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Along the way he finds a fourth—Mr. In fact, the first male teacher in the history of the school. Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk. Soon, an unstoppable chain of events is triggered, leading Crow down a path of discovery and danger. Her best friends make everything fun. After one last appointment with her scoliosis doctor, this will be her best year yet. Then the doctor delivers some terrible news: The brace wraps her in hard plastic from shoulder blades to hips.
It changes how her clothes fit, how she kicks a ball, and how everyone sees her—even her friends and Tate. But as Rachel confronts all the challenges the brace presents, the biggest change of all may lie in how she sees herself. When the Candymaker announces that they will be going on tour to introduce the new candy bar, the four friends see this as an opportunity to make things right. But with a fifty-year-old secret revealed and stakes higher for each of them than they ever imagined, they will have to trust one another—and themselves—in order to face what lies ahead. Her baby sister is about to be born, and Cilla needs to become a bestselling author before her family forgets all about her.
But then the unthinkable happens. But on the journey that takes him through the New York City subways and to Washington Square Park, Clayton learns some things that surprise him. He was always ready for adventure and always willing to accept a dare, especially from his best friend, Kacey. But that was before. Before the accident that took Kacey from him.
Before his family moved from Boston to the small town of Palm Knot, Georgia. She shoos him out of the garden and fills in holes as fast as he can dig them! Fenway wonders if his beloved Hattie could be working against him, until she brings home a cage with a bunny inside. He can hardly control his excitement — she captured one of the intruders!
Is his heart big enough to accept that Hattie can love another pet, too? Finding Perfect by Elly Schwartz. Molly knows that promises are sometimes broken, so she hatches a plan to bring her mother home: The winner is honored at a fancy banquet with white tablecloths. Molly is sure her mother would never miss that. But as time passes, writing and reciting slam poetry become harder. In this fresh-voiced debut novel, one girl learns there is no such thing as perfect. Baptist in a story collection that is as humorous as it is heartfelt.
From these distinguished authors come ten distinct and vibrant stories.
Forever, or a Long Time by Caela Carter. So along with their new mother, Flora and Julian begin a journey to go back and discover their past—for only then can they really begin to build their future. Nothing has been right since her grandfather died and her best friend changed schools. Can this future scientific genius find the formula for straightening out her life? Georgia Rules by Nanci Turner Steveson. But now here she is, in a tiny Vermont town where everybody sings the praises of the father Maggie never knew.
Then Maggie meets the Parker family—two moms, six kids, plus a pony. Suddenly Maggie has questions too—questions about her father, and why Mama kept him away for so long. In her search for answers, Maggie will learn that families are like patchwork quilts, sewn together by love, and all the more beautiful for their different colors. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their small town, Gertie sets out on her greatest mission yet: Seat-stealing new girl Mary Sue Spivey wants to be the best fifth grader, too.
And there is simply not enough room at the top for the two of them. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training. If he can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city.
But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons—it all starting with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. The Goat by Anne Fleming. Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and she loves everything about nature.
Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so that he can concentrate on basketball. This disaster leads Kaori, Gen, and Valencia on an epic quest to find the missing Virgil. Sometimes four can do what one cannot. Through luck, smarts, bravery, and a little help from the universe, a rescue is performed, a bully is put in his place, and friendship blooms. How to Stage a Catastrophe by Rebecca Donnelly.
The Juicebox Theatre is about ready for the recycling bin. Sidney and Folly consider a crime. But the theater is in danger of closing, and he and his friends know they need a plan to save it — and fast. Hilarious and heartwarming, the mission to save a failing community theater unites a riotous cast of characters in this offbeat middle-grade novel. As they banter through stakeouts and narrow down their list of suspects, Howard starts to wonder if having Ivy as a sidekick—and a friend—is such a bad thing after all.
Pig Face, was allergic to sand, salt air, and the ocean before they decided to go to the beach. But when Tracy and Ralph discover an envelope stuffed with money in the dugout at baseball field and Lester forces them to let him help , they have a mystery on their hands.
Did someone lose the cash? Or, did someone steal it? Stephens has always seemed like a quiet place to live, but soon the town is brimming with suspects. Romance and rivalries abound in this beachside town, where swanky seasonal homeowners and hard-working locals clash and unite in age-old patterns. In this first book of the Junior Lifeguards series, the girls are vying for spots on the summer squad, with ocean legend Bud Slater hand-picking a team of winners.
So when she is assigned a science project with offbeat Lucy Tanaka and nerdy Theo Barnes, they have fun creating an experiment that tests out the laws of science through different acts of kindness. Sometimes mistakes yield the best discoveries, and there is one hypothesis that can always be proven correct: Kindness is the coolest. Lemons by Melissa Savage. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. After he invites Lem to be his assistant for the summer, they set out on an epic adventure to capture a shot of the elusive beast on film. But along the way, Lem and Tobin end up discovering more than they ever could have imagined.
