| JF Abbott* |
Postcard |
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Jason is stuck in the Florida heat, helping his father clean out his late Grandmother's house. When he finds an old postcard, experiences a creepy phone call, and attends a strange funeral, Jason's summer is suddenly a lot more interesting. |
| JF Alexander* |
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio |
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After being exiled by his merchant uncle for daydreaming, Carlo is sent off in disgrace. With a treasure map he discovers in a book and with some interesting traveling companions, Carlo begins his quest across the desert on the Road of Golden Dreams, finding much more than he expects! |
| JF Atinsky* |
Trophy Kid, Or, How I Was Adopted by the Rich and Famous |
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Joe, a war orphan, was adopted by movie stars when he was little. Now his parents want to show off how far he's come by having him "write" his own story, with the help of a ghostwriter, of course. |
| JF Atkinson |
From Alice to Zen and Everyone in Between |
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Each morning before school Alice added a little more makeup and felt less like her self. Following the unlikely advice of the most unpopular boy in school, Alice finds herself friends with the popular girls, but at what price? |
| JF Avi |
The Seer of Shadows |
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In 1872, spiritualism and ghosts are all the rage in New York City. Struggling society photographer, Mr. Middleditch, convinces his apprentice to fake “spirit photos” of a wealthy patron’s dead daughter to stir up business. Shockingly, a ghost does appear in the pictures — a ghost out for revenge. |
| JF Barry |
Science Fair: A Story of Mystery, Danger, International Suspense, and a Very Nervous Frog |
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Part spy novel, part science experiment and tons of fun, Science Fair is a story of how a few teens can indeed save their world — if they can convince the government that they are NOT the bad guys. |
| JF Bauer |
No Castles Here |
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Augie escapes from the grim reality of school bullies in a book of magical fairy tales. These two worlds intersect when Augie takes to heart the spirit of the tales and decides to save his decaying school from closure. |
| JF Beam |
Getting to First Base With Danalda Chase |
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Darcy Spillman LOVES baseball. He also finds a new interest in Danalda Chase. Since baseball is what Darcy knows, he turns his pursuit of a kiss from Danalda Chase into a game. |
| JF Beil* |
Ring of Rocamadour |
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Red (crimson officially), isn't exactly an inconspicuous color when one is trying to solve a mystery — but that's the color of the sleuths' school uniform blazers. With limited knowledge of math, literature, religion, art and "street smarts" they try to solve the puzzle-mystery of a grandfather's legacy.
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| JF Berryhill |
Chance Fortune and the Outlaws |
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Josh Blevins, resident of a planet almost, but not quite like Earth, has only one dream. He longs to attend the Burlington Academy for the Superhuman, a sort of Hogwarts for superheroes, but there’s a major problem — he has no superpowers. |
| JF Blume |
Tennyson |
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It is night and Tennyson and Hattie are missing their mother. Did the great Mississippi pull her down into its murky bottom? While their father searches for her, the girls must go to Aigredoux, a place of decaying walls and dark secrets. |
| JF Boie |
Princess Plot |
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Jenna can't believe it when she wins a starring movie part... even more unbelievable is that her mother lets her take it! However, all is not as it seems as Jenna travels outside the castle walls and uncovers the real reasons behind winning it. |
| JF Bonk |
Dustin Grubbs One Man Show |
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Poor Dustin wants to be an actor when he grows up, but his sixth-grade class can't seem to get through a single performance of their play without the fire alarm going off or parts of the scenery crashing down. In the end, it is Justin who saves the day. |
| JF Breen |
Darkwood |
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When Annie must journey in to the forest of Howland, a place the townspeople do not dare go, out of fear of the mysterious “kinderstalks,” she learns that there are far worse things lurking in the dark. |
| JF Cassidy |
Scarlett |
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Rebellious Scarlett, with her flame red hair, black fingernails and pierced tongue has pushed her fed-up and divorced mother too far. Scarlett is sent off to rural Ireland to live with her father and his new family. Her saving grace is a mysterious gypsy and his horse. |
| JF Cooper |
My Name Is Henry Bibb |
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Based on a true story, this book reveals the struggles of slaves through the eyes of a boy named Henry Bibb, a plantation slave in Kentucky who eventually escapes to Canada. Henry devotes the rest of his life to helping other slaves and ending slavery. |
| JF D’Arge |
Lifting the Sky |
