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New Arrivals

"The One and Only Ivan"
by K.A. Applegate
Interest Level Grades 3-6

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years
in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby,
a baby elephant that has been added to the mall,
he decides that he must find her a better life.
Call Number: FIC APP

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"The Great Rabbit Rescue"
by Katie Davies
Interest Level Grades 3-6

When Joe goes to live with his father across town
and must leave behind his beloved pet rabbit,
his friends Anna and Suzanne try to take care of it for him,
but when the rabbit becomes ill and then Joe follows suit,
the girls are certain that both will die unless they are reunited.
Call Number: FIC DAV

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"Belly Up"
by Stuart Gibbs
Interest Level Grades 3-6

Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when
a popular Texas zoo's star attraction
--Henry the hippopotamus--
is murdered!
Call Number: PB GIB

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"Wonderstruck: a novel in words and pictures"
by Brian Selznick
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Set 50 years apart, two independent stories weave
back and forth with mesmerizing symmetry.
Twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing
in a short time frame, decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977
to seek the father he has never known in New York City.
In 1927, Rose lives with her father but feels compelled
to search for what is missing in her life.
Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Call Number: FIC SEL

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"The Candymakers"
by Wendy Mass
Interest Level Grades 3-6

Four children have been chosen to compete in a national competition
to find the tastiest confection in the country.
This sweet, charming, and cleverly crafted story,
told from each contestant's perspective, is filled with mystery, friendship,
and juicy revelations.
Call Number: FIC MAS

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"War Horse"
by Michael Morpurgo
Interest Level Grades 3-6

In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal
is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of
the war on the Western Front.
With his officer, he charges toward the enemy,
witnessing the horror of the battles in France.
But even in the desolation of the trenches,
Joey's courage touches the soldiers around him
and he is able to find warmth and hope.
But his heart aches for Albert,
the farmer's son he left behind.
Will he ever see his true master again?
Call Number: PB MOR

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"Troublemaker"
by Andrew Clements
Interest Level Grades 3-6

When his older brother gets in serious trouble,
sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways,
but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.
Call Number: FIC CLE

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"Lawn Boy Returns"
by Gary Paulsen
Interest Level Grades 3-6

Having expanded his summer lawn mowing job
into an ever-growing business conglomerate,
a twelve-year-old boy gets involved in high finance
thanks to his hippie stockbroker, takes on sponsorship of a boxer,
and becomes a media sensation.
Call Number: PB PAU

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"Ophie Out of Oz"
by Kathleen O'Dell
Interest Level Grades 3-6

Fourth-grader Ophelia Peeler has always felt
that she was just like Dorothy in Oz,
skipping down the yellow brick road, until
a move to Oregon, away from her best friend,
sends her on a different path.
Call Number: FIC ODE

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"Build Your Own Fantasy Tree House"
by David Parfitt
Interest Level All Ages

A comprehensive manual featuring essential information
on tree types, tools, and materials as well as
full safety guidelines to construct a safe and solid structure that will last.
Designs include a pirate ship, a bird's nest,
an enchanted castle, and a swinging magic carpet.
Call Number: 728.9 PAR

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"Star Wars:
the New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels"
by W. Haden Blackman
Interest Level Grades 3-6

Detailed profiles and vital statistics for vessels
including data covering the vehicle's construction, size, maximum speed,
and it's role in Star Wars history.
Covers more than 150 craft from five movies,
novels of the New Jedi Order, comics, TV specials, and games.
Call Number: 791.43 BLA

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"My Big Mouth: 10 Songs I Wrote That Almost Got Me Killed"
by Peter Hannan
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Davis Delaware moves to a new high school and
immediately gets on the wrong side of the school bully
when he creates a band called The Amazing Dweebs
along with Molly, the girl he has a crush on--
who also happens to be the bully's girlfriend.
Call Number: FIC HAN

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"True (...sort of)"
by Katherine Hannigan
Interest Level Grades 3-6

For most of her eleven years, Delly
has been in trouble without knowing why,
until her little brother, R.B., and a strange,
silent new friend, Ferris,
help her find a way to be good--and happy--again.
Call Number: FIC HAN

