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The Curse on Spectacle Key
by Chantel Acevedo
When his family moves into a lighthouse in Spectacle Key, Florida, where strange things begin to happen, Frank Fernandez meets a mysterious girl who needs his help with lifting the island's dark curse.
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A Place to Shine
by Marie Arnold
This touching story, combining both humor and magical realism, follows 10-year-old Sunny Williams and her little brother, Miles, as they discover love, family, and the power of music when their beloved Nanna is placed into a care home after developing dementia.
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The House of Found Objects by Jo Beckett-KingTwelve-year-old Bea from Passaic, New Jersey, is visiting her family in Paris for the summer when her grandmother's most precious heirloom--a drawing by Henri Matisse--goes missing. After a cryptic clue arrives on Bea's doorstep suggesting its whereabouts, Bea is determined to pursue the lead. Without the French skills to navigate her way around the landmarks of Paris, she teams up with her cousin, Čline, whose clear-eyed French directness makes a perfect partner for curious, problem-solving Bea. The girls embark on a city-wide search, deciphering riddles, solving puzzles, and cracking codes as they try to locate the Matisse, find a thief, and identify their mysterious benefactor.
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The Monstrous Adventures of Mummy Man and Waffles
by Steve Behling
Spending the summer with his grandpa, a former Hollywood makeup and special effects artist for classic horror films, 11-year-old Wen (aka Waffles) accidentally brings his props to life and must stop an all-out monster invasion with the help of Mummy Man and his pet turtle, Frank.
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The Library of Unruly Treasures by Jeanne BirdsallGwen MacKinnon's parents are dreadful. Truly, deeply, almost impressively dreadful. So, Gwen's not upset at all when she's foisted onto her never-before-seen Uncle Matthew for two weeks. Especially when it turns out he has a very opinionated dog named Pumpkin. Things take a turn for the weird when Gwen makes a discovery in the local library. A discovery that involves tiny creatures with wings. And no, they're not birds. They're called Lahdukan. But why can only Gwen and the youngest children, gathered for storytime, see them? The Lahdukan insist that Gwen is destined to help them find a new home. But how can a girl as unwanted, uncourageous, and generally unheroic as Gwen possibly come to the rescue? Pumpkin has a few ideas.
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The Night War
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
In 1942, with the Nazis occupying much of France, 12-year-old Miriam, who is Jewish, escapes to a boarding school near the famous Chateau de Chenonceau. There, she is called upon to undertake a deadly task and encounters the person who will save her life and countless others.
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The Weirdies
by Michael Buckley
After being left behind when everyone from Deadeye Manor goes on a doomed vacation, the Weirdie triplets, Barnacle, Garlic, and Melancholy, learn to fend for themselves as they navigate life at their new adoptive home on Sunshine Circle.
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Carter Avery's Tricky Fourth-Grade Year by Rob BuyeaHaving a hard time sitting still and not blurting stuff out, Carter Avery finally gets a teacher who understands him. When people try to get Ms. Krane fired, he embarks on a secret mission to save her, while navigating an especially tricky school year.
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The Wandering Hour by Zack Loran ClarkNew Rotterdam is no place for a kid and that's what Emrys Houtman likes about it. Emrys obsessively documents his town's urban legends and cryptid sightings in a Wiki, along with his neighbors and fellow horror fans Hazel and Serena. It's all in good fun until one day, the trio stumbles upon the Doomsday Archives, a collection of relics with dazzling powers and dangerous consequences. When a mysterious blood-red hourglass begins appearing around town and children begin to go missing, the trio must band together to stop the horrors plaguing New Rotterdam, or risk losing their home... and possibly their lives. Because after all this time hunting monsters, the kids have realized the monsters are now hunting them back.
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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. He 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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Marikit and the Ocean of Stars
by Caris Avendaäno Cruz
When shadow creatures upend her life, Marikit discovers the patchwork dress her mother made for her is a map to lead her to safety in the magical lands of the engkantos where she finds the key to saving her family.
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The Girl from Earth's End
by Tara Dairman
To save her father, 12-year-old Henna, a gifted gardener, attends St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers. While searching for the seeds, Henna learns to flourish with a little help from her newfound friends.
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They Call Me No Sam!
by Drew Daywalt
When insolent pug Sam, who was adopted by scientists to keep their son company while they work on a top-secret research project, causes canine chaos daily, the family isn't sure how much more they can take... until Sam's heroic actions stop the bad guys from stealing their confidential findings.
