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1) Count me in
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID BAJ
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MID BAJ
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Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID BOW
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MID BOW
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Where the Lost Ones Go is a middle grade contemporary fantasy by critically acclaimed author Akemi Dawn Bowman, in which a twelve-year-old biracial Japanese American girl grieves the loss of her beloved grandma and attempts to contact her beyond the grave.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID BUR
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MID BUR
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID BUR
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MID BUR
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World War II is coming to an end, but the Japanese people aren't sure what's in store for them. Yuriko has been happy living in Hiroshima, but her family is becoming unpredictable, along with the rest of the world. But when the bombs drop on Hiroshima, Yuriko's world is turned completely upside down for good.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID CHA
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MID CHA
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"Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all?"--
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID CHE
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MID CHE
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Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space.
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID CHA
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MID CHA
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After losing his mom in a fatal car crash, Kaede Hirano--now living with a grandfather who is more stranger than family--developed anger issues and spent his last year of middle school acting out. Best-friendless and critically in danger repeating the seventh grade, Kaede is given a summer assignment: write an essay about what home means to him, which will be even tougher now that he's on his way to Japan to reconnect with his estranged father and...
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Pandava volume 1
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John & Judy Gay Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID CHO
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MID CHO
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Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur?...
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Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 1
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID DAS
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MID DAS
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Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.
9) We belong
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John & Judy Gay Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID EVE
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MID EVE
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Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Pilipino mythology. Includes glossary, songs, and author's note.
10) Golden girl
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Publisher Annotation: Seventh grader Aafiyah loves playing tennis, reading Weird but True facts, and hanging out with her best friend, Zaina. However, Aafiyah has a bad habit that troubles her-she's drawn to pretty things and can't help but occasionally “borrow” them. But when her father is falsely accused of a crime he hasn't committed and gets taken in by authorities, Aafiyah knows she needs to do something to help. When she brainstorms a way...
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID FAR
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MID FAR
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Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID FAR
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MID FAR
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID FAR
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MID FAR
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Told in two voices, eleven-year-olds Mimi, who is visiting her wealthy grandparents in Karachi, Pakistan, for the first time and Sakina, daughter of the grandparents' cook, form an unexpected friendship.
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When boyfriend Elliott breaks up with Jenna Sakai before Christmas break, she just about convinces herself that relationships are for suckers and she is better off without them; but unfortunately she finds herself in competition with Elliott for a journalism scholarship, and worse her first assignment for the newspaper club is to write a personal essay, which is difficult when you are someone who prefers to keep your emotions bottled up--and than...
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID FLO
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MID FLO
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Keiko, Audrey, and Jenna have always been best friends, and Keiko desperately wants it to stay that way, but now they are starting seventh grade, and everything seems to be changing; Audrey is obsessed with the idea of them all securing boyfriends, but when she and Jenna focus on the same boy their friendship starts to break apart--and then Keiko finds herself attracted to Audrey's brother, Conner (who has generally been cast as the enemy), and suddenly...
15) Sweet and sour
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Eleven-year-old Mai has been contemplating revenge on her former best friend Zach ever since he humiliated her two years ago, but while spending time together for the summer, Mai has noticed a change in Zach, forcing her to decide if she can forgive him, even if she can never forget.
16) A duet for home
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID GLA
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MID GLA
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Publisher Annotation: It's June's first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home weren't enough, she also can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and...
17) Bone talk
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John & Judy Gay Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID GOU
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MID GOU
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID GOU
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MID GOU
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"More than a hundred years ago, a boy named Samkad thinks he knows everything about the world. He knows the mountains he lives in. He knows his people. He knows his blood enemy, the Mangili. And he wants to become a man, to be given his own shield, spear and axe to fight with. His best friend, Luki, wants all the same things - but she is a girl, and no girl has ever become a warrior. But everything changes when a new boy arrives in the village. He...
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John & Judy Gay Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID HIG
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MID HIG
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID HIG
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MID HIG
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My gym shorts burrow into my butt crack like a frightened groundhog. Don't you want to read a book that starts like that?? Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthylike expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so muchlike complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all...
19) The night diary
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John & Judy Gay Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID HIR
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MID HIR
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID HIR
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MID HIR
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Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Middle Grade Fiction
MID JUN
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MID JUN
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"Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator"--Provided by publisher.