Three young garbologists must defend the world from new magical trash creations. Landon Murphy never imagined he would spend his summer battling the animated trash monster known as the Megalajunk,…
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Jolley, Mary Locke – Next, The Necromancer
Secrets and tragedy loom over Enchanted Gorge Ranch… Ellie, Liam, and Abe are back at Enchanted Gorge Ranch and safe from the Alchemist. Or are they? Ellie gets sick every…
Wilson, Gaylene – Taffy Nackman’s Guide on How to be a Star
Sure, Muckbury Springs is a Podunk place in the middle of nowhere, but 12-year-old Taffy Nackman has big dreams.And a plan! And once she lands the leading role in The Phantom…
Hanson, Steve Dunn – Peter and the Amulet
Okay, so it’s 1953 in St. Louis and I’ve just come here from Willow, Idaho (I know…you never heard of it) and I’m about as in with the other kids…
Grantham, Tamara – Judah Starweaver and the Way of Dragons
Rule one on the Intergalactic Dragon’s Highway: never tell anyone your name.Rule two: if anyone learns your name—run. This has been thirteen-year-old Judah Starweaver’s rule for as long as he…
Méndez, Yamile Saied – The Beautiful Game
At thirteen years old, Valeria “Magic” Salomón is already the best soccer player her town has ever seen. She has talent in spades and an abuelo whose tough-love coaching and…
Savage, J. Scott – Quantum Interstellar Sports League
The Last Kids on Earth meets Space Jam in this hilarious illustrated novel about football, aliens, and friendship! Welcome to the Quantum Interstellar Sports League, where humans and aliens play football for the…
Allen, Sarah – Monster Tree
Something evil is growing . . . Linus used to be an artist, like his dad. Now his father is gone, and Linus’s mom has moved them to the other…
Savage, J. Scott – Graysen Foxx and the Curse of the Illuminerdy*
Graysen Foxx must use his extraordinary detective skills to solve the strange, mind-bending clues of the Illuminerdy—a secret society of school nerds who guard a powerful treasure. Graysen Foxx is…
Cole, Frank L. – The Legend of the Last Library
What if you lived in a world without books? After a devastating Blight killed off all the trees, paper is worth more than just about anything. Juni’s parents died when…
Cooley, Shannon – The Lawnmonsters
Bryce has one summer to prove he’s responsible. Then he accidentally brings the lawnmower to life. He tries to hide his mistake by starting a mowing business, but the hungry…
Collings, Michaelbrent – Grimmworld: The Witch in the Woods
Strange and terrifying things are suddenly happening in a mysterious town where people are disappearing and changing into characters from the Grimm fairy tales. Twins Willow and Jake Grimm are…
Wright, Jason F. – Scar Dakota
Shane Dakota’s world is falling to pieces. He’s just moved over Christmas break from North Carolina to the very strange mountain land of Utah. Suddenly Shane’s grandparents are raising him and…
Nielsen, Jennifer A. – Uprising
Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather’s house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi cross on each wing. Before the bombs hit the ground, Lidia realizes her life is about…
Rivera, Kaela – Cece Rios and the Queen of Brujas
Cece Rios and her friends have escaped Devil’s Alley, but the fight to save their world is just beginning. Despite her growing comfort with her curandera abilities, Cece is worried…
Swore, Wendy S. – Sleeping Spells and Dragon Scales
Something is wrong with Liam. He collapses during soccer practice, he can’t stay awake in class, and he’s starting to see a ghostly white fox that disappears into smoke. His…
Campbell, Jill – Ruby Who?
