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Fourteen-year-old Hanna, who is half Chinese, settles with her father in the frontier town of LaForge, in Dakota Territory in 1880. She hopes she can attend school before becoming a dressmaker in her father's dry goods shop, but first she must deal with racism from the local townspeople who are afraid to have their children attend class with her, grief from the loss of her mother, and a yearning to belong as she and her father struggle to find a place...
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Myrtle Hardcastle mystery volume 1
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When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighbor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and that she must find the killer.
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Aggie Morton, mystery queen volume 1
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction 1 available
JUV Fiction Jocelyn
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JUV Fiction Jocelyn
| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2020. | Tundra Books | 325 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Kids Fiction 1 available JUV Fiction Jocelyn Main Library - Kids Fiction 1 available JUV Fiction Jocelyn |
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"A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy, Aggie hasn't got much to do since the death of her beloved...
4) Ikenga
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In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Nnamdi is determined to avenge the murder of his father, the police chief of Kaleria, who tried to rid the town of criminals. Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives the Ikenga, a magical object which gives him superpowers. This may be the answer to his problem, if he can learn how to control his powers.
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Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
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In the town of 'Allows, some people are magical sorceresses while others have their spirits trapped in the local mall for eternity. Twelve-year-old goblin-witch Beetle and her best friend Blob Ghost are hanging out at the mall when Beetle's best friend, Kat, arrives back in town to do a sorcery apprenticeship with her aunt Hollowbone. The friends stumble upon a plot that puts Blob Ghost in danger and while they race to save him, they find themselves...
7) Snapdragon
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When Snap finds a litter of orphaned opossums, she brings them to Jacks, a strange woman who's rumored to be a witch. In return for taking care of the opossums, Snap agrees to help Jacks with her work. As Snap gets to know Jacks, she realizes that Jacks may in fact have actual magic, as well as an unlikely connection to Snap's own family.
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Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, ten-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide.
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Best friends Matt Park and Eric Costas are band geeks and comic nerds, which makes life at Hilltop Summit K-8 School tolerable. That is all coming to an end when this year is over--when Eric and his family are set to move away. As one last hurrah, the best friends decide to sneak out of the regional marching band competition at World of Amazement and decide to sneak into DefenderCon next door, with no cell phones, transportation, and especially with...
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Sworn enemies and fifth-grade classmates, Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko are sent from their home in Pripyat, Ukraine, to live with Valentina's grandmother in Leningrad after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. Oksana, whose abusive father perished in the accident and whose mother is hospitalized, resents being sent with Valentina, because she's been taught her whole life to hate Jews. Yet, after seeing the warm relationship between...
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Twelve-year-old Donte is the darker-skinned brother of Trey, which in his racist, mostly-white school has earned him the nickname Black Brother. When the captain of the school fencing team successfully frames him for something he didn't do, Donte is arrested and suspended from school. Joining a local youth center, Donte meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones and begins training to defeat his school bully and find courage to confront the racist system...
12) Coo
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2020] | First edition. | Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | xvi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Hermitage - Kids Fiction 1 available JUV Fiction Noel |
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"Coo, a ten-year-old girl raised by a flock of pigeons, delights in finally making human contact, but quickly learns that our world is more cruel and complicated than she could have guessed"--
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Certain that his brother Khalid has transformed into a dragonfly after passing away, King often steals down to the bayou to search for him among the hundreds of dragonflies there. Khalid also visits King in his dreams, still, a secret King knows he has to keep--that, and the fact that he thinks he might be gay. Grief transforms King's family, but King learns how to use grief and pain to find beauty and redemption as his true self.
14) Kodi
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| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2020 | IDW | 1 online resource. | English | Available Online
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The gorgeous story of two friends separated by everything in the world-except love. Readers and animal lovers of every age will want to relive this journey over and over again. Katya and her Meema are spending another normal summer at their cottage in Alaska, when a chance accident leaves Katya face-to-face with the biggest creature she's ever seen... an enormous kodiak bear, soon to become her closest friend. But when Katya suddenly returns home...
15) Music for tigers
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction 1 available
JUV Fiction Kadarus
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JUV Fiction Kadarus
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JUV Fiction Kadarus
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2020. | First edition. | Pajama Press | 189 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm | English | On Shelf
Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction 1 available JUV Fiction Kadarus Green Hills - Kids Fiction 1 available JUV Fiction Kadarus Main Library - Kids Fiction 1 available JUV Fiction Kadarus |
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"Middle-schooler Louisa wants to spend the summer practicing violin for a place in the youth symphony, but is instead sent to the Tasmanian rainforest camp of her Australian relatives. There she learns that her family secretly protects the last of the supposedly extinct Tasmanian tigers. When an encroaching mining operation threatens the hidden sanctuary, Louisa realizes her music can help."--
16) Clean getaway
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William Lamar, known as "Scoob," goes on a road trip through the South with his grandmother in her recreational vehicle, visiting some of the major sites in the Civil Rights movement and learning about how people like him have been treated.
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When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.