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1) Yonder
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"Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since Jack saved two small children from drowning during the Great Flood of 1940. Now, with his father away fighting in World War II and his mother about to have a new baby, Danny relies on Jack's friendship and guidance more than ever. So when Jack goes missing without a trace from their small Appalachian town, Danny is determined to find him. He wonders if Jack's abusive father could be behind his...
2) Wildoak
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL HARRINGTON
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J NOVEL HARRINGTON
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Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache and only her menagerie of pets, whom she can speak with fluidly, provide her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard, in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter will change their lives forever.
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"In this novel for middle readers told in vignettes, Mia and her best friend Lara have very different experiences growing up in a northern fishing community in the 1980s."--
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL SCHREMPP
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J NOVEL SCHREMPP
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"Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
5) Tumble
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL PEREZ
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J NOVEL PEREZ
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J LARGE TYPE PEREZ
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J LARGE TYPE PEREZ
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Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
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When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of World War II, the Wolf family flees, but Liesl, Otto, and their baby sister Mia are separated from their mother and they are forced to do dangerous things in order to survive.--
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL MOSES
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J NOVEL MOSES
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Determined to stand up for their rights, eleven-year-old Rufus, a Black boy, and his friends participate in the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL SHANG
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J NOVEL SHANG
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Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL PHELAN
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J NOVEL PHELAN
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In 1783 France, ten-year-old Emilie works as Benjamin Franklin's caretaker, but after he finds himself in the middle of a sinister plot, he helps France's undercover guardians, a sheep, a roster and a duck save the world.
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"While helping out at his Jewish family's struggling Atlantic City hotel in 1975, thirteen-year-old Joey Goodman gets a summer job working for a mobster and faces a life-or-death decision"--
11) A rover's story
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Caudill Award
J NOVEL WARGA
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J NOVEL WARGA
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Caudill Award
J CD NOVEL WARGA
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J CD NOVEL WARGA
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Caudill Award
J LARGE TYPE WARGA
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J LARGE TYPE WARGA
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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...
12) The kaya girl
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL WOLO
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J NOVEL WOLO
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"Fourteen-year-olds Abena and Faiza, girls from vastly different worlds, cross paths in chaotic Makola Market in Accra, Ghana, and forge a beautiful bond that changes the path of each of their lives"--
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL TAYLOR
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J NOVEL TAYLOR
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"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes . . . and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL SOONTORNVAT
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J NOVEL SOONTORNVAT
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From Christina Soontornvat, the visionary and versatile author of two 2021 Newbery Honor Books, comes a high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. In a fantasy adventure every bit as compelling and confident in its world building as her Newbery Honor Book A Wish in the Dark, Christina Soontornvat explores a young woman's struggle to unburden herself of the past and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets. As assistant to Mangkon's...
15) The lock-eater
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL CLARK
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J NOVEL CLARK
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Melanie Gate, a foundling with a peculiar talent for opening the unopenable, agrees to accompany a gearling automaton named Traveler on his quest to find a home, only to be pursued by the most dangerous wizard in the land and, along the way, discover her true powers.
16) The Marvellers
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Marvellerverse volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL CLAYTON CONJUREVERSE 1
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J NOVEL CLAYTON CONJUREVERSE 1
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"Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts. Despite her excitement, Ella discovers that being the first isn't easy--some Marvellers mistrust her magic. Eventually, she finds friends in elixirs teacher, Masterji Thakur, and fellow misfits Brigit and Jason. When a dangerous criminal escapes prison, supposedly...
17) Nikhil out loud
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL PANCHOLY
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J NOVEL PANCHOLY
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"From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah is the beloved voice actor for Raj Reddy on the hit animated series Raj Reddy in Outer Space. But being a star on TV doesn't mean you have everything figured out behind the scenes. . . . When his mom temporarily moves them...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL REYNOLDS END 1
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J NOVEL REYNOLDS END 1
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When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL KELLER
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J NOVEL KELLER
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Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school: Wear the right clothes, say the right things, know your place. But when Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, the rules no longer seem to apply. Jennifer doesn't care about the laws of middle school, or the laws of the universe for that matter. She believes in aliens - and she thinks she can find them. Then Jennifer goes missing. The adults say she ran away, but Mallory isn't so sure. Using clues...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL PASTERNACK
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J NOVEL PASTERNACK
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Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he suggests paying his debt by leading them to the fabled city of Luz, where no one ever dies--the one place Pesah...