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• Book Match | Alameda County Library

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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

• Falling Short

  Cisneros, Ernesto,

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  Isaac and Marco already know sixth grade is going to change their lives. But it won’t change things at home—not without each other’s help. This year, star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Invisible

  Gonzalez, Christina Diaz, 1969-

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  Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? There's George: the brain, Sara: the loner, Dayara: the tough kid, Nico: the rich kid, and Miguel: the athlete. And they're stuck together when they're forced to complete their school's community…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cardboard Kingdom

  Sell, Chad,

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  "Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters—and their own inner…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not An Easy Win

  Giles, Chrystal D.,

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  "Lawrence is ready for a win. . . . Nothing’s gone right for Lawrence since he had to move from Charlotte to Larenville, North Carolina, to live with his granny. When Lawrence ends up in one too many fights at his new school, he gets expelled. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret Language of Birds

  Kelly, Lynne, 1969-

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  "Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finally Seen

  Yang, Kelly,

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  When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roller Girl

  Jamieson, Victoria,

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  Twelve-year-old Astrid has always done everything with her best friend Nicole. So when Astrid signs up for roller derby camp, she assumes Nicole will too. But Nicole signs up for dance camp with a new friend instead, and so begins the toughest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Operation Do-over

  Korman, Gordon,

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  "Mason and Ty were once the very best of friends, like two nerdy sides of the same coin . . . until seventh grade, when Ava Petrakis came along. Now Mason can trace everything bad in his life to that terrible fight they had over the new girl. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox

  Buckley, Michael, 1969-

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  "Finn Foley has a lunchbox, and when he opens it, weird things come out . . . like a seven-foot-tall robot and a strange, blinking device that glues itself to his chest. The lunchbox also opens wormholes--shortcuts through space--that take Finn to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Short

  Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958-

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  "Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bridge Home

  Venkatraman, Padma,

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  "When Viji and her sister, Rukku, whose developmental disability makes her overly trusting and vulnerable to the perils of the world, run away to live on their own, the situation could not be more grim. Life on the streets of the teeming city of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Labors of Hercules Beal

  Schmidt, Gary D.,

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  "Herc Beal knows who he's named after--a mythical hero--but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Turtle Boy

  Wolkenstein, M. Evan,

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  Seventh grade is not going well for Will Levine. Kids at school bully him because of his funny-looking chin. His science teacher finds out about the turtles he spent his summer collecting from the marsh behind school and orders him to release them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kareem Between

  Safadi, Shifa Saltagi,

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  "Seventh grade begins and Kareem’s fall should be off to a great start. But he’s already fumbled it. His best friend moved away, he bungled his tryout for the football team, and because of his heritage, he was voluntold to show the new kid – a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Save Me a Seat

  Weeks, Sarah,

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  "Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL. Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own. Ravi's family just…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Life Gives You Mangos

  Getten, Kereen,

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  Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret…Read moreRead more of this annotation