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• A Spoonful of Time

  Ahn, Flora

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  Maya learns of her family sercret of traveling through time via memory as she learns to cook with her grandmother in Korea.

• The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet

  Arlow, Jake Maia

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  Al is trying to keep the fact that she crushes on girls locked down tight. Her best friend might be moving on and she had been diagnosed with Crohn's disease. The more she hides, the worse she feels.

• The Book That No One Wanted to Read

  Ayoade, Richard, 1977-

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  The life of a book is not easy, especially when people judge you by your cover. This narrator should know--it is the book itself, and it gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. However, it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Matter the Distance

  Baldwin, Cindy,

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  Penny, who has cystic fibrosis, tries to discover her inner self by writing poetry. The miracle of a dolphin in her backyard creek plays a big part in her self-discovery.

• The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura

  Brown, Waka T.

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  In this modern-day retelling of the Japanese folktale The Melon Princess and the Amanjaku, Melony befriends a wish-granting demon who encourages her to rebel against her overprotective parents, all while using her for his own evil scheme.

• HAMRA AND THE JUNGLE OF MEMORIES

  Hanna Alkaf,

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  When Hamra steals a magical fruit for her grandmother, she must repay the debt to a weretiger by going on an extraordinary journey to make him human again - a Little Red Riding Hood story trasported to Malaysia during the COVID-19…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• ONE TRUE WISH

  Kate, Lauren

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  Phoebe is a wish-granting fairy who does not believe in children. When she crash-lands in the woods, she is surprised to meet four kids who could use a true wish, but first they must race against time to restore the fairy's powers and get…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• SUPERTEACHER PROJECT

  Korman, Gordon

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  What's up with Mr. Aidact? He can catch a spitball midair, knows everything, and makes detention fun. Is he too perfect to be real?

• The Death and Life of Benny Brooks

  Sort of a Memoir

  Long, Ethan

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  Benny wants to focus on not flunking out ofschool, but he must also cope with his complicated home life with newly divorced parents, a mother who moves away, and a father with terminal lung cancer.

• The Windeby Puzzle

  History and Story

  Lowry, Lois

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  Told in two voices, outcasts Varick and Estrild become friends in an Iron Age village. Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. 

• Galaxy Jones and the Space Pirates

  McDonald, Briana

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  Galaxy Jones travels across the universe with Prince Weston in order to save her friends and family from ruthless space pirates.

• Aniana Del Mar Jumps in

  Méndez, Jasminne,

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  Aniana was training secretly until she suspects that something might be seriously wrong with her. Going to the doctor means that her mother will find out that she wants to swim competitively.

• Rare Birds

  Miller, Jeff R.,

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  Graham Dodds is used to moving around a lot so that his mom can get treatments for her life-threatening heart condition. When he has to move once again, he finds his mom’s childhood bird-watching journal and becomes convinced that if he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Talia's Codebook for Mathletes

  Moss, Marissa

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  Talia writes this notebook like a diary to help her figure out why being good at math is no longer "cool" in middle school. Talia wants to use her skills at logic and journal-writing to break the middle-school code.

• Barely Floating

  Rivera, Lilliam

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  Twelve year old Nat wants to join the LA Mermaids -- a synchronized swimming team, to fulfill her dream of being like Esther Williams.

• WHAT HAPPENED TO RACHEL RILEY?

  Swinarski, Claire

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  New kid in school Anna finds out that the boys in her school have been competing to snap girls bra straps and harrass them as a "joke." Anna realizes that Rachel Riley may have snapped back and she may be able to help her put a stop to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghosts, Toast, and Other Hazards

  Tan, Susan

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  After her stepfather leaves their family, Mo struggles with anxiety, moving in with her eccentric granduncle, and living in a new, unwelcoming town. Now on top of everything else she has to deal with being haunted by the ghost of an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parachute Kids

  Tang, Betty C.,

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  Feng-Li and her family are visiting America from Taiwan but the trip is a ruse- her parents make the difficult choice to leave their kids and have them live in America illegally. Feng-li and her siblings adjust to their new home and pull…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greenwild

  the World Behind the Door

  Thomson, Pari

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  Daisy Thistledown, a fugitive in the human world, flees to the magical, botanical world of Greenwild in search of her missing mother.

• Two Tribes

  Bowen Cohen, Emily,

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  Mia's has a new stepfather, and she is starting at new school. Mia misses her dad so she makes a plan to sneak onto a bus and cross the country to visit him.