Junior NCCBA Books (Past and Present)

The list contains all past and present Junior NCCBA Books.

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Book cover for "The mighty Mars rovers"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Presents the story about the team who gave us our first look at the Martian landscape, including pictures from NASA and the author's personal collection. The story of the two robot vehicles, Spirit and Opportunity, that were sent to explore Mars, lasting far past their projected lives of 3 months and sending back invaluable images of the environmentally hostile planet.
Book cover for "Mirror mirror"
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A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.
Book cover for "Mister Max"
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Series:
Mister Max volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"When Max's parents leave the country without him, he must rely on his wits to get by, and before long he is running his own--rather unusual--business"--

44. Moo

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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.
Book cover for "Moon over Manifest"
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3.6 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Book cover for "Mountain dog"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Book cover for "The mouse with the question mark tail"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
Book cover for "The Night Gardener"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Book cover for "The nine pound hammer"
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Series:
Clockwork dark volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old orphan Ray travels south, drawn by the lodestone his father gave him years before, meeting along the way various characters from folklore who are battling against an evil industry baron known as the Gog.
Book cover for "The one and only Ivan"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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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.
Book cover for "One crazy summer"
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Series:
Gaither sisters volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicatedpoet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Book cover for "Out of My Mind"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
This special movie tie-in edition showcases a new cover with an image from the original movie now available on Disney+!

A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!
"Unflinching and realistic." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a "gutsy, candid, and compelling" (School Library Journal, starred review) story that will forever...

53. Pax

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Series:
Pax volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox.
Book cover for "Peaceful pieces"
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A collection of poems, illustrated by handmade quilts, explores peace in all its forms, from peace at home and within oneself to peace on a global scale.

55. Pie

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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.

56. Poached

Book cover for "Poached"
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Series:
FunJungle volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is the prime suspect when FunJungle's newly-acquired koala goes missing, thanks to a prank staged by middle school bully Vance Jessup.
Book cover for "A poem for Peter"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.
Book cover for "Prairie Evers"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Ten-year-old Prairie is happy being home-schooled and raising her flock of chickens, so transferring to regular school is a big change, but fortunately she meets a wonderful friend"--
Book cover for "Rain reign"
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
Book cover for "The roar"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.