August 2025 list by Angie R. |
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The Big Sky Mountain Audio Collection
by Alex Milway
Welcome to BIG SKY MOUNTAIN: a home for everyone! This audio collection includes four exhilarating adventures in the great outdoors, from HOTEL FLAMINGO author Alex Milway.
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The Blossoming Summer
by Anna Rose Johnson
When thirteen-year-old Rosemary is evacuated from WWII London to her grandmother's home in America, she uncovers a hidden family truth--that they are Anishinaabe--leading her to embrace her heritage, forge new bonds, and find beauty in unexpected places.
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Fright Night
by Dan Gutman
The Ella Mentry School kids tell each other seven scary stories during their playgound sleepover.
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The Guardian's Quest
by Kat Zhang
Eleven year old Amy's malfunctioning paintbrush accidentally paints a portal to a mythical world, but when she discovers that the paintbrush is running out of power, she must undergo a trial to prove her worth as the guardian of the magic paintbrush.
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How to Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing
by Cressida Cowell
Disastrous Lesson Number One: The Art of Battle. It was supposed to be a quiet, sensible lesson. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third never meant to get into trouble. But things take an unexpected turn along the way and Hiccup and his friends soon find themselves adrift on stormy seas in a sinking ship facing imminent doom.
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Millie Fleur Saves the Night
by Christy Mandin
Millie Fleur bakes delicious moon pies and convinces the townspeople of Garden Glen to welcome the dark by visiting a fragrant moon garden and noticing beautiful night creatures,
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Once for Yes
by Allie Millington
After the Laroe family lost a daughter and their apartment building is slated for demolition, 11-year-old Prue Laroe fights to save it and so learns she can move on without leaving her sister behind, in a story about the importance of memory.
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Radiant
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
As school begins in 1963, Cooper Dale wrestles with what it means to “shine” for a black girl plus faces bullying in a predominantly white community near Pittsburgh, in a historical novel told in verse.
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Return to Gone-Away
by Elizabeth Enright
Eleven-year-old Portia and her family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets.
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Sabrena Swept Away
by Karuna Riazi
A descendant of the legendary sailor Sinbad, young Sebrena has always been drawn to the sea and finds herself living out the stories from One Thousand and One Nights.
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Welcome to Metropolis
by David Lewman
Clark Kent is a fresh face to Metropolis, trying to balance his new job at The Daily Planet, and his secret identity as Superman, a powerful metahuman, while uncovering a dangerous mystery that seems to tie back to the infamous Lex Luthor.
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Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
by Jessica Townsend
A sequel to Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow finds Morrigan and her best friend, Hawthorne Swift, assuming their studies as proud scholars in the elite Wundrous Society, where Morrigan is challenged to prove she belongs.
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