Wendy Mass
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The candymakers volume 1
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When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.
3) 11 birthdays
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After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
5) Bob
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Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
6) 13 gifts
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Willow Falls series volume 3
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Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
7) Finally
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Willow Falls series volume 2
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After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
8) Lo & behold
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Random House Children's Books
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"With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting with who she's always been."-- Provided by publisher.
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Willow Falls series volume 4
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Children's birthdays are always strange in Willow Falls, but when Connor's little sister Grace falls into a frozen state on her tenth birthday, Amanda and Leo must travel back in time to find out what force prevented Angelina from casting the blessing that would have protected her.
11) Graceful
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Willow Falls series volume 5
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Angelina D'Angelo has left town to see the world. It's now Grace's turn to use her magic to protect the people of Willow Falls, and she is up to the challenge. This is her destiny, after all. But destiny is a funny thing - it doesn't always behave the way you'd expect it to.
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Twice upon a time volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
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"The girl's been sleeping for a hundred years. The boy's got issues of his own. There are two sides to every story..."--Cover back.
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Space taxi volume 2
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Little, Brown and Company
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"Eight-year-old Archie Morningstar, his taxi driver dad, and a talking cat named Pockets are on an intergalactic mission to save an underwater planet in peril"-- Provided by publisher.
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Space taxi volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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On "Take Your Kid to Work Day," eight-year-old Archie discovers that his father drives a space taxi that shuttles aliens from one area of the universe to another.
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Twice upon a time volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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When Robin Hood and Marian are thrown together on a quest that requires bravery, quick-witted escapes, and the ability to get along, they discover there is no limit to what they can do together.
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Twice upon a time volume 3
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When you're stuck with the name Beauty, people expect a lot from you -- like beauty and grace and courage and a sense of style. But, what if you have none of these things? What if all you like to do is read books and search for odd objects that other people drop? Oh, and you have a perfect older sister who really should have had your name instead of you. And when you're a prince, you're supposed to be athletic and commanding and brave and tall. But...
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Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
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At the flea market nine-and-a-half-year-old Chase and his younger sister Ava acquire an old suitcase filled with rows of carefully packed strange objects, and when they handle one of the objects (a dragon-headed doorknob) they find themselves in King Arthur's castle, on a mission to save the King--and pursued by a strange man whom they first saw at the flea market, who is after their suitcase.-- Provided by Publisher.
18) The lost library
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Marlborough Public Library Children's Dewey Decimators Book Club 2024 (Grades 3-5)
Marlborough Public Library Children's Mysteries
Marlborough Public Library Children's Mysteries
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When a mysterious little free library (guarded by Mortimer, a large. 6-toed orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves. He and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and the fatal fire that destroyed the town library-- a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The boys start asking questions whose answers will...
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Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
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This time a strange flashing cube from the magic suitcase sends them to a nearby city, Hadenstown, in the future, and they find themselves surrounded by flying cars, tall glass buildings, and robots; but Randall is also there, and the two children must scramble to figure out just what the mysterious cube is and get it back where it belongs--and their quest brings Chase face-to-face with his future self, Professor Teslar.
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Time jumpers volume 4
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
On a visit to the Natural History Museum, Chase and Ava seem on the verge of finding out something important about the mysterious Randall, the missing scientist Finn, and the woman who gave them the suitcase filled with magical objects, when the dinosaur egg from the suitcase (they thought it was a potato) sends them back to dinosaur times--where they have to return the egg to the correct brontosaurus nest, while eluding hungry dinosaurs, and Randall,...