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1. The accidental apprentice

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Author:
Foody, Amanda
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4.5 stars
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Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.

2. Ben Yokoyama and the cookie of doom

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Author:
Swanson, Matthew, 1974-
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5 stars
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J F SWANSON
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Eight-year-old Ben takes a fortune cookie literally, and believing he has only one day left to live, tries to do everything he has always wanted to before nightfall.

3. The boy who harnessed the wind

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Author:
Kamkwamba, William, 1987-
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Norwich/Otis Children's Biographies
J BIO KAMKWAMBA c. 2
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"When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard...

4. City spies

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Author:
Ponti, James
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5 stars
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"Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies"--

5. Dragons in a bag

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Author:
Elliott, Zetta
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4 stars
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"In Brooklyn, nine-year-old Jax joins Ma, a curmudgeonly witch who lives in his building, on a quest to deliver three baby dragons to a magical world, and along the way discovers his true calling"--Provided by Publisher.

6. The floating field: how a group of Thai boys built their own soccer field

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Author:
Riley, Scott, 1970-
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"On a tiny Thai island without room for a soccer field, a group of resourceful teen boys gathers scraps and works together to build a floating field so they can play the game they love"--

7. Horace & Bunwinkle

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Author:
Gardner, P. J.
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Horace Homer Higgins III despises dirt. And the outdoors. And ducks. But when his person, Eleanor, moves to a farm called the Homestead, the anxious Boston Terrier is forced to adapt. As if that isn't enough to strain his nerves, Ellie adopts a perpetually cheerful potbellied pig named Bunwinkle to be his baby sister. Bunwinkle is delighted to be on the farm despite the stuffy demeanor of her new canine brother. She's sure she'll crack his shell eventually--no...

8. InvestiGATORS

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Author:
Green, John Patrick, 1975-
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2.5 stars
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Norwich/Otis Children's Graphic
J F GREEN
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With their very exciting spy technology and their tried-and-true, toilet-based travel techniques, the InvestiGators are undercover and on the case! And on their first mission together, they have not one but two mysteries to solve! Can Mango and Brash uncover the clues, crack their cases, and corral the crooks - or will the criminals wriggle out of their grasp?--description provided by publisher.

9. Invisible

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Author:
Gonzalez, Christina Diaz, 1969-
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5 stars
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For fans of New Kid and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who are forced together by their school to complete community service... and may just have more in common than they thought. Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? There's George: the brain Sara: the loner Dayara: the tough kid Nico: the rich kid And Miguel: the athlete And they're stuck together when they're forced to complete their...

10. Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad: Absolute Hero

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Author:
Tripp, Valerie
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When middle school mishaps happen, five friends form the S.M.A.R.T. Squad, in which they use their collective skills and the power of science to bring order to their school.
Science reigns supreme with this squad of young brainiacs. Join Izzy Newton and her friends in the first adventure of this fun new middle-grade fiction series from National Geographic Kids.
A crowded new school and a crazy class schedule is enough to make Izzy feel...

11. Katie the catsitter

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Author:
Venable, Colleen A. F.
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Norwich/Otis Children's Graphic
J F VENABLE
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"Katie is dreading the summer ahead, while her best friends will be away at camp. But when Katie gets a job catsitting for her upstairs neighbor Madeline, things get interesting. For starters, Madeline has 217(!) cats. And they're not exactly...regular cats. Plus, Madeline only seems to go out EXACTLY when the Mousetress, the city's most notorious villain, commits a crime. Could it be that Katie's neighbor is really a super villain? And that it's...

12. The last kids on Earth

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Author:
Brallier, Max
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5 stars
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"After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg."--Provided by publisher.

13. Listen to the language of the trees: a story of how forests communicate underground

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Author:
Kelley, Tera
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"Readers will discover that trees have their own social network, and helping one another thrive is trending. The fascinating mycorrhizal fungi network runs underground through the forest via the roots of trees, allowing for connection and communication. Listen to the Language of the Trees captures the magic of talking trees that take care of their neighbors (not to mention the mysterious fungi that help them do it). A lyrical read aloud, Listen to...

14. New Kid

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Author:
Craft, Jerry
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5 stars
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Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature!

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.

Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing

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15. Nico Bravo and the hound of Hades

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Author:
Cavallaro, Michael, 1969-
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When Eowulf, the pint-sized descendant of monster slayer Beowulf, decides to slay Cerberus, young Nico, Lula the sphinx, and Buck the unicorn must stop her or face the zombie apocalypse.

16. Phoebe and her unicorn

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Author:
Simpson, Dana, 1977-
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"Phoebe is a remarkably real little girl, as bright and imaginative as Bill Watterson's Calvin, as touchingly vulnerable as Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown...Simpson is that good, and that original." —Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn
It all started when a girl named Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this led to Phoebe being granted one wish,...

17. Poetry prompts: All sorts of ways to start a poem

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Author:
Coelho, Joseph
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Norwich/Otis New Children's Nonfiction
J 808.1 COE

18. Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

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Author:
Hernandez, Carlos
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Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses this question: What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)? How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany's locker? When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's...

19. Sanity & Tallulah

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Author:
Brooks, Molly (Molly Grayson)
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J F BROOKS
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"Sanity and Tallulah live in a space station at the end of the galaxy. When Sanity's illegally created three-headed kitten escapes, the girls have to turn their home upside down to find her, in this graphic novel"--

20. Stella Diaz has something to say

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Author:
Dominguez, Angela
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Stella Diaz wants to be friends with the new boy in class, but sometimes she accidentally speaks Spanish instead of English and pronounces words wrong, which makes her turn roja. In addition, she has to get over her fear of speaking in front of the class.