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1) One by one
Author
Description
"A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking andhot tubs with friends. It sounded like heaven. Then Claire's minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel....
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Polar opposite robot friends Blick and Block must learn to compromise when competition gets in the way of them building a fort on the playground"--
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
5) Alterations
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
237 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"A semi-autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about a Canadian-Chinese boy who feels invisible at home and in school but longs to stand out"--
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Description
Doing chores around a mysterious shop that sells happy feelings, eleven-year-old Darcy discovers they might have to close their doors and comes up with a plan to save the Happy Shop--one that involves selling more than just happy feelings.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
When mysterious new cat Taro arrives in Pocketon, Peaches, who determined to be her friend, discovers Taro loves all things spooky--but she does not--and wonders if they can become friends despite their differences.
8) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
LB Ink, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
271 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"After her home burns down, Julianna moves to a new town to start over but learns that the boy who started the fire goes to her new school"--
9) Mid-Air
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Thirteen-year-old Isaiah grapples with the loss of his best friend as he strives to fit into a world that expects him to toughen up, which leads him on a exploration of identity and vulnerability.
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
280 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Fitting in can be hard, especially when you're as small as Ember, a tiny boy living alone in a city of giants. But Ember's luck changes when he meets Lua, a kindly sea turtle, who escorts him across the ocean to a school for little creatures on a wondrous island...As he struggles to adapt to this new world, Ember finds himself at the heart of an otherworldly mystery, facing a strange monster from the deep that threatens everything he holds dear"--...
Author
Series
Heartstopper volume 5
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
318 pages :: color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Finally saying "I love you," Nick and Charlie wonder what will happen to their relationship when Nick goes to university next year"--
12) Tricky chickies
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
When six playful chicks get loose on Grandma and Grandpa's farm, Little Critter comes up with a plan to get them back, in this humorous story that will have beginner readers laughing out loud.
Author
Series
Mapmakers volume 3
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Alidade, Lewis, Blue, and their new friends and Mapmakers, finally take on the Night Coats, who will ruin any chance of hope for their homes and family if they do not succeed in stopping them.
Author
Publisher
JY
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Description
"Tired of watching his little sister Amy, her story-narrating big brother is excited to go to middle school where Amy can't bother him and finally finds the courage to ask his crush Hannah out on a date but must make sure Amy doesn't ruin the day"--
15) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Author
Series
Shang-chi (Ying) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Sneaking out of the palace into the outside world to find the legendary Peaches of Immortality to gift to his father, 12-year-old Shang-Chi refuses to fail in his quest until he hears things that make him wonder if his father deserves to be saved.
17) Kariba: 1
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Siku has always called the Zambezi River her home. She understands the water--and strangely enough, it seems to understand her, too, bending to her will and coming to her aid in times of need. But things are changing on the river--a great dam is being built, displacing thousands of Shonga people--and things are changing in Siku, too, as her ability to manipulate water grows out of control, and visions of a great serpent pull her further from reality...
18) Pearl of the sea
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
"Since her mother left, Pearl has spent more and more time in the ocean, fishing to help her father pay the bills. But when she gets mixed up with a group of illegal abalone poachers and starts diving near a restricted wreck, Pearl meets an ancient sea monster named Otto--who isn't quite as monstrous as she thought. And when Otto's enemies come back to finish what they started, Pearl is the only one who can save him, but only if she has the courage...
19) Funny story
Author
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Description
"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
20) The Naysayers
Author
Series
Guardians of Horsa volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
139 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
The four Guardians continue their mission to find the yearling with a new kind of magic, but find an obstacle in the Naysayers, who are prepared to fight the Guardians to keep them from success.
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