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37 Things I Love (in no particular order)

Henry Holt and Co.
Ellis only has four days of her sophomore year left, and summer is so close that she can almost taste it. But even with vacation just within reach, Ellis isn’t...
  
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Missing on Superstition Mountain
Superstition Mountain Mysteries

Square Fish
It’s summer and the three Barker brothers—Simon, Henry, and Jack—just moved from Illinois to Arizona. Their parents have warned them repeatedly not to explore...
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Knuckle and Potty Destroy Happy World

Henry Holt and Co.
Knuckle and Potty are tired of being lovable book characters. Together, they hatch a plan to venture to the Outer-world by clicking their heels and leaping off...
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Suryia Swims!
The True Story of How an Orangutan Learned to Swim

Henry Holt and Co.
Suryia is not your average orangutan. In the first book about him, Suryia and Roscoe, Suryia found an unusual best friend: a dog named Roscoe. Now Suryia jumps...
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Every Friday

Square Fish
No day is better than Friday! Friday is my favorite day. All week long, a boy and his father look forward to their Friday ritual—breakfast at their...
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The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

Square Fish
A beautiful Kirkassi girl, cold-eyed villains and smiling killers, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams—could any young adventurer ask for more? Not...
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Alex and the Amazing Time Machine

Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books
Alex Trumble is a pretty ordinary kid—except for the fact that his IQ borders on genius, and he loves to read books on vortexes and time travel. But when two...
  
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Horsefly and Honeybee

Henry Holt and Co.
When Honeybee decides to take a nap in the same flower as Horsefly, trouble ensues! They don’t want to share, and after quarrelling, run away in opposite...
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WANTED! A Guinea Pig Called Henry
Rainbow Street Shelter

Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks
Sam wants a pet for her birthday, but her mom and dad have already said that their apartment is too small for a cat or a dog. A trip to Rainbow Street Shelter...
  
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Girl, Stolen

Square Fish
Cheyenne, a blind sixteen year-old, is kidnapped and held for ransom; she must outwit her captors to get out alive.

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My Life as a Book

Square Fish
Derek Fallon has trouble sitting still and reading. But creating cartoons of his vocabulary words comes easy. If only life were as simple!...
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Masterpiece

Square Fish
Marvin lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompadays’ apartment. He is very much a beetle. James Pompaday lives with his family in New York...
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My Life as a Stuntboy

Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books
Derek Fallon gets the opportunity of a lifetime—to be a stunt boy in a major movie featuring a pretty teen starlet. After accepting the job he learns that he...
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Tikki Tikki Tembo

Square Fish
Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo! Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the...
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Breaking Stalin's Nose

Henry Holt and Co.
One of Horn Book’s Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is...
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Letters from Rifka

Square Fish
A deeply felt, deeply personal story of immigration from beloved Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse.
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Square Fish
Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green...
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The 100-Year-Old Secret
The Sherlock Files

Square Fish
Sherlock Holmes’s great-great-great-grandkids are using modern technology to crack his unsolved cases.
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Wonkenstein
The Creature from My Closet

Henry Holt and Co.
Twelve-year-old underachiever Rob has better things to do than read. His parents give him lots of books but most of them just end up in the messy pile of junk...
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Knots on a Counting Rope

Square Fish
In this poignant story, the counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy’s emerging confidence in facing his blindness. "A rich...
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The Night She Disappeared

Henry Holt and Co.
Gabie drives a Mini Cooper. She also works part time as a delivery girl at Pete’s Pizza. One night, Kayla—another delivery girl—goes missing. To her horror,...
  
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Whirligig

Square Fish
A terrible accident ends one life, but is just the beginning for another. . . .
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Little Red Cowboy Hat

Henry Holt and Co.
This whimsical take on Little Red Riding Hood brings new life to an old favorite.
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The Secret of Zoom

Square Fish
A mystery involving strange explosions, hidden tunnels, and . . . singing orphans?