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Mr. Chickee's Funny Money

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Mrs. Dole Is Out of Control!

Dan Gutman · 103 pages

A.J. and the gang are graduating! But the out-of-control PTA president is turning the whole thing into a huge ceremony complete with fireworks, a petting zoo, and a flyover by the Blue Angels! Is moving up to third grade such a big deal? And what could possibly go wrong?

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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Jack Gantos · 160 pages

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney · 224 pages

Greg Heffley finds thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings like him share the hallways with much bigger kids who are already shaving. But nothing scares Greg more than the moldy piece of cheese on the blacktop. Can he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, make it through the year without getting the Cheese Touch?

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The Great Brain

John D. Fitzgerald · 175 pages

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Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe.

Bette Greene · 135 pages

Philip Hall is the cutest, smartest boy in the sixth grade, and Beth Lambert loves him. The fact that he beats her in classwork, sports, and almost everything else doesn't bother Beth at first. Then she realizes that Philip might be best because she's letting him beat her. Beth knows that she deserves to be Number One--and she's going to prove it! This funny, universal story of a girl learning tha

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My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

Mo O'Hara · 189 pages

When Tom's big brother decides to become an Evil Scientist, his first experiment involves dunking Frankie the goldfish into toxic green gunk. To save Frankie Tom zaps him with a battery to bring him back to life, but there's something weird about the new Frankie. He's now a big fat zombie goldfish with hypnotic powers and he's out for revenge.

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Darth Paper Strikes Back

Tom Angleberger · 176 pages

Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.

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The King of Show-and-Tell

Abby Klein · 96 pages

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In Front of God and Everybody

K.D. McCrite · 301 pages

In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.

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Clementine

Sara Pennypacker · 136 pages

While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

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Soup & Me

Robert Newton Peck · 115 pages

The further adventures and misadventures of Rob and Soup, two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.

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Big Nate on a Roll

Lincoln Peirce · 224 pages

It's about Nate and his scouting troop. But when Arthur enters the picture, Nate is horrified. To make things worse, the troop has a fundraiser. Nate doesn't like what there are selling, but when he sees the grand prize,a skateboard with free customization, He does all that he can. But Arthur is winning. Will Nate get the grand prize or will he lose again by Arthur?

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Sweet Farts

Raymond Bean · 152 pages

Last year Keith Emerson invented Sweet Farts, tablets that make farts smell good, but now he is the center of all kinds of unwanted attention, and even worse, the school science fair is just weeks away and everyone expects Keith to top his last invention.

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Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?

Lemony Snicket · 312 pages

Train Travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale! Can Lemony Snicket finally discover all the right answers? There was a town, and there was a train, and there was a murder. Apprentice investigator Lemony Snicket was on the train, and he thought that if he solved the murder he could save the town. He was almost thirteen and he was wrong. He was wrong about all of it. He should have asked the ques

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Once

Morris Gleitzman · 156 pages

Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War. Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once. Once I escaped from am orphanage to find Mum and Dad. Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Onc

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Nate the Great and the Big Sniff

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Mitchell Sharmat, Marc Simont · 47 pages

Nate the Great follows the clues to find his lost dog, Sludge, in a department store.

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Framed

Frank Cottrell Boyce · 316 pages

Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime

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The Blurred Man

Anthony Horowitz

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Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Dana Simpson · 224 pages

A boy and his dog . . . a girl and her . . . unicorn? It all started when Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this led to Phoebe being granted one wish, and she used it to make the unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, her obligational best friend. But can a vain mythical beast and a nine-year-old daydreamer really forge a connection? Indee

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