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1) Stormbreaker
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Alex Rider adventure volume 1
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"They said his uncle died in a car accident. But Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Yet he never suspected the truth: his uncle was really a spy for Britain's top scret intelligence agency. And now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle's killers..."--Page [4] of cover.
4) Odder
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2024 Indian Paintbrush Nominees
2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
Indian Paintbrush Award Winners
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
Indian Paintbrush Award Winners
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--
5) Missing May
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After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
6) The twits
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The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
8) Tangerine
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Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
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As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid, " a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
10) Rikki-tikki-tavi
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A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.
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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
13) Caleb's story
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Sequel to: Skylark.
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.
14) Esperanza rising
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Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
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Little house books volume 4
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"Laura and her family find a new home in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the nearby creek and swimming hole lure Laura with dangerous, yet thrilling adventures. Too soon, their life is threatened when prairie fires and other strange events jeopardize their crops."
16) Shiloh season
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Shiloh quartet volume 2
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When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
18) The grey king
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Dark is rising sequence volume 4
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A strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumber in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Chinese New Year - Year of the Dragon
Sci-Fi and Fantasy for Tweens
Chinese New Year - Year of the Dragon
Sci-Fi and Fantasy for Tweens
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Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
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