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The Search for Belle Prater

Square Fish
The sequel to the beloved Newbery Honor Book, Belle Prater’s Boy Since Belle Prater inexplicably disappeared about a year ago, her son, Woodrow, and his...
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Wicked Sweet

Feiwel & Friends
Chantal is a planner, and her summer-before-senior-year plan requires best friend Jillian, resumé updating, and studying for AP classes. Jillian wants...
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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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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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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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Belle Prater's Boy

Square Fish
Around 5:00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning on October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth. Everyone in Coal Station,...
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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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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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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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On the Night You Were Born

Feiwel & Friends
A beautiful and poignant celebration of the birth—and worth—of every child.
  
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Wherever You Are
My Love Will Find You

Feiwel & Friends
. . . I wanted you more than you’ll ever know, so I sent love to follow wherever you go. . . . Love is the greatest gift we have to give our children. It’s...
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Tuck Everlasting

Square Fish
Is eternal life a blessing or a curse?  
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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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The Girl Who Could Fly

Square Fish
A humorous, thrilling novel about a girl who can fly and the institute for normalcy that wants to bring her down.
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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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Amos & Boris

Square Fish
Friends come in all shapes and sizes.
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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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Bystander

Square Fish
A seventh grade boy must choose between being a witness to bullying—or becoming a victim.
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Joey Pigza

Square Fish
In this National Book Award finalist, Joey Pigza tries hard to be a good kid trapped in a wired body.
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American Born Chinese

Square Fish
Three very different characters, one simple goal: to fit in.
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The Revealers

Square Fish
How does a scrawny kid deal with a bully?Knowledge equals power.
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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...