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• Wildfire Rescue

  Rajan, Rekha S.,

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  Grades 1-3. The Jackson family, including eight-year-old Jaden and his sister Leela, travel the United States responding to disasters, helping people and rescuing animals--but they have never responded to a wildfire like the one raging in Northern…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Marya Khan and the Incredible Henna Party

  Faruqi, Saadia,

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  Grades 1-3. With her eighth birthday coming up, Marya claims she is having an epic henna party, so now she must convince her family to make it happen and work to pull it off, but everything Marya does seems to end in disaster.

• Truman the Dog

  Florence, Debbi Michiko,

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  Grades 1-3. Truman the black lab might be an older rescue dog, but he's still got enough mischief beneath his collar to keep eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her animal-fostering family on their toes from morning till night.

• How to Test a Friendship

  Griffith, Theanne,

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  Grades 1-3. With the help of a fun, odd scientist, third graders Violet, Pablo, and Deepak embark on an adventure in the Maker Maze, a magical laboratory full of robots, an antigravity chamber, 3D printers, and more.

• Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business

  Lee, Lyla,

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  Grades 1-3. Mindy Kim wants to fit in at her new school, but her favorite lunch leads to scorn, then a thriving business, and finally big trouble.

• Lola Levine Is Not Mean!

  Brown, Monica, 1969-

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  Grades 1-4. Second-grader Lola has a wonderful family, a great teacher, and the best friend ever, Josh, and they all help her feel better after she is teased and forbidden to play team sports at recess for having accidentally hurt classmate Juan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Year of Billy Miller

  Henkes, Kevin

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  Grades 2-4. Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clementine

  Pennypacker, Sara, 1951-

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  Grades 2-4. Series. 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All

  Miller, Chanel,

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  Grades 2-5. A fun, funny, and poignant story of friendship and community starring Magnolia Wu, a ten-year-old sock detective bent on returning all the lonely only socks left behind in her parents' NYC laundromat.

• Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey

  Kelly, Erin Entrada,

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  Grades 2-5. Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard named Peppina ... but she's way too scared to climb it. Will Marisol find the courage to climb Peppina? Maybe.

• Accidental Trouble Magnet

  Mian, Zanib,

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  Grades 3-5. Imaginative Omar goes through the ups and downs of starting a new school and making new friends with the help of his wonderful (and silly) Muslim family.

• The Friendship War

  Clements, Andrew, 1949-2019

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  Grades 3-5. Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Boy Called Bat

  Arnold, Elana K.,

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  Grades 3-5. Series. When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal shelter, Bat, who has austim, resolves to prove that he is up to the challenge of caring for the skunk…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lemonade War

  Davies, Jacqueline, 1962-

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  Grades 3-5. Series. Evan and his younger sister, Jessie, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Because of Winn-Dixie

  DiCamillo, Kate,

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  Grades 3-5. Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

• Beezus and Ramona

  Cleary, Beverly,

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  Grades 3-5. Beezus' biggest problem is her 4-year-old sister Ramona. Even though Beezus knows sisters are supposed to love each other, with a sister like Ramona, it seems impossible.

• Sam Makes a Splash

  Melleby, Nicole,

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  Grades 3-6. Eleven-year-old Sam, who lives with her siblings and mothers in a house on Sunrise Lagoon, tries to come up with a plan to save the family's charter boat business before the summer is over.

• Pie in the Sky

  Lai, Remy,

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  Grades 3-6. When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

  Glaser, Karina Yan,

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  Grades 3-6. Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.

• Wonder

  Palacio, R. J.,

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  Grades 3-6. Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts…Read moreRead more of this annotation