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Last Updated October 15, 2008

1. +BATES - Being Bee by Catherine Bateson
   Bee faces friction at home and at school when her widowed father begins seriously dating Jazzi, who seems to take over the house and their lives, but as shared secrets and common interests finally begin to draw them together, Jazzi accidentally makes a terrible mistake.



2. +BAUER - No Castles Here by A. Bauer
   Augie Boretski knows how to get by. If you're a scrawny loser in the destitute city of Camden, New Jersey, you keep your head down, avoid the drug dealers and thugs, and try your best to be invisible. Augie used to be good at that, but suddenly his life is changing.



3. +BUCKL - Magic and Other Misdemeanors by Michael Buckley
   Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are ready to tackle their own case: Who is stealing the magical possessions of the most powerful Everafters in town? Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Prince Charming are among the suspects.



4. +BYNG - Molly Moon, Micky Minus, & the Mind Machine by Georgia Byng
   Molly Moon must try to use her telepathic powers to save the world from an evil Superbrain and a massive weather machine in time to find safety on the other side of the rainbow.
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5. +DUNAG - A Yellow Watermelon: A Novel by Ted Dunagan
   Growing up in poverty-stricken, racially segregated, rural Alabama in the late 1940s, a white boy named Ted and a black boy named Poudlum become secret friends, join forces to integrate the cotton field laborers, and try to stop evil forces from depriving Poudlum's family of their property and livelihood.
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6. +FRAZI - Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It by Sundee Frazier
   Brendan Buckley, a biracial ten-year-old, applies his scientific problem-solving ability and newfound interest in rocks and minerals to connect with his white grandfather and learn why he and Brendan's mother are estranged.



7. +GERAS - Cleopatra by Adele Geras
   The history of the powerful ruler unfolds through the eyes of a young servant in her court.
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8. +GOING - The Garden of Eve by K. Going
   Evie and her father move to Beaumont, New York, a town with a reputation for being haunted. Evie doesn't believe the rumors about the town being haunted. When she meets a boy who claims to be dead, she begins to wonder.



9. +HART - Gabriel's Triumph by Alison Hart
   A thirteen-year-old newly-freed slave faces the challenges of freedom and horse racing as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey in Civil War Kentucky and New York.
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10. +JACQU - Doomwyte by Brian Jacques
    The Redwallers face some of their most dangerous villains yet in a treacherous hunt for long-lost treasure.
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11. +KORMA - Swindle by Gordon Korman
    After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use themoney to finance his father's failing invention, the Smart Pick fruit picker.



12. +PARK - Keeping Score by Linda Park
    During the 1950s, young Maggie struggles to will her beloved Brooklyn Dodgers to a victory in the World Series and wishes that her friend Jim, a soldier in Korea, would answer her letters.
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13. +PRELL - Six Innings: A Game In the Life by James Preller
    Earl Grubb's Pool Supplies plays Northeast Gas & Electric.



14. +RIORD - The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan
    Dan and Amy Cahill face a choice after the reading of their grandmother's will; they can either take a million dollars or follow thirty-nine clues hidden around the world and learn the source of the families power, but taking that journey means danger and competition with family members.
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15. +RODDA - The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda
    There are only three rules to the music box. Leo wouldn't dream of breaking these rules, but does his stubborn cousin Mimi listen? She winds the box four times -- and suddenly the paintings on its side come to life and a powerful witch is rhe witch, if only they can find the key to the music box -- and the magical world it controls.
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16. +SAGE - Queste by Angie Sage
    Septimus must elude the plans of Merrin Meredith and Tertius Fume in order to find the House of foryx, a place where all Time meets, and secure the release of Nicko and Snorri.



17. +SCHWA - The Hope Chest by Karen Schwabach
    Violet's older sister Chloe didn't get married. She bought a car instead. And then she drove that car to New York City and never came home again. Violet's parents said Chloe had turned into the Wrong Sort of Person, but Violet knew better.
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18. +THOMS - Dragon's Egg by Sarah Thomson
    Mella and her family live in the shadows of the Dragontooth Mountains. there is lore about the ancient times when fierce, wild dragons roamed the mountains. Now it's the small domesticated dragons that are prized for their eggs living there.



19. +WHITE - Radiant Girl by Andrea White
    In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, a Ukrainian girl named Katya comes to understand the things most important about her homeland, and in combining the mythological strength of her ancestors with a newly acquired comprehension of the scientific truth of the event, Katya fulfills a promise she made to herself many years before.
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20. +WILSO - 100 Cupboards by Nathan Wilson
    Twelve-year-old Henry York and his cousin Henrietta discover 100 hidden portals to other worlds in the bedroom wall of his aunt and uncle's house.
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