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Monster match
Author(s):
Rivadeneira, Caryn Dahlstrand,
Jones, Dani,
Description:
While Fred is out sick, a visiting author signs Fred's book "To Frank". When Fred's desk-mate Luisa suggests Fred must really be Frank in school, this sparks an idea for Fred's creative writing assignment. Fred's What-If poem is coming together wonderfully, until--a mist fills the room and the writing assignment comes to life. Suddenly Fred--now Frankinschool--and Luisa--now Princessa Luisa--need to save the school from the mysterious potion--and the even more mysterious and devious ghost living in the school attic. (2/1)
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Book
Call Number:
J FIC Riv
Art club
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After the art programs are cut at his school, Dale Donovan recruits talented artists to create an after-school art club (2/1)
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Book
Call Number:
J FIC Dou
Breakers of the code
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Cast out of his coalition, Stride the cheetah embarks on a perilous mission for the Great Parent, accompanied by a honey badger burdened with a dark and mysterious past. Whisper the water buffalo has been searching desperately for her brother Echo, presumed dead after a terrible fall. And the hyena now known as Breathstealer finds herself courted by the Great Spirit at one moment and other times tempted by the Great Devourer...The balance of power in Bravelands rests on a knife's edge, and the Great Devourer waits hungrily in the shadows. (2/7)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Hun
Guardians of Horsa. 02, The naysayers
Author(s):
Black, Roan,
Papalia, Roberta,
Description:
The four Guardians continue their mission to find the yearling with a new kind of magic, but find an obstacle in the Naysayers, who are prepared to fight the Guardians to keep them from success. (2/7)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Bla
Dangerous allies
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The Forgotten Five work to stop President Fuerte from using his supernatural army to sabotage Magdalia Palacio's campaign. (2/7)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC McM
Sunny makes her case
Author(s):
Holm, Jennifer L.
Williams, George,
Description:
Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are not the best. So what can she do? When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants to start a debate club, she's not really sure what he means. Isn't debate just... arguing? Sunny's never had a problem with arguing. Arun and the advisor show her there's more to it than that -- there's also teamwork, and research, and being able to speak up in front of judges. Some of the debates are fun ones -- which is the best candy? Is peanut butter a force for evil or a force for good? But when the debate club starts to be a success, Sunny realizes she won't just be able to talk her way into winning... she'll have to make her case! (2/7)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Hol
The witch in the woods
Author(s):
Collings, Michaelbrent
Dorman, Brandon
Description:
When twins Willow and Jake are pulled into an alternate universe filled with characters from the Grimm fairy tales, they must battle the witch in the woods to save Hansel and Gretel and find a way home. (2/16)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Col
Daughters of the lamp
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Description:
Twelve-year-old Sahara prefers logic and science over magic, but when she travels to Cairo for a family wedding, her resistance to magic fades when she discovers that she is next in a line of women tasked with guarding Ali Baba's treasure. (2/16)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Lew
Bumps in the night
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Description:
Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil. (2/16)
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Book
Call Number:
J FIC How
Medusa
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A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever. (2/16)
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Book
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J FIC Mar
The liars society
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Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre. He's desperate to prove his worth to his influential father. But Jack has a secret of his own.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Ger
The mighty bite
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Description:
Determined to become Internet stars, two prehistoric creatures -- Trilobite and Amber, a walking whale -- face off against a host of creatures vying for fame and fortune, using their newfound skills to take the online world by storm. (2/21)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Hal
Max in the house of spies
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To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy. (2/21)
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Book
Call Number:
J FIC Gid
Death Valley summer
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The Wilder Boys are excited to be spending part of their summer at a wilderness camp. Jake is going to be working as an assistant counselor, and Taylor will be in his cabin. Along with the rest of their group, they'll spend two weeks honing their skills and learning to work together before a multiday trek traversing woodland, mountain, and desert terrain during a team-based competition. But no amount of training could have prepared them for what lay ahead. First, they're hit by a flash flood that sweeps them off course, taking most of their supplies with it and leaving their head counselor badly injured. And then--as the group tackles the challenge of searching for food, shelter, and aid in the brutal wilderness--they stumble across a ghost town being used as a hideout by a group of criminals, With temperatures and tensions rising, Jake and Taylor must rely on their own wits and the strengths of their teammates to get the group to safety. (2/21)
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Call Number:
J FIC Wal
Pebble and Wren
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Description:
Based on his webcomic of the same name, Pebble and Wren follows human girl Wren and her live-in monster, Pebble, as she teaches them all about how the human world works--from why the moon changes shape to why we don't eat candy wrappers--while trying to unlock special abilities without which Pebble will have to return to the monster forest. (2/21)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Hal
Summer at Squee
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Description:
Tween Phoenny Fang attends a Chinese cultural overnight camp where she explores new friendships and first crushes and discovers a deeper understanding of her community. (2/27)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Wan
Kyra, just for today
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At the start of seventh grade, Kyra believes her alcoholic mother, who has been sober for five years, has relapsed and with no one to count on, not even her best friend, she starts to question whether being just enough is not enough at all. (2/27)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Zar
Free period
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Forced to join the school's Community Action Club, troublemaking best friends Helen and Gracie take over the club's campaign for maxi pads in bathrooms and soon find themselves closer to change and deeper in trouble than ever before, forcing them to make a difficult decision. (2/27)
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Book
Call Number:
J FIC Ter
Ferris
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans. (2/27)
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Book
Call Number:
J FIC DiC
One big open sky
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In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska. (2/27)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Cli
Maple's theory of fun
Author(s):
McMillan, Kate,
Prillaman, Ruthie
Description:
To get her best friend back, anxious and inventive eleven-year-old Maple performs a scientific experiment to uncover the secret to becoming fun. (2/27)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC McM
Absolute zeros. Camp launchpad
Author(s):
Smith, Greg (Comic strip writer),
Carter, Meaghan,
Description:
Reach for the stars in this exciting graphic novel about three ambitious, space-loving kids who must put their differences aside to save their summer camp before it closes...for good. (2/27)
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Smi