| The Night Librarian by Christopher LincolnCuriosity and boredom prompt twins Page and Turner to visit the New York Public Library, where an encounter with the night librarian reveals that magical energy is escaping from the books -- along with some dangerous fictional characters. |
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The World's Worst Teachers by David WalliamsThink your teachers are bad? Wait till you meet this lot. These ten tales of the world’s most splendidly sinister teachers will have you running for the school gates. Dr Dread teaches science and is half man, half monster… Watch out for the ghastly Miss Seethe. She is ALWAYS furious – and she’s on a detention rampage. And as for Phobe, he’s a teacher with a real difference. He is bone-shakingly terrified of… children!
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| The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer CholdenkoSuper-responsible 11-year-old Hank loves his 3-year-old sister Boo, and due to their unreliable mother, he's used to taking care of her. But when their mom disappears, Hank faces painful choices, such as: is asking for help worth the risk of being separated from Boo |
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The Mouse with the Question Mark Tailby Richard PeckThe tiniest mouse in the Royal Mews is such a mystery he doesn’t even know his own name! He scampers off on a epic adventure in and around Buckingham Palace with a plan to seek the advice of Queen Victoria. The exhilarating journey takes him to strange and wonderful places, but will it help him discover who he is and where he came from?
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School Ship Tobermory by Alexander McCall SmithHaving been homeschooled aboard their family's submarine their whole lives, twins Ben and Fee MacTavish enroll in a nautical sailing ship school for students from all over the world before Ben is chosen as an extra for a movie being filmed on the ship, a project tied to a mysterious secret.
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The Night Gardener by Jonathan AuxierIrish orphans Molly, 14, and Kip, 10, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house.
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The School of Possibilities by Seita ParkkolaAfter being convinced by his Dad's new wife, the "step-monster," that Storm is an impossible child, his father packs him off to the School of Possibilities for troubled youth where he meets a group of children who have escaped from the strict school before being transformed into zombies of good behavior; together they seek to discover the school's sinister secret.
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In the Red by Christopher SwiedlerSuffering from panic attacks every time he puts on a space suit, a boy from a Mars colony takes a friend's dare to prove his courage and ventures out in a stolen rover before becoming stranded hours from safety by a decimating solar flare.
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Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic by Mark TatulliHarboring an ambition to become a special-effects wizard, mischievous sixth-grader Desmond Pucket raises the ire of his school's disciplinary officer with endless pranks and is warned to cease all misbehavior or be banned from a highly anticipated class trip to an amusement park.
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The 47 People You'll Meet in Middle School by Kristin MahoneyFrom tackling a new building to meeting new people, this must-read book for everyone starting middle school delivers heartwarming, pitch-perfect advice that is ideal for anyone nervously approaching middle school.
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Knights of the Lunch Table: the Dodgeball Chroniclesby Frank CammusoWhen Artie opens a locker that no one else ever could and discovers the mysterious contents within, a challenge is presented by Joe and his group of bullies to Artie and his new friends where the winners take it all!
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