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The King of Show-and-Tell

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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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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume · 120 pages

Any fourth grader would agree that Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem—his little brother, Fudge. But the grown-ups in his life just can't see that there is something wrong with a two-year-old who breaks his front teeth try- ing to fly, decides that he is a dog, goes on a no-eat strike, and scribbles all over his brother's homework. Peter is always asked to perform so that Fudge will be less of

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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Jack Gantos · 160 pages

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Ms. LaGrange Is Strange!

Dan Gutman · 99 pages

Something weird is going on! Ms. LaGrange talks funny and she's from some other country called France! She thinks the vomitorium is a fancy restaurant! She grows her own food right out of the ground! Yuck! Plus, she's writing secret messages in the mashed potatoes!

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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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Mr. Chickee's Funny Money

Christopher Paul Curtis · 155 pages

Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government Agents are determined to get that money back! But Steven and his best friends, Russell and

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Like Bug Juice on a Burger

Julie Sternberg · 192 pages

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Nicholas on Vacation

Rene Goscinny · 129 pages

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The Dare Game

Jacqueline Wilson · 249 pages

A fabulous new cover look for this brilliant story starring Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson's most enduring and popular characterI'M TRACY BEAKER, THE GREAT INVENTOR OF EXTREMELY OUTRAGEOUS DARES - AND I DARE YOU TO READ A MORE BRILLIANT STORY THAN THIS!I've bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. But especially for my own story. Of how my foster

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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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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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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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Ghost Beach

R.L. Stine · 119 pages

This book is filled with mystery and excitement, Terri and Jerry both try to solve the mystery of ghost with his friends. It said that the ghosts live in the cave, but will their friends turn against them?

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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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Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All

Donald J. Sobol · 96 pages

Leroy Brown is back in the next six books in the Encyclopedia Brown series. As Idavilles ten-year-old star detective, Encyclopedia has an uncanny knack for trivia. With his unconventional knowledge, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. But his dad also happens to be the chief of the Idaville police department, and every night around the dinner table, Ency

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The Great Brain

John D. Fitzgerald · 175 pages

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Amber Brown Sees Red

Paula Danziger · 116 pages

Another adorable and enjoyable book about the irrepressible Amber Brown.

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Wonder

R.J. Palacio · 330 pages

## **Don't judge a boy by his face.** ## Auggie is a kid who just wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things, like play on his Xbox and watch TV and eat. But ordinary kids don't make people stare just by walking down the block. They don't scare kids by looking at his face. They *definitely* haven't had over 20 surgeries by age 10. But when Auggie starts going to school for the first time in h

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Everything Sad Is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri · 356 pages

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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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Glitter Girls and the Great Fake-Out

Meg Cabot · 194 pages

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