New Books - School Age (K-5)
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Abigail Adams, Pirate of the Caribbean
When Abigail Adams decides there's more to life than doing chores in the White House, she joins a crew of Caribbean pirates! Can siblings Abby and Doc set history straight? Or will they be the ones who need to be rescued?
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Checked
To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend.
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Cowboy Pug : the dog who rode for glory
Pug and his faithful companion, Lady Miranda, are pretending to be cowboys for the day, and soon get into mischief.
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Jupiter Storm
10-year-old Jackie excels at being in charge. Her skills keep everything from gardens to five unruly brothers in line. So, when a curious chrysalis appears in Jackie's front yard, she naturally decides to take charge of it. The creature that emerges is not like anything Jackie has ever seen, and she soon realizes that she must protect it at all costs, even from her own family.
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Just Like Jackie
Fifth grader Robbie is determined to stay out of trouble so that she does not worry her grandfather whose memory is failing and to make sure that she and her grandfather stay together as he is the only family she has left.
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Mez's Magic
Mez, a panther who discovers her magical powers after an eclipse, must unite the other animals to save Caldera from an evil force.
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Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein : based on a true story
For forty-two days in 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil and his family struggle to survive as Basra, Iraq, is bombed by the United States and its allies.
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Saint Philomene's Infirmary for Magical Creatures
In this middle-grade madcap adventure, a brother and sister find themselves in the underground hospital for magical creatures where they must save the lives of millions of magical creatures... and themselves.
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Sled Dog School
When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way.
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Stanley will probably be fine
After fainting during a school assembly, Stanley uses his time in a safe room to begin drawing a comic book superhero and then enters a treasure hunt so that he can win passes to Comic Fest.
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The Journey of Little Charlie
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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Two's a crowd
When Sunny's new little sister Rosy loses Sunny's favorite toy and Rosy sets off outside by herself to find the missing toy, Sunny must recover both her sister and her toy.
