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Out of the Dust

When Billie Jo is just fourteen she must endure heart-wrenching ordeals that no child should have to face. The quiet strength she displays while dealing with unspeakable loss is as surprising as it is…

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The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers, #2)

Return to Harlem's "wildly entertaining" family in this funny, heartwarming sequel. When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most…

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Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

It’s wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. But on t…

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The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7)

The bestselling Vanderbeeker family finds love and hope in hard times as they face the challenge of a serious illness with the support of their Harlem community.

The Vanderbeekers are looking forward…

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The Secret of White Stone Gate (Black Hollow Lane, #2)

In this exciting sequel to The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane, Emmy's adventures continue as she deals with a sinister organization, a missing father, and secrets she's not sure who to trust with.

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The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (The Vanderbeekers, #3)

Harlem’s favorite family returns in the third installment in the Vanderbeerkers series! In To the Rescue , the Vanderbeeker kids find themselves racing to save their mother’s baking business from city…

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The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Black Hollow Lane, #1)

Emmy's dad disappeared years ago, and with her mother too busy to parent, she's shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England. But right before she leaves, a mysterious box arriv…

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Prairie Lotus

Prairie Lotus is a book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Hanna, a half-Asian …

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Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist (Emily Windsnap, #3)

"An easy sell to girls looking for a friendship story with more than a touch of make-believe." — Kirkus Reviews

When Emily Windsnap discovers an old diamond ring during a class hunt for trinkets, how …

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Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on "climbing boys"--orphans owned by chimney sweeps--to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless and brutally dangerous. Elev…

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The Vanderbeekers on the Road (The Vanderbeekers, #6)

A surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger siblings try to keep their family from ever facing change.

The popular Harlem family is putting the VAN in Vanderbeekers as they hit the highway to giv…

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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (The Vanderbeekers, #1)

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, t…

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The Frogs and Other Plays

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Stand Tall

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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1)

There are six things very wrong with my life:

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The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found (The Vanderbeekers, #4)

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The Midnight Children

An extraordinary story about a family of runaways who take up residence in a small town, and the outcast boy who finds his voice and his people.

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Date a Silver Fox? Check.
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The Winter Ghosts

By the author of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Labyrinth," a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.

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Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat...

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Scar Town

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The Phantom Tollbooth

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This beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands …

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The Grace of Wild Things

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Pay It Forward

The internationally bestselling book that inspired the Pay It Forward movement is now available in a middle grade edition.

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The Fort

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Nothing Else But Miracles

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A Long Walk to Water

A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk…

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