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1. Amal unbound: a novel

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Author:
Saeed, Aisha
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Description:
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.

2. Betty before X

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Author:
Shabazz, Ilyasah
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Orange/Case Juvenile Fiction Book
j Fiction Shabazz
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Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.

3. The book of Boy

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Author:
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
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In 1350, a boy with a large hump on his back becomes the servant of a shadowy pilgrim on his way to Rome, who pulls the boy into a dangerous expedition across Europe to gather the seven precious relics of Saint Peter.

4. Dragon Pearl

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Author:
Lee, Yoon Ha
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4.5 stars
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Orange/Case Juvenile Fiction Book
j Fiction Lee
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Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.

5. The end of the world and beyond: continues The unexpected life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts: being an absolutely accurate autobiographical account of my follies, fortune & fate written by himself

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Author:
Avi, 1937-
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j Fiction Avi
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After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.

6. Ghost boys

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Author:
Rhodes, Jewell Parker
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4 stars
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"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--

7. The law of finders keepers

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Author:
Turnage, Sheila
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"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--

8. Max & the Midknights

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Author:
Peirce, Lincoln
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3 stars
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When Max's uncle Budrick is kidnapped by King Gastley, he joins the Midknights and together they set out on a quest to save Byjovia and Max's uncle.

9. One-third nerd

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Author:
Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-
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j Fiction Choldenko
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Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.

10. The Parker inheritance

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Author:
Johnson, Varian
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4 stars
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Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...

11. The season of Styx Malone

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Author:
Magoon, Kekla
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Orange/Case Juvenile Fiction Book
j Fiction Magoon
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Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.

12. Secret sisters of the salty sea

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Author:
Perkins, Lynne Rae
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"The sea is salty and stretches for miles. The waves keep waving. The sand is hot. The gulls are diving. The dolphins are jumping. And the sisters--little sister, big sister, true sisters, secret sisters--are ready for summer."--Page [4] of cover.

13. Small spaces

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Author:
Arden, Katherine
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5 stars
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After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods, and must use all of her wits to survive.

14. Sticker girl and the cupcake challenge

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Author:
Tashjian, Janet
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Orange/Case Juvenile Fiction Book
j Fiction Tashjian
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When Martina Rivera becomes involved in making cupcakes for the student council bake sale with Bev's help, they get invited to participate in a web-based contest, but balancing that with school and magical stickers may be a challenge.

15. Sticker girl rules the school

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Author:
Tashjian, Janet
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Mia and Bev find another sheet of magical stickers, and soon Mia finds herself running for class president but worrying that she is losing her new friend.

16. A stitch in time

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Author:
Kalmar, Daphne
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In 1927 Vermont, eleven-year-old Donut, recently orphaned after the death of her beloved pops, stands to lose everything when she learns her Aunt Agnes plans to move her to Boston, but little does her aunt know that Donut has no intentions of leaving her friends or her home.

17. Swallow's dance

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Author:
Orr, Wendy, 1953-
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Leira is starting her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home in pieces. And the goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption and tsunami throw the entire world into darkness. In the resulting chaos; Leira finds her noble-born privilege reduced to nothing; alone with her injured mother and...

18. Sweep: the story of a girl and her monster

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Author:
Auxier, Jonathan
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j Fiction Auxier
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In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.

19. The truth as told by Mason Buttle

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Author:
Connor, Leslie
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4 stars
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As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.

20. The unteachables

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Author:
Korman, Gordon
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5 stars
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Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year.