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• Book Match

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  Fill out a survey with information about your reading tastes, and one of our matchmakers will send you a personalized reading list within two weeks. You can select a specific matchmaker, or you can fill out a general survey and one of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest

  Hartman, Aubrey,

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  An undead fox serving as the Usher of souls has his life upended when a mysterious badger soul appears.

• Crumble

  McClaren, Meredith,

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  Emily, her mom and her aunt have a special magical power of baking emotions into the desserts they sell at the family bakery, but after her aunt dies, Emily bakes her grief into a crumble, in a story about baking, friendship and feeling every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Badger

  Wood, Maryrose,

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  An eccentric badger ventures out to find his missing seagull friend.

• Rick Kotani's 400 Million Dollar Summer

  Brown, Waka T.,

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  Twelve-year-old Rick Kotani is looking forward to playing summer baseball in California but must move to Oregon to help his Grandpa Hiroshi, and after the two bond over a Japanese folktale about personal values, Rick joins a super competitive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cassi and the House of Memories

  Stuart, Dean,

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  Cassi loves spending time with her grandfather. This visit with him, though, is different: Grandpa seems to be losing track of things, including everything from the stories they’re sharing to who Cassi herself is. So when he goes missing after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oasis

  Guojing, 1983-

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  Two children and one robot take center stage in this timely exploration of how far AI technology can go when JieJie and her little brother DiDi find an AI-powered robot lying dormant in an abandoned junkyard while their mother works tirelessly to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's All or Nothing, Vale

  Arango, Andrea Beatriz

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  Valentina Camacho was the top athlete at her fencing gym until a life-changing accident, but now her body doesn't move the same and there's a new number one, in a story about a girl finding her way back to her passion.

• All the Blues in the Sky

  Watson, Renée,

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  When thirteen-year-old Sage's best friend dies, Sage struggles with grief and feels that she is at fault, but when she joins a grief group, she slowly learns to heal.

• Sea Legs

  Bakes, Jules,

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  Janey's family is sailing to the Caribbean in their boat, but it means Janey has to leave all her friends behind for a life at sea, and she discovers that when you are constantly on the move it can be difficult to connect to people.

• A World Worth Saving

  Lukoff, Kyle,

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  After coming out as trans, fourteen-year-old A is forced to attend weekly Save Our Sons and Daughters meetings, where he uncovers the terrifying truth that the group is run by a demon feeding on their pain and is part of a larger, darker force…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scattergood

  Bouwman, H. M.,

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  A lot changes for 12-year-old farm girl Peggy in 1941, when her friend Joe starts acting strange around her, the Quaker hostel starts housing Jewish refugees, and her cousin is diagnosed with leukemia, in a historical coming-of-age novel.

• Danilo Was Here

  Burgess, Tamika,

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  Danilo's baseball talent lands him the opportunity to train in the States and find his absentee father, who may be the key to saving the family he abandoned as they deal with the devastating effects of the US's military invasion of Panamá.

• The Secret of Honeycake

  Fusco, Kimberly Newton,

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  In 1930, eleven-year-old Hurricane struggles to adapt to life in the city after her mother's death and her sister's illness, but through new friendships and her love for writing, she learns to embrace change and find her voice.

• Will's Race for Home

  a Western

  Rhodes, Jewell Parker,

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  In 1889, a young Black family hears about a land rush, so Will and his father set out from Texas to Oklahoma, racing thousands of others on a difficult journey to where land is free.

• The Forgotten Magic of Zoey Turner

  Stewart, Erin, 1982-

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  Since her father died Zoey Turner has been subject to panic attacks, but she also has a magic pencil that turns the stories she writes into reality, but the stories can go sideways, and Zoey can not control them until she faces her anxieties.

• No Purchase Necessary

  Marianayagam, Maria,

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  Ajay Anthonipillai wins a million-dollar prize in a candy bar he stole trying to impress a popular kid, pushing Ajay to navigate his identity and morality in deciding whether to claim something that could change his family's life forever.