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| Clean Getaway by Nic StoneStarring: Scoob Lamar, who’s ready for a spring break adventure (especially if it means getting away from his strict dad); and G’ma, who invites Scoob on a mysterious road trip.
What happens: As they drive through the American South, Scoob realizes that G’ma might be re-creating a vacation she took with his grandfather in 1963, when travel was risky for interracial couples.
Try this next: Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer, another book about a trip that reveals hidden family history. |
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The forgotten girl
by India Hill Brown
Sneaking out with her best friend to play in the freshly fallen snow on a cold winter night, Iris discovers an abandoned grave before experiencing vivid nightmares that compel her investigation into the story of a Black cemetery from the segregation era.
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Broken strings
by Eric Walters
In 2002, Shirli Berman loses her beloved grandmother and lands a part in her junior high production of "Fiddler on the Roof," but when she is doing research in her attic and finds a violin, her Zayde gets incredibly angry
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Dog driven
by Terry Lynn Johnson
A talented but sight-impaired musher signs up for a dangerous commemorative race in the Canadian wilderness to prove herself while raising awareness of the disease that is costing her and her sister their sight. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The tornado
by Jake Burt
A young systems expert who uses his talents to pamper his chinchilla and recreate the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci is confounded by a wild newcomer with rainbow-colored hair who disrupts his secret system to avoid the class bully. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Mystwick School of Musicraft
by Jessica Khoury
Twelve-year-old Amelia gets the opportunity to attend a boarding school and learn how to use music to create magic, hoping to become a Maestro like her deceased mother
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Pippa Park Raises Her Game
by Erin Yun
Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. So when she gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself. At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, a crush, and the pressure to perform at school while keeping her past and her family’s laundromat a secret from her elite classmates. When social media threatens Pippa’s persona, she wonders if she can keep it together.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 10-13!
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Culpeper County Library 271 Southgate Shopping Center Culpeper, Virginia 22701 540-825-8691
www.cclva.org
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