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Blue, tired of moving from place to place since her father left, feels at home in this mystical Wyoming ranch, with Mam as the hired hand. Here, she discovers she has a special gift of healing that benefits both animals and humans. |
| JF Dowd |
The London Eye Mystery |
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Even the police are baffled! Ted's cousin goes up the London Eye ferris wheel and never comes down. Ted, whose "brain is wired differently" develops nine theories about Salim's disappearance. |
| JF Eason |
Hungry |
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Deborah and her parents are aliens disguised as humans on Earth as they prepare for their great invasion. However, Deborah is distracted with middle school woes like a crush on her best friend Willy, feeling conflicted about the orders to eat him, and hiding a sweet secret of her own. |
| JF Fleischman* |
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk |
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A struggling ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe, The Great Freddie's biggest problem is that his lips move, even when his dummy is supposed to be speaking. Everything changes when Freddie finds himself possessed by a dybbuk, a Jewish spirit of a twelve-year-old boy, Avrom, who was murdered by the Nazis. Avrom needs Freddie's help and in return he is able to help Freddie in ways he could never have imagined. |
| JF Fombelle |
Toby Alone |
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On the bark of the Tree you'll find 2 millimeter high people with their own tiny civilization! But when Toby's father announces his discovery that the Tree is alive, nobody wants to believe him and the whole family is exiled to the Lower Branches. |
| JF Frederick* |
The Mother-Daughter Book Club |
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Four sixth-grade girls are pressured to join a book club with their mothers in which they read Little Women. In alternating chapters, each of the girls tells of how unlikely friendships are formed as they get to know each other in the club meetings. |
| JF Gregory |
Bronte's Book Club |
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During the summer before she enters seventh grade, Bronte moves to the beautiful seaside village of Gray’s Beach and decides to form a “girls only” book club. She envisions insightful discussions with new friends but instead she finds herself dealing with quarreling and gossipy girls. |
| JF Gutman* |
The Million Dollar Putt |
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Bogie has a natural golf swing — but he's blind, and blind golf is a team sport. Can his next-door neighbor, kooky Birdie, learn enough about golf to be his coach? And what else will they learn about one another? |
| JF Hahn* |
Closed For the Season |
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Logan and his parents have just moved into an old house. The last person who lived there was murdered. Logan and his weird neighbor try to solve the case, finding clues that lead them to a deserted amusement park where danger awaits. |
| JF Hahn* |
Witch Catcher |
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Jen feels that there's something "indefinably scary" about Moura, her Dad's new girlfriend. She's beautiful and stylish, true, yet way too interested in the castle-like estate that her dad has inherited. Then Jen's cat accidentally breaks a mysterious globe "witch catcher" and bizarre things begin to happen.... |
| JF Harris |
A Taste for Red |
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Svetlana wears black clothes, eats only red foods, sleeps under her bed, and can send her thoughts into people's minds. So does her science teacher, Ms. Larch. Are they both vampires? |
| J SS Hearne |
Hauntings and Other Tales of Danger, Love, and Sometimes Loss |
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This is not your average collection of ghost stories. There are no ghosts or monsters, but the fear of possibilities, the unknown future, and the past that haunts. |
| JF Hirahara |
1001 Cranes |
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With her parents sorting out their marriage back home and reluctantly spending the summer with her grandparents folding origami crane wedding displays, Japanese American Angela Kato meets a local skateboarder, discovering that relationships can get pretty complicated. |
| JF Holm |
Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf |
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Ginny's stuff — report cards, receipts, notes, letters, IMs and school assignments — tells the story of her frequently horrible seventh-grade year. |
| JF Holt |
Mike Stellar: Nerves of Steel |
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Mike Stellar's bad day at school only gets worse when his parents tell him they have to pack for Mars right away. Mike's parents are up to something, and the only person who believes him is a girl who never stops talking. |
| JF Horowitz* |
Switch |
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Fabulously wealthy Thomas Arnold David (Tad) is hoping to spend another fun summer on safari in Africa. Last year one of the guides was eaten by a tiger. Then Tad wishes he is someone else and awakens to find himself trapped in a horrible carnival world inhabited by criminals. |
| JF Jones |
Genie Scheme |
