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The last kids on Earth
by Max Brallier
After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg
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Matilda
by Roald Dahl
Matilda, a brilliant, sensitive little girl, uses her talents and ingenuity to seek revenge on her crooked father, lazy mother, and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, her wicked headmistress, and save her beloved teacher, Miss Honey.
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Rescue on the Oregon Trail
by Kate Messner
Unable to pass his tests as a search-and-rescue dog because he is too easily distracted, Ranger is transported to the year 1850, where he must help a young boy and his family on the Oregon Trail.
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The Borrowers
by Mary Norton
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock
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Amelia to Zora: twenty-six women who changed the world
by Cynthia Chin-Lee
Profiles the lives of twenty-six women who, through their acts and deeds, helped shape and change the world during their lifetime, including pilot Amelia Earhart and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston
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The million dollar shot
by Dan Gutman
Eddie Ball believes he can solve his family's financial woes by sinking a million-dollar half-time basket at the NBA finals, but someone wants him to miss and will stop at nothing to keep Eddie from winning
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The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.
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Black Holes
by Dana Meachen Rau
Discusses the nature of black holes and how scientists are able to study them.
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Lily's crossing
by Patricia Reilly Giff
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently. A Newbery Honor winner.
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Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures
by Brian Selznick
Employing the form he created in his trailblazing debut novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the Caldecott Medal-winning author/illustrator once again takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey that tells the story of 12-year-old Ben, who leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and there meets Rose, who is also longing for something that is missing from her life.
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Two-minute Drill
by Mike Lupica
Brainy Scott, a great kicker who otherwise struggles with football, and star quarterback Chris, who has dyslexia, team up to help each other succeed in both football and school.
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Out of my mind
by Sharon M. Draper
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time
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Forensics in the real world
by L. E. Carmichael
Examines the field of forensics, covering its history, relevant careers, and the future of the field
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11 birthdays
by Wendy Mass
Amanda and Leo, best friends with the same birthday, had a falling out on their tenth birthday and have not spoken since, but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their eleventh birthday repeats itself again and again
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Jacob Wonderbar and the cosmic space kapow
by Nathan Bransford
When sixth-grade classroom terror Jacob Wonderbar and his friends Sarah and Dexter find a spaceship that has crashed in the woods near their suburban neighborhood, their discovery leads them to a series of adventures including space travel, substitute teachers, kidnapping and more.
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Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
by Dav Pilkey
This highly anticipated new graphic novel from the #1 worldwide best-selling series finds Dog Man and his Supa Buddies banding together to stop Piggy's most diabolical plot yet!
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The Cardboard Kingdom 2 : Roar of the Beast
by Chad Sell
When a mysterious monster wreaks havoc in their neighborhood, the newly minted Monster Mashers will go to any lengths to protect the Cardboard Kingdom and solve this mystery.
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The tiger rising
by Kate DiCamillo
Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger
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Chasing Vermeer
by Blue Balliett
When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal
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The strange case of Origami Yoda
by Tom Angleberger
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda
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Eating Organic
by Rebecca Rissman
Explains what organic foods are, and discusses their history, organic farming techniques, and the advantages and disadvantages of eating them
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library
by Chris Grabenstein
Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape
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Sounder
by William Howard Armstrong
A young boy's world is shattered when his father, a poor black sharecropper, is jailed for stealing food for his family
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The black stallion
by Walter Farley
Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life
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Theodore Boone, kid lawyer
by John Grisham
In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theodore Boone thinks he's one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk--and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer and of a life in the courtroom.
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The magic half
by Annie Barrows
Eleven-year-old Miri Gill feels left out in her family, which has two sets of twins and her, until she travels back in time to 1935 and discovers Molly, her own lost twin, and brings her back to the present day
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The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
by Jeanne Birdsall
When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick
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Upside down in the middle of nowhere
by Julie T Lamana
Armani is looking forward to her tenth birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake
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Smile
by Raina Telgemeier
An autobiography in graphic novel format describes how the author lost two of her front teeth in an accident when she was twelve, and her subsequent struggles with various corrective dental techniques throughout adolescence
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Cristiano Ronaldo
by Erin Nicks
From his childhood in the Portugal to his triumphs in Europe and beyond, Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the world's greatest soccer players
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Bud, not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids
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Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends
by Nicole Andelfinger
Starting middle school, inseparable twins Jessica and Elizabeth realize they might not be as alike as they thought when they are divided by different interests, becoming their own person.
