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Planet Omar volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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"Imaginative Omar goes through the ups and downs of starting a new school and making new friends with the help of his wonderful (and silly) Muslim family"--
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Aven Green volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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"Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month, cracking such cases as The Mystery of the Cranky Mom. But can this perceptive detective solve two cases at the same time? First her teacher's lunch bag disappears. Then Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing. Fortunately, since Aven was born without arms, all the "arm" cells went to her super-powered brain instead. (That's her theory.)"--
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RECOMMENDED FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 1ST GRADE
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Katie's birthday is tomorrow, but she just cannot wait to find out what her present will be, so she and Pedro follow Katie's parents as they go shopping, but none of the places they stop seem present-worthy--Katie is disappointed, but when she gets home a big surprise is waiting for her.
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Average Rating:
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....
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Pages & Co volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Eleven-year-old Tilly Pages, who has found comfort in her grandparents' bookshop since her mother's disappearance, now learns that she can bookwander into any stories, and decides to seek her mother.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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A little girl named Fern raises the little runt pig, Wilbur, only to have her father give him away. At his new home, Wilbur is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic tree house, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
9. Front desk
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Front desk volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
10. 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.
11. Ghost boys
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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Get ready to party! It's Bad Kitty's birthday, and guess who's on the guest list? Chatty Kitty, Strange Kitty, Stinky Kitty, and her other neighborhood "pals". join the fun in this riotous companion to Bad Kitty and Bad Kitty Gets a Bath!
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Judy Moody & Stink volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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During a weekend trip to Ocracoke Island, siblings Judy and Stink Moody take part in a pirate treasure-hunting game, in which various clues lead them to silver coins, or "pieces of eight," hidden across the island.
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his...
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Mercy Watson volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
16. Number the stars
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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One and only Ivan stories volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
18. Out of my mind
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Out of my mind volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
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Average Rating:
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:
4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 1ST GRADE
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When Pete the cat meets a super cool caterpillar, he thinks he has found a new best friend. But when one day his caterpillar goes missing, Pete has to find out what happened to his new friend. Pete is in for one wild surprise at the end!