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"Dude: Fun with Dude and Betty"
by Lisa Pliscou
Interest Level Grades K-3
 
Truly non-bogus in the style of Dick and Jane,
this epic reader will have newbies begging to hear it
again and again until they are reading it themselves.  Rad!
Call Number: ER PLI

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"One Crazy Summer"
by Rita Garcia-Williams
Interest Level Grades 5-8

In the summer of 1968, eleven-year-old Delphine
and her two younger sisters arrive in Oakland, CA,
to spend a month with the mother they barely know,
and she expects them to attend a summer camp with
the radically militant Black Panther group.
Coretta Scott King Award Winner, National Book Award Finalist, Newbery Honor Book
Call Number: FIC GAR

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"Smile"
by Raina Telgemeier
Interest Level Grades 5-8

The author relates her experiences after
she injured her two front teeth and had to have
surgeries and wear embarrassing braces and headgear,
all while also dealing with the trials and tribulations of middle school.
A memoir told in graphic novel form.
Call Number: 92 TEL

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"The Great Hamster Massacre"
by Katie Davies
Interest Level Grades 3-6

In this irreverent take on the dark side of pet ownership,
nine-year-old Anna and her younger brother Tom
finally get a pair of hamsters, but,
when the pets are found mysteriously dead,
the siblings and neighbor Suzanne
launch an investigation throughout the neighborhood.
Call Number: FIC DAV

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"Horton Halfpott, or,
The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor, or,
The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset"
by Tom Angleberger
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy
in a castle in nineteenth-century England,
becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts,
which is also connected to the pursuit of
a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.
By the author of
"The Strange Case of Origami Yoda."
Call Number: FIC ANG

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"Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life"
by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts
Interest Level Grades 3-6

When Rafe Kane enters middle school,
he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent,"
to create a game to make school more fun by
trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
Call Number: FIC PAT

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"The Secret Journeys of Jack London: The Wild"
by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Seventeen-year-old Jack London
makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893,
becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces
that seem to be taking a special interest in him.
Call Number: FIC GOL

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"The Loser List"
by H.N. Kowitt
Interest Level Grades 3-6

When Danny Shine tries to get his name
off the "Loser List" posted in the girl's bathroom
he winds up in detention, where the school bullies
discover his artistic talents.
Call Number: FIC KOW

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"Nerd Girls: The Rise of the Dorkasaurus"
by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Three misfit middle school girls team up
to try to beat out the catty and mean popular girls
at the school talent show.
Call Number: FIC SIT

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"Saving Zasha"
by Randi Barrow
Interest Level Grades 5-8

In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds
are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail
and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them.
(Read with a box of tissues.)
Call Number: FIC BAR

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"The Penderwicks at Point Mouette"
(Penderwick Series, Bk. 3)
by Jeanne Birdsall
Interest Level Grades 3-6

The beloved Penderwicks return for
a summer story with Rosalind heading to the beach, and
the rest of the Penderwick girls going to
a cozy cottage in Maine, leaving Skye feeling
slightly overwhelmed with her new role as the
"Oldest Available Penderwick."
Call Number: FIC PEN

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"The Crowfield Curse"
(Crowfield Series, Bk. 1)
by Pat Walsh
Interest Level Grades 3-6

In 1347, when fourteen-year-old orphan William Paynel,
an impoverished servant at Crowfield Abbey,
goes into the forest to gather wood and finds a magical creature caught in a trap,
he discovers he has the ability to see fays
and becomes embroiled in a strange mystery involving Old Magic,
a bitter feud, and ancient secrets.
Call Number: FIC WAL

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"The Emerald Atlas"
(Books of Beginning Series, Bk. 1)
by John Stephens
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from
one orphanage to another in the ten years since
their parents disappeared in order to protect them,
but now they learn that they have
special powers, and a fearsome enemy, and embark
on a prophesied quest to find a magical book
Call Number: FIC STE

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"The Romeo and Juliet Code"
by Phoebe Stone
Interest Level Grades 3-6

During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity
is sent from London to Maine to live with her family,
and a reclusive boy helps her decode mysterious letters
that contain the truth about her missing parents.
Call Number: FIC STO

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"Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly"
by Gail Carson Levine
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine
shares the secrets of her writing success, including
how to get ideas, creating beginnings and endings,
writing great dialogue, developing memorable characters, and more.
Call Number: 808.3 LEV

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"Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls
Book 1: Moving Day  Book 2: The New Girl"
by Meg Cabot
Interest Level Grades 3-6
 
When her parents announce that the family is moving,
nine-year-old Allie is sure her life is over.
She's not happy to give up her pretty bedroom,
and her state-of-the-art school for a
rundown, old-fashioned school two blocks from her new house.
And how will she ever learn to fit in as "the new girl"
with a bully threatening her with an after school beating?
Call Number: FIC CAB

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"What the World Eats"
photographed by Peter Menzel
Interest Level Grades 5-8

A collection of photographs depicting twenty-five families
from twenty-one different countries,
describing the cost of a week's worth of food,
and other cultural information for each listed country.
Call Number: 641.3 MEN

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"The Lost Hero"
Book One: The Heroes of Olympus
by Rick Riordan
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids,"
find themselves at Camp Half-Blood,
where they learn that they are demigods
and begin a quest to free Hera,
who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Call Number: FIC RIO

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"The Throne of Fire"
by Rick Riordan
Book Two: The Kane Chronicles
Interest Level Grades 5-8

In this sequel to "The Red Pyramid,"
Carter and Sadie must outsmart
the House of Life and the gods of chaos
in order to complete their worldwide search for
an ancient Egyptian book
Call Number: FIC RIO

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"Bag in the Wind"
by Ted Kooser
Interest Level Grades K-3

One cold, spring morning, a plastic grocery bag
begins blowing around a landfill, and as it travels down a road,
through a stream, and into a town, it is used in various ways by different people.
An end note discusses ways to reuse plastic bags,
and suggests that if an individual would use cloth bags instead of plastic,
over 22,000 plastic bags would be saved in one lifetime.
A story of conservation, neglect, connection and serendipity.
In the News:
California State Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Manhattan Beach Plastic Bag Ban

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"The Death-Defying Pepper Roux"
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Pepper Roux decides to test fate
and embarks on a journey the day before he turns fourteen,
which is also the day he is expected to die,
meeting outrageous friends and dangerous enemies along the way.
Call Number: FIC MCC

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Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer
by John Grisham
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone,
who knows every judge, police officer,
and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg,
finds himself involved in a murder trial
because of knowledge he might have about a cold-blooded killer.
Call Number: FIC GRI

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"The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg"
by Rodman Philbrick
Interest Level Grades 3-6

Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster home
in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother,
Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army.
Call Number: FIC PHI

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"Scumble"
by Ingrid Law
Interest Level Grades 5-8

In this companion to Newbery Honor book "Savvy" (2008),
Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his "savvy"
--the magical power unique to each member of their family--
is to make things fall apart,
which endangers his uncle Autry's ranch
and reveals the family secret to future reporter Sarah.
Call Number: FIC LAW

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"Zorgamazoo"
by Robert Paul Weston
Interest Level Grades 3-6

Imaginative and adventurous Katrina
eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty,
a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles,
with his quest to uncover the fate of the fabled zorgles of Zorgmazoo
as well as of other creatures that seem to have disappeared from the Earth.
A double delight for fans of Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl.
Call Number: PB WES

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"The Mother-Daughter Book Club :
Pies and Prejudice"
by Heather Vogel Frederick
Interest Level Grades 5-8

Four girls, and their mothers,
continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference
between Massachusetts and England,
reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice,"
and try to put friendship before romance.
Call Number: FIC FRE

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"Zombiekins"
by Kevin Bolger
Interest Level Grades 3-6

The boring town of Dementedyville
is livened up by a mysterious stuffed animal called Zombiekins
that turns things upside down when exposed to moonlight.
Call Number FIC BOL

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"School of Fear"
by Gitty Daneshvari
Interest Level Grades 3-6

Twelve-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu,
and thirteen-year-old Garrison,
are sent to a remote Massachusetts school to overcome their phobias,
but tragedy strikes and the quartet must work together
--with no adult assistance--
to face their fears.
Call Number: FIC DAN