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Through an act of kindness, Janna stumbles upon a genie who grants her every wish. She eventually discovers that material wealth isn't everything and decides to make her wishes count for something good. |
| JF Kent |
Kimchi and Calamari |
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Homework should not be so hard! How is Korean-born Joseph supposed to write a 2,000 word ancestry report when he can sum up his family history in two words: "I'm adopted"?! Searching for his roots means upsetting his adopted Italian family, but this may be his best chance to finally find the family that matches the face he sees in the mirror. |
| JF Kerley |
Greetings From Planet Earth |
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It is 1977. As Theo struggles with his science homework, a one picture and one minute message from planet Earth like the one that is being sent into space on the Voyager 2, he has too many unanswered questions in his life — why his father didn't come home from Vietnam and why his mother won't talk about him. |
| JF Ketchum |
Where the Great Hawk Flies |
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"Who wrecked Grandfather's wigwam? Could it be that yellow-haired new neighbor Hiram?" wonders Daniel, who is half-Indian and half-white. |
| JF Korman* |
Swindle |
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Griffin Bing finds a Babe Ruth baseball card in a condemned mansion, only to be conned out of it by an unscrupulous collector. Griffin, always "The Man With The Plan," assembles a team of sixth graders to steal it back. |
| JF Law |
Savvy |
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In Mib's family, turning thirteen means you develop a supernatural ability called a "savvy." One of her brothers can create electricity, the other makes hurricanes, so Mib's thirteenth birthday is sure to be extraordinary! |
| JF Lennon |
Questors |
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Three siblings from three different worlds, destined to be heroes, must work together to save space and time as they know it. They have been called up ten years early and someone very powerful doesn't want them to complete their quest. |
| JF López |
Confetti Girl |
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Since her mom died, Lina’s dad fills the house with hundreds of books, while she collects socks. The two of them make an odd pair. Meanwhile she and her best friend have lots to figure out in middle school—like what happens when the boy you have a crush on likes you back? |
| JF Low |
Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone |
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Uncle Augustus T. Percival has developed a most un-Victorian compulsion: He must eat bugs. His niece Petronella can overlook this unfortunate habit, as she has a kidnapping case to solve. If only her uncle would stop eating the clues! |
| JF Lowe |
Thornspell |
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Prince Sigismund lives in a remote castle surrounded by a forbidden forest. Similar to Sleeping Beauty, the prince enters the forest to wake a sleeping princess. Along his quest, he is aided by a dragon, his magic, and a legendary sword; meanwhile, an evil fairy is attempting to gain power over Prince Sigismund’s world. |
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| JF Naylor |
Faith, Hope, and Ivy June |
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Ivy June's life in the country and Catherine's life in the city are as different as day is to night. When they participate in a school exchange program, the girls soon find out that when loved ones are at risk, they are more alike then they ever realize. |
| JF Nielsen |
Word Nerd |
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He's a nerd with an overprotective mother but defying her by making friends with an ex-con, and going with that ex-con to a Scrabble tournament starts Ambrose's life down a different path. |
| JF Paratore* |
The Cupid Chronicles |
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Willa has two different campaigns running: one is to hold dances in her family's Cape Cod Inn to raise money to save her local library and two, to further her romance with the blue-eyed, attractive Joseph Kennelly. Will it be a competition to which is the most important in her life? |
| JF Parry |
Heart of a Shepherd |
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Everything in Ignatius' life starts to fall apart when his father is deployed to Iraq. An even bigger worry is whether he will be able to run their ranch in Oregon with his grandparents until his father returns. |
| JF Paulsen* |
Lawn Boy |
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Sometimes, it takes the most unlikely birthday present to teach you life lessons. In the case of our 12-year-old hero, an old lawn mower becomes his ticket to learning basic principles in economics. Of course, making money on the side doesn't hurt either. |
| JF Pitchford |
The Big One-Oh |
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Charley Maplewood has a birthday coming up, a big one, so he should have a party, right? He needs a theme, some fun activities, and friends. The problem is, he has no friends. How can he get some? |
| JF Reisman |
Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper |
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When a mystic breeze beckons Simon and his friend Owen to enter a magical woods, little do they know destiny awaits them in a special TEACHER'S EDITION OF PHYSICS book they find there. |
