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DAKOTA CRUMB AND THE SECRET BOOKSHOPAs oblique, rhymed hints lead Dakota into a shop called Le Mystére and then through a series of book-filled rooms, Murphy’s precisely drawn...
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FLASHBACK TO THE...FLY '90S!Trying for period language as well as trends in fashion, music, fads, and gadgets, Michaels opens with “off the hook” tallies of yesteryear’s...
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SQUAD GOALSAlong with tracking the success of the women’s national team from its early years when it was (in the author’s polite phrase) “not the team to...
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CLASS PESTThis second installment in the series, a spinoff from the Shark School books, opens with Harvey Hammer getting in trouble for drawing...
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MILES MORALES SUSPENDEDAnother week begins at Brooklyn Visions Academy, and Miles is in a tough spot. Following the events of Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2017), in...
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FAIRIES DON'T FIGHTThough they were born inside a single flower, brown-skinned sisters Piper and Nissa are as different as can be. Piper is active, ebullient, and...
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OF WHITE ASHESIn 1939, Ruby Ishimaru is a fourth grader in Waimea on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. She’s shattered by the death of her mother, who passed away...
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EXPLORE! AMERICA'S WILDLIFEJazynka divides the United States into regions (the West and Alaska, the South, the Midwest, and the Northeast), then highlights general...
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WINGS OVER GERMANYThis third installment of the adventures of Allan Chadwick follows the RAF squadron leader into war, which will challenge his skills as a pilot...
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CANDLE, FEATHER, WOODEN SPOONIn “Yofiel,” one of the author’s contemporary rabbinic legends, archangels armed with colorful sticky notes flutter about and assign tasks among...
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HOW DO YOU FEEL?Using concise, repetitive wording, this striking book covers a range of sentiments, from simple (“feeling safe”) to complex (“feeling...
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DIVISIBLE MANIn this 10th installment in his contemporary adventure series, the author continues the exploits of Will Stewart, an air charter pilot, and his...
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THE EXTRAORDINARY CURIOSITIES OF IXWORTH AND MADDOXThe author pulls readers in from the start with a description of the mysterious, soon-to-open Extraordinary Curiosities shop, located on a...
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FULGURITEIn this collection of poems, Kyle seeks the sacred in the modern world. She opens with a meditation on “species grief”; the speaker scrolls and...
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RETURN TO MY TREESIn 2020, travel and sustainability journalist Yeomans was anxious due to work stress and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time,...
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PAYBACKHanna Bloom is a highly motivated overachiever—the valedictorian of her high school class, she’s accepted into Northwestern University’s...
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MINERVA KEEN’S DETECTIVE CLUBMinerva doesn’t start out to be a detective, but when other residents of her Chicago apartment building take to dying or falling unconscious in...
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WHERE THEY LIEThe police are satisfied that Andrea Parish, the oldest foster child of investment counselor Justin Volk and his wife, Kaylee, a tireless...
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THE AUBURN CONFERENCEFrederick Olmstead Matthews, a junior lecturer at the moss-grown Auburn Collegiate Institute in upstate New York, has tried to get more...
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MARINERS OF BYZANTIUMIn Gaeta, Italy, in the year 872, 12-year-old Andrew eagerly awaits his first marine journey accompanying his father, Leo, to Constantinople,...
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A DEBT TO THE STARSWhen aliens first arrived on Earth in the year 2047, economist Diana Roark, the CEO of Roark Pharmaceuticals, was down on the ocean floor on a...
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TEETH & CRUMPETSShoemaker assembles 28 short stories—most of them only a few pages long—the number corresponding to the number of teeth in his mouth. He’s...
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NOTHING COULD STOP HERArato opens with a look at Ruth Gruber’s (1911-2016) childhood. The children of Russian Jewish immigrants, she was born in Williamsburg,...
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NEVERLittle Nickerson has lived in a Boston suburb for the last 40 years. One day, the septuagenarian gets a call from his sister, Allyn, with news...
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THE PRICE OF REBELLIONEngineer Dray Quintero created a surveillance network that linked every security camera system across the country, which had the effect of...
