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1) Wonder
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English
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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English
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Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg's mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel. Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia -- cue extreme adolescent awkwardness -- but a parental mandate has...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Pete gets a case of the hiccups, and he doesn't know what to do! He decides to ask his wisest friends for help, like Grumpy Toad, Callie, and Bob. But Pete is still stuck with the hiccups! Will Pete the Kitty ever get rid of his terrible hiccups?''--Publisher's description.
6) Big Bad Wolf
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Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Language
English
Description
"A choking wolf is rushed to City Hospital, and a lost little girl in a red coat has been found, looking for her missing granny. What on earth did the wolf eat?"--
7) Feed
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times�bestselling author/illustrator team Kimberly and James Dean comes a new I Can Read story featuring everyone's favorite kitty, Pete the Kitty! Oh no! Pete the Kitty has a tummyache. Good thing his dad knows just what to do. It's time to go to the doctor! Except Pete may be a teensy-weensy bit nervous about his first visit to the doctor. With the help of his dad, Pete discovers the doctor isn't scary! Beginning readers will easily...
12) Wintergirls
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Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Declan O'Brien always had a gentle word to share, odd phrases he liked to repeat, and songs to sing while he played basketball. His favorite song was "Dona Nobis Pacem," "Grant Us Peace." His family loved him deeply and always knew they were loved in return. But a terrible accident one day changes their lives forever, and Fiona and Finn O'Brien are left without a father. Their mother is at a loss. What words are there to guide...
15) Caleb and Kit
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Publisher
Running Press Kids
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Caleb is shorter, frailer, and more protected than most kids his age. That's because he has cystic fibrosis, a diagnosis meaning lungs that fill with mucus and a shortened lifespan. Caleb tries not to let his disorder define him, but it can be hard with an overprotective mom and a perfect big brother. Then Caleb meets Kit--a vibrant, independent, and free girl--and his world changes instantly. Kit reads Caleb's palm and tells him...
16) Left out
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt and moving story about a deaf boy's journey to change how others see him--both on and off the football field.
17) One for all
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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2023 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
Lone Star Reading List 2023
Watauga Middle School 2023-2024 TX Star List
Lone Star Reading List 2023
Watauga Middle School 2023-2024 TX Star List
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In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Academie des Mariees in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to get...
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Series
Running out of time volume 1
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English
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When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Description
Curious George knows that getting sick is no fun—but learning facts about fighting off bad germs is!
In this exciting Curious George series all about discovery, George comes down with a cold and can't wait to feel better. In the meantime, it's straight to bed for this monkey. But when George drifts to sleep, his dreams take him on a wild ride inside the body to learn all about germs, how they affect us, and how to avoid and
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