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A Brush with Magic
by Flora Ahn
During her first trip to Korea, 12-year-old Yumi discovers a magical ink brush in her grandfather's attic, which inadvertently summons a dokkaebi —a creature from Korean fairy tales —and embarks on an adventure through Seoul while navigating newfound powers and the consequences of her magic.
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Grow up, Luchy Zapata
by Alexandra Alessandri
Starting the sixth grade with her two BFFs, Cami and Mateo, Luchy is excited until Cami makes new ''cool'' friends who are mean and think Luchy and Mateo are too immature to be around, prompting Luchy to help Cami remember how special their friendship is.
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J vs. K
by Kwame Alexander
Two 10-year-olds must decide whether they should join forces to create an unbeatable duo that is sure to win their school's annual creative storytelling contest.
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The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
by Alex Bell
Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment.
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Reasons to Look at the Night Sky
by Danielle Daniel
Eleven-year-old Luna knows everything there is to know about space and dreams of one day becoming an astronaut, but she begins to see the world differently when a substitute teacher enters her orbit.
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The Super-Secret Mission to the Center of the Moon (Pie)
by Melissa De la Cruz
Edwin Edgefield and the rest of his alien-on-earth crew are ready to learn all they can about their home planet. Unfortunately, that planet has been destroyed, and the one person who can help them find out where they came from—Maureen (yuck)—has no intention of helping.
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The Green Kingdom
by Cornelia Funke
Twelve-year-old Caspia hates big cities, so she isn't thrilled that her parents are taking her to Brooklyn for the summer. But everything changes when Caspia discovers a bundle of letters written by a blind girl many years ago. Each letter contains a 'green' riddle, with clues leading to a different plant. As Caspia sets out to solve the riddles, she meets friends she could never have imagined and finds that sometimes you can put down roots where you least expect them.
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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 fan of AZ8, the best K-pop boy band in the world. Then a freak accident causes Skylar and Ms. Callus to switch bodies just when 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 coming true is worth risking being stuck as an old lady forever.
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Ain't It Funny
by Margaret Gurevich
When her father moves out to pursue his stand-up comedy dreams, 11-year-old Maya, with her anxiety and germaphobia at an all-time high, decides to perform in the school talent show to prove to her parents that comedy has a place in ALL their lives.
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Keepers of the Marsh
by Maura Jortner
In Galveston Bay, Texas, twelve-year-old twin sisters team up, despite drastically different personalities, to save their family from a bitter witch's curse.
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The First State of Being
by Erin Entrada Kelly
When a teenage boy appears out of nowhere in 1999, claiming he's the world's first time-traveler and has a book outlining the events of the next 20 years, 12-year-old Michael wants to get his hands on the book and must decide how far he's willing to go to do so.
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Faker
by Gordon Korman
Trey knows the drill: His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there's the con, where Trey's dad suckers the other parents into investing in one of his schemes. Once the money's in the bank, Trey, his sister, and their dad are on the run... until they set up somewhere else and start again. Trey is starting to get tired of running... and lying... and never having a friend for longer than a few months. But how do you get your family to stop lying when your lives depend on it?
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The Library of Curiosities
by Jenny Lundquist
After being expelled from boarding school—again—Rowan isn't sure what to expect upon arriving at Fitzgerald Manor. But it sure isn't this. The estate is opulent, and at the heart of it all is Cillian Fitzgerald, her enigmatic grandfather, and his pride and joy: the Library of Curiosities. The Library of Curiosities' collection contains a vast trove of magical objects from which lucky patrons can borrow to solve their everyday problems. It doesn't take long for Rowan to realize that in this wondrous place, her own problems--her painful want of family, her deep desire for friends--might actually be solved for the first time in her life. Except that library curiosities have started going missing, and suspicion is falling squarely on Rowan's shoulders. She has no choice but to fight forces both within and outside of the library that threaten everything she's only just begun to hold dear.
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The Secret Library
by Kekla Magoon
Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she “checks out” adventure after adventure.
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Team Awkward: 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. As she tries hiding her embarrassment, she finds solace in new friends.
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The Trouble with Heroes
by Kate Messner
Finn Connelly is nothing like his hero dad, a firefighter who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, Finn is in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that the grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber. Her daughter makes Finn an unusual offer: she'll drop all the charges if he agrees to climb all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks in a single summer. And there's just one more thing—he has to bring along the dead woman's dog.
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The Playmakers
by Chad Morris
After being cut from the middle school basketball team, 12-year-old Jax forms his own team with an unlikely group of students who want to prove themselves to the whole school.
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Confessions of a Junior Spy
by Rosaria Munda
Raised in a sanctuary hotel for spies, the daughter of one of its top agents is determined to follow in her mother's footsteps and use her hard-won spy skills to help others.
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Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody
by Patrick Ness
When the principal makes them hall monitors, lizards Zeke, Daniel, and Alicia question what it means to be a hero. The school has become a war zone due to a bully who doubles as an international supervillain in this clever reptilian take on surviving middle school.
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One Wrong Step
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Atlas Wade's father signs the duo up for an expedition group to summit Mount Everest, as war returns to Europe and Nazis are attempting their own summit nearby, in a story about loss and letting go.
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Maggie and the Story Shadows
by Annabelle Oh
Thirteen-year-old Maggie and her friends investigate her mother's disappearance and discover a world where stories are real.
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The Wish Switch
by Lynn Painter
Emma tries to tap into her town's mythical magic to get four wishes granted, but when things go epically wrong, she must team up with Jackson, her infuriating new neighbor, in order to set things right.
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The Island of Forgotten Gods
by Victor Piäneiro
Twelve-year-old Nico and his cousins' seemingly boring summer in Puerto Rico takes a horrific turn when they encounter the legendary chupacabra, a cult, and the gods who created the island.
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The Sherlock Society
by James Ponti
Starting a detective agency instead of spending the summer babysitting, mowing lawns, or cleaning, siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock team up with their retired reporter grandfather to solve cold cases.
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The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls
by Judith Rossell
Maggie, an orphan, is sent to the dreary Midwatch Institute, which is actually a secret training ground for young girls learning skills to fight crime. She and her new friends learn useful lessons, uncover a city mystery, and work together to solve it.
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The Underdogs of Upson Downs
by Craig Silvey
When a greedy landowner threatens her family's farm, Annie Shearer enters Runt, her super-fast dog, into the Agility Course Grand Championship in London. There's only one hitch: Runt will only obey her commands if nobody else is watching.
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Opal Watson: Private Eye
by Brittany Thurman
Twelve-year-old African American Opal investigates the disturbances in her apartment building that are interfering with the vital renovations.
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My Mummy vs. Your Ghost
by Paul Tobin
Seasoned trainers Hayden and Gabe return to the battlefield with an ancient mummy and are going against new coaches Lilly and Amos, who have a centuries-old ghost with the power to freeze anyone out of a win.
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A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
by Jasmine Warga
When he encounters a floating girl who resembles the girl in a stolen painting, Rami becomes determined to solve the mystery. He teams up with a classmate and a turtle named Agatha to look for clues.
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Wish Monster
by J. A. White
A pair of friends discover a cave-dwelling creature that can make any wish come true—including bringing the dead back to life.
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Elmhurst Public Library 125 S Prospect Ave. Elmhurst, Illinois 60126 (630) 279-8696
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