When twelve-year-old Ruby’s Great Aunt Roberta Cornelia drops dead in her flower garden, a stray remark at the funeral from a long-lost relative leads Ruby to suspect she might not…
Mull, Brandon – The Candy Shop War: Carnival Quest
The Blue Falcons is a secret kid’s club that fights against a family of villainous magicians. Using an impressive arsenal of magical candy, Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon defeated Belinda…
Swenson, Daniel – Gingersnap! A Redhead’s Guide to Not Being Eaten by a Dragon
Connor is your average eleven-year-old boy with one exception: he believes dragons are real, and that they love to eat redheaed children because they taste like gingersnap cookies. Despite everyone…
Carter, Molly McNamara – Before
In the not-too-distant future, Leadership controls everything and everyone, and a new regulation threatens to take away 13-year-old Wren’s little brother. Already reeling from her grandmother’s relocation, Wren must give…
Moore, Heather B. & Merrill, Allison Hong – The Paper Daughters of Chinatown: Young Readers Edition
Based on the true story of two friends who unite to help rescue immigrant women and girls in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1890s. When Tai Choi leaves her…
Morris, Chad & Brown, Shelly – Virtually Me*
A mysterious package. A new school. A chance to be someone new. A new virtual reality school where students get a fresh start. The pandemic was rough on everyone, especially…
Okerlund, Taya & Nathan – Never Lore
All the signs of Fairy’s unraveling were there: a strict rationing of pixie dust; the disappearance of a magical species; a reckless reliance on spies plucked from human orphanages. Annabelle…
Allen, Sarah – The Nightmare House
Penny Hope used to be brave, but that was before she met the Fear Maker. Years later, he still haunts her dreams―a tall, thin man with red eyes, in a…
Johnson, Janet Sumner – The Winterton Deception: Final Word
Hope Smith can’t stand rich people—the dictionary magnate family the Wintertons most of all. Not since she and her twin brother, Gordon, learned that their dad was one. So when…
Allen, C. W. – Tales of the Forgotten Founders
Zed and Tuesday ought to be living the good life. After all, it’s not every day two kids take down an evil dictator and their mom gets put in charge…
Savage, J. Scott – Graysen Foxx and the Treasure of Principal Redbeard
Join Graysen Foxx on a wild, treasure-hunting adventure! Ordinary Elementary is anything but ordinary. Below the classrooms are winding, abandoned, underground passages filled with lost treasures. Fifth-grader Graysen Foxx, aka…
Thayer, Mike – The Talent Thief
Tiffany Tudwell is cursed. She once tripped over a backpack and fell face-first into a trashcan. She had pink eye on picture day. One time she tried to hold back…
Nielsen, Jennifer A. – Iceberg*
Hazel Rothbury is traveling all alone from her home in England aboard the celebrated ship Titanic. Following the untimely death of her father, Hazel’s mother is sending her to the US…
Hill, Amanda Rawson – Once Upon a Family
12-year-old Winnie feels stuck. She’s alone in a new town with a mom who doesn’t seem to notice how miserable Winnie’s new stepbrother and stepfather make her. One night, when…
Hartman, Aubrey – The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor
Poppy Woodlock believes in magic, but so far, she hasn’t found any. It’s been two weeks since her parents moved their family to Oregon to undertake their biggest project yet:…
Smithson, Camille – Ditch the Glitch
Brooklyn Slade believed science wasn’t science without upgrades. Unfortunately, those upgrades almost always ended in glitches. After several embarrassing lab mishaps, Dad transfers Brooklyn to Timberline Elementary School for a…
Morris, Chad & Brown, Shelly – The Wild Journey of Juniper Berry
Eleven-year-old Juniper Berry lives in a cabin with her family deep in the wild woods. Living off the grid is usually exciting, like the time she chased off three growling…
Evans, Loralee – Taigh- A Flying Squirrel’s Adventure
Taigh Squirrel loves adventure stories. But painting, reading, and watching moving pictures through the windows of person houses are the closest he thinks he’ll ever get to going on a…
Jolley, Mary Locke – First, The Conjurer
ELLIE KENWORTHY has accepted her fate as the nerdy middle school loner who practices enchanting in secret. Then a mystic scientist called the Alchemist changes everything when she kidnaps their…
Vickers, Elaine – Half Moon Summer
Two seventh graders discover it takes more than grit and a good pair of shoes to run 13.1 miles. You’ve got to have a partner who refuses to let you…
Baldwin, Cindy – No Matter the Distance
An unexpected animal companion helps a girl with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story in this captivating novel in verse by award-winning author and disabled activist Cindy Baldwin….
