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Iveliz Explains It All
by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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Loyalty
by Avi
To avenge his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British during the American Revolution, witnessing firsthand the hypocrisy, lies and allegiances that come with war, and must determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.
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Consider the Octopus
by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-olds JB Barnes and Sidney Miller meet aboard a scientific research ship after JB is tasked to invite a renowned scientist named Sidney Miller and mistakenly invites a girl with the same name who will do anything to get out of going to summer camp.
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Outside Nowhere
by Adam Borba
After one prank too many lands him on a farm across the country, working alongside five other kids who aren't fans of his, Parker suspects something magical and mysterious is growing in the farms fields when strange things start happening.
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Shot Clock
by Caron Butler
When the police officer who killed his best friend, a hoops phenom, is back on the job, Tony, the statistician for the AAU basketball team, must deal with his own grief and help his community heal while leading his team to victory.
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12 to 22: POV you wake up in the future!
by Jen Calonita
Clicking on a mysterious new TikTok filter, Harper transports herself 10 years into the future, where she is 22, and she must decide just how far she is willing to go to get the life she's always dreamed of.
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Glitter Gets Everywhere
by Yvette Clark
Relocating from London to New York City in the aftermath of her mothers death, Kitty struggles to adjust to a different culture, before an unlikely friendship inspires alternate perspectives on how to keep her mothers memory alive.
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The Marvellers
by Dhonielle Clayton
The first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute along with Marvellers from around the world, 11-year-old Ella must prove her innocence, with the help of a new friend, when a dangerous criminal escapes and her mentor disappears. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Learning to Fall
by Sally Engelfried
Reconciling with her alcoholic father, 12-year-old Daphne joins him at a weekly skate session where she starts to believe in him as she learns that skating is all about accepting failure, moving on and getting back up after you fall.
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The Mirrorwood
by Deva Fagan
Cursed by a twisted enchantment that leaves her without a face of her own, Fable flees to the dangerous realm of Mirrorwood, which may be the only place she can break the curse and find her true self.
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Meet Me Halfway
by Anika Fajardo
When they discover they have the same Colombian dad, whom neither has ever met, Mattie Gomez and Mercedes Miller team up to track him down, despite their constant bickering and completely opposite personalities.
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Golden Girl
by Reem Faruqi
When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakastani American girl who has a habit of borrowing glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
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The Midnight Children
by Dan Gemeinhart
Making a friend in newcomer Virginia, one of seven mysterious kids to move into his neighborhood, outcast Ravani Foster must keep Virginia safe when he learns she is in danger or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
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Fearless
by Mandy Gonzalez
While rehearsing what may be the last show in the Ethel Merman Theater, twelve-year-old Monica Garcia and other cast members are locked in and must try to appease a ghost and reverse a curse.
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Two Degrees
by Alan Gratz
While each experiencing three climate disasters, four kids discover they are connected in shocking ways that could alter their destinies forever, in this edge-of-your-seat adventure tackling the urgent topic of climate change.
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Dear Friends
by Lisa Greenwald
Dumped by her BFF from kindergarten, Eleni revisits her top five friendship fallouts to find out what went wrong and how to be a better friend all before she has to choose a roommate for an overnight class trip.
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Adrift
by Tanya Guerrero
The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.
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Unseen Magic
by Emily Lloyd-Jones
New to the magic-infused town of Aldermere, 11-year-old Fin finally feels safe until she accidentally unleashes an evil doppelganger who wreaks havoc, forcing Fin to face her fears literally to stop it.
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Freewater
by Amina Luqman-Dawson
After escaping Southerland Plantation with his little sister, 12-year-old Homer becomes part of a secret community called Freewater, where he finally finds a place to call home and the courage to go back and free his mother from enslavement.
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Fight + Flight
by Jules Machias
Two girls find friendship-and more-when they bond over a traumatic event that took place in their middle school.
