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1) Freewater
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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All Together Now—Middle Grade
Black History Month/African American Favorites
Coretta Scott King Award
Newbery Award Winners
Black History Month/African American Favorites
Coretta Scott King Award
Newbery Award Winners
Description
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
Author
Series
Candy shop war volume 3
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the third White sibling brings a carnival to town, giving everyone who visited strange nightmares and weird dreams, the Blue Falcons, with a host of new candies, must tap into the power of their own dreams to battle their greatest adversary yet.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 1
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
4) Big tree
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and become big trees"--
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 2
Language
English
Description
After the tumultuous events of last winter, Kate, Michael, and Emma long to continue the hunt for their missing parents. But they themselves are now in great danger, and so the wizard Stanislaus Pym hides the children at the Edgar Allan Poe Home for Hopeless and Incorrigible Orphans. There, he says, they will be safe. How wrong he is.
The children are soon discovered by their enemies, and a frantic chase sends Kate a hundred years into...
The children are soon discovered by their enemies, and a frantic chase sends Kate a hundred years into...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's Maine, 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan is on the rise. Davy and Jo Michaud have been recently orphaned. Taken in by a distant relative-a famous aviator-they are now working with a group of stunt pilots who spend their time wing walking, leaping from plane to plane, and flying through fireworks! But though the stunts are dangerous, the real threat is building behind the scenes. The KKK is on the rise in Maine that summer, inspired by the racial fears...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Book Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
Usually avoiding adventure of any kind, 11-year-old Leo is unfortunately drawn into a mystery, along with his danger-loving sister, when his late Grandma's beehives go missing and his ornery Grandpa needs help catching the sticky-fingered thieves.
9) Camp creepy
Author
Series
Sinister summer volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Sinister-Winterbottoms, twins Alexander and Theo and their older sister Wil, find themselves at a mysterious summer camp where they meet other families whose parents are missing.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Language
English
Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world.
Author
Series
Minerva Keen volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Minerva Keen's life isn't exactly normal. But living in the luxurious Arcanum - with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbours behind every apartment door - is more fun than normal. Until her neighbours start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself. To clear her name and help the police crack the case, Minerva starts her own detective...
15) My life begins!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
16) The taken
Author
Series
Foxcraft volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Isla and her brother are two young foxes living just outside a human city, but one night Isla returns to her den to find it destroyed, and surrounded by strange, vicious foxes, so she takes refuge in the city while she masters foxcraft--the ancient magical arts of her kind.
17) Black heart
Author
Series
Vampirates volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
While Connor and the Pirate Federation attempt to stop a new ship of vampirates, his twin sister Grace and their long-lost mother Sally reunite, and Sally reveals some news that is devastating for the twins.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family's Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon's head in a jar named Shrunken Jim). But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town. Lilou comes to Kess for help breaking a mysterious curse--and the only clue she has leads straight into...
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