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Lions & Liars (Jun 2018)
By: Beasley, Kate
Fifth-grader Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.
Ages 9-12 Fiction
When You Reach Me (Jul 2009)
By: Stead, Rebecca
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Ages 9-12 Fiction
The Sherlock Society. Book 1 (Sep 2024)
Author: Ponti, James
Series: Sherlock Society, 1
Twelve-year-old Alex Sherlock, his thirteen-year-old sister Zoe, and their friends Lina and Yadi decide to spend their summer in Miami investigating the many "cold cases" their grandfather accumulated during his years as a reporter--first up, Al Capone and a buried treasure.
Ages 9-12 Fiction
Old School (Jan 2025)
Author: Korman, Gordon
Twelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, homeschooled by the residents until he's forced to attend middle school, where he sticks out like a sore thumb.
Ages 9-12 Fiction
Inside Out & Back Again (Feb 2011)
By: Lai, Thanhha
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Ages 9-12 Fiction
The War That Saved My Life (Jan 2015)
By: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Ages 9-12 Fiction
A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him.
Escaping from the prison where he was born, Pong discovers harrowing truths about the gap between the world’s privileged ruling class and impoverished laborers, while the prison warden’s daughter who is hunting him uncovers other daunting secrets.
Ages 9-12 Fiction
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