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2) Nightingale
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
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English
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2022-2023 Bluebonnet Award Nominees
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees 2022-2023
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees 2022-2023
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Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she’s certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton—if only she can wrap her...
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School for Good and Evil volume prequel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Two brothers--one good, one evil--choose the students for the School for Good and Evil where they train, teach and prepare them for their fate until something unexpected and powerful happens that changes everything"--
6) Mermaid day
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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On Mermaid Day, the mer-queen throws a big bash and sea creatures of all kinds attend, including a shy shark who joins in the dancing.
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Gifted clans volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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After thirteen-year-old Hattie Oh casts a dangerous spell so her adopted sister, Riley, will get a share of her inherited magic, Riley must undertake a near-impossible quest to save Hattie from death.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
When her parents and the other quiet, shy wombats of the Northern Forest are captured by the traitorous, carnivorous Tassie devils, Lola Budge, a talkative, adventure-seeking young wombat, embarks on a rescue mission, joined by a swamp water rat and a baby penguin.
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Wildseed witch volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A fun middle-grade contemporary fantasy with an all-BIPOC cast, about a social-media-loving tween who gets sent to an ultra-private witch camp.
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No place for monsters volume 1
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English
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In this spellbinding, lavishly illustrated story that Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney calls "wildly imaginative and totally terrifying," two unlikely friends face down their worst fears in order to stop their small town-and themselves-from disappearing. Levi and Kat are about to discover a very dark side to their neighborhood. Nothing ever seems out of place in the safe, suburban town of Cowslip Grove. Lawns are neatly mowed, sidewalks are...
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Pandava volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Aru Shah and her sisters--including one who also claims to be the Sleeper's daughter--must find their mentors Hanuman and Urvashi in Lanka, the city of gold, before war breaks out between the devas and asuras"--
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the storybook kingdom of Wanderly, everyone wants to be a Triumphant: the kingdom's most glorious heroes. Everyone except Pippa North, who is quite happy with her perfectly common family. No one in Wanderly wants to be a magician, would-be villains who are nothing more than nuisances. But Oliver Dash wants it more than anything in the world. When Pippa is swept away to the Triumphant academy, and Oliver finds himself in danger of flunking out...
13) The lifters
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gran and his new friend, Catalina, journey underground to defeat a strange force that threatens their town, Carousel.
14) Cat wishes
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A cat who professes not to believe in wishes is granted three of them, but makes them nonetheless"--
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 5
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English
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
16) The Marvellers
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Language
English
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2023-2024 Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees
Goodreads Choice Nominees 2022
Keller Battle of the Books Intermediate 2023-24
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Goodreads Choice Nominees 2022
Keller Battle of the Books Intermediate 2023-24
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Publisher Annotation: Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts, like brewing Indian spice elixirs and bartering with pesky Irish pixies. Despite her excitement, Ella discovers that being the first isn't easy-some Marvellers mistrust her magic, which they deem "bad and unnatural." But eventually, she finds...
17) Furthermore
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Alice Queensmeadow, with the help of her friend Oliver, travels through the dangerous, magical land of Furthermore in order to rescue her missing father and prove her own magical abilities"--
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Legends of Lotus Island volume 1
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English
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"Young Plum is shocked to discover that she's been accepted to the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island, an elite school where kids learn how to transform into Guardians, magical creatures who are sworn to protect the natural world. The Guardian masters teach Plum and her friends how to communicate with animals and how to use meditation to strengthen their minds and bodies. All the kids also learn to fight, so they can protect the defenseless if needed....
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Mysteries of Cove volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Trenton and Kallista travel to a steampunk version of Seattle hoping to find Kallista's missing father, but instead find themselves in the middle of a war between the Order of the Beast, who worships dragons, and the Whipjacks, who are building weapons to destroy the animals.
20) A pinch of magic
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Series
A pinch of magic volume 1
Language
English
Description
Three sisters--adventurous Betty, curious Charlie, and proper Fliss--go on a quest to break the curse that has haunted their family for generations.
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