Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A Novel

You’re Never Too Young to Fight Censorship! In Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, a fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don’t mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books that will make you laugh and pump your fists as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every single book in the library to make a point, and take a stand against censorship. Ban This Book is a stirring defense against censorship that’s perfect for middle grade readers. Let kids know that they can make a difference in their schools, communities, and lives! “Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one’s for you." —Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath “Ban This Book is absolutely brilliant and belongs on the shelves of every library in the multiverse.”—Lauren Myracle, author of the bestselling Internet Girls series, the most challenged books of 2009 and 2011 “Quick paced and with clear, easy-to-read prose, this is a book poised for wide readership and classroom use.”—Booklist "A stout defense of the right to read." —Kirkus Reviews “Gratz delivers a book lover’s book that speaks volumes about kids’ power to effect change at a grassroots level." —Publishers Weekly

Ban This Book

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Some marks on quiz pages. Still legible. Great gift for tween interested in personality tests and astrology 

Louisiana

Who do you think you are?

Nancy N. Rue

Connecticut

It's a God Thing

Using a question-and-answer format, offers beauty and health tips on such things as hair, skin, and braces, focusing on the relationship between beauty and God.

The Beauty Book

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Valorie Schaefer

This book has been well loved on the outside but the inside is great! 

Michigan

The Body Book for Girls

The Care and Keeping of You

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Very light signs of wear: one crease down center of spine, and a few irregularities along the cover edges. No folds, tears, or dog ears. A marvelous story based on the author’s actual grandmother. Often taught in middle school. I’m a HS teacher and I read it because I’ve had countless kids of all genders rave about this book, unprompted by me. So the story clearly really speaks to and inspires tweens. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Esperanza Rising

Julie Fison

Choose Your Own Ever After

This new pick-a-path series for girls gives the reader the chance to make the decisions, and choose how the story goes! Follow your heart right to the end, or go back and choose all over again.

How to Get to Rio

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#paperback #educational #family #tween #nonfiction 

Arizona

Kate Messner

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

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. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over the woods, and police patrol the school grounds. Worst of all, everyone is on edge, and fear brings out the worst in some people Nora has known her whole life. Even if the inmates are caught, she worries that home might never feel the same. Told in letters, poems, text messages, news stories, and comics--a series of documents Nora collects for the Wolf Creek Community Time Capsule Project--Breakout is a thrilling story that will leave readers thinking about who's really welcome in the places we call home.

Breakout

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Franklin W. Dixon

Book is in very good condition, only exception is names inside cover (see photos)

Pennsylvania

Not only is the local bank robbed, but two of the Hardy boys' pals mysteriously disappear after a masquerade party. Are the events related? How the Hardy boys use all their courage and skill to outwit the criminals provides an exciting climax to one of the most baffling mysteries the young detectives have ever encountered.

Hardy Boys 04: the Missing Chums

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#paperback #middlegrade #librarycopy #aliens #tween #scifi Former library copy with some slight wear and tear on the corners

Indiana

Author Kevin Emerson channels Frank Cottrell Boyce in this tween sci-fi adventure about two kids from opposite sides of the country who find themselves on a road trip to save the world from an impending alien attack. Haley and Dodger have nothing in common. But that was before they learned about the strange, unexplainable phenomena in Juliette, Arizona. Before they both received summer research grants from a mysterious foundation and discovered their theories about extraterrestrial life were correct. Now Haley and Dodger do have something in common: they're the only ones who can figure out what's happening in towns across the country . . . and stop it. The Fellowship for Alien Detection has it all: an inventive premise, fantastic voice, cinematic tone, and high appeal for both boys and girls.

The Fellowship for Alien Detection

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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Has a name written in inside cover. In otherwise excellent condition.

Texas

Alice is turning thirteen, which means she'll be the Woman of the House, with all of the responsibilities that go with it.

Alice in April

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John Stephens

Crease on cover (see photo), otherwise excellent condition.

Maryland

The Book of Beginnings

After years of moving from one orphanage to another following their parents' disappearance, Kate, Michael, and Emma learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.

The Emerald Atlas

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#hardcover #fiction #tween #juvenilefiction 

Alabama

In this new highly-illustrated series from James Patterson, an extraordinary robot signs up for an ordinary fifth grade class... and elementary school will never be the same! It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he's dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring her newest invention to school: a walking, talking robot he calls E--for "Error". Sammy's no stranger to robots--his house is full of a colorful cast of them. But this one not only thinks it's Sammy's brother... it's actually even nerdier than Sammy. Will E be Sammy's one-way ticket to Loserville? Or will he prove to the world that it's cool to be square? It's a roller-coaster ride for Sammy to discover the amazing secret E holds that could change family forever... if all goes well on the trial run!

