Fiction

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A whale of the wild

Rosanne Parry

jFICTION/Parry Rosanne
Fiction

"For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on their journey. Will Vega become the leader she's destined to be?"--Amazon.

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Before the ever after

Jacqueline Woodson

jFICTION Woodson, Jacqueline
Fiction

ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.--

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A new book from Jacqueline Woodson! -Anne W

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Tune it out

Jamie Sumner

jFICTION Sumner Jamie
Fiction

Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.

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from Jamie Sumner, author of Roll With It! -Anne W

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BECOMING MUHAMMAD ALI.

JAMES PATTERSON

jFICTION Patterson James
Fiction

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It's from James Patterson and Kwame Alexander! -Anne W

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The Vanderbeekers lost and found

Karina Yan Glaser

jFICTION Glaser Karina
Fiction

As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.

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newest in the Vanderbeekers series! -Anne W

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Fly on the wall

Remy Lai

jFICTION/Lai Remy
Fiction

Twelve-year-old Henry Khoo embarks on a forbidden journey from Australia to Singapore to prove his independence to his overprotective family, while working out some problems with friends. Told in comics and prose.

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new book from the author of the funny Pie in the Sky! -Anne W

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Everything sad is untrue : (a true story)

Daniel Nayeri

jFICTION/Nayeri, Daniel
Fiction

"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan."--Amazon.

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The land of the cranes

Aida Salazar

jFICTION/Salazar Aida
Fiction

Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart.

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Three keys

Kelly Yang

jFICTION/Yang, Kelly
Fiction

"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Provided by publisher.

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sequel to Front Desk! -Anne W

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Cougarette

Eliza David

FICTION David, Eliza
Diverse Characters, Romance, Fiction

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