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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON AND THE WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS
September 2024, Disney-Hyperion, 288 pp
Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice. Now ...
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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON AND THE CHALICE OF THE GODS
September 2023, Disney-Hyperion, 256 pp
The original heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest challenge yet: getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way. After saving the world multiple times, Percy...
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Jeanne DuPrau
PROJECT F
October 2023, Random House Children's Books, 224 pp
WHAT IS PROJECT F? It’s life-changing! It’s an adventure! It’s freedom! It’s dangerous. From the author of The City of Ember comes a tension-filled post-apocalyptic novel like nothing you’ve read befo...
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William Alexander
GOBLIN SECRETS
January 2012, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 256 pp
In the National Book Award–winning Goblin Secrets, a boy joins a theatrical troupe of goblins to find his missing brother. Rownie, the youngest in Graba’s witchy household of stray children, escapes ...
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William Alexander
GHOULISH SONG
April 2014, Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster, 192 pp
Set alongside the National Book Award-winning Goblin Secrets, Ghoulish Song weaves a story of music and mystery through the charmed, cursed world of Zombay. The last day of Kaile’s life does not star...
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William Alexander
AMBASSADOR
September 2015, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 256 pp
Gabe Fuentes is in for the ride of his life when he becomes Earth’s ambassador to the galaxy in this alien sci-fi adventure from the National Book Award–winning author of Goblin Secrets. Gabe Fuentes...
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William Alexander
NOMAD
September 2016, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 288 pp
When we last left Earth’s ambassador, Gabe Fuentes, he was stranded on the moon. Things don’t get better after he gets rescued by another young diplomat. The Outlast—a ruthless and spacefaring civiliz...
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Ellen Oh
HARU, ZOMBIE DOG HERO
July 2023, HarperCollins Children's Books, 176 pp
An evil laboratory causes a zombie apocalypse through illegal animal testing and a kidnapped dog, Haru. When Haru turns into a zombie, it is his love for his human boy that keeps him from turning into...
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Amparo Ortiz
LAST SUNRISE IN ETERNA
March 2023, Page Street Publishing, 368 pp
Seventeen-year-old goth Sevim Burgos would love to spend all day watching music videos, but to help support the family she has to scavenge and sell elf corpses to a sketchy university professor. On o...
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Shakirah Bourne
NIGHTMARE ISLAND
May 2023, Scholastic, 304 pp
Serenity Noah has never told anyone about her recurring nightmare, where a silver butterfly leads her to a shadowy, silent monster. Her parents already favor her little brother, Peace, and as the "dif...
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K. O’Neill
THE MOTH KEEPER
March 2023, Random House Graphic, 272 pp
Being a Moth Keeper is a huge responsibility and a great honor, but what happens when the new Moth Keeper decides to take a break from the moon and see the sun for the first time? A middle-grade fanta...
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Jennifer Thermes
THE INDESTRUCTIBLE TOM CREAN
January 2023, Viking/Penguin Random House, 55 pp
At the turn of the 20th century, Antarctica is the last unexplored continent. The ice is unforgiving. It can break the human spirit. It takes many men willing to face hardship, danger, and years away ...
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Rick Riordan
THE SUN AND THE STAR
May 2023, Disney-Hyperion, 480 pp
The best-selling author behind Percy Jackson and the Olympians will soon be returning to Percy Jackson's world, this time in a book focused on Nico di Angelo, the son of Hades who first appeared way b...
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Andy Chou Musser
A Home Under the Stars
October 2021, Sasquatch, 40 pp
Magical and heartfelt, A Home Under the Stars explores the difficulties and anxieties that accompany moving, as well as the journey to find a sense of belonging in a new place and to call it home. Mo...
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Mimi Yu
Empress of Flames
August 2021, Gollancz/Hachette UK, 496 pp
As the late-Emperor's first-born, Princess Lu knows the throne rightfully belongs to her. She also can't forget her promise to shapeshifter Nok, the boy she loves, to win justice for his now powerless...
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Betty G. Birney
OG THE FROG SERIES
WILDLIFE ACCORDING TO OG THE FROG
Book 3 – May 2020, Putnam/Penguin, 144 pp
In the third book in the spinoff of the Humphrey series, Og and Humphrey head to summer camp to see what’s hopping in the wilderness! Og didn’t know where he would end up when school was over, but it...
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Betty G. Birney
HUMPHREY SERIES
SPRING ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY
Book 12 – January 2016, Putnam/Penguin, 160 pp
Join Humphrey, the classroom hamster, as he navigates the wilds of school with the students of Room 26. Each book is a funny and unique look at life from the perspective of an adorable and caring cla...