House of Robots

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James Patterson

Chris Tebbetts

Virginia

James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life is another riotous and heartwarming story about living large. After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. Wrong! His new art school is more competitive than Rafe ever expected, and to score big in class, he needs to find a way to turn his boring life into a work of art. His method? Operation: Get a Life! Anything he's never done before, he's going to do it. But when his newest mission uncovers secrets about the family Rafe's never known, he has to decide if he's ready to have his world turned upside down.

Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!

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Andrea Beatriz Arango

(Newbery Honor Award Winner)

How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? In this moving novel in verse that Printz Honor-winning author Lisa Fipps calls "powerful," one girl takes on seventh grade while facing mental health challenges, and must find her voice to advocate for the help and understanding she deserves. Listen up: The end of elementary school? Worst time of my life. And the start of middle school? I just wasn’t quite right. But this year? YO VOY A MI. Seventh grade is going to be Iveliz’s year. She’s going to make a new friend, help her abuela Mimi get settled after moving from Puerto Rico, and she is not going to get into any more trouble at school. . . . Except is that what happens? Of course not. Because no matter how hard Iveliz tries, sometimes people say things that just make her so mad. And worse, Mimi keeps saying Iveliz’s medicine is unnecessary—even though it helps Iveliz feel less sad. But how do you explain your feelings to others when you’re not even sure what’s going on yourself? Powerful and compassionate, Andrea Beatriz Arango’s debut navigates mental health, finding your voice, and discovering that those who really love you will stay by your side.

Iveliz Explains It All

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THE EMERALD ATLAS
The Books of Beginnings

By John Stephens

used - excellent condition
crease on cover is only sign of wear.  Unread.

ISBN 9780375872716

Illinois

The bicycle spy 

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Heather Fawcett

New book with publisher’s remainder mark on bottom edge (see photo). 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

A fresh and exciting twist on magical boarding schools, the well-loved Chosen One trope, and the nature of true heroism--from the author of The Language of Ghosts and Ember and the Ice Dragons. Perfect for fans of middle grade fantasies including the Serafina series by Robert Beatty and Neil Gaiman's Coraline. 

Twelve-year-old Autumn Malog is a servant at the enchanting Inglenook School, where young magicians study to become the king's future monster-hunters. Along with her Gran and three too many older brothers, she works as a beastkeeper, tending to Inglenook's menagerie of terrifying monsters.

But when she isn't mucking out the wyvern stalls or coaxing the resident boggart to behave, Autumn searches for clues about her twin brother's mysterious disappearance. Everyone else thinks he was devoured by the feared Hollow Dragon, but Autumn is convinced she's heard--and glimpsed--him calling to her from within the castle walls. But who will believe a lowly servant?

So when Cai Morrigan, the "Chosen One" prophesied to one day destroy the Hollow Dragon, comes to her for help, Autumn agrees on one condition: Together, they'll search for her brother and uncover the dark truth at the heart of enchanting Inglenook School once and for all.

The School Between Winter and Fairyland

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New book with publisher’s remainder mark on lower edge. 

The Islands of Elsewhere 

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California

The Body Book for Younger Girls

An updated edition of a best-selling reference for younger adolescents shares practical, expert advice on topics ranging from hair care and healthy eating to menstruation and acne. Original.

The Care and Keeping of You 1

Cara Natterson

The Body Book for Older Girls

A compassionate and practical reference for older adolescent girls shares advice for managing physical and emotional challenges, covering topics ranging from menstruation and body changes to personal care and peer pressure. Original.

The Care and Keeping of You 2

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Suzanne Nelson

Reading level grade 5 (appeals to 4th-6th graders) 

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Julie Fison

How to Get to Rio

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The Care and Keeping of You

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Breakout

Franklin W. Dixon

Hardy Boys 04: the Missing Chums

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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Alice in April

John Stephens

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James Patterson; Chris Grabenstein; Juliana Neufeld (Illustrator)

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James Patterson; Chris Tebbetts

Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!

Andrea Beatriz Arango

Iveliz Explains It All

John Stephens

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The bicycle spy

Heather Fawcett

The School Between Winter and Fairyland

Heather Fawcett

The Islands of Elsewhere

Valorie Schaefer

The Care and Keeping of You

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The Care and Keeping of You 1

Cara Natterson

The Care and Keeping of You 2

Suzanne Nelson

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