Matharu, Taran

Summary: "Cade has managed to survive the duel with the Hydra Alpha, barely. But the Games are far from over. By order of their cruel and mysterious overlord, Abaddon, Cade and his friends are sent off to war against the Greys, a humanoid race who have far surpassed humans in technology on their home planet. This attempt to move up the leaderboard, however, leads Cade to a game-changing revelation: The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishiing Group, LLC 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAT

Taylor, Laini

Summary: "Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAY

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAY

Mian, Zanib

Summary: "Omar and his friends investigate sabotage at the model rocket-building contest they are competing in"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MIA

McBride, Amber

Summary: In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCB

Faruqi, Saadia

Summary: Yasmin opted to be the director of her school play, but she is finding it difficult to keep the actors happy and the play moving forward--until she finally asserts her authority and makes the changes necessary to save the play.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FAR

Waters, Charles

Summary: "In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WAT

McNeil, Gretchen

Summary: Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024

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Cooper, Desiree

Summary: "Six-year-old Jax can't wait to leave Detroit and spend a week with his grandparents in coastal Virginia, where he's sure he'll be spoiled with the kinds of special things he enjoys at home: toys, movies, and hamburgers. As he dreams of the adventures he'll have, his PopPop has other ideas. He fills their days with timeless summer fun-crabbing, shucking corn, and counting fireflies. Illustrated...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2022

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE COO

Salazar, Aida

Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAL

Belt, Gabriela Orozco

Summary: "When Maribel's family has to move in with Tía Carmen because Papi lost his job, Maribel and her sister feel unsettled. It's not always easy sharing a room or being in a house full of loud cousins, but Papi reminds the girls that it's only por un ratito--just for a little while. In the meantime, there is always someone to play with, the mealtimes are filled with music and laughter, and bedtime...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEL

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Nesbet, Anne

Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NES
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NES

Andrew, Kelly

Summary: Wyatt Westlock has returned to her childhood home of Willow Heath, intending to burn it down--until she finds Peter hanging in the basement, a boy whom she considered a friend, semi-immortal and ritually sacrificed every year to keep the ancient forces in the nearby forest at bay.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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Henry, Steve

Summary: "Pete the bird likes living alone on his island, but a turtle, dog, and elephant join him. When a storm rolls in, everyone works together to keep safe"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN HEN

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HEN