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• The Braid Girls

  Winston, Sherri,

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  Three girls start a hair-braiding business at their summer camp to make money, while competing against a rival business that threatens their plans.

• Lunar Boy

  Wibowo, Jessica,

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  Indu, a boy from the moon, feels like he doesn't belong. He hasn't since he and his adoptive mom disembarked from their spaceship—their home—to live on Earth with their new blended family. The kids at school think he's weird, he has a crush on his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sincerely Sicily

  Burgess, Tamika,

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  Sixth-grader Sicily Jordan learns to use her voice and to find joy in who she is while confronting prejudice both in the classroom and at home.

• Free Throws, Friendship, and Other Things We Fouled Up

  Bishop, Jenn,

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  Competitive basketball takes center court in this fast-paced novel about two girls finding the truth about themselves and their families against the backdrop of middle school and college hoops.

• I Speak Boy

  Brody, Jessica,

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  Twelve-year-old Emmy is struggling to understand boys when she discovers a magic "app" that can read their thoughts, which soon drives a wedge between her and best friend Harper.

• Pizza My Heart

  Richardson, Rhiannon,

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  Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• First Dance

  Taddonio, Lea,

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  Lola Jones does not think her big brother's best friend and basketball teammate, C. J Kline, knows she's alive. Until one magical night at a high school dance changes everything. While these books are written at a second grade reading level, their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chance to Fly

  Stroker, Ali, 1987-

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  Thirteen-year-old Nat Beacon loves a lot of things: her dog Warbucks, her best friend Chloe, and competing on her wheelchair racing team, the Zoomer’s, to name a few. But there's one thing she's absolutely obsessed with: musicals. From "Hamilton" to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crush

  Chmakova, Svetlana, 1979-

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  When the group dynamic among Jorge's friends starts to shift, he must learn to balance what his friends expect of him and what he really wants.

• Bubble Trouble

  Shang, Wendy Wan Long,

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  Chloe loves musicals and is desperate to go on the class trip to Broadway, but since her mother died money has been tight, and her father's zany inventions are not selling. With the help of her best friend Sabrina Chloe comes up with a way to make…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora

  Cartaya, Pablo,

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  Arturo's Miami summer is marked by the arrival of poetry enthusiast Carmen, who helps him use the power of protest to fight the plans of a land developer who wants to demolish his Abuela's restaurant.

• Fast Pitch

  Stone, Nic,

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  Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus is shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending—and family-name-ruining—crime may have been a setup. It's up to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

  Leali, Michael,

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  Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as a trans man if he’d lived today. Soon Amos starts confiding in his newfound…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Language of Seabirds

  Taylor, Will (Children's literature author),

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  Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and uncle in an Oregon seaside cabin. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Goodbye Stranger

  Stead, Rebecca

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  Adjusting to middle school, two best friends who promise not to fight find themselves changing and growing apart—along with finding a first love or two.

• Glitter Gets Everywhere

  Clark, Yvette,

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  Relocating from London to New York City with her family in the aftermath of her mother's death, Kitty struggles to adjust to a different culture, before an unlikely friendship inspires alternate perspectives on how to keep her mother's memory alive.

• The Truth About Twinkie Pie

  Yeh, Kat

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  Take two sisters making it on their own: brainy 12-year-old GiGi and junior-high-dropout-turned-hairstylist DiDi. Add a million dollars in prize money from a national cooking contest and a move from the trailer parks of South Carolina to the North…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The First State of Being

  Kelly, Erin Entrada,

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  When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.

• Karthik Delivers

  Chari, Sheela,

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  One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein.

• Drew Leclair Crushes the Case

  Bury, Katryn,

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  Drew Leclair Crushes the Case Bury, Katryn, (0 ratings) Book, 2023 eBook Available eAudiobook Available When a thief breaks into the P.E. lockers, leaving behind cryptic ransom notes, Drew Leclair, who is determined to stay out of trouble,…Read moreRead more of this annotation