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The cookie crumbles
by Tracy Badua
While competing in the Golden Cookie Competition for a full ride to the prestigious Sunderland boarding school, Laila gets mixed up in a mystery as she and her best friend, Lucy, search for the truth after one of the celebrity judges collapses after sampling her showpiece.
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Duel
by Jessixa Bagley
When her popular sister Gigi humiliates her on the first day of school, Lucy snaps and challenges her to a duel with high sisterly stakes that divides the school into factions and fractures their family even further.
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The jumbies
by Tracey Baptiste
In a spine-tingling tale that is rooted in Caribbean folklore, 11-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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Across the desert
by Dusti Bowling
When her hero, a girl known as the Desert Aviator, crashes during her livestream, 12-year-old Jolene, armed with a hand-drawn map and a stolen cell phone, races against time across the treacherous Arizona desert to save her.
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Roswell Johnson saves the world!
by Chris Colfer
When he is accidentally abducted by aliens—a dream come true—11-year-old Roswell Johnson discovers that the Earth is in grave danger and joins forces with a team of quirky extraterrestrials to save his planet from a tyrannical invasion, hoping to restore his faith in humanity along the way.
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Max in the house of spies / : A Tale of World War II
by Adam Gidwitz
To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible: become a British spy.
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Gooseberry
by Robin Gow
Twelve-year-old B, a young nonbinary person who wants to be a dog trainer someday, convinces their new foster parents to adopt a stray dog named Gooseberry, but training the dog ends up being much harder than they expected until they learn to trust each other.
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Mighty Jack. Book one
by Ben Hatke
A first of two graphic novels that retell the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" depicts a boy from a single-parent home who, at the urging of an autistic sibling, trades in the family car for a box of magic beans, sparking a magical adventure involving onion babies, biting cabbages and a fiery dragon.
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Sal & Gabi break the universe
by Carlos Alberto Hernandez
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
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When stars are scattered
by Victoria Jamieson
A Somali refugee who spent his childhood at the Dadaab camp and the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl present the graphic-novel story of a young refugee who struggles with leaving behind his nonverbal brother when he has an opportunity to help his family by going to school.
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Cuando brillan las estrellas/ When Stars Are Scattered : Una Historia Inolvidable
by Victoria Jamieson
Esta increíble novela gráfica está basada en la experiencia de Omar y su hermano Hassán en el campo de refugiados de la ONU en Dadaab, Kenia, donde vivieron toda su infancia. A pesar de las condiciones difíciles del campo, Omar descubre la maravillosa oportunidad de ir a la escuela, algo que le da a su vida una visión esperanzadora del futuro. Este libro es necesario porque representa una mirada íntima, importante y real a la vida cotidiana de un niño refugiado.
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The Bellwoods Game
by Celia Krampien
When it's her turn to play the Bellwoods Game, a tradition for sixth graders to save the town for another year—or so the story goes—Bailee enters into the woods on Halloween night with two other players and discovers something sinister is at work.
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Dragon Pearl
by Yoon Ha Lee
Longing for adventure in the Thousand Worlds, away from the strict rules that force her to hide her descendancy from fox spirits, 13-year-old Min embarks on a quest to find her brother, who has been accused of abandoning his post to search for a mystical object of power.
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La perla del dragón / Dragon Pearl
by Yoon Ha Lee
Descendiente de una larga línea de espíritus zorro, Min, una muchacha de trece años, se siente acorralada entre rigurosas normas e interminables tareas domésticas. Su madre insiste en que se comporte como una humana en todo momento y que esconda sus poderes por el bien de la familia. Pero ella solo sueña con escapar y seguir los pasos de su hermano mayor, Jun, miembro de las Fuerzas Espaciales. Un día, la oportunidad se presenta. Jun desaparece y es acusado de desertor. ¿Ha huido en busca de la Perla del Dragón? Jun nunca abandonaría a los suyos, y Min se lanzará en una trepidante aventura para encontrarlo y limpiar así su nombre.
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The last Rhee witch
by Jenna Lee-Yun
While at Camp Foster with her best friend Jack when strange occurrences begin to plague the camp, Ronnie finds nothing scarier than change until she is faced with souls who have unfinished business and revelations that disprove everything she knew to be true.
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Lei and the fire goddess
by Malia Maunakea
While in Hawaii visiting her grandmother, 12-year-old, part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kama'ehu angers Pele the fire goddess, and to save her friends, family and the island itself, she must undo the curse by embracing all of who she is.
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Honestly Elliott
by Gillian McDunn
Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
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A kind of spark
by Elle McNicoll
When she discovers that her small Scottish town used to burn witches simply because they were different, a neurodivergent girl who sees and hears things others cannot refuses to let them be forgotten.
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You only live once, David Bravo
by Mark Oshiro
While wishing for a do-over, middle schooler David Bravo accidentally summons a talking, shapeshifting,annoyingdog, Fea, who claims a choice made in David's past set him on the wrong timeline—and that she can take him back to fix it.
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Treasure Island : runaway gold
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Entrusted with a real treasure map, Zane, along with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop, arrives in Manhattan where he learns about the buried history of Black New Yorkers of centuries past, and the gold hidden in those stories, while eluding a vicious rival skateboard crew.
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Cece Rios and the desert of souls
by Kaela Rivera
Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujería to rescue her kidnapped sister.
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Kareem between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
With the school year getting off to a rough start, Syrian American seventh grader Kareem finds himself stuck between friends, between football, between parents and between right and wrong, and must find his voice amidst the chaos.
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Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
A volume of interconnected stories and poems set at a Native American Dance for Mother Earth Powwow celebration in Ann Arbor, Michigan, includes contributions by such new and veteran writers as Joseph Bruchac, Dawn Quigley, and Traci Sorell
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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 town's very first pride festival.
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A royal conundrum
by Lisa Yee
Dropped off at the strangest boarding school ever, Olive discovers the “reforming arts” academy isn't what it seems—and neither is she—as she joins an elite group of misfits who fight crime and need her help to stop the heist of the century.
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