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Summary: In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUSPitcher, Annabel.
Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Tess Turner of Manchester, England, decides to stop speaking in the wake of discovering a heartbreaking family secret"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PITEnglish, Karen.
Summary: Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ENGTownsend, Jessica
Summary: A cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world, but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks: and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Henry would like to find a friend at school, but for a boy on the autism spectrum, making friends can be difficult, as his efforts are sometimes misinterpreted, or things just go wrong--but Henry keeps trying, and in the end he finds a friend he can play with."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEKelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: "Virgil Salinas is shy and misunderstood. Valencia Somerset is clever and stubborn. Kaori Tanaka tells fortunes and reads the stars. Chet "the Bull" Bullens is the biggest bully in the neighborhood. They aren't friends. They don't all go to the same school. But when Chet pulls an unthinkable prank on Virgil and Virgil's pet guinea pig, Gulliver, the lives of these four middle schoolers collide...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BOWMonninger, Joseph
Summary: In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MONCharbonneau, Joelle.
Summary: "The United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHAPatterson, James
Summary: Teaching other kids how to be funny is the toughest gig that Jamie Grimm has ever had, and with the highest stakes. If he fails, his school library will be shut down for good! Even though he has a national contest trophy and a TV show under his belt, Jamie Grimm isn't one to sit back and relax. When his school has a major funding crisis, Jamie hits on a bright idea to save the day--a comedy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2017
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Summary: Tells the story of Julian's Grandmaere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC PALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Palacio 2019Levine, Kristin (Kristin Sims)
Summary: In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVCass, Kiera
Summary: For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. But for America Singer, it's a nightmare. Then she meets Prince Maxon. She starts to question all the plans she's made for herself and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined -- Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roca Editorial 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH CASRex, Adam
Summary: When a bird and a crab team up to combine the advantages of flight and claws, it gives them an idea: why not expand the team to include other animals who have a special trait--and soon they all set out to rescue their lake from development, because united together they are unstoppable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REXNovak, Ali
Summary: Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared, and when she connects with a famous band member at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION NOVCarlson, Nancy L
Summary: "Armond doesn't want to go to Felicia's birthday party. Parties are noisy, disorganized, and smelly--all things that are hard for a kid with Asperger's. Worst of all is socializing with other kids. But with the support of Felicia and her mom, good friends who know how to help him, he not only gets through the party, but also has fun. When his mom picks him up, Armond admits the party was not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CARSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: Sixth-grader Carter must adjust to the unwelcome presence of a know-it-all butler who is determined to help him become a gentleman, and also to deal with burdens from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHSorosiak, Carlie
Summary: Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SORWalker, Anna
Summary: A gust of wind picks up Peggy, a chicken, and carries her from the suburbs to an unfamiliar place - the city. Peggy watches, hops, jumps, twirls, tastes, and makes new friends. Then she finds her way home ... with a new taste for adventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WALDuyvis, Corinne
Summary: "In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DUYWhaley, John Corey.
Summary: After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WHADeWoskin, Rachel.
Summary: After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma, one of seven children, eagerly starts high school as a sophomore, and finds that nearly everything has changed--sometimes for the better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, published by Penguin Group 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEWHunt, Lynda Mullaly
Summary: Sixth-grader Ally excels at covering the fact that she cannot read, but at her seventh school in as many years she is challenged to admit she needs help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018