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New Books School Aged Kids and Teens April 2025 |
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Hoopla
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Jojo vs. middle school
by Joy McCullough
Despite her careful planning, 11-year-old Jojo's first day of middle school unravels after an outfit mishap, caused by her cat-fluencer stepdad's new kitten, but as she tries hiding her embarrassment, she finds solace in new friends.
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London calling
by James Ponti
Cairo, the newest member of the City Spies, takes the lead when his sister disappears in Istanbul, and the team risks discovery as their search leads them to Rome, but they are also needed to help in the U.K.
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Lost and found in the city
by Cam Higgins
Ratnip the rat lives in the City where there's always plenty to eat, and after he discovers knick-knacks in the dumpster, he goes on a mission to return the treasure to its rightful owner.
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Maple's formula for victory
by Kate McMillan
"Sixth-grader and aspiring astronaut Maple McNutt chronicles her foray into the high-stakes world of middle school track in this diary-style illustrated novel"
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On thin ice
by Jessica Kim
Twelve-year-old fraternal twins Phoebe and Dexter Bae are opposites except for their love of the ice, and when Phoebe's figure skating partner gets injured and Dex is cut from his hockey team, they team up.
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Pizza dreams do come true
by Cam Higgins
Ratnip lives in an abandoned pizza parlor, and one night when the pizza craving hits him, he can't find a single leftover crust in the trash, so he decides to make his own pizzas.
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Resist : a story of D-Day
by Alan Gratz
Samira Zidane lives in Nazi-occupied France during World War II where she and her mother crack codes to help sabotage the Nazis' plans, and when her mother is captured, Samira must embark on a daring rescue mission on D-Day.
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Rick Kotani's 400 million dollar summer
by Waka T. Brown
Twelve-year-old Rick Kotani is looking forward to playing summer baseball in California but must move to Oregon to help his Grandpa Hiroshi, and after the two bond over a Japanese folktale about personal values, Rick joins a super competitive baseball league and must make big decisions about what he values most.
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Skylar and the K-pop principal
by Luan Goldie
"Skylar is convinced that life for her as an eleven-year-old is way harder than for any adult, including her cranky principal, Ms. Callus. The only good part about being eleven is being a massive K-pop fan, even if her parents do ban her from all things AZ8, the best K-pop boy band in the world. When a freak accident causes Skylar and Ms. Callus to switch bodies, Skylar finds herself trying to convince the world of AZ8's supremacy, going viral in a K-pop dance video, and somehow running her school, all while stuck in a seventy-one-year-old's body. And then she gets the chance to meet AZ8 in real life. With the help of her bestie, Dana, and her own wits and passion, Skylar must decide whether her K-pop dream come true is worth risking being stuck as an old lady forever. A feel-good tale singing with laugh-out-loud moments, Skylar and the K-Pop Principal is a joyful and uplifting story of friendship, fandom, and chasing your dreams"
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Worst wish ever!
by Wanda Coven
When Heidi Heckelbeck has an important exam at the same time her crush has invited her on a nature walk, she decides to use a magical wishing well at school, even though students are forbidden to use it.
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Sweet Valley Twins: Sneaking Out
by Nicole Andelfinger
Everyone at Sweet Valley Middle School is going to the biggest concert ever except twins Jessica and Elizabeth, but Jessica is intent on seeing the band, even if it means lying or leaving her sister behind.
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Space Chasers
by Leland Melvin
When Tia Valor takes a test on a whim for an exclusive NASA program for middle schoolers, she never thought she'd pass. After all, she never really fit in at school. In fact, she's been skipping school most days to work at her brother's auto shop instead. But Leland Melvin, a famed astronaut, sees potential in Tia, and before she knows it, she's part of a team of other talented kids training to launch to an advanced space station orbiting the earth. But the perils of space are unpredictable and Tia finds herself with only half her crew and no adults around to help. Now she must rely on her instincts and the quick thinking of her fellow kid astronauts to save the space station and their lives!
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Speechless
by Aron Nels Steinke
Middle schooler Mira is struggling to speak in class and has found solace in making videos for her secret stop-motion animation channel, but she's horrified to learn Chloe, her former-best-friend-turned-enemy, will be staying with them.
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Spy ski school : the graphic novel
by Stuart Gibbs
A 13-year-old Ben Ripley has been kidnapped, shot at and survived a bomb and missiles, so the CIA sends him on a mission to become friends with the daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss and learn her father's secrets.
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Hilo. : The Great Space Iguana Book 11
by Judd Winick
A giant space iguana has landed in D.J.‘s backyard, and D.J., Hilo and Gina will have to race through space to get her home before danger comes to the universe.
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Fable for the End of the World
by Ava Reid
By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society. Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt--enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus's livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb's Gauntlet. ... When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs--the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she's had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother she might stand a chance of staying alive.
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Nightweaver
by R. M. Gray
Seventeen-year-old pirate Aster Oberon, seeking revenge for her brother's murder, becomes entangled in a plot to overthrow the royal family while working as a kitchen maid at Bludgrave Manor, where she wrestles with her complex feelings for her captor, Will.
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Our infinite fates : a novel
by Laura Steven
Evelyn remembers her past lives and how she's murdered by her 18th birthday in each one by Arden, a supernatural being tethered to her soul, so she needs to find him first, break their curse and not to fall in love.
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Rebel witch / : The Crimson Moth
by Kristen Ciccarelli
In the conclusion to The Crimson Moth duology, love has never been so deadly when witch Rune makes witch-hunter Gideon an offer he can't refuse and the two pair up to accomplish dangerous goals.
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Sisters of Sword and Song
by Rebecca Ross
Halcyon faces a fifteen-year sentence after being charged with murder, so her younger sister Evadne offers to carry part of her sentence and tries to uncover the truth behind the supposed crime along the way.
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A wizard of Earthsea : a graphic novel
by Fred Fordham
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth, he was the reckless Sparrowhawk, and in his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets, unleashing a terrible shadow on the world.
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Age 16
by Rosena Fung
In 2000 Toronto, 16-year-old aspiring photographer Roz feels that certain things would be better if she were thinner and finds her life upended by the arrival of her estranged grandmother, and with three generations under one roof, relationships become frayed and long suppressed family secrets start to surface.
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Kirby's lessons for falling (in love)
by Laura Gao
After Kirby Tan breaks her arm at the rock-climbing invitationals she joins the newspaper club, where she meets and falls for astrology-obsessed Bex and then struggles to balance her queer identity with her obligations to family and community.
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Mystik U : Freshman Year Enchantments
by Alisa Kwitney
Under the leadership of Dr. Rose Psychic, Zatanna and her fellow students--including Davit Sargon, June "Enchantress" Moone, and brooding bad boy Sebastian Faust--begin to learn the secrets of harnessing and directing their powers. But these introductory lessons may not be enough to save them from the deadly force known as the Malevolence, whose triumph in the not-too-distant future Dr. Psychic has already foreseen. For Zatanna, however, this dark prophecy is overshadowed by more immediate concerns--among them, the obsessive attentions of the queen-bee Thriae Society, the cold-blooded calculations of Mr. E, and what really happened when she first manifested her backwards-speaking magic and sent her father to lleH! |
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Five Nights at Freddy's 1 : Tales from the Pizzaplex
by Scott Cawthon
In this volume, three stories from the Publishers Weekly bestselling series Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex come to life in delightfully horrifying comics. Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans...
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