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• Dinosaurs Before Dark

  Osborne, Mary Pope

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  Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.

• The Lightning Thief

  Riordan, Rick

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  After learning that he is the son of a moratl woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

• Ivy + Bean

  Barrows, Annie

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  When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.

• The Last Kids on Earth

  Brallier, Max

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  Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, but Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Zombies and Winged Wretches and Vine Thingies, and especially not for the eerily…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• EllRay Jakes Is Not a Chicken!

  Warner, Sally, 1946-

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  Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.

• Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters

  Beaty, Andrea,

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  Rosie’s beloved Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters—a group of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II—need help inventing something new. And Rosie is just the engineer for the job! With some help from her fellow…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Keena Ford and the Second-grade Mix-up

  Thomson, Melissa, 1979-

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  Keena Ford chronicles her many mishaps as she begins second grade.

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid

  A Novel in Cartoons: Greg Heffley's Journal

  Kinney, Jeff

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  Greg records his experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular Greg must take drastic meaures to save their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Land of Stories

  the Wishing Spell

  Colfer, Chris, 1990-

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  Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clementine

  Pennypacker, Sara, 1951-

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  While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

• The Buried Bones Mystery

  Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

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  When the Black Dinosaurs, a club made up of four African American friends, discover what's hidden in an old trunk buried near their clubhouse, they set out to solve the mystery.

• Mercy Watson to the Rescue

  DiCamillo, Kate

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  After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.

• Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute

  Krosoczka, Jarrett

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  The school lunch lady is a secret crime fighter who uncovers an evil plot to replace all the popular teachers with robots.

• Ghost

  Reynolds, Jason

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  Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of a brand-new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Awardwinning author Jason Reynolds.

• Keeper of the Lost Cities

  Messenger, Shannon

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  Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. The reason? Sophie’s a Telepath, someone who can read minds. But the day Sophie meets the mysterious (and adorable) Fitz, she learns she’s not alone. He’s a Telepath too, and when Fitz opens…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tales From a Not-so-fabulous Life

  Russell, Rachel Renee

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  Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.

• The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

  Glaser, Karina Yan

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  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.

• The School for Good and Evil

  Chainani, Soman

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  The New York Times bestselling School for Good and Evil series is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one. Start here to follow Sophie, Agatha, and everyone at school from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dragonbreath

  Vernon, Ursula

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  Danny Dragonbreath can't breathe fire, but he has no fear. And that comes in handy when a bad grade at school inspires him to enlist his cousin the sea-serpent's help with a research project. Using a hybrid of comic-book panels and text, Ursula…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aru Shah and the End of Time

  Chokshi, Roshani,

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  Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.