NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover | Indian Prairie Public Library District

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#1 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 381 week(s).

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August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...

2) Odder

Author

Applegate, Katherine

Series

Thorndike Press youth large print

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#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).

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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--

3) Refugee

Author

Gratz, Alan

Series

Spoken word compact discs Fiction

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#3 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 205 week(s).

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Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...

4) Little leaders: bold women in black history

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Harrison, Vashti

Series

Little leaders (Vashti Harrison)

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#4 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 72 week(s).

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Based on her popular Instagram posts, debut author/illustrator Vashti Harrison shares the stories of 40 bold African American women who shaped history.

5) The complete cookbook for young chefs

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Kids, America's Test Kitchen

Series

Young Chefs

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 138 week(s).

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Want to bake the most-awesome-ever cupcakes? Or surprise your family with breakfast tacos on Sunday morning? Looking for a quick snack after school? Or maybe something special for a sleepover? It's all here. Learn to cook like a pro-it's easier than you think.

6) Two degrees

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Gratz, Alan

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#6 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).

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When three children endure separate climate change disasters-- a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida-- they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.

7) The door of no return

Author

Alexander, Kwame

Series

Door of no return volume 1

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#7 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"-- 11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets ... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a...

8) Little legends: exceptional men in black history

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Harrison, Vashti

Series

Little leaders (Vashti Harrison)

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#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 35 week(s).

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Profiles thirty-five prominent men in African American history, including James Armistead Lafayette, Thurgood Marshall, Alvin Ailey, and Leland Melvin.

9) A rover's story

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Warga, Jasmine

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#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop human-like feelings. Maybe there's a problem with his programming. Human emotions or not, launch day comes, and Res blasts off to Mars, accompanied by a friendly drone helicopter named Fly. But Res quickly discovers that Mars...

10) Amari and the great game

Author

Alston, B. B

Series

Amari volume 2

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#10 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2023-02-12. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).

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"After finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Amari Peters is convinced her first full summer as a Junior Agent will be a breeze. But between the fearsome new Head Minister's strict anti-magician agenda, fierce Junior Agent rivalries, and her brother Quinton's curse steadily worsening, Amari's plate is full. So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to stand up for magiciankind as its new leader, she declines....