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"Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever. By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner. But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a new kid for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment key that Miranda's mom...
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Evie's family runs a Jewish funeral home and she enjoys helping out. She doesn't normally interact with the grieving family, but one day she befriends Oren, a boy overwhelmed by grief after an awful accident. Oren hasn't spoken a word since, but Evie is set on helping him deal with his loss and discover his voice again.
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Pretty little liars volume Prequel
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English
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A tale set in the seventh grade in the weeks leading up to Ali's murder reveals her plots against Emily, Hanna, Aria and Spencer, as well as a dark secret that has the potential to destroy everything.
5) Golden girl
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When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakastani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
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Much to their initial dismay, a twelve-year-old boy and girl discover they are destined to become knights of King Arthur's legendary Round Table, but first they must find and reforge Excalibur and break a curse that has weakened the magic of the Twenty-Five and a Half Realms.
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CHERUB novels volume 13
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Hodder Children's
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"People's republic is the first book in a brand-new series from Robert Muchamore. CHERUB's newest recruit is on his first job: befriending a spoilt rich kid whose grandma runs a billion-dollar criminal empire. But twelve-year-old Ryan's got no idea that this routine mission will turn into one of the biggest in CHERUB history. CHERUB is a secret organisation with one crucial advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that kids are spying on...
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Black Sand Beach volume 1
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Pixel+Ink
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2020.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Dash and his best friend Lily are spending the summer at Black Sand Beach, where Dash's family has a house. But from the beginning, nothing is as it seems. The beach house is a shack, and Dash's weird relatives are there. And more alarming is the zombie ram that crashes through the front yard... and the ghosts that call out to Dash from the lighthouse.
11) Cosmic
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12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not...
12) Bug Girl
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Bug Girl volume 1
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Sixth grader Amanda Price, who love bugs, manages to develop the superpowers characteristic of her favorite insects when evil invaders threaten her hometown and take both her mother and her former best friend's mother captive. Includes bug facts.
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Little, Brown and Company
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While searching the woods that used to be their personal sanctuary, twelve-year-old Aubrey recalls the events and incidents preceding their best friend's disappearance and quietly questions their own gender identity.
15) The sleepover
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"Twelve-year-old Meghan and her friends Paige and Anna Marie are ready to have The. Best. Night. Ever. There will be junk food, crazy-scary horror movies, and karaoke smackdowns! Not even the last-minute addition of Anna Marie's awkward soon-to-be step-sister, Veronica, can dampen their spirits." -- Page [4] cover.
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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English
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Samira knows this is going to be the worst summer ever. Her best friend, Kiera, ditched her for the cool girls. Her parents and older sister are taking a trip to India, so Sammy is staring down endless weeks spent with Imran, her little brother, and her Umma. To top it all off--literally!--her house gets TP'd. The TP'ing upsets Imran, who is convinced that they're being targeted because they're the only brown family on the block. When Sammy attempts...
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Amazing days of Abby Hayes volume 1
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Scholastic Inc
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English
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"Abby Hayes is starting fifth grade. Her supersibs, the perfect older twins and her genius little brother, have already proved their Hayes worthiness. This is going to be Abby's year ... and she's going to record every moment of it."
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Amazing days of Abby Hayes volume 5
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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"It's summer, and Abby Hayes has nothing to do. So it's the perfect time to get a pet! Abby is sure that she can handle the responsibility. But things don't go as planned..."
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Amazing days of Abby Hayes volume 7
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Abby is home sick when partners for the science fair are picked; when she gets back, she finds her partner is a boy. Abby has to find a way to work with him.
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