| Dough Boys by Paula ChaseWhat it’s about: Rollie and Simp came up together in the Pirates Cove housing project, but when their basketball coach begins pressuring them to work for the local drug dealer, the two best friends face some tough choices.
Why you might like it: Rollie and Simp take turns narrating, letting you see both sides of their story.
Series alert: If you love the authentic, complicated characters in Dough Boys, don’t miss the previous companion book, So Done. |
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Return to the Isle of the Lost : the graphic novel
by Robert Venditti
A graphic-novel rendering of the second entry in the best-selling series finds Mal and her friends targeted by a series of threatening messages that might be related to their villainous parents.
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Guest : a changeling tale
by Mary Downing Hahn
When her infant brother is snatched by malicious sprites and replaced by a hideous changeling, Mollie embarks on a perilous rescue mission in the eerie land of the Kinde Folke. By the award-winning author of Took.
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The Echo Park Castaways
by M. G. Hennessey
Struggling to endure respective challenges as foster-care veterans, a diverse group of kids set aside their differences to help a newcomer on the autism spectrum to reconnect with his mother. By the author of The Other Boy. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook
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| My Life As an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi ZoboiWhat it’s about: After moving from Alabama, where she lived her NASA engineer grandfather, to New York City to live with the father she barely knows, space-obsessed Ebony-Grace has a hard time fitting in with the other kids in 1984 Harlem.
Why you might like it: Sprinkled with science fiction comics and dispatches from Ebony-Grace’s outer-space “imagination location,” this book isn’t just outside the box -- it’s out of this world. |
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What's lurking in the woods?
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| Small Spaces by Katherine ArdenIntroducing: Ollie, a bookish sixth-grader who realizes that the scary antique book she's been reading is actually local history -- and that her entire class might be in danger.
Featuring: scarecrows, shapeshifters, a smiling specter, and a frightening journey through a fog-shrouded forest.
Series alert: This spooky chiller is the 1st in a series, followed by Dead Voices. |
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| In Darkling Wood by Emma CarrollWhat it’s about: While staying with her prickly grandmother Nell, Alice explores the nearby Darkling Wood, where she meets a girl named Flo who claims that fairies live in the woods -- fairies that might turn vengeful if Nell goes through with her plan to cut down their home.
Why you might like it: Alice’s modern story intertwines with World War One-era letters to create layers of irresistible mystery and magic. |
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The Thickety : a path begins
by J. A White
Shunned by villagers who convicted her mother of witchcraft years earlier, Kara is lured by an unusual bird into a forbidden magical forest where she discovers a strange book of unspeakable power that may have belonged to her mother.
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Serafina and the Black Cloak
by Robert Beatty
Living secretly in the basement of a grand estate where her pa works as a maintenance man, young Serafina narrowly escapes a black-cloaked man who has been abducting local children and who Serafina, aided by a youth from the estate, endeavors to expose.
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