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So Done
2018
After a separation during the summer, best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited, but their friendship is threatened when they have to deal with the pressures of middle school, secrets and auditions for a new gifted program.
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
2018
As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves. When Calvin goes missing, Mason finds himself in trouble.
Lexile level
310
The Journey of Little Charlie
2018
To satisfy the family's debt after his father's death, Little Charlie agrees to accompany Cap'n Buck, a plantation overseer, north in search of fugitive slaves.
Lexile level
960L
The Lifters
2018
When Gran and his family move to Carousel, he has no idea the town is built atop a secret.
Lexile level
720
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In Your Shoes
2018
An anxious boy devoted to his family's bowling center in spite of his phobias and a girl whose dreams of happily-ever-after are challenged by her residence above an uncle's funeral home use their imaginations to help each other find new beginnings.
Lexile level
700
You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!
2018
Realizing she has a lot to learn when her baby sister is born deaf, Jilly tries to connect with Derek, a hearing-impaired African-American boy, who helps her understand how to see life in different ways.
The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story
2018
Feeling a sense of foreboding when her family moves into an old, abandoned house, Jules forges an unexpected friendship with the ghost of a girl imprisoned there more than a century earlier.
Lexile level
650
The Parker Inheritance
2018
Spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, Candice discovers the letter that sent her grandmother on a treasure hunt, and with her new friend Brandon, sets off to expose the injustice once committed against a local African American family.
Lexile level
610
You Go First
2018
Charlotte, 12, and Ben, 11, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and middle school turmoil.
Lexile level
640
Float
2018
Relegated to a summer camp for kids with uncontrolled supernatural abilities, Emerson, who must wear weights to prevent himself from floating away, teams up with his fellow misfits after discovering a time-traveling camper is hiding a dangerous secret.
Breakout
2018
Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek-- two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes.
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The House in Poplar Wood
2018
Because of an age-old agreement, Lee and his mother serve Memory while his twin brother, Felix, and his father assist Death. When a local girl is murdered, the boys are asked to help solve the crime to break the agreement and gain their freedom.
Ghost Boys
2018
After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys, including historical figure Emmett Till.
Lexile level
360
The Collectors
2018
A hearing-impaired outsider who lives with his larger-than-life opera singer mom and spends his days collecting fascinating trinkets discovers the existence of a magical underground organization that protectively confiscates wishing-well pennies tied to hurtful wishes.
Graphic novels
Be Prepared
2018
All Vera wants to do is fit in-- but that's not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps.
Lexile level
360
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Making Friends
2018
Danielle needs a perfect friend, but sometimes making (or creating) one is a lot easier than keeping one!
Lexile level
340
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
2018
Prince Sebastian's parents are much too busy trying to find him a bride to notice he's been living a double life-- one that involves fabulous dresses, raucous parties and a secret identity as "Lady Crystallia."
Lexile level
GN 360L
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Nonfiction
The Faithful Spy
2018
J 943.086 HEN
Learn about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and hero, who formed a breakaway church in opposition to the Nazi regime, participated in an assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler and was captured and executed by the Nazis.
Lexile level
980
Undefeated
2017
J 796.332 SHE
America's favorite sport and Native American history collide in this true story of the Carlisle Indians football team and their rise-- led by legends Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner-- from underdogs to champions.
Lexile level
980L
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Meredith R
I work in Youth Services, and love books that pack an emotional punch, coming-of-age stories and graphic novels. If I'm not at the library or reading with my spoiled cat, I'm probably out hiking— preferably someplace with pine trees and mountains— with a very large Thermos of coffee in tow.
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