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The Final Cut
by Denis Markell
Trying to salvage his seventh-grade year and determined to win the schools Golden Reel competition, Alex Davis finds himself embroiled in a mystery when someone tries to sabotage his film.
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Grounded for All Eternity
by Darcy Marks
When a soul escapes from Hell, Mal and his friends slip through the veil on Halloween night and find themselves in Salem, Massachusetts, where they must stop one of history's greatest manipulators from shifting the balance on Earth.
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Lines of Courage
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
As World War I stretches across Europe, five young people face the awful challenges of war as they fight for their dreams, their families and their very survival.
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Ghostlight
by Kenneth Oppel
While taking tourists on a ghost tour on Toronto Island, Gabe comes face-to-face with the dead girl at the center of his story who needs his help in stopping the malevolent spirit responsible for her and her fathers death who is growing ever stronger.
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Witchlings
by Claribel A. Ortega
Every year...Witchlings who participate in the Black Moon Ceremony are placed into covens and come into their powers as full-fledged witches...Seven isn't placed in one of the five covens. She's a Spare...Seven invokes her only option...The three Spares will be assigned an impossible task: If they work together and succeed at it, their coven will be sealed and they'll gain their full powers. If they fail...Well, the last coven to make the attempt ended up being turned into toads.
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Northwind
by Gary Paulsen
Forced to take to the water after a deadly plague wipes out his fishing village, Leif connects to the heartbeat of the ocean and the pulse of the landscape as he discovers his truest self.
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Green Eyes and Ham
by Mary Penney
After a lifetime of being homeschooled, Ham starts a new year in a new school where he meets Micah, who helps him navigate this strange world, and as he tries to fit in, he wonders if it is worth changing who he wants to be.
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Operation Sisterhood
by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Eleven-year-old Bo is used to it being just her and her mom in their cozy New York apartment, but when her mom gets married, Bo must adjust to her new sisters and a music-minded blended family that is much larger, louder, and more complex than she ever imagined.
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The Edge of In Between
by Lorelei Savaryn
Living in a city where life exists in brilliant technicolor and nearly everyone has magic, Lottie loses the color in her life after the death of her parents until she finds an unexpected place to call home that gives her hope.
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Three Strike Summer
by Skyler Schrempp
Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on.
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Small Town Pride
by Phil Stamper
When Jake comes out to his dad, who hangs a ginormous pride flag in their front yard as a show of love and support, the mayor begins receiving complaints and Jake fights to throw his towns very first pride festival.
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Yonder
by Ali Standish
Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since Jack saved two small children from drowning during the Great Flood of 1940. Now, with his father away fighting in World War II and his mother about to have a new baby, Danny relies on Jack's friendship and guidance more than ever. So when Jack goes missing without a trace from their small Appalachian town, Danny is determined to find him. He wonders if Jack's abusive father could be behind his disappearance, or if it has anything to do with Yonder--a hidden magical town Jack once spoke of, where flocks of rainbow birds fly through the sky and they've never heard of war. As answers elude him, Danny begins to fear that he didn't know Jack as well as he thought.
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Dear Student
by Elly Swartz
Starting middle school after her best friend moves away, Autumn, the secret voice of the “Dear Student” letters, doesn’t know what to do when she makes new friends who don’t like each other until the unthinkable happens.
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The Language of Seabirds
by Will Taylor
While staying with his dad and uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon, Jeremy meets and forms a friendship with local boy Evan that turns into something neither boy expected, but something they both wished for.
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Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods
by Catherynne M. Valente
When his mother accidentally kills a Quidnunk, firstborn son Osmo embarks on a quest to find the Eightpenny Woodsa mysterious kingdom where all wild forest creatures go when they dieto make amends.
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My Own Lightning
by Lauren Wolk
Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
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Crunch
by Kayla Miller
Trying to stay on track with her jam-packed schedule, Olive needs to find time for herself before everything fizzles out, in this timely story about the importance of balance, effort and reaching out for help.
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