| JF Rinaldi* |
My Vicksburg |
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Claire Louise and her family live in Vicksburg, the Confederate South, during the 47 days of "siege" by the Union Army in 1863. Her brother, a Union Doctor, asks her to hide a wounded Confederate soldier and that puts them all in danger. |
| JF Scaletta |
Mudville |
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Roy and his foster brother, Sturgis are avid baseball players — Roy, a catcher and Sturgis, a pitcher. The rains have stopped after 22 years. It’s time for Moundville and Sinister Bend to have a rematch baseball game so the boys and their friends form a team and challenge their long time rivals. Batter up! |
| JF Schmid |
Lost Time |
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Violynne's aunt has come to stay with her on the planet of Lindos because her parents vanished while excavating the site of the Croon who also vanished without a trace. Now the Arbitor, who rules all of Lindos, is after Violynne. She must try to find her parents before the Arbitor finds her and forces her to do as he says. |
| JF Schwabach |
The Hope Chest |
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Violet, running away from her Pennsylvania home in 1918 to find her sister, discovers that Chloe is no longer in New York City, but in Nashville fighting for the rights of women to vote. Teaming up with an African-American runaway, Violet changes directions and joins the Suffragist movement. |
| JF Sensel |
Farwalker's Quest |
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Twelve-year-old Ariel and her best friend, Zeke, are just about to start training for their life's job when they find an ancient, mysterious relic: a "telling dart". They go on a perilous journey into danger and their destiny trying to find its meaning. |
| JF Service |
Tomorrow's Magic |
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The present day is rather bleak, both in weather and future outlook, so when Heather and Wellington discover that Merlin is alive in their time, they search for King Arthur, hoping his return will change the world for the better. |
| JF Sherman* |
Changeling |
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Stolen by fairies as a baby, Neef, the mortal changeling has grown up in New York Between, a place full of fairy and Folk. When she accidentally breaks a fairy law, Neef finds herself banished, and must complete three death-defying tasks in order to return to her beloved fairy home. |
| JF Slade |
Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival |
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Lightning chases the Starker family. Almost everyone has been killed by lightning strikes. Newton is the last one in the family line and he is determined to stay alive. |
| JF Smith |
Tofu & T. rex |
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Peshtigo School is filled with eccentric students, including Hans-Peter's cousin Freddie, who was kicked out of her Texas high school for burning the field in a protest against animal cruelty. Now Hans-Peter has to share a house with Freddie. Will troublesome Freddie ruin Hans-Peter's chance of getting into this weird but exclusive school? |
| JF Springer |
Dusssie |
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Dusssie is shocked to wake up one day with live snakes for hair... and then she finds out why. |
| JF Thomas* |
Blind Mountain |
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A day hike turns into a dangerous adventure when Sam's father is accidentally blinded, delaying their descent down the mountain by several days. Finding out that they are being stalked by a dangerous predator doesn't help matters. |
| JF Timberlake |
That Girl Lucy Moon |
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Lucy Moon has always fought injustice, but in sixth grade, her activism gets her labeled a bad influence, with double detentions and weekends serving in Youth Action with horrible Mrs. Mudd. Lucy begins to wonder if it's worth continuing to fight. |
| JF Vega |
Click Here (To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade) |
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How will Erin survive in middle school when the disc that holds her computer diary, in which she has said some mean things about people, gets published on the school's Intranet? |
| JF Warner |
It's Only Temporary |
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Skye didn’t ask to move away, but after her brother’s accident, she has to go stay with her grandmother in California. The move is only temporary, so Skye tries to just exist, but soon life draws her in. Skye tells her story in words and art as she adjusts to new friends, a new school, and a new brother. |
| JF White |
Way Down Deep |
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Who could have abandoned two-year-old Ruby on Way Down Deep's courthouse steps? No matter, the good-natured twelve-year-old is now known and loved by everyone in the Appalachian town. Then a surprising past surfaces that might change her sweet life forever. |
| JF Wilson |
Leepike Ridge |
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Swept downstream, Tom becomes lost in an underwater cavern. While exploring many caves hoping to find a way back home, he discovers a dead body, a dog, a man with a long braided beard, and cutthroat treasure hunters. |
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