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2) The giver
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English
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
3) New kid
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English
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After his parents send him to a prestigious private school known for its academics, Jordan Banks finds himself torn between two worlds.
5) Stand tall
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English
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
6) Seven Pablos
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Seven vignettes of seven young boys named Pablo living throughout the world"--
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Feeling comfortable but somewhat alone in her home by the sea, an artist's daughter is encouraged to attribute difficult health challenges to stories that inspire creativity, while a visiting stranger helps her recognize how special she is.
10) Nerd camp
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zack, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it is a camp for "nerds."
12) Smart cookies
Author
Series
Quinny and Hopper volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Quinny petitions to overturn a new school-wide ban on sweets, Hopper reinvents the 'Friendship Bench' at recess, and both learn to embrace the qualities that make them who they are"--
13) Jake and Lily
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Balzer + Bray
Language
English
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Jake and Lily are twins and have always felt the same--like two halves of one person--but the year they turn eleven and Jake begins hanging out with Bump Stubbins, everything changes.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Rumple Buttercup has 5 crooked teeth, 3 strands of hair, green skin, and his left foot is slightly bigger than his right. He is weird. Join him and Candy Corn Carl (his imaginary friend made of trash) as they learn the joy of individuality as well as the magic of belonging."--
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English
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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
16) The singing man
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
A couple's youngest son is forced to leave his West African village because he chooses music over the more practical occupations of his brothers, but years later he returns to show the wisdom of his choice.
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Bobby is hurt when he hears his father, a former pro-football player, say that they two of them are nothing alike, but finally summons the courage to talk about it after his public asthma attack proves how right his father is.
18) My life begins!
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English
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Jacob wants a litter of puppies. His parents have a different surprise: he's going to be a brother... to triplets. The babies look identical to him and he gives them a name: "the Trips." For a school science project, Jacob decides to study the Trips. As they begin to smile, talk, and grow, as he gets to know them, each of the triplets become unique and more special. They aren't just "the Trips" anymore. Can he figure out their "forever name?" And...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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When her parents and the other quiet, shy wombats of the Northern Forest are captured by the traitorous, carnivorous Tassie devils, Lola Budge, a talkative, adventure-seeking young wombat, embarks on a rescue mission, joined by a swamp water rat and a baby penguin.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
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