, young Carter struggles to navigate middle school under the watch of the resented newcomer, who promotes challenging notions of decorum.
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Pilfer Academy: A School So Bad It's Criminal by Lauren MagazinerKidnapped and enrolled in a top-secret school for young thieves-in-training, George becomes an expert bandit and must orchestrate an ambitious heist when he comes to the realization that he is just too good-hearted to be a thief.
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Roller Girl by Victoria JamiesonA graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart.
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Waylon!: One Awesome Thing by Sara PennypackerContinuing his efforts to make life more awesome through science, Waylon is challenged by his friends' inclinations to separate into groups and his sister's adolescent rebelliousness.
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Wed Wabbit by Lissa EvansA "down the rabbit hole" adventure by the author of Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms places readers in the role of an 11-year-old protagonist who is accompanied by three eccentric companions on a quest to defeat a stuffed-animal dictator and an army of wacky monsters.
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Williamsburg Regional Library 7770 Croaker Rd Williamsburg, Virginia 23188 757.741.3300
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