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1641) The monster detector
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Series
Big Foot and Little Foot volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A Sasquatch and a young boy deal with monsters, stereotypes, and cultural misunderstandings in this follow-up to Big Foot and Little Foot. Hugo is a young Sasquatch. Boone is a young boy. After an unlikely encounter, they've become an even unlikelier pair of best friends. After saving up his Monster Card wrappers, Hugo sends away for a special prize in the mail--a Monster Detector! Using the watchlike device, Hugo quickly spots a monster right in...
1642) Towers falling
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Deja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
1643) Spy school goes south
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Series
Spy school volume 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old spy in training Ben Ripley is sent to Mexico to try to thwart the evil organization, SPYDER--the CIA's main enemy.
1644) Linked
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
1645) One for all
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
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Series
I funny volume 1
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
If You Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
If You Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
Description
Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.
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Series
Horrible Harry volume 32
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English
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Miss Mackle is getting married! But she didn’t invite any of her students to the wedding. The kids don’t understand it: a wedding is a time for families to be together, and they are Miss Mackle’s Room 3B family—which is especially important because her father is in the military overseas, and he won’t be home for the wedding. So Harry comes up with a plan to sneak his pals into the wedding ceremony and hide in the back. It seems like the...
1648) Daughter of the deep
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
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Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
Language
English
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If You Like Harry Potter, Read These *Youth Books*
If You Like Keeper of the Lost Cities, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
Mystery Fiction - MID
If You Like Keeper of the Lost Cities, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
Mystery Fiction - MID
Description
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
1650) The best man
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Language
English
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"Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget"--
1651) Rules for being a girl
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English
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"[A] novel about a young woman facing assault and sexist power dynamics in a post-#MeToo era. Best friends Chloe and Marin share a crush on their high school English teacher, Mr. Beckett, who's also their advisor on the school paper, where the girls are coeditors. When Bex, as he's known, moves from being friendly with Marin to kissing her, she isn't sure where to turn; Chloe questions Marin's account entirely, advising her not to ruin Bex's life...
1652) Truly devious
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 1
Language
English
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Back to School Reads - YA
If You Like Inheritance Games, Read These!
If You Like One of Us is Lying, Read These!
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If You Like Inheritance Games, Read These!
If You Like One of Us is Lying, Read These!
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Description
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.” Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of...
1653) Leah on the offbeat
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English
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When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat-but real life isn't always so rhythmic. She's an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she's bisexual, she hasn't mustered the courage to tell her friends-not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn't know what to do when...
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