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The Last Best Days of Summer

Frances Foster Books
For twelve-year-old Lucy Crandall, the last week of August is the most perfect time in the world. It’s the week she gets to spend with Grams at the lake house,...
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Square Fish
Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.
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Jack Tumor

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hector is being hectored by an unlikely bully: a talking brain tumor. And it’s not just a talking brain tumor. It’s a know-it-all, pain-in-the-arse,...
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Maggie's Amerikay

Melanie Kroupa Books
“In Amerikay,” Maggie’s da has told her, “we will start anew.” It’s 1898, and Maggie McCrary and her family have just crossed the ocean to settle in New...
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Ziggy's Blue-Ribbon Day

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Every kid’s a winner! Ziggy dreads track-and-field day. He isn’t good at running races or at high or long jumping. He isn’t good at throwing balls, either....
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Invisible Enemies, Revised Edition
Stories of Infectious Disease

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Updated to include the most recent breakthroughs First published in 1998, here are the surprisingly fascinating stories of seven diseases that changed the...
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Invisible Allies
Microbes That Shape Our Lives

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Mmm-mmm, microbes! Although we are accustomed to equating the presence of microbes with disease, in fact most microbes play a vital "friendly" role in...
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Madame Squidley and Beanie

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The story of a girl whose mother has a chronic illness Beanie's mom used to be a lot of fun. She still is, when she pretends to be the amazing...
  
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Naming Maya

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
West meets East Although Maya has done her best to avoid it, she is spending part of her summer in Chennai, India, with her mother, who is trying to sell...
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The Head Bone's Connected To The Neck Bone
The Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful X-Ray

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Through an engaging text and numerous photographs and illustrations, Carla Killough McClafferty tells the history of the X-ray, from its discovery to its uses...