Kids
The Basque dragon
Adam Gidwitz
jREAD-ALONG Gidwitz
Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
"Elliot and Uchenna join Professor Fauna on another adventure--a trip to the Basque country where they have to save a herensuge from the billionaire Schmoke Brothers"--
Sasquatch and the Muckleshoot
Adam Gidwitz
jREAD-ALONG Gidwitz
Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company.
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The creature of the pines
Adam Gidwitz
jREAD-ALONG Gidwitz
Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
After encountering a Jersey Devil while on a field trip to the Pine Barrens, Elliot and his new friend Uchenna help their weird teacher Professor Fauna rescue the mythological creature from a pair of greedy billionaire brothers.
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Big Nate in the zone
Lincoln Peirce
jREAD-ALONG Peirce
Humor, Graphic Novels, Kids
Stuck in a rut of bad luck, Nate Wright gets a boost from Chad's lucky foot and suddenly, good luck is everywhere he turns.
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Big Nate goes for broke
Lincoln Peirce
jREAD-ALONG Peirce
Humor, Kids, Graphic Novels
Daredevil Nate's quest to achieve greatness lands him in the hospital with a broken bone, and while his family and friends are eager to help him cope, they soon tire of his increasingly ridiculous demands.
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Big Nate : in a class by himself
Lincoln Peirce
jREAD-ALONG Pierce
Kids, Humor, Graphic Novels
Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
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The cricket in Times Square
George Selden
jREAD-ALONG Selden
Historical Fiction, Kids
The adventures of Chester, a very musical country cricket, who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.
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Ramona the pest
Beverly Cleary
jREAD-ALONG Cleary
Kids
Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.
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Dog diaries : a middle school story
James Patterson
jREAD-ALONG Patterson
Humor, Kids
When the evil Mrs. Stricker threatens to send Junior, Rafe Khatchadorian's dog, back to the pound, Junior and Rafe go to obedience school to learn how to follow the rules.
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King and the dragonflies
Kacen Callender
jFICTION Callende Kacen
Read Woke, Kids, LGBTQ+
"In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself"--
An important middle-grade read about a ten-year-old boy working through the grief he feels after his brother’s death and the questions he has surrounding his sexuality. It’s a beautifully written book about coping, identity, friendships, and safety. -Becky
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