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Series:
Moko magic volume 1.
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When Misty moved from Trinidad to Brooklyn, she wasn't expecting to discover that she's a moko jumbie spirit, that she and her cousins all have magic, and that there's a plot to capture magical power during the annual West Indian Labor Day parade.
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5 stars
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After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby--the highlight of the museum's new...
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Eleven-year-old Bo is used to it being just her and her mom in their cozy New York apartment, but when her mom gets married, Bo must adjust to her new sisters and a music-minded blended family that is much larger, louder, and more complex than she ever imagined.
Book cover for "The Tapper twins go to war (with each other)"
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Series:
Tapper twins volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
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Series:
Vanderbeekers volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
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Series:
Pacy Lin books volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.