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1) Top Prospect
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Travis Gardner lives to play quarterback.
He's a standout QB by middle school, and he's prepared to put everything he has into the game. Then Gainesville University's head coach makes Travis a promise: Travis will have a place on the team, and a scholarship to go with it. He just has to get through high school first.
As Travis starts ninth grade, he'll have to earn his teammates' trust and dodge opponents aiming to sack the star quarterback. But...
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Dirt diary volume 4
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The truth is more than just a game. 1. Do you have a best friend? That's one easy. Yes! 2. Have you ever had a fight with your BF? Ugh. Yes. 3. Have you ever told your BF a major lie? Ugh again. Yes. (More than I'd like to count) 4. Do you ever wish you were best friends with someone else? No! Well, um... Rachel Lee thought that ninth grade would be different. That she would be different. Holding hands with Evan in the hallway, future president of...
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My name is Amber Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto. I have no idea why my parents gave me all those hideous names but they must have wanted to ruin my life, and you know what? They did an amazing job. As a half-Japanese, half-Italian girl with a ridiculous name, Amber's not feeling molto bene (very good) about making friends at her new school. But the hardest thing about being Amber is that a part of her is missing. Her dad. He left when she was little...
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The lead role of Maria in The Sound of Music goes to ...' I could practically hear her say 'Dara Palmer.' This was going to be my big break! But what really came out of my teacher's mouth was "Ella Moss-Daniels." My heart went huuuuggggggghhhhht. Dara Palmer longs for stardom-but when she isn't cast in her middle school's production of The Sound of Music, she get suspicious. It can't be because she's not the best. She was born to be a famous movie...
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Best babysitters ever volume 1
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Mayhem ensues in their town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business.
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The last year of elementary school is big for every kid. In this novel, equal parts funny and crushing, utterly honest and perfect for boys and girls alike, Christine Gouda faces change at every turn, starting with her own nickname—Tink—which just doesn't fit anymore. Readers will relate to this strong female protagonist whose voice rings with profound authenticity and absolute novelty, and her year's cringingly painful trials in normalcy—uncomfortable...
10) Green
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"The story of a non-binary middle-schooler named Green who comes into their own in no small part by fighting for gender-free casting in their school's production of The Wizard of Oz." --publisher's website.
11) Camp
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Click volume 2
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Olive and Willow are happy campers! Or are they? Olive is sure she'll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow - but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows - Olive. It's s'more than Olive can handle! The stress of being Willow's living security blanket begins to wear on Olive and before long... the girls aren't just fighting, they may...
12) Allergic
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Appears on list
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Hoping to adopt a pet to find a sense of belonging in her busy family, Maggie is disappointed to discover she is severely allergic to anything with fur and tries to find a pet to love anyway.
13) Heart finds
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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307 pages ; 20 cm
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Eleven-year-old Mabel is a quiet loner who only feels like herself when she is extreme treasure hunting with her grampa, but when her friendships start to crumble and her grampa suffers a stroke, Mabel must learn to let go of the past and embrace the future.
15) Lily and Dunkin
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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340 pages ; 22 cm
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"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets...
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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351 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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In 1999 Sorrento, Victoria, twelve-year-old Winifred (Fred) grapples with the meaning of home and family amidst a refugee crisis that has divided her town.
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Three rancheros volume 3
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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241 pages ; 21 cm
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"Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
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Running out of time volume 1
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997
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184 p. ; 20 cm.
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When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
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Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that-really, it's a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship,...
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The last days of school are always the hardest, even if your least favourite teacher is out for the rest of the year. Summer vacation can't come soon enough! No school, baseball, beach trips, and blech! yellow bananas? Everyone at P.S. 38 is a little stir-crazy as the school year winds down. With Kim Cressly trying to make her gigantic boyfriend jealous, Artur and Nate BOTH entering Hunny Bursts cereal's new mascot contest, and Coach John subbing...
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