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4.7 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person....
2. Ghost
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Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.
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Henry and Mudge books volume 8.
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5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 1ST GRADE
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Henry's family takes in a stray cat, the ugliest cat they have ever seen, and an amazing relationship blossoms between it and their big dog Mudge.
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3.7 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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"What did 33 men in the 1800s need to find their way through the wilderness on a trip across America? They needed a woman--and they found one in Sacagawea, the Native American teenage mother who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition survive. She and her baby braved floods, hunger, storms, and snakes to help the expedition that opened the West. Sacagawea: Courageous Trailblazer! tells the life story of this amazing pioneer who endured hardship in her...
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Sadiq volume 5.
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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A young Somali American and his classmates design a model city to withstand floods, using river walls, floodgates, gutters, and rain gardens.
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Lockwood & Co volume 1.
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4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
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Tristan Strong volume 1.
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4.3 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.
Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month...