Kids

Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules book cover

Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules

Jeff Kinney

jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor

Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.

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Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal book cover

Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal

Jeff Kinney

jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor

Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

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Fish in a tree book cover

Fish in a tree

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

jFICTION Hunt, Lynda Mullaly
Kids

Sixth-grader Ally excels at covering the fact that she cannot read, but at her seventh school in as many years she is challenged to admit she needs help.

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The night diary book cover

The night diary

Veera Hiranandani

jFICTION Hiranandani, Veera
Kids

Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.

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Flush book cover

Flush

Carl Hiaasen

jFICTION Hiaasen, Carl
Kids

With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.

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Sal & Gabi break the universe

Carlos Alberto Hernandez

jFICTION Hernandez, Carlos Alberto
Kids

In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.

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The Vanderbeekers and the hidden garden book cover

The Vanderbeekers and the hidden garden

Karina Yan Glaser

jFICTION Glaser, Karina Yan
Kids

"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--

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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street book cover

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

Karina Yan Glaser

jFICTION Glaser, Karina Yan
Kids

Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.

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The last last-day-of-summer book cover

The last last-day-of-summer

L. R. (Lamar R.) Giles

jFICTION Giles, L. R.
Kids

When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.

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Focused book cover

Focused

Alyson Gerber

jFICTION Gerber, Alyson
Kids

Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do well at school, but has trouble focusing and fellow students are starting to tease her, so her parents have her tested for ADHD.

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