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2) Freewater
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old...
3) The sight
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In a troubled time for the Clans, three young cats, grandchildren of the legendary Firestar, begin their training as warriors and, in the course of many adventures, discover their true destiny.
4) Eclipse
Author
Series
Publisher
Harpercollins
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Jaypaw, Hollypaw, and Lionpaw have learned that the prophecy tells them they will hold more power than any cat before them. So when a mysterious cat arrives to warn the Clans of danger, the Clans' faith in their warrior ancestors is shaken.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
Description
"Pedro and Daniel are two Mexican American brothers growing up in 1970s Ohio. Their mom doesn't like the fact that Pedro is the spitting image of their dark-skinned Pop, that Daniel loves to play with dolls, that neither of the boys love sports like the other kids in their neighborhood. Life at home can be rough - but the boys have an unshakable bond that will last their entire lives." -Publisher
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Boy called Bat volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When Bat's older sister Janie gets a part in the school play, and can't watch him after school, it means some pretty big changes. For one, someone else will have to take care of the skunk kit in the afternoons.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Harper Winston's brother has disappeared. Pursuing his dream of sailing the Caribbean, Michael hasn't responded to texts or emails in days. When even the Coast Guard can't find him, Harper is forced to take desperate measures. Which means going to Chase Garrett, once her brother's best friend, now the only man she can trust...or so she hopes. As the successful owner of Maximum Security, Chase has learned to trust his gut. He knows Harper's father...
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After their parents' deaths, siblings Liza and John Carroll are placed in the care of their uncle, a traveling con artist who scams the grieving with fradulent spirit photographs, until they arrive at a Spiritualist commune where the barrier between the living and the dead is very thin.
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Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the land of the mystical selkies to seek a magical sword for Merlin.
10) Long shadows
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Firestar's three grandchildren, Hollypaw, Lionpaw, and Jaypaw, struggle to restore faith in StarClan as Sol works to tear apart the bonds between Clans and turn them away from their warrior ancestors.
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Series
Whatever after volume 11
Language
English
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Description
Abby is feeling slighted by not being chosen festival leader at school, and her brother Jonah thinks that a trip through the magic mirror is just what she needs--but when they find themselves in a strange version of the Princess and the pea, and Abby is tagged as the princess, who will be the next ruler of the Kingdom of Bog (which is very damp and infested with alligators), she is not so much complimented as desperate to find an alternate princess,...
Author
Series
Foul Lady Fortune volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In 1931 Shanghai, two Nationalist spies pose as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders causing unrest in the city.
13) City of speed
Author
Series
Battle dragons volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular...
14) Rubylicious
Author
Series
Pinkalicious volume 7
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Pinkalicious is searching for stones for her rock collection when suddenly—POOF!—out pops a surprise! Rocky is here to grant Pinkalicious and her brother Peter one wish, and one wish only, so they must choose wisely.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publshers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
For the child who says, "I want to be a firefighter when I grow up!" And for any child who wants a gentle behind-the-scenes look at being a firefighter. My brother and I both want to be firefighters, but we can't decide what kind to be. When firefighters from Fire District 1 visit our school for Fire Safety Day, we learn that there are firefighters who fight forest fires and work at airports to help with airplane emergencies. Did you know that there...
16) School day!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Although they are in different grades, a brother and sister enjoy their first day of school together.
17) Waiting for baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's Play
Language
English
Description
Explains how worried and excited brothers and sisters get when a new baby is suppose to join the family.
18) Good as gold
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 14
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The magic mirror has a crack and it sends Abby, Jonah, and Prince into the mixed up tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and they soon find that Goldy is in need of a lot of gold to get her father out of jail, and so they find themselves negotiating between the Bears, who want honey, and Rumpelstiltskin, who just wants a friend or two--but King Ned is just plain greedy and somehow the children and Goldy's father have to escape from the king's jail,...
19) My new baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's Play
Language
English
Description
There is so much to find out when a baby is born. What does it smell like, and when will it walk, when does it sleep and what does it like to eat.
20) Just dance
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 15
Language
English
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Description
When the magic mirror sends Abby and Jonah into the story of The Twelve Dancing Princesses to retrieve the crown ruby from the Kingdom of Douze, they follow the twelve sisters to the underground Dance Resistance Party where Abby learns she is not really a terrible dancer.
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