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• The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

  Glaser, Karina Yan,

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  The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tale of Despereaux

  Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

  DiCamillo, Kate

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  Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wild Robot

  Brown, Peter, 1979-

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  Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is—but she knows she needs to survive.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pax

  Pennypacker, Sara, 1951-

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  Pax was only a kit when his family was killed, and “his boy” Peter rescued him from abandonment and certain death. Now the war front approaches, and when Peter’s father enlists, Peter has to move in with his grandpa. Far worse than being forced to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flora & Ulysses

  the Illuminated Adventures

  DiCamillo, Kate,

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  It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Wolf Called Wander

  Parry, Rosanne,

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  Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains learning to hunt, competing with his brothers and sisters for hierarchy, and watching over a new litter of cubs. Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and his family scatter. Alone and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beyond the Bright Sea

  Wolk, Lauren, 1956-

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  Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift on a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Graveyard Book

  Gaiman, Neil

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  Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Side of the Mountain

  George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012

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  Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher

  Levy, Dana, 1937-2017

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  Meet the Fletchers. Their year will be filled with new schools, old friends, a grouchy neighbor, hungry skunks, leaking ice rinks, school plays, wet cats, and scary tales told in the dark! There’s Sam, age twelve, who’s mostly interested in soccer,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Savvy

  Law, Ingrid, 1970-

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  For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a "savvy" -a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The War That Saved My Life

  Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

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  Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jumbies

  Baptiste, Tracey

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  Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Wrinkle in Time

  L'Engle, Madeleine

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  It was a dark and stormy night. Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Brain

  Fitzgerald, John Dennis

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  The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wishtree

  Applegate, Katherine,

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  Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . . Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"—people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with her crow friend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

  Lin, Grace

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  In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the fields and her nights listening to her father spin fantastic tales about the Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon. Minli's mother, tired of their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pie

  Weeks, Sarah

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  When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . .…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amari and the Night Brothers

  Alston, B. B,

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  Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fledgling

  Blake, Robert J.

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  When a young kestrel makes her first flight among the buildings of a bustling city, there is much excitement and danger as she is pursued by a hawk. (Goodreads)