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1) Hidden figures: the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space

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#1 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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Book, HCL BATTLE OF THE BOOKS

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Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's...

2) A long walk to water: a novel

Author

Park, Linda Sue

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#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 75 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook

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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan

3) The one and only Ivan

Author

Applegate, Katherine

Series

One and Only Ivan

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#3 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 75 week(s).

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Book, Audio, Book on CD, Book with Media, eAudiobook, Wonderbook

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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

4) Story thieves

Author

Riley, James

Series

Story thieves volume 1

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#4 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 23 week(s).

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Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world's homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen -- his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany's half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character. Bethany can't let...

5) Percy Jackson's Greek gods

Author

Riordan, Rick

Series

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 26 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook

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"Percy Jackson, a modern-day demigod, tells the origin stories of the gods of Olympus and provides an insider's point of view - with plenty of attitude - in this illustrated collection"-- " 'A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if...

6) Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Author

Grabenstein, Chris

Series

Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1

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#7 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 71 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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"When Kyle learns that the world's most famous game maker has designed the town's new library and is having an invitation-only lock-in on the first night, he is determined to be there. What he doesn't realize is that getting in is the easy part. Getting out is going to take more than a good roll of the dice." -- from the inside cover

7) The war that saved my life

Author

Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

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#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 22 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle

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"A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother." -- Verso.

8) Brown girl dreaming

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

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#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle

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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...

9) Out of my mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

Series

Out of my mind volume 1

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#10 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 72 week(s).

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Book, Audio, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle

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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.