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Head over to the Juvenile section of the library to find exciting adventure books for elementary age children.
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The World Between Blinks
by Amie Kaufman
Reunited for one last summer vacation at Nana's home, twelve-year-old cousins Marisol and Jake follow a hidden map into another world where lost things and people end up, and the two must find their way back home before they start forgetting their own memories and remain lost forever.
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Knight of the Cape
by Terry Catasús Jennings
Longing to make a difference like the heroes in the classics she reads with her Abuela, Dominguita follows the examples of Don Quixote to do good deeds for her neighbors while proving to a class bully that girls can be knights, too.
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Wild River
by W. R. Philbrick
Awakened by a scream on the first night of a whitewater rafting trip, Daniel discovers that a nearby dam has failed and that his camp is on the brink of flooding, forcing him and his young teammates to escape and make their way to safety without adult help.
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Trouble With Tattle-tails
by Jonathan Auxier
A sequel to Willa the Wisp finds Auggie and his magical companions traveling through the portal to the town of Rainbow’s End, where they search for a mysterious creature that is behind a rampant outbreak of impolite behavior.
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Lotería
by Karla Valenti
This magical realist adventure based on the Loteria card game follows Clara, a child whose fate is in the hands of both Life and Death, as she finds the courage and strength to shatter the game and choose her own path.
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Wanda Seasongood and the Mostly True Secret
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Susan Lurie
Fed up with her terror of a little brother and her parents’ inclination to blame her for his behavior, Wanda begins to suspect that she has a real family elsewhere, before a talking bluebird confirms that someone has been meddling in her life.
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Awesome Dog 5000 vs. Mayor Bossypants
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Justin Dean
A sequel to Awesome Dog 5000 finds gamers Marty, Ralph and Skyler confronting an unexpected enemy in Mayor Bossypants, who responds to their spectacular hero work by planning to take out Awesome Dog 5000.
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Gold Rush Girl
by
Avi
Finding freedom and friendship in 1848 San Francisco while her father searches for gold, Tory embarks on a mud-caked search for her kidnapped brother throughout San Francisco Bay’s treacherous Rotten Row area and its hundreds of abandoned ships.
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Lions & Liars
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Kate Beasley
Fifth-grader Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.
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The Adventures of Nanny Piggins
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R. A. Spratt
When Mr. Green, a stingy widower with three children he cannot be bothered with, decides to find a nanny for his children, he winds up hiring a glamorous ex-circus pig who knows nothing about children but a lot about chocolate.
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The Storm Keeper's Island
by Catherine Doyle
Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with this older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear, and seems to be restless again.
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Samantha Spinner and the Spectacular Specs
by Russell Ginns
A gift of a strange pair of purple sunglasses catapults Samantha Spinner and her brother, Nipper, into a puzzle-packed adventure involving their missing uncle.
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Mr. Penguin and the Lost Treasure
by Alex T Smith
A humorous page-turner about an adventure-seeking penguin finds Mr. Penguin responding to the call when Bouddica Bones from the Museum of Extraordinary Objects calls for help to find the museum’s missing treasure before the bandits do.
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The Library of Ever
by Zeno Alexander
Discovering an ultimate library containing every book in the universe, young Lenora becomes an apprentice librarian and must tap the library's infinite knowledge about missions in space and the future before encountering a dark and destructive force.
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The Good Thieves
by Katherine Rundell
In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
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Addison Cooke and the Treasure of the Incas
by Jonathan W. Stokes
When his world-famous researcher uncle is kidnapped after finding a first clue leading to an ancient lost Incan treasure, 12-year-old Addison teams up with his friends to outsmart the kidnappers and discover the rest of the clues while avoiding a sequence of traps and ancient curses.
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The 65-Story Treehouse
by Andy Griffiths
Andy and Terry travel through time trying to save their treehouse from highly talented, angry ants and Inspector Bubblewrap the building inspector while rushing to meet their publisher's deadline.
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Zorgamazoo
by Robert Paul Weston
A rhyming adventure featuring a courageous girl named Katrina Katrell and her intriguing quest to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Zorgamazoo.
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Snared : Escape to the Above
by Adam Jay Epstein
Wily Snare has never seen the sun, or the blue sky, or even his parents. He lives underground, creating traps to keep treasure seekers away from the gold in an ancient wizard's dungeon. He mops up giant slime, avoids poison darts, and herds undead skeletons. It's all he knows.
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At the Bottom of the World
by Bill Nye
The famed scientific educator and best-selling science writer present a debut entry in a series introducing genius foster siblings Jack, Ava and Matt, who use their intelligence and observations to track down a fellow scientist who has gone missing in Antarctica.
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