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Stretching the Truth

Jamie Suzanne · 104 pages

What's wrong with Mary Robinson? That's what Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield want to know. She has a rich new stepfather who has a fabulous yacht and is going to build them a huge house. So why has Mary been acting so strange? Jessica is confident Mary will be herself again, just as soon as she finds out about the surprise birthday party for her on her father's yacht! But Jessica is wrong - a p

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Double Act

Jacqueline Wilson · 187 pages

A brilliant new cover look for this fantastically popular Jacqueline Wilson title about sparky twins Ruby and GarnetNo-one can ever be like a mother to us.NO-ONE. NO-ONE AT ALL.ESPECIALLY NOT STUPID FRIZZY DIZZY ROSE.Ruby and Garnet are ten-year-old twins. Identical. They do EVERYTHING together, especially since their mother died three years earlier. But can being a double act work for ever? When

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Glitches

Marissa Meyer · 32 pages

Note: this short story is also available in "Stars Above". Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. In Glitches, a short prequel story to Cinder, we see the results of that illness play out, and the emotional toll that takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitc

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The Inventor's Secret

Chad Morris · 344 pages

When twins Abby and Derick start junior high at the prestigious academy their grandfather founded, Cragbridge Hall, they discover firsthand the dangers of time travel and must find a way to save their parents, who have been sent to the Titanic the night it sank.

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A Shocker on Shock Street

R.L. Stine · 144 pages

Erin Wright and her best friend, Marty, love horror movies. Especially Shocker on Shock Street movies. All kinds of scary creatures live on Shock Street. The Toadinator. Ape Face. The Mad Mangler. But when Erin and Marty visit the new Shocker Studio Theme Park, they get the scare of their lives. First their tram gets stuck in The Cave of the Living Creeps. Then they're attacked by a group of enorm

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The Boy Who Crashed to Earth

Judd Winick · 424 pages

"When a mysterious boy falls from the sky, friends D.J. and Gina must discover the secrets of his identity and help him save the world"--

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The Precious One

Marisa de los Santos · 384 pages

In all her life, Eustacia "Taisy" Cleary has given her heart to only three men: her first love, Ben Ransom; her twin brother, Marcus; and Wilson Cleary -- professor, inventor, philanderer, self-made millionaire, brilliant man, breathtaking jerk: her father. Seventeen years ago, Wilson ditched his first family for Caroline, a beautiful young sculptor. In all that time, Taisy's family has seen Wilso

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The Roar

Emma Clayton

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Wolves of the Calla

Stephen King · 714 pages

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The Accidental Hero

Matt Myklusch · 496 pages

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William Wenton and the Luridium Thief

Bobbie Peers · 256 pages

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Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor

Jon Scieszka · 192 pages

Frank Einstein loves to tinker, build and take things apart. He loves to observe, hypothesise, experiment and invent. Frank Einstein is a kid genius who loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination and definitely unusual. After an uneventful experiment with a garage-lab artificially intelligent RoboBug, a lightning storm and a fl

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Heirs of the Force

Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta · 232 pages

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The Search for WondLa

Tony DiTerlizzi · 496 pages

Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her. Features "augmented reality" pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.

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Without Merit

Colleen Hoover · 384 pages

*Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.* The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings ar

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The Boy at the End of the World

Greg Van Eekhout

Born half-grown in a world that is being destroyed, Fisher has instinctive knowledge of many things, including that he must avoid the robot that knows his name.

Robots & AndroidsMiddle GradeScience Fiction
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Many Waters

Madeleine L'Engle · 310 pages

Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they belie

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The Field Guide

Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi · 107 pages

When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.

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Middlegame

Seanan McGuire · 492 pages

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The Perfect Girl

Gilly Macmillan · 464 pages

To everyone who knows her now, Zoe Maisey - child genius, musical sensation - is perfect. Yet several years ago, Zoe caused the death of three teenagers. She served her time, and now she's free. Her story begins with her giving the performance of her life. By midnight, her mother is dead. The Perfect Girl is an intricate exploration into the mind of a teenager burdened by brilliance, and a past th

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The Lost Colony

Eoin Colfer · 385 pages

When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent catastrophe.

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The Android

Katherine Applegate · 170 pages

"When Marco runs into his old friend Erek he doesn't think too much of it. He's got a couple of more important things to do. Like helping to save the world. But then Marco finds out Erek's been hanging with the kids at The Sharing. And he starts ti think that something just a little weird is going on...".

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Under the Mountain

Maurice Gee · 155 pages

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Covenant Child: A Story of Promises Kept

Terri Blackstock · 368 pages

They grew up in squalor, never guessing the riches held in trust for them or the love that lived to call them home. Twins Kara and Lizzie know they are heirs to a fortune -- "billion dollar babies" deprived of their inheritance and forced to live with uncaring relatives in a ramshackle trailer and a seedy, stinking, one-stop town. They've been told all their lives that their stepmother, Amanda, ha

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