Jacobs, Bruce – Zeke Zooter and the Eye of Balor
The Eye of Balor is pure, evil power.She can’t wait to use it. With this magic weapon, Ireland’s Phantom Queen—the Morrigan—will overthrow the Emerald Isle and claim it for her…
Dewsnup, Abby – Branson Garcia and the Sea of Sceros
Summer, Surfing, and . . . Pirates?Branson Garcia is a good kid. He’s proud of his straight A’s and popular best friends who love to surf almost as much as…
Carlson, Rebecca J. – The Wizard of Frogsmire
Barley thought he had escaped the clutches of the Dragon of the Deep. . . But now, it seems that Barley is being turned into a dragon again. Desperate to…
Nielson, Sheila A. – The Ghost of Wyvern Lake
Outsiders say Wyvern is a sleepy little town—they couldn’t be more wrong. Wyvern is filled with the strange and unknown. Things we don’t talk about with outsiders. But among ourselves,…
Sangster, Caitlin – A Baker’s Guide to Robber Pie
A clever young girl looking for adventure gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles into a nest of robbers in this tale baked with magic, fun, and friendship! …
Hansen, Dustin – Legend of the Dream Giants
An orphaned giant named Berg is in search of just one person he can call friend. When he was very young, Berg’s mother hid him in a cave and led an…
Sanderson, Brandon & Patterson, Janci – Bastille vs The Evil Librarians
As a Knight of Crystallia, I, Bastille, swore to protect the Smedry clan from the Evil Librarians. (And believe me, screwups like them constantly need protecting.) But when Alcatraz Smedry…
Cole, Frank L – The Questmaster’s Trap
Hello, Brave Reader: You’re just in time to roll the Die of Destiny and play a game of Champion’s quest. The wizard Questmaster Hob has summoned the Wild Crows on…
Phelan, Susan – Miss Classified
When Blythe hits 7th Grade, it hits back. She’s always excelled in school, but now she’s struggling, and she can’t join clubs unless her grades are high enough. Her dad expects…
Leavitt, Lindsey – Willis Wilbur Wows the World
Willis Wilbur has the entire summer in front of him. So it’s time to fulfill his destiny: becoming the neighborhood life coach. Nine-year-old Willis Wilbur had his summer figured out….
Greer, Brandon J – Liam Lewis and the Summer Camp Curse
Thirteen-year-old Liam Lewis is a troublemaker. When he gets detention on the last day of sixth grade, his parents decide to put a stop to his mischief by signing him…
Allen, C.W. – The Secret Benefits of Invisibility
For Zed and Tuesday, adjusting to life in modern-meets-medieval Falinnheim means normal is relative. Lots of kids deal with moving, starting new schools, and doing chores. But normally, those schools…
Costner, Arianne – Confessions of a Class Clown
This middle-school class clown’s hilarious online videos might get thousands of views . . . but is fame worth the price of friendship? A heartfelt story with multiple perspectives about…
Savage, J Scott – Secrets of the Looking Glass
After returning from Wonderland, Celia and Tyrus journey to the Looking-Glass World to reclaim their mirror images and stop a war between two powerful queens. When a dark creature called…
Nielsen, Jennifer A. – Lines of Courage
World War I stretches its cruel fingers across Europe, where five young people, each from different backgrounds and nations, face the terror of battle, the deprivations of hunger, and all…
Hill, Amanda Rawson – The Hope of Elephants
Cass and her parents haven’t let her dad’s cancer stop them from having a good life—full of love and poems and one annual World Series game. Now that Dad’s cancer…
Smithson, Camille – Dragon Pox
Eleven-year-old Hayden Jones always wanted a pet. Too bad Mom doesn’t think he’s responsible enough. Sure, he’d messed up that one time he brought home a stray cat. He’d given…
Grantham, Tamara – The Not So Chosen One
When the Chosen Ones are gone, someone’s got to pretend . . . In the kingdom of Alderfell, Gordy Simpleton is a normal thirteen-year-old kid. He washes disgusting dishes, babysits…
Rivera, Kaela – Cece Rios and the King of Fears
Cece Rios thought saving her sister would be the end of her adventures in the world of criaturas. But part of Juana’s soul is still trapped in Devil’s Alley. As…
Cooper, Cori – Bake Happy
Cat has this baking thing down! Now that she’s been to the family bakery and knows all about her baking abilities, Cat is baking the world a better place one…
Clark, Heather – Lemon Drop Falls
Brave the sour to taste the sweet. Morgan is devastated by her mother’s sudden death. Before, Mom’s amazing organizational skills kept the family on track, and her bowl of lemon…
Evans, Loralee – Woodlands and Wormholes
Best friends Jax and Julie have had more than their share of time travel adventures. From helping Harriet Tubman hide from slave hunters, to taking on street bullies in 1780…