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• Bhai for Now

  Siddiqui, Maleeha

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  When Ashar and Shaheer meet, they quickly discover they're twins and will stop at nothing to get to know the parent they've been separated from, learning along the way that they may not like each other, but they definitely need each other.

• The Demon Sword Asperides

  Horwitz, Sarah Jean

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  Asperides, an ancient demonic talking sword, tricks Nack Furnival, a bumbling would-be knight, into battling a wicked sorcerer bent on summoning all the evils of the underworld.

• Dinged

  Greenwald, Tom, 1962-

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  Fourteen-year-old star freshman quarterback Caleb Springer watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very same sport, forcing Caleb to consider whether playing football, the sport of his dreams, is worth risking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Door of No Return

  Alexander, Kwame

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  A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century.

• A Duet for Home

  Glaser, Karina Yan,

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  This is a "tale of friendship, healing, and the power of believing in ourselves told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homeless shelter. As their friendship grows over a shared love of classical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Felice and the Wailing Woman

  López, Diana,

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  The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have plagued the magical town of Tres Leches.

• The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

  Pla, Sally J.

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  Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.

• A First Time for Everything

  a True Story

  Santat, Dan

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  Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a good kid doesn't stop him from being bullied and feeling like he's invisible, which is why Dan has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghosts Come Rising

  Perry, Adam, 1984-

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  After their parents' deaths, siblings Liza and John Carroll are placed in the care of their uncle, a traveling con artist who scams the grieving with fraudulent spirit photographs, until they arrive at a Spiritualist commune where the barrier…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Grace of Wild Things

  Fawcett, Heather,

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  Fleeing from the orphanage where she lives, Grace makes a deal with the witch in the nearby woods--if Grace can learn all the witch's spells, she must make Grace her apprentice--an agreement that leads to an unexpected bond, and an unimaginable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Labors of Hercules Beal

  Schmidt, Gary D.,

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  Seventh-grader Hercules Beal has to figure out how to fulfill his teacher's assignment of performing the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life, and discovers important things about friendship, community, and himself along the way.

• Lumara

  Landers, Melissa

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  In a world where magical Mystics exist alongside humans, sixteen-year-old Talia is thrust into the most powerful and secretive Mystic family--and accused of trying to murder them.

• Mascot

  Waters, Charles, 1973-

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  In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moongarden

  Barry, Michelle A.,

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  Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No One Leaves the Castle

  Healy, Christopher, 1972-

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  The Lilac. The bard songs say that she's the world's most fearsome bounty hunter. That there's no criminal she can't catch, no mystery she can't solve. None of that is true. Yet. In reality, the Lilac is just a kid, and the bard who wrote all that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Probability of Everything

  Everett, Sarah

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  When an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth in four days, eleven-year-old Kemi, who loves scientific facts and probability, assembles a time capsule to capture her family's truth as she tries to come to terms with saying goodbye.

• The Puttermans Are in the House

  Feldman, Jacquetta Nammar

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  Told from different points of view, the Putterman cousins, twins Sammy and Matty, and Becky, have been at odds, but when Hurricane Harvey hits Houston, they soon find that they need each other more than ever.

• A Rover's Story

  Warga, Jasmine,

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  Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.

• Salt and Sugar

  Carvalho, Rebecca,

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  To save her family's bakery, Salt, which as been at war with the Molinas' bakery, Sugar, across the street, Lari Ramires does the unthinkable by teaming up with Pedro Molinas to save both their bakeries, falling in love in the process.

• A Seed in the Sun

  Salazar, Aida

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  Lula, a farm-working girl with big dreams, meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights.