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1) Golden girl
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When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakastani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
2) Remarkables
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One minute the teens are there playing and laughing, the next they have disappeared from the lawn at the house next door, and Marin cannot believe it. When she meets Charley she discovers she is not the only one who has seen the teens, and Charley calls them the "Remarkables." Charley warns Marin not to approach them, but Marin can't stop thinking about something that happened back in her old house, and wondering if the Remarkables could help her--or...
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On her birthday, twelve-year-old aspiring baker Zoe Washington receives a letter from her biological father, who is in prison for murder, telling her he is actually innocent. Determined to discover the truth, Zoe tries to investigate herself, perform well in her baking internship, and achieve her dream of auditioning for the Food Network's Kids Bake Challenge.
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"Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. Now that she's fourteen years old, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but...
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The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best--acting silly and being adored. They've been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom. But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. The other kids...
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Sara and Elizabeth are very different people--Sara knows no one in her new middle school, unlike where she went before, the small Islamic academy she spent most of her life in; whereas Elizabeth has always been here, but recently her best friend has been ditching her to spend time with the popular girl, and her British mother seems to be falling into a depression. Thrown together in an after-school cooking class, Sara and Elizabeth at first clash,...
14) Unsettled
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Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
15) The messengers
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Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.
16) Lu
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Nashville Reads 2024 | The Works of Jason Reynolds
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"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"--
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Every day passes by just like every other day in Fawn Creek, Louisiana--at least, that's how best friends-since-forever Dorothy Doucet and Greyson Broussard feel. The two girls consider themselves outside the typical seventh-grade groups--especially the self-proclaimed God Squad, and the Fawn Creek Royalty, and the Jocks--and that suits them just fine, since they have each other. Dorothy and Greyson have no reason to believe this year will be any...
19) The best man
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All through elementary school, Archer Magill has looked for role models and found three of them in his grandpa, dad, and uncle Paul, but now a fourth has joined their ranks--Mr. McLeod, who along with his army dog, Argus, becomes a bit of a celebrity. However, now middle school has started, and the changes are not for the better. Archer is then surprised by being named best man in two of his role models' wedding, which means he will have to figure...
20) Rhyme schemer
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A novel in verse about Kevin's journey from bully to being bullied, as he learns about friendship, family, and his talent for poetry.