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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. 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"--

3. Continental drifter

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Author:
Macleod, Kathy
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3 stars
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Norwich/Otis Children's Graphic
J 305.895 MAC
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"With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That's when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine. Kathy loves Maine's idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can't get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries,...

4. The empty place

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Author:
Cole, Olivia A.
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Norwich/Otis New Children's Fiction
J F COLE
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"When Henry’s father goes missing in the forest on her tenth birthday, her entire world shatters. The last thing she expects is for him to emerge from the trees exactly one year later, unharmed and bearing a gift for her—a strange necklace. Everyone says her father’s reappearance is a miracle, but Henry wants real answers to her questions. Where did her father go? How did he get back? And what’s the truth behind his gift? Wearing the necklace...

5. 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 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 school's community service...

6. Katie the catsitter

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Author:
Venable, Colleen A. F.
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5 stars
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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...

7. Legends of Lotus Island: City of wishes

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Author:
Soontornvat, Christina
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"During the New Year's break, Plum and her friends travel to fancy, fashionable Nakhon Island to stay with Sam and his mother, the powerful Lady Ubon. The New Year always brings food, parties, and the grand old tradition of making a wish. At first, Plum is dazzled by the big city. But under the glittering surface, many secrets lurk. Mysterious tremors that shake the ground are growing worse by the day. Nakhon's troubles give Plum a chance to fulfill...

8. Meticulous Jones and the skull tattoo

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Author:
Leathley, Philippa
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J F LEATHLEY
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"On her tenth birthday, Meticulous Jones--known to her friends as Metty--receives her fate, as all children do, in the form of a magical tattoo on her hand. She hopes that her ink will reveal something exciting: a tattoo that will symbolize travel, or discovery, or adventure. What appears is a skull, balanced in the palm of a violet glove. Metty's fate is to become a murderer. Metty is swiftly hidden away by her father, Moral Jones, in a remote Welsh...

9. Roll call

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Ostertag, Molly Knox
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J F OSTERTAG
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"Middle school is a dungeon ... At least, that's how Jess sees it. Luckily, she and her best friend Olivia know how to escape into the sprawling worlds of their own imaginations. The two friends have always loved making up stories, first with little kid games of make-believe, and more recently with the fantasy roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. When they play, Olivia runs the game as Dungeon Master and Jess is the solo party member, playing a take-no-prisoners,...

10. Smile

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Author:
Telgemeier, Raina
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4 stars
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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to...

11. Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky: the graphic novel

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Author:
Mbalia, Kwame
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The talented team of Robert Venditti and Olivia Stephens brings to glorious full color the novel that best-selling author Jason Reynolds called "A brilliant action adventure rooted in African American lore." Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month...