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A place at the table
by Saadia Faruqi
A Pakistani-American student attending a new school and the daughter of a British mother struggling through depression forge an unexpected friendship while taking a South Asian cooking class. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Clean getaway
by Nic Stone
An 11-year-old boy confronts the realities of race relations past and present and the mysterious agenda of his unconventional grandmother during an unplanned spring break road trip through the once-segregated American South. By the award-winning author of Dear Martin. Simultaneous eBook.
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Crenshaw
by Katherine Applegate
When Jackson and his family face living in their minivan, Jackson's imaginary cat Crenshaw returns to help him
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Fish in a tree
by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Sixth-grader Ally excels at covering the fact that she cannot read, but at her seventh school in as many years she is challenged to admit she needs help
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Front desk
by Kelly Yang
After emigrating from China, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel, despite the nasty owner, Mr. Yao, who exploits them, while she works the front desk and tries to cope with fitting in at her school
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The great treehouse war
by Lisa Graff
After her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy, where she is joined by nine others with complaints
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The key to extraordinary
by Natalie Lloyd
Orphan Emma Casey lives by a graveyard in her Tennessee town waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors, but when it comes it shows her only a key and it is up to her to solve a mystery that has haunted her town for generations
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The last last-day-of-summer
by L. R. Giles
When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected
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The last musketeer
by Stuart Gibbs
In Paris with his parents to sell family heirlooms, fourteen-year-old Greg Rich suddenly finds himself four hundred years in the past, and is aided by boys who will one day be known as "The Three Musketeers."
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The League of Seven
by Alan Gratz
When an alternate 1875 steam-driven America rediscovers electricity--the Mangleborn monsters' lifeblood--and the society to protect humans from the Mangleborn is compromised, Archie must assemble a team of heroes to save the world
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The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg
by W. R. Philbrick
Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War
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Sal & Gabi break the universe
by Carlos Alberto Hernandez
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes
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Smack dab in the middle of maybe
by Jo Watson Hackl
When Cricket's Aunt Belinda accidentally forgets her in the grocery store, Cricket decides to run away once and for all, using an old guidebook to find her way to her estranged mother
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Stand up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica KimWhen eleven-year-old Yumi Chung stumbles into a kids' comedy camp she is mistaken for another student, so she decides to play the part
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Wilmington, North Carolina 28405
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