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The unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair
by Amy Makechnie
Determined to find her missing neighbor, a 10-year-old girl follows clues to places and people she never expected, including the mother she has been trying to forget. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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Winterhouse
by Ben Guterson
A first entry in a planned trilogy set in a magical hotel filled with secrets finds orphan Elizabeth Somers shipped away by her malevolent guardians to a mysterious hotel, where she discovers a magic book of puzzles with ties to her host's sinister family and a fateful curse. Simultaneous eBook.
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Spell & spindle
by Michelle Schusterman
When a mysterious puppeteer causes a lifelike marionette, Penny, to switch bodies with a little boy, her ability to focus on getting properly switched back is challenged by her first experience of freedom. By the author of the Kat Sinclair Files. Simultaneous eBook.
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Out of left field
by Ellen Klages
Disguising herself as a boy to try out for the 1958 Little League season, talented 10-year-old Katy easily makes the team but is immediately ousted when her sercret is discovered, prompting her to tap her classroom knowledge of the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement to prove that girls can do anything that boys can do. By the award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea. Simultaneous eBook.
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Toaff's way
by Cynthia Voigt
A little squirrel with an inquisitive nature wonders why he must avoid humans and red squirrel rivals before a winter storm separates him from his family and challenges him to make his own way in a dangerous world. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of Dicey's Song. Simultaneous eBook
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How to eat fried worms
by Thomas Rockwell
Billy may have bitten off more than he can chew when he is challenged by his friend Alan to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days for fifty dollars, in a movie-tie edition that includes eight full-color pages of photos from the new film. Reprint.
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The Twits
by Roald Dahl
The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys
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| The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones by Will MabbittStarring: Mabel, a pajama-clad girl who does something so disgusting (no spoilers, but it involves boogers) that it opens a portal to a future world where Mabel is kidnapped by the animal pirate crew of the Feroshus Maggot.
Read it for: swashbuckling action, gross-out jokes, and plenty of puns.
Series alert: The outrageous magical mayhem continues in Mabel Jones and the Forbidden City and Mabel Jones and the Doomsday Book. |
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| Demon Dentist by David WalliamsWhat it's about: There's a new dentist in town…or is she actually a witch? Twelve-year-old Alfie can't think of any other reason why kids who expect coins from the tooth fairy are finding slugs, scabs, eyeballs, and still-flapping bat wings under their pillows instead.
Who it's for: readers who enjoy the over-the-top characters and creepy edge of Roald Dahl's books, and who like an extra splash of toilet humor. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 8-11!
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San Mateo Public Library 55 West 3rd Avenue San Mateo, California 94402 (650) 522-7802www.smplibrary.org |
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