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Elementary Battle of the Books 2021-2022
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At the bottom of the world
by Bill Nye
The famed scientific educator and a best-selling science writer present a debut entry in a series introducing genius foster siblings Jack, Ava and Matt, who use their intelligence and observations to track down a fellow scientist who has gone missing in Antarctica.
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Ban this book
by Alan Gratz
When her favorite book in the school library is challenged by a well-meaning parent, Amy Anne and her friends start a secret banned books locker library, using ridiculous reasons to ban every book in the library to make a point
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Blood on the river : James Town 1607
by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
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Found
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time
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The fourteenth goldfish
by Jennifer L Holm
Hating change and missing both her best friend and her dead goldfish, 11-year-old Ellie encounters a boy who strongly resembles her immortality-obsessed grandfather, in a story that introduces the work of famous historical scientists.
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From the desk of Zoe Washington
by Janae Marks
"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"
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Merci Suárez, who's having a rough year: her friendships are all confusing now that she's in 6th grade, her family duties don't leave her enough time for the soccer team, and her grandpa, Lolo, is acting weird.
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The old Willis place : a ghost story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since "the bad thing happened," twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion a series of events that lead to an unforeseeable result.
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The Parker Inheritance
by Varian Johnson
What it's about: After finding intriguing clues in her grandmother's attic, bookish 12-year-old Candice and her new friend Brandon search for buried treasure in a small Southern town haunted by its own ugly history of racism.
Why you might like it: Switching between Candice's present-day story and her grandmother's in 1957, this suspenseful puzzle mystery encourages you, just like the characters, to piece the clues together.
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Rain reign
by Ann M. Martin
Struggling with the challenges of OCD and Asperger's syndrome, Rose, a homonym enthusiast, shares an inseparable bond with a beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines and safe places in order to search for her pet.
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Runaway twin
by Peg Kehret
Separated from her twin at the age of three and sent to live in various foster homes, teenager Sunny Skyland sets out on a cross-country adventure to find her sister using only an old photograph as her guide; but when she manages to locate her twin, a whole new challenge emerges.
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Save Me a Seat
by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
Is one week of shared school lunches enough to forge a friendship? For the 5th graders in Save Me A Seat, that depends on who you make friends with. Smart, confident, and newly arrived in New Jersey from Bangalore, India, Ravi is sure that his best friend at school will be Dillon, a popular American-born Indian student. But Joe, a tall white kid with a learning disability, knows better -- Dillon has been bullying him since kindergarten. Ravi and Joe take turns describing the shifting alliances and surprising events of this "lunchroom drama" that will leave you "begging for seconds" (School Library Journal).
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Shouting at the rain
by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Delsie loves tracking the weather, living with her grandmother, and the support of friends and neighbors, but misses having a "regular family," especially after her best friend outgrows her
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A snicker of magic
by Natalie Lloyd
Arriving in a town where magic has been driven away by a curse, 12-year-old Felicity, a girl who possesses a supernatural ability to see words around the people and places she visits, befriends mysterious do-gooder Jonah, who introduces shimmering new words while helping her break the curse.
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Stella by starlight
by Sharon M. Draper
Growing up in the segregated South where they accept the disparities in how they are treated, Stella and her little brother witness a terrible event that compels them to fight back and trigger fundamental changes.
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