Mark Sanderlin
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From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores his sexuality. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and The Gentleman's Gide to Vice and Virtue.
They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris...
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Ready. Set. Faux.
Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market, should have been a moment of triumph-a glorious, loving homage to his adored mom, who died six years ago. Instead, he's destroying the minibar in a grim Los Angeles hotel room...recently dumped, partnerless and sliding into a crushing black hole of anguish.
But the hotel service in abject misery is sublime. It...
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From the acclaimed author of Roll with It and Tune It Out comes a funny and moving middle grade novel about a boy who uses his unusual talent for decoding people's trash to try to fit in at his new school.
Hugo is not happy about being dragged halfway across the state of Colorado just because his dad had a midlife crisis and decided to become a ski instructor. It'd be different if Hugo weren't so tiny, if girls didn't think he was adorable like a...
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Zach Darlington saved the world from total apocalypse and all he got was grounded. He's not even allowed to watch his favorite horror movies anymore, and now his parents want to ship him off to boarding school!
But before Zach can talk some sense into his parents, his little sister, Naomi, lands in an unexplainable coma. Zach's friend Ash (yep, Zach and the King of Demons are friends now) knows this was the work of Ash's eternal nemesis, the Archangel...
5) Equal
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In this fifth and final title in the popular Bakers Mountain Stories, the Honeycutt
family are wrestling with monumental changes taking place at the end of 1959.
The world is at odds with the Soviet Union, and the Honeycutts are worried about
the threat of communism. Unrest is also erupting throughout the country and
close to home as African Americans fight for acceptance and equality.
The youngest Honeycutt, Jackie, absorbs all these changes...
6) Aim
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While people are celebrating Yankee Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak and worrying about being drawn into World War II, fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe is dealing with his abusive father's death and his cantankerous grandfather who lives with
them. Consumed by unanswered questions surrounding his father's death, Junior begrudgingly makes friends with a boy named Catfish, who promises to help him find some answers. But the road they take comes with trouble....
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Dudes Lock Down:
It's a new school year, and the Dudes have got security work to do. See how they give their parents a phishing lesson, thwart package bandits, and combat snack bullies. See how the Dudes take on:
You'll learn how to recycle a tank, how to dodge a Dibbly Dobbly, and what Deven does with a talking stick. The Dudes take on school security with their own brand of enthusiasm, making Sherwood Middle a defensible position and targeting the...
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New York Times bestselling middle-grade thriller author Margaret Peterson Haddix returns to the Mysteries of Trash and Treasure series as Colin and Nevaeh unravel a mystery from the 1930s and explore the emotions associated with death and dying.
Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends-even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which led...
9) Matteo
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"This enchanting, modern homage to Pinocchio reminds us anything is possible if we're true to ourselves." -Cynthia Leitich Smith, award-winning author of Ancestor Approved and Sisters of the Neversea
Eleven-year-old Matteo has never felt like one of the other boys. He's sure that will change when he joins the Blue Whales, the baseball team his dad once played for. This is his chance to grow into a son his father can be proud of.
And grow Matteo...
