Battle of the Books 2022-2023

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2) Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions

Bored with traditional palace life, Princess Cimorene travels to the Mountains of Morning where she is befriended by a group of powerful dragons and joins in their struggle to protect their kingdom from being taken over by disreputable wizards.

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Barton, Chris

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3) The seven wonders of Sassafras Springs

Chronicles the life and achievements of the NASA engineer and inventor, from his childhood to his accidental invention of the Super Soaker water gun.

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Birney, Betty G

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Eben McAllister searches his small town to see if he can find anything comparable to the real Seven Wonders of the World.

4) The terrible two

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Barnett, Mac

Series

Terrible two volume 1

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Book, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks, but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.

5) El deafo

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Bell, Cece

Series

El Deafo

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The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower." "Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...

6) Ralph S. Mouse

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Cleary, Beverly

Series

Ralph the mouse volume 3

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7) The Ralph S. Mouse Audio Collection: Books #1-3

Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.

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Cleary, Beverly

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Get ready to zoom through these fast-paced stories full of exciting adventures by Newbery Award-winning author Beverly Cleary.

With Ralph S. Mouse behind the handlebars of his favorite toy motorcyle, there's no telling what readers will encounter. This three-book box set includes the entire Ralph S. Mouse series: The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Runaway Ralph, and Ralph S. Mouse

8) Gregor the Overlander

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Collins, Suzanne

Series

Underland chronicles volume 1

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9) Gregor the Overlander Collection, Books 1-5

When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.

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Collins, Suzanne

Series

The Underland Chronicles

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eBook, Kindle

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Read all five books in the New York Times bestselling Gregor: The Underland Chronicles!

When Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of their New York apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the city. There, humans live uneasily beside giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats—but the fragile peace is about to fall apart.Gregor wants no part in this conflict, but again and again,

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10) The way to Rio Luna

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Córdova, Zoraida

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic, he believes that the enchanted land of Rio Luna in his older sister's favorite book is real, and most of all he believes that if he can find the way to Rio Luna he will find his sister Pili there, because he does not believe that his sister would run away from the group home where they lived and leave him behind; but after years of being passed from one foster family to another his faith begins to...

11) Ruby Holler

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Creech, Sharon

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Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.

12) Bud, not Buddy

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Curtis, Christopher Paul

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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

13) Dog Squad

Author

Grabenstein, Chris

Series

Dog Squad volume 1

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"Fred, a scrappy and lovable dog, gets cast as a stand-in for the lead role in Dog Squad, a show about crime-fighting dogs, and he soon finds out the action doesn't always stop on screen"--

14) Fortunately, the milk

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Gaiman, Neil

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook

While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space.

15) The million dollar shot

Author

Gutman, Dan

Series

Million dollar series (Dan Gutman) volume 1

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Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals.

16) Found

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The missing volume 1

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When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

17) The detective's assistant

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Hannigan, Kate

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18) Ida B: --and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world

"In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father" --

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Hannigan, Katherine

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.

19) Full of Beans

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Holm, Jennifer L

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20) Regarding the fountain: a tale, in letters, of liars and leaks

Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.

Author

Klise, Kate

Series

Regarding the-- volume 1

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