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Ferris by Kate DiCamilloIt was the summer before Emma Phineas Wilkey (who everyone called Ferris) went into the fifth grade. It was the summer that the ghost appeared to Charisse, the summer that Ferris's sister Pinky devoted herself to becoming an outlaw, and the summer that Uncle Ted left Aunt Shirley and moved into the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. When a ghost shows up at the threshold to Ferris's grandmother Charisse's room, Ferris worries that she's there to take Charisse to the Great Beyond. But Charisse says that the ghost has something else in mind--something unpredictable, a task that's impractical and illuminating. But how can Ferris focus on completing an assignment for a ghost when her little sister is terrorizing the town, her uncle keeps sending her to spy on her aunt, and the house has been invaded by raccoons?
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Mixed Doubles
by John Feinstein
A nationally ranked tennis star, 11-year-old Andi Carillo, with offers coming out of the woodwork, must learn how to handle new emotions and face tough opponents, including her jealous teammate. Can Andi close out this match and win?
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The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle by Dan GutmanFive kids across centuries recount the history of Cleopatra's Needle, from its construction in ancient Egypt to moving it across the ocean to New York city in the 19th century.
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The Secret Letters
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When Colin and Nevaeh both find mysterious letters dating back to the 1970s, one of which reads like a confession to a crime, their new friendship is threatened because the letter pits their families against each other.
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Just Gus
by McCall Hoyle
To heal from a bear attack, Gus, a livestock guardian dog, stays with Diego and his dad on the North Carolina coast where he must learn to control his instincts or lose his chance to stay in his new home.
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The House With a Dragon In It by Nick LakeWhen a mysterious hole opens up in her new foster family's living room, Summer encounters a dragon who offers her three wishes. As she uses the wishes, the magic takes a dark turn and jeopardizes Summer's deepest desire for a home.
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Glass: A Cinderella Tale by Kathryn LaskyBess Wickham has always felt an outcast among her family of extraordinary glassblowers. Their glass creations are known for their beauty, but behind that beauty lies an unknown darkness. Bess won't be initiated into the family business until she turns sixteen, but her special talent has been essential since she was a child: she can speak to forest creatures. And Bess is gifted in more ways than one...a magical power that's lain dormant in her bloodline emerges. When she suspects her family's business has taken a sinister turn, Bess must defeat dark magic and save a certain cinder girl. But will she shatter under the weight of such evil or get her happily ever after?
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Oh My Dog!
by Iva-Marie Palmer
Twelve-year-old Caroline Kline doesn't believe in miracles. Not after her mom died, and certainly not after her family lost everything in Hurricane Emma. All Caroline wants to do is fit in at school, make some friends, and, above all else, just be normal. But when Caroline takes a job walking Denver, her neighbor's dog, her plans quickly get turned upside down. As it turns out, Denver is no ordinary dog: Not only can he talk, but worse than that, Denver tells Caroline that he's been sent from the heavens with a message just for her. It's up to Caroline to find a way to bring belief back to the world.
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Wild Wave
by Rodman Philbrick
In the aftermath of a tsunami, Nick Chase and Jess Hardy must find their way to safety, but when they come across a stranded elderly couple, they work together and get help so they can all make it out alive.
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Will's Race for Home
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
In 1889, a young Black family hears about a land rush, so Will and his father set out from Texas to Oklahoma, racing thousands of others on a difficult journey to where land is free.
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The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall
by Ali Standish
While attending Baskerville Hall, a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children, Arthur Conan Doyle and his friends (and enemies) are invited into the Clover, an illustrious social club that requires them to pass three tests, an endeavor that leads them on a dangerous adventure.
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Don't Trust the Cat
by Kristen Tracy
When she wakes up in the body of her cat, Mitten Man, bullied fifth-grader Poppy attempts to navigate the world as a cat, while Mitten Man, tired of his owner's timidity, is out to take over middle school--as Poppy.
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Frances and the Monster
by Refe Tuma
Trying to prove her scientific worth to her family, Frances Stenzel instead reawakens her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention and must find the monster before it destroys the town and everything she loves.
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Clara Poole and the Long Way Round
by Taylor Tyng
Running away to Paris to participate in a round-the-world balloon race and learn the ropes alongside a colorful cast of international competitors, Clara Poole must come to terms with the tragedy that set her fleeing to the skies in the first place in order to survive.
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A Few Bicycles More
by Christina Uss
Twelve-year-old Bicycle's trusty bike Fortune takes them to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, where she reunites with her long-lost family and hatches a plan to share her love of cycling with her new sisters.
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Gravebooks
by J. A. White
In this thrilling sequel to Nightbooks, Alex is forced to complete a scary story each night when the witch who held him captive enters his dreams in a new way, plunging him into a nightmare—literally.
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Inside the Park
by Andrea Williams
Baseball-loving 12-year-old Timothy “Pumpsie” Strickland gets trapped inside the baseball stadium on the eve of the season's biggest game and realizes he's not alone. Foul plots are brewing, and it's up to him to save the team's postseason chances.
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Elmhurst Public Library 125 S Prospect Ave. Elmhurst, Illinois 60126 (630) 279-8696
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