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Love that dog
by Sharon Creech
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
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Molly Moon, Micky Minus, & the mind machine
by Georgia Byng
With the evil Superbrain plotting to use a massive weather machine to create tsunamis, twisters, and other natural disasters in order to rule the world, Molly Moon must jump into action and, with the assistance of her hypnotist brother Micky Minus, venture forth to stop his dastardly plan before the deadly damage is done!
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Inkspell
by Cornelia Funke
When Dustfinger, the fire-eater who was brought into being from words, finds a shady storyteller to read him back into the medieval world, Farid, Dustfinger's apprentice, searches for Meggie and ends up stuck inside the book with her
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Max & the Midknights
by Lincoln Peirce
Aspiring knight Max teams up with a band of brave adventurers, the Midknights, on a madcap quest to save a kidnapped relative from a cruel king who is driving all the happiness out of the realm of Byjovia
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Sammy Keyes and the dead giveaway
by Wendelin Van Draanen
When Sammy makes a deadly mistake and his enemy, Heather, gets the blame for it, Heather is determined to get her revenge and plans to do so at the Farewell Dance - despite the fact that Sammy's date is going to be her very own brother.
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Wish
by Barbara O'Connor
Charlie Reese is sent to live with a family she barely knows, but with the help of a skinny stray dog who captures her heart and a neighbor boy named Howard, she learns what the real meaning of family may be
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CatStronauts : race to Mars
by Drew Brockington
A follow-up to CatStronauts finds heroes Major Meowser, Pom Pom, Blanket and Waffles celebrating their victories only to engage in a space race against the CosmoCats, who are months ahead in their plans to become the first felines to reach Mars
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Kira-kira
by Cynthia Kadohata
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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The sign of the beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills
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How to train your dragon
by Cressida Cowell
Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon
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Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm
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The Calder game
by Blue Balliett
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him
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Drama
by Raina Telgemeier
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going
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Inside out & back again
by Thanhha Lai
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama
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The Summer of Swans
by Betsy Byars
A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost
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Number the stars
by Lois Lowry
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis
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Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Moving Day
by Meg Cabot
hen nine-year-old Allie Finkle's parents announce that they are moving from their comfortable suburban home to an ancient Victorian across town, Allie is worried about leaving her best friend and becoming "The New Kid" in a rundown old-fashioned school
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The boy who saved baseball
by John H. Ritter
When Tom Gallagher makes an unnecessary statement, a series of events takes place that results in a major baseball game that will determine the fate of Dillontown, and now Tom must find a way to get the best coaches on his side in order to win the game and redeem himself
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The BFG
by Roald Dahl
The BFG--Big Friendly Giant--kidnaps Sophie from her bed in the orphanage and takes her back to Giantland where she becomes involved in a scheme to end the loathsome activities of nine evil giants
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The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and her dog, Toto, experience amazing adventures and make new friends as they journey to the Emerald City in search of the famous Wizard of Oz
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5 Worlds: The Red Maze
by Mark Siegel
Oona Lee navigates the predatory challenges of a pipe maze where she searches for the Moon Yatta's beacon and uncovers a surprising new power, while a transformed Jax Amboy confronts the ruthless owner of his former starball team
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Ella enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine
Based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against a childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her
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Jacky Ha-Ha
by James Patterson
Jacky Hart tries to turn over a new leaf and end her reign as class clown, even though being funny helps distract her from her mother's deployment and her father's increased absence from home
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Twins
by Varian Johnson
Twins Maureen and Francine are distinguishing themselves for the first time by pursing separate interests at the beginning of the sixth grade
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Brown girl dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South
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The mighty Miss Malone
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Academically gifted Deza Malone and her family embark on a journey to find her job-seeking father when he goes missing and end up in a shanty town in Flint, Michigan
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