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Caprice by Coe Booth Middle School Scholastic 240 pp. g 5/22 978-0-545-93334-6 $17.99 Big changes are happening in Caprice’s life. After an exciting, eventful summer spent at a wealthy private boarding school’s leadership program, Caprice is offered a full scholarship to attend the following fall as...
Violet & Jobie in the Wild by Lynne Rae Perkins; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Greenwillow 240 pp. g 9/22 978-0-06-249969-1 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-249971-4 $9.99 Mouse siblings Violet and Jobie live a cozy life in a human house where they are warm and comfortable,...
Windswept by Margi Preus; illus. by Armando Veve Intermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 304 pp. g 9/22 978-1-4197-5824-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-6470-0504-7 $15.54 The time is the future. The “Powers-That-Be” are kidnapping children—using a meteorological weapon of windstorms that sweep them up, to then be sold to mountain trolls for profit....
Children of the Stone City by Beverley Naidoo Intermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 240 pp. g10/22 978-0-06-309696-7 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-309698-1 $11.99 White South African writer and apartheid fighter Naidoo ( Journey to Jo’burg , 1985) sets her novel in the fictional Stone City, where the...
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Rica Baptista: Llamas, Iguanas, and My Very Best Friend by Janet Costa Bates ; illus. by Gladys Jose Primary Candlewick 128 pp. g10/22 978-1-5362-1630-1 $16.99 Eight-year-old Rica (short for Frederica) Baptista desperately wants a pet. When she overhears a conversation that leads her to believe...
A Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar Intermediate, Middle School Dial 273 pp. g10/22 978-0-593-40660-1 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-40661-8 $10.99 In this lyrical verse novel set in 1965 California, Lula has lost her voice. She can only speak in “a whispery rasp” that doesn’t help...
The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum High School Philomel 224 pp. g9/22 978-0-5935-2582-1 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-5935-2584-5 $10.99 Along with a small segment of their ultra-Orthodox community, fifteen-year-old Yehuda “Hoodie” Rosen’s family has recently moved from their predominantly Jewish town to another...
The Star That Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson Intermediate, Middle School Holiday 224 pp. g7/22 978-0-8234-5040-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5289-7 $10.99 In her debut novel, Johnson (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) combines family history with an homage to such classics as Anne of...
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