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Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"As the daughter of a prominent judge of Khazaria, twelve-year-old Ziva is expected to focus on learning etiquette and decorum in hopes of finding a good husband. But she doesn't care about any of that. Instead, she spends her days with her twin brother, Pesah, as they work to try to find a cure for his leprosy. Now Pesah's getting worse. The best doctors have given him mere weeks to live, and even more alarming, Pesah has a vision: the Angel of Death...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Novah feels like her life has been put on hold, taking care of her four younger siblings while her older sister Ariana gets to play volleyball and hang out--but when their parents are killed in a car crash Ariana and Novah will have to learn to cooperate.
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past. It's been a year since Manny was cast out of his family and driven into the wilderness of the American Southwest. He has survived by following some hard-learned rules-- but now he's...
6) Extra normal
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Greer is nothing special--at least not compared to her adopted siblings. Her younger sister is a ghost. Her brother Mateo is a werewolf. Gideon is the product of seriously sketchy experiments that gave him telekinetic powers. Even her parents work for the Division of Extranormal Investigations tracking down all things supernatural, alien, and otherwise unusual. Charlie's mom says her superpower is maturity--which doesn't really count. But...
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
8) Superfudge
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Series
Language
English
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Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 5
Language
English
Description
After returning home from their latest adventure, Mallory, Jared, and Simon find Mulgarath, an ogre and leader the goblins, has taken captive their mother along with Uncle Arthur's field guide.
10) Freewater
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
39 clues volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Marie Curie to Harry Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family's power is lost. 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and siblings Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what really happened to their parents."--Back...
12) The storyteller
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
13) Alebrijes
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime.
14) Saving Sunshine
Author
Publisher
First Second
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's hard enough being a kid without being teased for a funny sounding name or wearing a hijab. It's even harder when you're constantly fighting your sibling--and Zara and Zeeshan really can't stand each other. During a family trip to Florida, when the bickering, shoving, and insults reach new heights of chaos, their parents sentence them to the worst possible fate--each other's company! But when the twins find an ailing turtle, it presents a rare...
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books/Penguin Random House LLC
Edition
Reissued [edition].
Language
English
Description
"Two years ago, Sam ran away from New York City to live in the Catskill Mountains. Now his younger sister Alice has joined him and is quietly living in a tree house of her own nearby. Their peaceful life is shattered when a conservation officer confiscates Sam's falcon, Frightful, and Alice suddenly vanishes. Sam leaves his home to search for Alice, hoping to find Frightful, too. But the trail to the far side of the mountain may lead Sam into great...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
Cooper Klavan and his sister, Anna, are fishing with their parents at a woodland pond when they come across an injured bird. Anna, a huge animal lover, insists on taking it home to rehabilitate. But the bird really does not want to be rescued. It bites Anna. Soon, she is behaving very strangely: perching high up in trees and gathering sticks to hide in her room. Cooper doesn't want to jump to any conclusions, but his sister seems to be going to the...
17) Alérgica
Author
Publisher
Graphix, un sello de Scholastic
Language
Español
Description
Maggie es la rara de la familia. Sus padres están ocupados preparándose para la llegada de un nuevo bebé, y sus hermanitos son gemelos y viven en su propio mundo. A Maggie le encantan los animales y cree que lo que necesita es tener su propio cachorrito, pero cuando va a elegir uno el día de su cumpleaños, le comienza a salir un sarpullido. ¡Tiene alergia severa a todo lo que tenga pelaje!¿Podrá Maggie superar sus alergias y encontrar la mascota...
19) Sky's end
Author
Series
Above the black volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Plummet into a kill-or-be-killed competition where a scrappy underdog hell-bent on revenge must claw his way to the top in this thrilling YA fantasy debut.
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