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Inheritance games volume 1
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English
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When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2021 - Children
ALSC Notable Children's Books 2021 (Gr. 3-5)
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
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ALSC Notable Children's Books 2021 (Gr. 3-5)
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
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When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
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Grisha trilogy volume 1
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English
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Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
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English
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Lone Star List 2021 (Gr. 6-8)
Mental Health Awareness - Tweens
Poetry and Novels in Verse - Tweens
Texas Bluebonnet List 2021-22 (Gr. 3-6)
Mental Health Awareness - Tweens
Poetry and Novels in Verse - Tweens
Texas Bluebonnet List 2021-22 (Gr. 3-6)
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A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.
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English
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ALSC Notable Children's Books 2021 (Gr. 3-5)
Black History Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2021 (Gr. 6-8)
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Black History Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2021 (Gr. 6-8)
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Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place.
6) City spies
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City spies volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies"--
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2021 - Children
ALSC Notable Children's Books 2021 (Gr. 3-5)
Black History Month - Tweens
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ALSC Notable Children's Books 2021 (Gr. 3-5)
Black History Month - Tweens
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"In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself"--
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Crown of coral and pearl volume 1
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English
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"For generations, the princes of Ilara have married the most beautiful maidens from the ocean village of Varenia. But though every girl longs to be chosen as the next princess, the cost of becoming royalty is higher than any of them could ever imagine"--Provided by publisher.
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Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
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Paola Santiago volume 1
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English
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In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
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English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Back to School - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
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Back to School - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
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Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.
13) The bone houses
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2019.
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English
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"When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever"--
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2019.
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English
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Simran "Simi" Sangha comes from a line of Indian matchmakers, so when she accidentally sets up her cousin with an aspiring lawyer her family thinks she has the gift, but when she tries her skills at school she upsets the high school hierarchy.
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2021 - Young Adults
ALSC Notable Children's Books 2021 (Gr. 6-8)
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
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ALSC Notable Children's Books 2021 (Gr. 6-8)
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
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In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
17) Bloom
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Overthrow volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. They bloom--everywhere, unstoppable.Or are they? Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. Anaya,...
18) Dress coded
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion."--
19) Turning point
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English
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When being yourself isn't good enough, who should you be' Told in dual perspectives, this provocative and timely novel for middle-school readers by Paula Chase, the acclaimed author of So Done and Dough Boys, will resonate with fans of Jason Reynolds, Rebecca Stead, and RenEe Watson. Best friends Rasheeda and Monique are both good girls. For Sheeda, that means keeping her friends close and following her deeply religious and strict aunt's every rule....
20) Wink
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school.
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