And Lem realizes that maybe she can make lemonade out of her new life after all.
The Matchstick Castle by Keir Graff. Or an earplug factory. Anything would be better than doing summer school on a computer while his scientist dad is stationed at the South Pole. Boring lives up to its name until Brian and his cousin Nora have a fight, get lost, and discover a huge, wooden house in the forest.
With balconies, turrets, and windows seemingly stuck on at random, it looks ready to fall over in the next stiff breeze.
Suddenly, summer gets a lot more exciting. With their new friends, Brian and Nora tangle with giant wasps, sharp-tusked wild boars, and a crazed bureaucrat intent on bringing the dangerously dilapidated old house down with a wrecking ball.
Matylda, Bright and Tender by Holly M. One afternoon, the two of them decide they must have something of their very own to love. With Guy leading the way, they feed her and give her an origin story fit for a warrior lizard. A few weeks later, on a simple bike ride, there is a terrible accident. As hard as it is, Sussy is sure she can hold on to Guy if she can find a way to love Matylda enough. By turns both devastating and buoyant, this story is a brave one, showing how far we can justify going for a real and true friend.
So Steffy does what she does best: She cooks her way through the hardest year of her life. All Steffy wants is for her family to be whole again. Can her recipes help bring them back together? It was also a reminder that Mor had made a promise to his father before he passed: Keep the family together. But almost as soon as they are orphaned, that promise seems impossible to keep.
With an aunt from the big city ready to separate him and his sisters as soon as she arrives, and a gang of boys from a nearby village wanting everything he has—including his spirit—Mor is tested in ways he never imagined.
With only the hot summer months to prove himself, Mor must face a choice. Does he listen to his father and keep his heart true, but risk breaking his promise through failure? Or is it easier to just join the Danka Boys, whom in all their maliciousness are at least loyal to their own? Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts.
And only one thing ever changes: But when the truck transporting Li Ping shows up, its precious cargo has vanished into thin air. The FBI steps in to investigate, and Teddy is happy to leave the job in their supposedly capable hands. After all, FunJungle has never encountered a crime this serious. Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan, he grew up listening to sonnets read aloud and the comforting clicking of a keyboard. Although Teddy understands words, Sylvan always told him there are only two kinds of people in the world who can hear Teddy speak: Then one day Teddy learns that Sylvan was right.
When Teddy finds Nickel and Flora trapped in a snowstorm, he tells them that he will bring them home—and they understand him. They follow him to a cabin in the woods, where the dog used to live with Sylvan. As they hole up in the cabin for shelter, Teddy is flooded with memories of Sylvan.
What will Teddy do when his new friends go home? Can they help one another find what they have lost? They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever. When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notes—though for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one as well. As the sticky-note war escalates, and the pressure to choose sides mounts, Frost soon realizes that after this year, nothing will ever be the same.
Now the person Derby loves most in town needs her help—and yet finding a way to do so may uncover deeply held stories and secrets. Rooting for Rafael Rosales by Kurtis Scaletta. Every chance he gets he plays in the street games trying to build his skills, get noticed by scouts, and—someday—play Major League Baseball. The bees are dying all over the world, and the company her father works for is responsible, making products that harm the environment.
In their own ways, Maya and Rafael search for hope, face difficult choices, and learn a secret—the same secret—that forever changes how they see the world. All he wants is to launch his golden iPod into space the way Carl Sagan the man, not the dog launched his Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft in But his destination keeps changing.
Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan. With her deeply artistic neighbor, Mrs. The girls always have and always will be Soccer Sisters. But when a new person joins the Breakers, everything changes. Makena, hoping to impress Skylar, starts acting out and running wild, off and on the field. Choices that will affect her family, her friends, and the game she loves. Can she stay true to what the Soccer Sisters believe in and win the big game?
The Someday Birds by Sally Pla. When his father heads from California to Virginia for medical treatment, Charlie reluctantly travels cross-country with his boy-crazy sister, unruly brothers, and a mysterious new family friend. He decides that if he can spot all the birds that he and his father were hoping to see someday along the way, then everything might just turn out okay.
Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. Then, they uncover a trail of encrypted messages in Mark Twain-penned books hidden through Book Scavenger. As the sleuthing friends dig deeper, they discover Mr. Quisling has been hunting a legendary historical puzzle: Quisling might be the arsonist. But all that hard work is worth it if it means she can get a dog. But Vilonia read that pets can help with sadness. Now all she has to do is keep the library goldfish alive over spring break, stop bringing stray animals home, and help Mama not get fired from her job.
Easy as pie, right? But it turns out A. Obviously Gracie is happy for Sienna. She helps Sienna compose the best texts, responding to A. Because Gracie is fine. As a former foster kid, he knows people can up and leave without so much as a goodbye. Ben prefers to spend his time with the characters in his favorite sci-fi books…until he rescues an abandoned mutt from the alley next-door to the Coney Island Library.
She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with family she barely knows, it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true.