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1) Rain rising
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Series
Rain novels (Comrie) volume 1
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English
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Black History Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
Summer Reading List ALSC 2023 Gr. 6-8
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
Summer Reading List ALSC 2023 Gr. 6-8
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Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Disability Awareness Month - Tweens
Jewish American Heritage - Tweens
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Disability Awareness Month - Tweens
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Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he suggests paying his debt by leading them to the fabled city of Luz, where no one ever dies--the one place Pesah...
4) Linked
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"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
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English
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Back to School - Tween
Black History Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Texas Bluebonnet List 2023-24
Black History Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Texas Bluebonnet List 2023-24
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"Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts. Despite her excitement, Ella discovers that being the first isn't easy--some Marvellers mistrust her magic. Eventually, she finds friends in elixirs teacher, Masterji Thakur, and fellow misfits Brigit and Jason. When a dangerous criminal escapes prison, supposedly...
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Rules for vampires volume 1
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English
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"After one hundred years of being a vampire, it's time for Eleonora to have her Birthnight...All Leo has to do is hunt down and kill her first prey...After all, who will miss an orphan...But an accidental fire causes more death and destruction...Instead of killing one carefully selected victim, she's created several ghosts from the orphanage residents. And one sinister specter, the Orphanmaster, is poised to terrorize the living residents in a nearby...
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English
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Back to School - Tween
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
8) The Clackity
Author
Series
Blight Harbor volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief, all while trying to fulfill her deal with the Clackity.
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
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Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
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"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
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"Myra has a gift many would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control: she's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra if she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor's dead son. Once she arrives at the legendary stone...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Young Adults
Jewish American Heritage - Young Adults
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Jewish American Heritage - Young Adults
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
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"Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once, but that's not Hoodie's problem. That is, until he meets...
12) City of thieves
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Series
Battle dragons volume 1
Language
English
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To protect his friends and family, Abel must figure out what is worth fighting for when he partners with a stolen dragon, an action that has him riding in kin battles and keeping more secrets than a dragon has scales.
14) Concealed
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"Katrina doesn't know any of the details about her past, but she does know that she and her parents are part of the Witness Protection Program. Whenever her parents say they have to move on and start over, she takes on a new identity. A new name, a new hair color, a new story. Until their location leaks and her parents disappear. Forced to embark on a dangerous rescue mission, Katrina and her new friend Parker set out to save her parents--and find...
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English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Tweens
Back to School - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
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Back to School - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
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"Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn't seem to apply. Jennifer doesn't care about the laws of middle school ... Then Jennifer goes missing. Using clues from Jennifer's journals, Mallory goes searching. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run ... and face the truth within...
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English
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Black History Month - Tweens
Disability Awareness Month - Tweens
Día Booklist (Grades 6-8) 2024
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Disability Awareness Month - Tweens
Día Booklist (Grades 6-8) 2024
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
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Twelve-year-old Xavier Moon gets the courage to step out of the shadows when his great-uncle gives him some outlandish socks and some even stranger requests.
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English
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"Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not. Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake... no thanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in the water-it's terrifying. But her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation...
18) Dust & Grim
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Soon after meeting her eighteen-year-old brother, Dustin, for the first time, thirteen-year-old Molly learns their shared inheritance, a mortuary business, serves monsters.
19) Tumble
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Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
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Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
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Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
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"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes . . . and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as...
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