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A Recipe for Robbery
by Colleen Nelson
Elodie LaRue is back for a new page-turning mystery. Someone has stolen Chef Sebastian's recipes and with few suspects, a tight timeline, and the LaRue Detective Agency's perfect success rate on the line, could Elodie be biting off more than she can chew?
Fiction. Recommended for grades 4-7.
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Time Lions and the Chrono-Loop
by Krystal Sutherland
Twelve-year-old [British-Sri Lankan] twins Pearl and Patrick travel back in time to enlist the help of the inventor of time travel in order to save the future and to maintain the fabric of time itself.
Fiction. Recommended for grades 5-7.
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Splinter & Ash #2: City of Secrets
by Marieke Nijkamp
Freshly returned to Kestrel's Haven, best friends and misfits Ash and Splinter race to stop a deadly plot by the treasonous Larks, uncovering secrets and facing danger at every turn before the targeted Harvest Festival.
Fiction. Recommended for grades 5-8.
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The Free State of Jax
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Tired of living with his neglectful and bullying relatives, twelve-year-old Jax finds solace on a nearby lake where he creates his own micronation, only to find himself entangled in a mystery that threatens his newfound freedom and forces him to confront family secrets.
Fiction. Recommended for grades 6-8.
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The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story
by Allan Wolf
Home to catfish and crawdads, shrimp and spoonbills, even a gator or two, Lake Peigneur--pronounced 'your pain,' only backward--bustles also with human life. Each day, the bean-shaped freshwater lake and its shores hum with folks going about their work--a devoted gardener's apprentice and his dogs, fishermen, oilmen drilling at Well P-20, and the fifty-one miners employed by the Diamond Crystal Salt Mines. For most, November 20, 1980 began as 'just another day on the lake.' But as the lake itself reflects, humans had, over time, left behind a honeycomb of salt highways deep beneath its surface, and water and salt mix all too well.
Graphic Novel (Nonfiction). Recommended for grades 5-8.
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Stella: Ranch Patrol: Dogs with a Purpose
by W. Bruce Cameron
Thirteen-year-old Mateo trains corgi Stella to herd sheep in order to help his father avoid selling the family ranch.
Fiction. Recommended for grades 4-6.
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Paisley & Peck: Jurassic Farm
by J. Torres
A riotous new graphic novel series following two misfit barnyard friends Paisley is not only a neat and tidy pig. He's also a foodie who refuses to eat slop and dreams of becoming a food critic. Peck is an enthusiastic chick who is not a morning bird and refuses to grow up to be the farm's alarm clock. When Peck learns that chickens evolved from dinosaurs, he's delighted! He might not have to become a rooster, after all--instead, he can grow up to be a Ty-rooster-saurus rex! But when Peck goes Jurassic and starts to take his new career a little too seriously, Paisley and the other farm animals realize they might have created a monster.
Graphic Novel. Recommended for grades 4-6.
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The Graveyard Club
by R. L. Stine
THIS TOWN IS DEAD Graves End is your average small town, other than the fact that it's surrounded by cemeteries on all sides and the dead outnumber the living... There's also the swarms of red-eyed bats that fill the sky every night, the mysterious disappearances, and the constant strange goings-on that residents refuse to talk about. But still, like any small town, teenagers find a way to liven things up, even in a dead-end town like Graves End. Amongst the tombstones, Parker West and his small gang of high school misfits find the one place they fit in, and form a lifelong bond as The Graveyard Club.
Fiction. Recommended for grades 6-8.
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A Method for Magic and Misfortune
by Craig Kofi Farmer
A boy discovers magic -- along with a hidden darkness -- in his town in this propulsive and heartfelt middle grade novel by Craig Kofi Farmer, author of Kwame Crashes the Underworld.
Fiction. Recommended for grades 4-7.
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Rodeo Hawkins and the Daughters of Mayhem: A Graphic Novel
by John Claude Bemis
When Sidney Poblocki runs away from his troubled home life, he winds up in a whole new world of trouble. Why are interdimensional assassins after him along with every other kid named Sidney Poblocki throughout the multiverse? Will he ever see his best bud Walt again now that Walt's memory of Sidney has been erased? As Sidney is swept into a series of misadventures that will change the multiverse forever, one thing is for certain: with Rodeo Hawkins around, his life is about to be filled with a lot more mayhem--
Graphic Novel. Recommended for grades 5-8.
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