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Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
6) Pretty
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Despite the confident, stylish, and easygoing attitude she portrays at school, Sophie is struggling at home as her mother's addiction worsens.
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Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers, during a math test, that it will answer factual questions, so she and her best friend Sophie have a great time--and Ava grows in self-confidence--until the pencil reveals a truth about her family that Ava would rather not know.
10) Leyla
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Tired of her large, noisy, baboon family, young Leyla runs away and meets a lizard who teaches her to sit alone, be quiet, and do nothing.
12) The bell rang
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A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
13) The strangers
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Told from separate viewpoints, Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone, ages twelve, ten, and eight, investigate why their mother went missing and uncover their ties to an alternate world.
18) No more bedtime
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Young inventor Elliot, frustrated by bedtime always stopping his fun, asks the school librarian how day turns to night, then invents a way to stop Earth from spinning.
20) A nearer moon
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Long ago the dam formed, the lively river turned into a swamp, and the wasting illness came to Luna's village, and now that her little sister is sick Luna will do anything to save her, even offer herself to the creature that lives in the swamp on the day of the nearer moon--a lonely and bitter water sprite who was left behind when her people fled through a door to another world.
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