Only Girls Allowed

It’s the first day of eighth grade for Jemma, Kate, Piper and Bet in Debra Moffitt’s Only Girls Allowed and boy are they in for a surprise! They open their lockers, expecting to decorate them to perfection, when they notice...

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Read Touch BlueYour Wish Might Come True

What if your island home’s only school house was being threatened to be shut down because of the lack of students? Jobs would be lost, and families would be forced to move to the mainland. But, these Maine islanders in...

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Dangerous Neighbors

It’s 1876 in Philadelphia—America’s 100th birthday, but Anna, Katherine’s twin sisters’, last. As Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart, opens, Anna is already dead, and Katherine has planned her suicide (jumping off a tall building—any tall building, really), so she can...

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The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

Join the wacky class of twenty yet again in The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming. The latest installment follows Mr. Jupiter’s matchless class as they live through another batch of crazy and hilarious experiences—all that wrap...

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The Wonder of Charlie Anne

Take a step back to the 1930s. The Great Depression has hit and your Papa and older brother have left the farm to go up north and look for jobs building roads to send money home. Your Mama died during...

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Feeling Catty?

Are you a Twihard looking for a new dose of the paranormal? Look no further than Helen Ellis’s new series The Turning. Book one: What Curiosity Kills tells the story of Mary Richards, a spunky southern gal living among the...

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