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• Nina Peanut

  Creative Genius

  Bowie, Sarah,

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  Nina Peanut runs a very serious, very amazing YouTube channel, so why are her grandmother and her best friend, Brian, her only viewers? Nina realizes she just might have the chance to chase her dreams. But as Nina goes down the road of stardom, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Artemis Fowl

  Colfer, Eoin

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  When a 12-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology and a particularly nasty troll.

• Three Tasks for a Dragon

  Colfer, Eoin,

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  Studious Prince Lir is next in line to become the Wolfhound King, but he can't ride a horse, lift a sword, or summon the fabled wolfhounds. So his stepmother decrees that her own son will inherit the crown instead, sending Lir away on a seemingly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Frankie's World

  Dooley, Aoife,

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  Different from everyone in her class and teased for not having a dad at home, Frankie sneaks into her mom's room where she finds her biological father's name on her birth certificate, a discovery that prompts her to embark on a mission to find him.

• The London Eye Mystery

  Dowd, Siobhan

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  When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together—Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat—to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.

• The Storm Keeper's Island

  Doyle, Catherine, 1990-

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  Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with his older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear, and seems to be restless again.

• Brilliant

  Doyle, Roddy, 1958-

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  The Black Dog of depression has descended over Dublin, but siblings Rayzer and Gloria are determined to stop it, and soon they are joined by thousands of other children and some magical animals on a chase through the streets, parks and beaches of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bunny's Most Fabulous Vacation Ever

  Fitzgerald, Brian, 1959-

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  Bunny's plans for a perfect vacation are wrecked by an unwelcome surprise holidaymaker who changes her life in a most colorful way. Brian Fitzgerald has penned a hilarious and relatable tale about mistaken first impressions, meanness that gives way…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Road Not Taken

  Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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  When a fork in the road arises for a boy, so too does the first of life's many choices. And as the poem progresses, so does the boy's life: college, career, marriage, family, loss, and, by journey's end, the sweet satisfaction of a life fully lived.

• The Deepest Breath

  Grehan, Meg,

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  Struggling with her feelings for a female classmate, an 11-year-old Irish girl tries to confide in her mother, the person she trusts most in the world.

• Shh! We Have a Plan

  Haughton, Chris,

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  Spotting an exquisite bird in a tree, three friends execute a series of stealthy plans to capture the bird only to have their efforts foiled, while their quiet, observant companion stretches out his hand to execute a plan of his own.

• The Way Back Home

  Jeffers, Oliver

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  Stranded on the moon after his extraordinary airplane takes him into outer space, a boy meets a marooned young Martian with a broken spacecraft, and the two new friends work together to return to their respective homes.

• This Moose Belongs to Me

  Jeffers, Oliver

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  A young boy learns that moose do not always follow the rules of proper pet behavior.

• The Shadows of Rookhaven

  Kenny, Pádraig,

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  Half-human and half-monster Mirabelle is on a mission to protect the only home she has ever known from a sinister new threat bent on eradicating her family.

• Begone the Raggedy Witches

  Kiernan, Celine,

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  When Mup's father is kidnapped by raggedy witches and taken into their strange realm, Mup must journey to the magical land to find him, and discovers it is ruled by a tyrannical queen who happens to be Mup's grandmother. This series concludes in,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wishkeeper's Apprentice

  Khoo, Rachel Chivers,

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  Dropping a penny in the wishing fountain at the center of town, ten-year-old Felix meets a strange old man who is a Wishkeeper and becomes his apprentice to help stop a threat to every wish that has ever been granted in the town of Whittlestone.

• Our Green City

  Kyi, Tanya Lloyd, 1973-

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  In this city, a utopian imagination of what a sustainable community could look like, neighbours from diverse backgrounds come together to care for their surroundings and one another.

• Run for Your Life

  Mitchell, Jane (Writer of books for young people),

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  A moving and sensitive children's book exploring a child's experience living in refugee accommodation in Ireland. Azari's life has been split in two and the halves are as different as lemons and mangoes.

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

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  Four English school children enter the magic land of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

• Wolfwalkers

  the Graphic Novel

  Sattin, Samuel,

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  Incorporating exclusive original art, a graphic-novel adaptation of the hand-animated "WolfWalkers" film follows the story of a hunter's daughter who resolves to protect a pack of endangered wolves and the woodland shapeshifter tribe that…Read moreRead more of this annotation