Jessica Almasy
1) Nuts to you
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2023-2024 4th/5th Grade Battle of Books
Animal-Themed Books for Older Readers
OBD National Squirrel Day Jan 21 - YOUTH
Animal-Themed Books for Older Readers
OBD National Squirrel Day Jan 21 - YOUTH
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After surviving being carried off by a hawk, a young squirrel resolves to find his way home, as his best friends begin their search for him.
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"The story of a man's last wish to make a difference--and of the loved ones he leaves behind fulfilling their destinies at last" --
"Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman--the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art connoisseur--as his second wife. In two marriages, he has fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as...
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"The Lilac. The bard songs say that she's the world's most fearsome bounty hunter. That there's no criminal she can't catch, no mystery she can't solve. None of that is true. Yet. In reality, the Lilac is just a kid, and the bard who wrote all that is her best friend, Dulcinetta. But the Lilac has set her goals on becoming the best bounty hunter in the Thirteen Kingdoms -- and when a priceless artifact goes missing from the home of famed monster hunter...
11) Under the egg
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Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
12) The Sisters Club
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Stevie Reel feels like she's the glue holding her family together, especially since Boss Queen Alex has gotten so wrapped up in her school play, and her leading man, that she doesn't have time for the Sisters Club. Is it up to the middle-sister Stevie to save the day?
14) Zia
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A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
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Slacker volume 2
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Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the back wall--and all Cameron wants to do is to conquer the...
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Thirteen-year-old Cassidy Drake wants nothing more than to race with her best dragon, Ranga, in the annual Great Texas Dragon Race. Her mother was a racing legacy, and growing up on her family's dragon sanctuary ranch, Cassidy lives and breathes dragons. She knows she could win against the exploitative FireCorp team that cares more about corporate greed than caring for the dragons.
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Award-winning author Tom Angleberger flexes his comic muscle in this hairy adventure story with twists at every turn.
Regular kid Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend—Casper, a master of disguise and hypnosis—and world domination. It all begins when Casper spends money from his granny on a spectacularly convincing fake mustache, the Heidelberg Handlebar #7. With it he's able rob banks, amass
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A runaway seeks Harper Lee for answers
Sometimes the things that need to be discovered aren't so easily found at home. Erin is certain that this is true in her case. A book is all that connects Erin to her mother, who died when she was a baby. But how much can Erin really learn about her mother from a tattered copy of To Kill a Mockingbird? On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin decides it's finally time to find out. And so begins her bus journey...
20) Only the lonely
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From the files of Madison Finn volume 1
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During the summer before she starts the seventh grade, Madison Finn makes friends both in person and on line as she tries to adjust to the changes in her life. This fresh, new series for "tweens" introduces Madison Finn, a seventh graderdealing with issues such as friendships, divorce, and school, while using herlaptop and the Internet to help her through changes.