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"A heartwarming contemporary middle-grade from the author of The Doughnut Fix: As twelve-year-old chess prodigy Milo Bloom grapples with the anxiety that's ruining his game, the last thing he needs is for a brand-new half sister to show up at his door. Twelve-year old chess prodigy Milo Bloom has lost the zone, that magical place his mind goesor used to go when he plays chess. When he plays now, all he can think about is how bad it will be if he loses...
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"Four years ago, Millie lost her baby brother Noah before he could be born. She writes to him in heaven often and confides in him her anxieties upon learning her mother is pregnant again. Millie is both excited and scared. What if the baby dies like Noah did? Living on a farm and friendship issues add their own challenges, but Millie comes to realise that she is more resilient than she ever believed. Millie has a lot of big, mixed feelings, but her...
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Rather than be split up into different foster homes, twelve-year-old Basil and his eleven-year-old sister Dahlia leap off a train which jump starts an adventure of ever-increasing mishaps and lands them in the kitchen of a cruel celebrity chef.
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"Isaiah 'Ice' Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends--and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event--one he'd promised to attend--it causes a major fight. Filled with regret,...
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"Have you ever wished you could step inside a story and change its outcome? Now you can! This adventure book gives you the power to make good choices for the characters and alter how the story plays out. Twins Tami and Sam have been celebrating their birthday together at Fantastic Frank's Fun Park for years, but this birthday is different. This is the year they turn teen and Tami wants to organize the ultimate best-ever birthday palooza. But it turns...
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"This middle grade historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their mother's disappearance."--
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"When her older brother, Karthik--Kay-Kay, the golden child of the family--heads to camp for two weeks, Lena's parents begin showering her with all the attention she craves. For a time, she's the golden child and secretly wishes her brother wouldn't come home. But when the scheduled train arrives and Karthik isn't on it, Lena is stricken with guilt and fear for her beloved Kay-Kay. Her brother has vanished without a trace, and the police view him...
8. Bubble
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Orphaned eleven-year-old Joe lives in a hospital due to his autoimmune disease, interacting only with his sister, an American boy with the same illness, and medical staff while dreaming of being a superhero.
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"Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family's Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon's head in a jar named Shrunken Jim). But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town. Lilou comes to Kess for help breaking a mysterious curse--and the only clue she has leads straight into...
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"Lana loves stories. Especially the ones she and her brother, Harrison, share in their make-believe games. But when Harrison decides he's too grown-up to play with Lana she finds herself feeling lonely. Until something magical happens ... Hidden in the strange new supermarket in town, Lana discovers a portal to a fairytale world! But these aren't the happy-ever-after fairytales that Lana knows, they are darker and more dangerous, and the characters...
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In this dystopian middle-grade novel, a climate change disaster forces humanity to flee as Earth's atmosphere escapes into space. Narrated by siblings Nick and Lily, the story follows their resourcefulness in aiding neighbors. Nick's digging prowess and Lily's strategic planning become vital as oxygen diminishes. Nick unveils a hidden tunnel connecting houses, forming a lifesaving network as breathable air dwindles. Lily crafts a communication system...
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"In this heartfelt and honest debut middle-grade novel, twelve-year-old Quinn seeks out her donor siblings, wondering if she will fit in better with them than she does with her own family. Quinn loves her moms and little brother, but she often feels like the odd one out. She would much rather be quietly drawing than surfing or rock-climbing or whatever other intense activity her family is currently obsessed with. Quinn has always known she is donor...
13. Extra normal
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"Charlie Greer is nothing special--at least not compared to her adopted siblings. Her younger sister is a ghost. Her brother Mateo is a werewolf. Gideon is the product of seriously sketchy experiments that gave him telekinetic powers. Even her parents work for the Division of Extranormal Investigations tracking down all things supernatural, alien, and otherwise unusual. Charlie's mom says her superpower is maturity--which doesn't really count. But...
14. Eyes on the sky
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In quiet Roswell, aeronautics-obsessed Dorothy lives with her brother on a rural ranch, and when her downed weather balloon sparks rumors of a crashed flying saucer, she sets out to discover the truth and soon realizes there is more at play than she realized.
15. Faker
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"Trey knows the drill: His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there's the con, where Trey's dad suckers the other parents into investing in one of his schemes. Once the money's in the bank, Trey, his sister, and their dad are on the run... until they set up somewhere else and start again. Trey believes his father when he says no one's getting hurt. After all, these parents...
16. Ferris
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"It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris's grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell....
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"Gracie loves snorkeling! She loves it so much, she convinces her parents to let her plan a family vacation to Roatǹ, Honduras, where they can all snorkel together. She even makes a new friend there. Now, if only her irritating little brother would leave her alone, everything would be perfect. Then Gracie hurts her leg, and all her carefully made plans start to come apart. Worse still, she learns the reef itself is in serious danger. Gracie wants...
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"Twelve-year-old Anna Grimsbane journeys into monster-filled woods to save her brother, who has been cursed by a witch known as The Watcher"--
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A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.
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"From the first moment Morgan can remember, Claire has always been there. Big sister and little brother. Cat and Mouse. They've always understood each other, saved each other, seen each other. And they stuck to their own personal code, unwritten but understood, that siblings were inseparable, that they had each other's backs, no matter what. At least, they used to. Somewhere along the line, things between them shifted. Claire started fighting more...