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Jennifer Thermes
CHARLES DARWIN’S AROUND THE WORLD ADVENTURE
October 2016, Abrams, 40 pp
This picture book biography of Charles Darwin’s adventures on the Beagle features spectacular maps illustrating the route and tells the story of Darwin’s travels and his discoveries in each location....
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Hilary Wagner
NIGHTSHADE CHRONICLES
LORDS OF TRILLIUM
Book 3 – March 2014, Holiday House, 250 pp
Deep beneath a modern metropolis lies the Catacombs, a kingdom of remarkable rats of superior intellect. Following the Bloody Coup, the once peaceful democracy has become a dictatorship, ruled by deca...
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Ellen Oh
THE DRAGON KING CHRONICLES
KING
Book 3 – December 2014, HarperCollins/HarperTeen, 288 pp
This thrilling and romantic conclusion to the Prophecy series brings Kira her final quest. Kira, once an outcast in her home village of Hansong, is now the only one with the power to save her kingdom....
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Ellen Oh
SPIRIT HUNTERS
SPIRIT HUNTERS: SOMETHING WICKED
July 2022, HarperCollins, 240 pp
Harper is dealing with a lot of new changes in her house. Her cousin Leo is now living with them, her sister Kelly has started a new job at a local makeup store, and Harper’s abilities have grown incr...
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Ellen Oh
THE DRAGON EGG PRINCESS
March 2020, HarperCollins, 256 pp
A must-have middle grade novel perfect for fans of the Wing & Claw series by Linda Sue Park. In a kingdom filled with magic, Jiho Park and his family are an anomaly—magic doesn’t affect them. Jiho co...
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Dana Alison Levy
ABOVE ALL ELSE
April 2020, Charlesbridge, TBD pp
Into Thin Air meets The Sun is Also a Star in this tale of two teens who trained their whole lives to summit Mount Everest. High school seniors and best friends Rose and Tate have always climbed toget...
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Mimi Yu
THE GIRL KING
January 2019, Bloomsbury Children’s, 432 pp
With three revolving points-of-view, this diverse, epic, richly-imagined Asian fantasy is set against a world of ancient magic and political intrigue. Assertive Lu has always expected to be named her...
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Kristin Kladstrup
THE BOOK OF STORY BEGINNINGS
March 2006, Candlewick, 368 pp
This wonderfully transporting fantasy - featuring a ship full of orphaned pirate children, a pair of warring royals, and plenty of magic potions - is sure to thrill all those who dare turn its pages....
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Cynthia Leonor Garza
LUCÍA THE LUCHADORA
April 2017, POW!, 32 pp
Girls can be superheroes, too. When the boys on the playground tell Lucía that girls can’t be superheroes – despite her high-flying leaps – she comes up with a plan to disguise herself as a masked luc...
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David Kreizman
THE UNEXPLAINABLE DISAPPEARANCE OF MARS PATEL
October 2020, Candlewick, 304 pp
When his friends begin disappearing, eleven-year-old Mars Patel uncovers a mystery that will take him to the stars…and beyond.The first novel in a series written by Sheela Chari based on the award-win...
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Sophie Blackall
FINDING WINNIE
October 2015, Little, Brown/Hachette, 56 pp
The remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He na...
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Jeanne DuPrau
CITY OF EMBER SERIES
THE CITY OF EMBER
May 2003, Random House, 288 pp
City of Ember Series...
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Jeanne DuPrau
THE CITY OF EMBER: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
September 2012, Random House, 144 pp
Experience Jeanne DuPrau’s vision anew as artist Niklas Asker faithfully brings to life the glare of lamps, the dinginess of the streets, and the brilliance of the first sunrise....
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Paige Britt
THE LOST TRACK OF TIME
March 2015, Scholastic, 320 pp
Penelope longs to be a writer, but her mother won’t allow it—scribbling in your notebook all day is a complete waste of time! One morning, a strange hole opens up in her otherwise busy schedule, and s...
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Isaiah Campbell
THE STRUGGLES OF JOHNNY CANNON
October 2014, Simon & Schuster, 336 pp
The sequel to TROUBLES finds Johnny embroiled in a Mafia blood feud as he searches for his happy ending....
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Isaiah Campbell
THE TROUBLES OF JOHNNY CANNON
October 2015, Simon & Schuster, 296 pp
In 1961 Alabama, a Superman obsessed 12-year-old, Johnny Cannon, has to dodge the CIA, outwit the Klan, and escape from Cuba to prove his Pa didn’t sabotage the Bay of Pigs invasion. THE TROUBLES OF J...