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1) Sidekicked
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"Drew Bean might be a part of a secret organization for the training of superhero sidekicks, but that doesn't mean that life is all leaping tall buildings in single bounds. Drew is possessed of super senses--his hearing, sight, taste, touch, and smell are the most powerful on the planet--making him literally the most sensitive kid in school. And then there's his best friend, Jenna--their friendship would be complicated enough if she weren't able to...
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Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who can grant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more painful than the loss of her mother.
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That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. 'My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child.' I stopped. So begins this richly entertaining story of Ella of Frell, who wants nothing more than to be free of Lucinda's...
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"Thirteen-year-old Frankie is mostly doing okay, but sometimes she feels just plain weird. Her therapist might call her neurodivergent, but all she knows is she can't stand to be touched, loud noises set her on edge, and she's easily distracted. So it can be hard to make friends, but she did have one once, colette. She never made Frankie feel bad until the day they weren't friends anymore. Now Colette is missing, and Frankie may have been the last...
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Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspects of her heritage, but her parents are unwilling to talk about it--then when a class assignment forces Chloe to confront them directly, they finally tell her the truth about her family, which may just be too much for one girl to handle.
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After a back-breaking straight-A school year filled with too many extracurricular activities to count, twelve-year-old Mai's parents "reward" her by sending her to Vietnam, so she can get in touch with her roots. At first miserable, not knowing the language or customs, Mai spends time with her grandmother and learns to love her heritage, and even discovers secrets about her family's past, such as what happened to her grandfather during the war.
8) The taken
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A young fox named Isla returns to her den one day to find it ablaze, surrounded by a pack of hostile foxes. She flees in search of shelter, narrowly avoiding many dangers, and makes it to the city. Once there, Isla is taken in by a handsome fox named Siffrin who decides to teach her the ways of foxcraft--a lost magical art--to help her locate her lost family and survive.
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"The WellieWishers are putting on a show, and Emerson is in charge. The girls love her songs and silly skits, but not all of Emerson's creative ideas are working. Ashlyn can't see out of her pumpkin costume, Willa has a touch of stage fright, and Kendall is struggling with the special effects. When the girls try to tell her their problems, Emerson doesn't listen. Will the show go on?"--Back cover.
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Eleven-year-old Mark's father, an anthropologist, disappears in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo's ancient route from Italy to China, and when Mark gets a bad asthma attack, Doc Hornaday pays a visit and tells Mark tales of Marco Polo to bolster the boy's courage.
11) Lingering echoes
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"In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in October 1942, Bone Phillips is learning to control her Gift: Bone can see the history of a significant object when she touches it. When her best friend, Will Kincaid, asks Bone to "read" the history of his daddy's jelly jar--the jelly jar that was buried alongside his father during the mine cave-in that killed him--Bone is afraid. Even before Bone touches it, she can feel that the jar has its own strange...